Le Visage Refinery
NO PURCHASE OR PROFILE CREATION NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Creating a profile does not improve your chances of winning.

The Founding Artists Drawing

One month. One case. A draw you can check yourself.

Every calendar month we draw one working mobile artist and send her a fitted professional case. You can enter by completing a profile, or by filling in four fields and nothing else. The two entries count exactly the same.

The drawing has not opened yet. The standings below say what is true right now, and nothing is being counted until they say otherwise.

Free entry — no profile Enter by completing a profile

Live standings

Where this month stands.

Read from the drawing itself, not typed in by hand. If the number is not there, you see that it is not there — never a placeholder count.

Not open yet

no period open
Not open yet Eligible entries this period
25 Entries needed before a prize is awarded
Not open yet Cases in this drawing, carried prizes included

Odds depend on the number of eligible entries received.

No entry period is open, so there is nothing to count. Nothing you do on this page today creates an entry — when the first period opens, this panel changes and the free-entry form starts accepting.

Two ways in, one set of odds

Both routes are one entry. Neither is better.

We would like you to build a profile, because a directory with prices in it is the entire point of this company. That is why the free route exists and is printed next to it, at the same size, with the same button.

Route one

Complete your artist profile

A finished profile — services, published prices, travel radius, cancellation policy, portfolio — submitted during the month.

  • Every required step complete, not a half-filled draft
  • Submitted before the month closes, Pacific time
  • You are in the directory when it opens, which is the actual prize

One entry. Exactly the same odds as the form on the right.

Join the artist list

The profile builder is not live yet either. Joining the artist list is how you hear the day it is — and how you hear the day this drawing opens.

Route two

Free entry, no profile

Four fields. No portfolio, no prices, no uploads, nothing published, no obligation of any kind afterwards.

NO PURCHASE OR PROFILE CREATION NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Creating a profile does not improve your chances of winning.

Entries are not open yet, so this form is not accepting any. It opens with the first drawing period.

We use your email to tell you if you won, and nothing else on this form is published anywhere. One entry per artist per drawing, whichever route you use. A mail-in card also works — the address is on the official rules page.

The 25-entry floor

If not enough artists enter, nothing is lost.

A drawing among four people is not a drawing, it is a gift — and it teaches next month's artists that the prize is arbitrary. So there is a floor, and a rule for what happens under it.

25 OR MORE

The drawing runs

One winner is drawn within five days of the month closing, notified by email, and has seven days to reply. If she does not, we redraw from the same published entry list.

FEWER THAN 25

Your entry carries. So does the case.

No prize is awarded that month and nothing is thrown away. Your entry stands in the next drawing without you doing anything again, and the case rolls forward with it.

Two short months in a row means two cases in the drawing that finally runs — and two separate winners, because nobody can win twice in one draw.

AFTER 3 SHORT MONTHS

We draw anyway, and say why

Three consecutive months under the floor is a message about the program, not about the artists. At that point the drawing runs among whoever entered, every carried case is honoured, and we explain plainly what we are changing.

How the draw is checked

You do not have to trust us. You can recompute the winner.

A winner picked by a random number inside a server nobody can see is a winner everyone else has to take on faith. Mobile beauty in a city is a small, well-connected community, and one artist saying "that was rigged" costs more than the case does.

So the draw is a commit-reveal. We are locked into a secret before we know who has entered, and locked into the entry list before we reveal the secret. Neither side can move afterwards, and every input is published.

The verification function ships in the codebase as verifyDraw() — the same check a sceptic would write, so she does not have to write it. It reports which step failed, because "the seed does not match" and "the entry list changed" are very different accusations.

winner = HMAC-SHA256(serverSeed, entryDigest + ":" + round) → index = winner mod (number of entries)
01 — WHEN THE MONTH OPENS

We publish sha256(seed)

A secret seed is generated and its hash published immediately. We are committed to it before a single entry exists, so it cannot be swapped once we can see who entered.

Not published — no period is open.
02 — WHEN THE MONTH CLOSES

We publish the entry digest

sha256 over the sorted list of entry ids, which freezes the entrant list in public. Sorted, so the digest does not depend on the order a database happened to return rows in.

Not published — the period has not closed.
03 — AT THE DRAW

We publish the seed itself

Hash it and check it against step one. Recompute the HMAC against the digest from step two. You land on the same winner we did, or we have some explaining to do.

Not published — the draw has not happened.

Who can enter

Working artists who travel to the client.

Makeup artists and hair stylists who work on location, are 18 or older, and are legal residents of the 50 United States or DC. Void where prohibited.

Not eligible: anyone connected to the company and their households; duplicate entries or profiles that are not the person they claim to be; and salons, spas and storefront businesses — this directory is for artists who travel to the client, and that boundary does not move.

The complete terms, including how a winner claims the prize and by when, are in the official rules.

  • 1Entry per artist, per drawingWhichever route you used. A second profile is a duplicate, not a second entry, and it is removed rather than counted.
  • $450Approximate retail valueUnder the $600 line at which a prize becomes reportable income, so there is no tax form in your way.
  • 5 daysFrom the month closing to the drawMonthly periods run on Pacific time, because San Diego is first and a UTC boundary would close the month at 4pm on the 30th.
  • 7 daysFor the winner to replyNotified by email. No reply and we redraw from the same published list — visibly, using the same seed.

Why it has not opened yet

The drawing is built and the rules are written. Two things have to be true before a single entry is accepted, and neither is true today.

  • The company is not registered yet. Le Visage Refinery LLC is not formed, and official sweepstakes rules must name a sponsor as a registered legal entity.
  • Rules need a real sponsor address. It is a required disclosure. An invented address on a sweepstakes rules page is the worst possible place for a made-up fact, so the rules page carries a visible review banner instead of a plausible-looking one.
  • No period is open, so no entry can be counted. The form above is not accepting entries, and the standings panel says so rather than showing a zero dressed up as data.
  • When it opens, it opens for everyone at once. The first period's commitment hash is published the day it starts, before anybody has entered.