Vedette Shape Wear Review/Giveaway 5 winners!

Ok lets start with a bit of soul truth, Im overweight, yeah I could say I'm just a little chubby, or oh its just a bit of baby fat I never grew out of, or Im big boned, or my favorite Its just some extra me to love, but lets face it the truth is Im over weight, and I bet a few of you are too. It's not a horrid thing what woman hasn't said I wish I could just lose 5 pounds? Lets face it we all do, but sometimes we just cant lose fast enough and thus shape wear comes in. This week I was given the chance to review a wonderful piece of shape wear from Vedettestore.com, now I'm not much of a corset girl but I decided to try the Jacqui a very cute and as I was later to find out comfy corset.

About the item I received

So I received the corset and being they over excited woman I am I had to put it on right away, the first thing I noticed, was I really needed to lose weight. I picked out the size based on my weight and height as the site showed, I was on the heavier side of that size and it showed, it was tight, not uncomfy tight but tight non-the-less. I put on one of my tighter shirts which I will admit I had not worn in a while due to it showing off the bad buldge, and wow the difference, it was defiantly noticeable whats more is I noticed I was standing straighter. I am horrid as slouching, but I felt like a ballerina with the corset on, my back was straighter, I was standing taller, and my gut was sucked in. I decided to take it out on a test run and we went out to starbucks, I ran into a friend and she actually asked me what diet I was on cause I looked like I had lost weight. I did notice I had to adjust how I set, I generally tuck my feet side ways and lean into the arm of the chair slouching slightly with my computer on my lap. With the corset I was sitting straighter and even after sitting there for 5 hours I did not feel like my ribs were pushed into each other like they normally do. My only complaint was that the corset would bunch up every once in a while and the ribbing on the back would push into my back which was slightly uncomfortably, this could have been easily fixed has a had a way to clip the corset to my underwear, but I didn't so I just pulled it down. It was defiantly not a huge deal.

About the Site

The site is really nice and well layed out, what I love is on the front page they have some great product search feature. You can search by compression, category, size and color. Even cooler than that you can search by your problem area how neat is that?

They have a great selection of items and the styles are fabulous. When shopping make sure to look at the size guide it is pretty easy to read and you can find it by the drop down window under size selection. They have waist cinchers, full body shapers, body suits, derrière enhancers, compression bras, shape wear with bras, and even items for people who have had surgery.

Their customer service is very nice too, very polite, and helpful, they made me feel like I was a VIP customer unlike some companies which make me feel like they would rather I had never contacted them.

About the company

"Vedette was founded by Mr. Ramiro Vargas on a small town in Colombia, South America. Our company has been in the shapewear industry for 30 years. In that span of time, we did a lot of research and innovation to improve our products. Part of it is a material we use with our shapewear, the advance hevea.

Since we moved to United States we saw the great potential of our shapewear, and great acceptance of our market. After further research and analysis of the shapewear of our competitors, we found out that we are the only shapewear brand in US that has the firmest compression on shapewear. Among these brands were Spanx, Sassy bax, Yummie Tummie, Kymaro, Dr. Rey, Coocon etc. but none of these has the kind of compression as what we have.

Mr. Vargas used to say: "If a woman can wear the most stylish pair of shoes to make her look prettier, then why not have an undergarment that will help her look sexier, slimmer, and even more beautiful?" That idea unlocks us to the world of shapewear; to focus on the importance of how women want to look and feel admired.

That vision sprouted to a lot more innovation, as we finally have our luxury line of shapewear,that we started out about 2 years ago. We call this the Vedette Sensuale. Each of which are made with the finest materials, imported from Europe like Italian & French laces, Spanish textiles, Swarovsky stones, Stainless Hook and eye closure, to mention some. To help promote this line, we are creating a sophisticated website for it wherein we will put the entire collection, and a monthly collection as soon as the website is finally up and running."

It is a wonderful site, with wonderful pieces, how would you like to win something from them? What you win is a surprise even I don't know what it will be but it will great, and 5 people will win (the items go for an average of $50 per item so thats around $250 in prizes!)

Contest for (USA only):

A few rules

1. You must complete mandatory entry first before commenting with any extra entries

2. 1 comment per entry so if you do an extra that is worth 2 entries you must post two comments, sorry for doing it this way but it is how I have been requested to do it.

3. You must include your email in your comment so I can reach you if you win.

Prize: 5 winners, each will win a surprise piece of shape wear, winners will send me their size, and address and I will send it to the company, they will chose the items for the winners and send them to the winners.

Entries

Mandatory entry- Go to vedettestore.com and tell us what piece of shapewear you like the best and follow us via Google Friend connect (post what name you follow us under on GFC) (only one comment needed for the mandatory entry but make sure you do it first!)

Extra entries

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Entry period will end 11:59pm Pacific, Thursday March 24th 2011. Winner will be notified and will have 24 hours to reply to email. Vendette will then send the prizes to the winners.

**I was not paid to review this product, my opinions are my own, however I did receive a product to review, also facebook in no ways endorses or has anything to do with this review.