Free hair products? Don't mind if I do.

By JO ABI

Hi, it’s me again. I’m Jo Abi, Mamamia blogger and massive over-sharer (or so my family and friends tell me after my most recent post!). Anyway, here I am in my new role as Occasional Official Product/Service Tester. Or it might just be a one off.

Today I’ve come across PINCHme.

I spend way too much money on creams, shampoos and all cosmetics. What can I say? I’m an ageing mother-of-three wondering what happened to her youth and desperately trying to cling on what is left of my looks. Quite often I see an ad for a new cosmetic and it looks brilliant, except too often I’ve been disappointed by it, AFTER forking out the cash for it. It just wasn’t right for me. As a result I have A LOT of products in my bathroom cabinet.

It’s great to get product samples with magazines but it’s never enough to really test the product properly. I normally put product samples in my gym bag for when I have a shower and I do what I can. Sometimes I mix them up (the horror!).

This is where PINCHme comes in.

PINCHme is an exciting way to try new products for free so you know if they are right for you. And you get decent sized free samples. You can actually wash your entire head of hair or moisturise your face adequately and at my age (cough-37-cough) I need as much moisturiser as I can get.

It’s so quick and simple, here’s how it works. You go to the website pinchme.com.au and register. You enter your name, postal address, email address and fill in some basic information. Female, check. 30-40 years of age, check. Coles or Woolworths shopper? Check. You even have to verify your information using a code sent to your mobile so it’s totally secure. Then you sit back and wait for your sample to arrive.

The product usually arrives within a week, then you try it out, go back to the site and leave feedback if you wish or make a decision to add it to your trolley or not and then try other samples. Looking for a hair treatment that works? A new body butter? Mascara that doesn’t try and take your eye out with its exaggeratedly curved ‘wand’?

Did I mention that it’s free?

To celebrate their launch, PINCHme are offering early bird specials so you can claim a great product from Procter & Gamble including: Pantene Aqua Light, Clinicare Rinse off Treatment, Herbal Essences Hello Hydration, Head & Shoulders Itchy Scalp Care and a Clinicare Micro-Repair Kit.

Also if you sign up you’ll be entered into a draw for the chance to win $10,000 worth of groceries. Like I do whenever I enter a competition I day dream that I have won and imagine myself spending the money, wondering the aisles of the supermarket choosing the Brie cheese instead of the Cheddar, the Organic tomatoes instead of the bruised, squashed ones… etc . Here’s how much detail I’ve gone into re the $10,000 (although as an OFFICIAL MamaMia product tester, I’m pretty sure I’m ineligible).

$10,000 would last me and my family for at least six months, and what a brilliant six months that would be. I’d buy all my first-choice brands, stock up on chocolate and buy myself a bunch of flowers every single week to put on my dining table. I used to do that before we started experiencing family-of-five-related financial difficulties. Who isn’t?

Make PINCHme a part of your day, tell your family and friends and be rewarded.

Finally we have a way to sort through the many products on offer these days, ensuring we receive value for your hard-earned dollars. We hear PINCHme will also be releasing new lifestyle, health and food products on the website soon.

PINCHme, samples from leading brands delivered to you…for free. BRING IT ON!