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Nicole Sommers, Founder
Gents, LLC
New York, NY

Nicole Sommers is founder of Gents, LLC., a company which provides esthetician-endorsed shaving and skincare products for men. Practical solutions in the way of grooming packages are offered to enhance what is truly a man’s business card – his face. Her dynamic personality and proficiency in skin care has garnered a dedicated clientele of professional athletes as well as captains of industry.

"We know that men are often judged by their exterior.  As such, we want to keep men looking great while maintaining their health, by adopting a holistic approach to shaving and skincare.  Life is challenging enough, we're not looking to challenge a man's skin or body with products that contain harsh chemicals as  ingredients" say Sommers.

"We want to move men from a 'synthetic regimen' to a holistic one in order to round out their wellness program.  Our clients are people making educated choices by looking beyond catchy marketing phrases and front packaging panels so as to not trust their well-being to the industry.  We are helping clients accomplish this by sourcing products (with the blessing of a licensed esthetician) from companies who work within a scientific environment but who don't worship technological progress at the expense of our health."

The Prize

One reader will receive a $100 gift certificate redeemable at Gents, LLC

The Rules

1. Eligibility. Open to all current Spa Index News mailing list subscribers aged 18 and above as of June 14, 2006, in the United States, Canada, and all countries where not prohibited or restricted by law.  Employees of Spa Index Media and Gents LLC are not eligible to participate. 

2. Deadline.  Entries must be received not later than midnight Pacific Standard Time, on June 30, 2006, by use of the entry form, below. 

3. Judging.  Determination of the winner will be Monday, July 31, 2006, at midnight.  Winning entries will be selected by the staff of Spa Index Media, LLC. All decisions by judges are final.

4. Enter Once.  This is an Enter Once contest. Limit one entry per household, email address, and/or IP address.  

5. No auto entry allowed: For purposes of this contest, auto entry is the use of a program, tool, device or other means to automatically enter this contest without having visited this web page to manually submit an entry.   There are, however, certain tools which permit "auto fill in" while visiting a website, and many browsers are set up to use this feature. The "Form Fill-in" feature IS allowed, provided the participant assures each field is manually checked and completed.  Incomplete entries will be invalidated and deleted.

6. Date of Entry.  The manually typed "Date of Entry" must match the submission date recorded by our form handler.  In the event entries are submitted over the midnight hour, a gap of not more than 10 minutes (e.g., not later than 12:10 a.m. the day after a typed "date of entry") will constitute a valid entry.

7. Unexpected Termination.  Spa Index Media and Gents, LLC are not responsible for any losses sustained if the contest is terminated for reasons outside of their control, including acts of God or events beyond reasonable control, including but not limited to lost, misdirected, late, or ineligible entries submitted via the Internet.

8. Duplicate Entries. While deliberate duplicate entries from the same IP address or email address will be deleted if submitted at different times, duplicate entries which arrive within minutes of one another as the result of a browser or submission error, will be reviewed, the first entry deleted, and the second entry will be permitted, in the sole discretion of the Judges.

9. Substitutions.  Spa Index Media or Gents, LLC may substitute prizes of equal or greater value.  Any government taxes on the value of the awards are the responsibility of the winner.

10. Notices. Winner will be notified via newsletter in Spa Index News and on this website.  We highly encourage participants to sign up for the newsletters.  No Spam will be sent, and, names and email address will not be shared with any other source, for any price, for any purpose.  For that reason, it is important that a valid, current email address be used.

11. No Spam-Filtered Addresses.  Participants' email addresses used to enter the contest may not contain the words "spam" "garbage" "trash"  "delete" or similar phrase designed to attract spam-filters to move or delete email to a folder which may result in deletion of communications from Spa Index Media or Gents, LLC. 

12. Validation.  Spa Index Media will send one email request to confirm a mailing address. Upon receipt by us of the winner's confirmed correct mailing address, we will consider the winning entry authenticated.

13. No Guarantees. While Spa Index will make every effort to assure timely delivery of prizes shipped by sponsors, Spa Index Media assumes no financial liability nor makes a guarantee for replacement of a lost or missing prize awarded by a sponsor.

14. Disputes. In event of dispute, resolution by laws and in a court of the State of California. 

15. Odds. Odds of winning dependent upon the number of entries received. 

16. Amendments. Contest, including prizes and sponsors, may be amended and/or canceled without prior notice.   

17. Marketing. All entries become property of Spa Index Media, LLC. By entering the contest, participants grant to Spa Index Media, LLC and Gents, LLC, the exclusive right to reprint the winner's name including location, together with any photographs provided to Spa Index Media for use in promoting the winning entry.

18. Agreement. By entering, participants agree to abide by these rules. Non-compliance will result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner.