And the Winners of Shekinah’s Working Mom and Single Mom Total Makeovers Are…

I find it hard to talk about myself in most situations but I saw this and HAD to respond to it…it’s the end of the year, I’ve been a hell of a mother and I would so blessed to have this makeover.

I have two daughters (18 & 13)….my oldest daughter is away at school on a full scholarship, Lord knows it wasn’t easy at all and I sacrificed most of my life to ensure she stayed on the right path…but if I had to do over again I wouldn’t change a thing!!!! My baby girl (13) lost her father this year to diabetes and that has been a test indeed….but she is back to her “old” Diva self….lol….God is amazing…

I don’t splurge on myself at all so this makeover would be just simply amazing! I log on faithful to Sandra Rose every morning, right after I clock into work hahahaha…and Ms. Shekinah is my absolute FAV from the TI & Tiny show…I sure hope she gets her own show cause homegirl keeps it all the way REAL!!!!

Please consider me for the makeover, raising two teenagers has been rough, a sister sure could use some pampering INDEED!!!!!

Much Luv! Lena

I would like to suggest that my sister be a candidate for this contest. She is a single mom of 2. Last year in June, she lost her job and has benn hustling the best way she can to support her kids. In the process, she has forgotten who she is and what being a woman is all about. She no longer does her hair or goes shopping for herself. All the money she gets goes towards her kids. She has lost herself in her kids. She doesn’t bother to dress up or even look for a man because she feels she’s not beautiful anymore. As a woman, it hurts to see another woman let themselves go. She use to be fun, outgoing, beautiful and energized, but since she’s become a mother, that part of her has died. I believe if she wins this contest, it will help her realize that she is beautiful. And also, even though she has kids, she can still live for her too.

I would love to have a makeover by Ms Shekinah.
I love watching her on her show. She is so funny and always keeps it 100.
I have been noticing how many top chick’s are her clients and she keep all of them looking spectacular.
I’m a single working mom of a daughter.
Everyday is pretty much the same and would love to have 1 day outside of my box!!

Working Mother: Mother to 5. Sandra I am a working mother, I have been working since the age of 15. Lost my mom at 21yo took custody of my (3) teenage sisters after her death. I have (2) children of my own ages 8 and 13. I spent the last 8 years of my life working to provide for the (5) children and ensure my siblings finished high school. The youngest of the (3) siblings is a FT college student and I still support her finacially. Taking care of them caused me to put my personal life on hold and added extra to my plate more clothes, more food and more school activities and working a demanding job. I am attempting to get my groove and stride back now that they are adults, while still raising my (2)children.It less work, however, it still demanding and I still get up and do it daily w a smile. My work week consists of 40-50 hours in addition to community service projects I spearhead (feeding the homeless, toy drive for a local shelter, hats and gloves for homeless, school supplies for less fortunate, etc.). I continue to be a reliable employee, a positive friend and a activity figure in my community, regardless of what I go through. Please pick me:)

Hello well I want to say first Thank you to SandraRose.com and Shekinah for giving women a chance of something they may just not be able to afford or don’t have the time to pamper themselves. I am Martisha single mother of two little girls( one who of has a disability)and a full time worker.

I think I deserve this chance because I never have the time to pamper myself with juggling a full time job that I just started and taking care of my girls, I tend to forget about myself. I am always helping someone else out or doing for others, that I always wonder when will someone do for me (lol). I can keep going on and on, on how much I may deserve this but I would not have enough time. I just would love the opportunity of Skeinah in my head I love her work (Tiny) and I love Latasha Wright work.

Hello Shekinah! I deserve this makeover as a working single mother. My 1 year old son has changed my life. I have grown in so many areas of my life. Everything I do is for him. The times I had to wake up in the middle of the night by myself to feed him, change him, and comfort him. What is sleep? I haven’t had a good night rest since before he was born. You know what…I love every minute of it. It would be ideal to have a man by my side to help, but guess what? I’m doing the damn thing by myself. I am strong, I obtained my bachelor’s degree before I had him, I work hard to support us. I give my son the world. I will buy for him and sacrifice for myself. My friends always tell me you need time to yourself, but I love spending my time with him. I think it is time that I give myself some time and get this make over. My son is not on welfare or government assistance. I grew up on it and never wanted that for my children. Why? Because I vowed to grind and work hard. #SheDidIt Salute to all the single mothers. It’s hard, but our kids don’t walk around hungry, dirty, or lacking for anything because we sacrifice for our kids…they are our world! Either way #SheWon

I feel like I am in need a of a holiday makeover. I am a workin mom of 4. I have a 8 and 7 yr old boys as well as a set of 4 year old twins (boy and girl). I am so busy Monday through Friday that when the weekend cons I just through on anything that will fit. I am In strange place mentally bc of all that has recently I occurred in my life the past few months. In May I lost a very close aunt and the next month I lost my brother, the only sibling I had. For a whole I just was lost. I am prayerfully making my way out of this dark place. I have fallen in this routine of just going through my day to day activities not really caring how I carry myself. I need help. Please pick me! I am so certain that there are lots of moms that that would love the chance to be made over, but none could or would appreciate it more than myself. I work hard every day and my job does not stop once I clock out at work. I get home and then there is homework to be done clothes to be ironed and dinner to be made. By the time I drag my wormed out tail to bed I am to popped to care about what I may or may not look like in the a.m. My husband would so appreciate anything that could be done to salvage this tired limp body.

Heloo Sandra I am entring this contest because I am a 39 yearold working single mother of a daughter who iss 3 years old. In my early 20’s I found out I had diabetes and kidney disease. And thenlater I found out I had Fibro Myalgia. Doctors told me that I would not be able to have children at this point but 3 years ago God blessed me with my daughter who was born at 24 1/2 weeks and was only 15 oz. when she was born. at the same time I had congestive heart failure where the both of us were on life support. They told my family that they could lose either both of us or either one of us. But God showed favor and we are both here today. Now my kidneys are failing and I am on the kidney donor waiting list and I take dialysis every night at home. I still work but I had to give up my home to have help taking care of my daughter. I am at the top 10% of the kidney donor waiting list so it could be at any time that I can receive a new kidney. So that will be a new beginning of a new life. So I am here to start on the outside with a new look and beginning of life with my daughter whom I love and live for everyday. Thank you for allowing me to share my story!

Hello Everyone,

I would like to be considered for this contest because I’m a working single mother of two who never finds time to glam herself up. I’m also caring for my eldery father who lives with me and my man also lives with me and I never have time for just me. I weight alot of my shoulders and this year hasn’t been a great yer for me and I need something that would start my new yer off right. Your probably saying how many time shaev we heard storeis like this before, but when you have gone through so much in one year you don’t feel pretty and sexy. I would love to be made over, my kids are always saying mommy when are you going to get back to the mom we use to know, I got lost someone in worrying about others I left myself out. So please consider me for this contest please!!!!

I would love to be considered for your makeover contest. I’ve been a single mother for 21 yrs to a strong, beautiful african american woman who just went off to college in August. I’ve dedicated my life to taking care of her and making sure that she does not become a statistic. I’ve focused so much on her that I’ve at time neglected myself. I’ve been on my job 10 yrs (Dec. 2nd) and I love to be involved in something that shines light on myself and get a ‘great job’ for being a hard working single mother. Thank you all for the opportunity.

I am recentley married but my journey as a single working mother has been a long hard road. I believe i should be considered because I work hard for my kids and i have sacraficed alot. I am a mother of 4 kids since i was 19 years old , I have worked from sears to nursing homes to take care of my kids. i have gone without for most of my life so my kids wouldnt feel less than any other kid and they can have the best. now that my kids are teenagers times are harder to obtain there stuff and my stuff and maintain a roof over my head .My new husband is a great help but with 4 teenage kids its still a struggle to maintain there needs and wants with mine, so mine fall to the wasteside everytime.
Whomever you chose whether its me or another hardworking single mother WE ALL DESERVE IT, cause being a mother is and has always been a thankless job but a wonderful job!

I always feel like I can be a better mom. I always feel like there is something more I can do for my daughter Nicci, or maybe that there is something I am doing wrong. When I look back, I’ve done and continue to do, all I can to be the best mother I can be. I got pregnant at 17, and became another statistic. That is instantly what I was looked at as. A statistic. I was a high school drop out, party girl with no job. I was going absolutely no where. When my boyfriend, Joshua, got me pregnant. My entire life changed. When I thought it was over, it honestly had just gotten started, and for the better. I sheltered myself from everyone but my boyfriend, and I quit everything negative that was in my life including drinking and drugs. I ended up moving from Michigan to Arizona, and under harsh circumstances, I ended up in a shelter for pregnant women. Being there, I learned to appreciate my daughter more and more. Beating the heavy suggestions of abortion and adoption, I took up parenting classes and learned to be a better person and mother. There were times I felt completely alone and scared that I wouldn’t be able to give my daughter the life she deserved to have, but my motivation was the ultrasounds I was getting every month, and the longing to beat the statistics. I wasn’t going to be typical irresponsible girl that everyone associated teen mothers as. I started going to math classes and took my GED which I received a few days before moving back to Michigan. I came back and found a job, and enrolled in college. I now have a part time job and am working towards my associates in Business Administration. I just recently placed second in a competition for Michigan entrepreneurs and am receiving help in the creation of my own restaurant in which I named after the person who saved my life. My daughter. Maybe I don’t receive a make-over, that’s just fine. There are millions of mothers who deserve to be pampered. All I can is that I matured in a way that some teen mothers never do, or eventually do years from when I did. At 18 years old, I am on a completely different path than I was 10 months ago. I am doing everything I can to make a bright future for my daughter, her father who is going to be my husband, and myself. And I am doing it all while still waking up to feed and change diapers in the middle of the night.

I would really like to win this contest, because I need a new start. 2012 has been a ruff year for me and my kids. I don’t want this to be a pitty party so, I will keep it light. lol I have to wonderful kids 14, and 5 and they mean the world to me. My son, just the other day said, mom you really need some more clothes to wear when we go out, because you wear the same thing all the time. I didn’t even realize that he watched little things like that. I go without so that my kids can have what they need. I look forward to the start of this new year, I know that God has great things in store for me and my kids, so I am excited!!! IF you choose me as the winner in this make over it would be more than a blessing. Thank you and GOD bless.

Hey my name is LaTia im signing my Mom into this contest for a makeover for single Moms. My Mom is 32 years old with 4 children i feel that my Mom Should win this contest because my Mom never has time for herself to get pretty. She has been a single Mom for 17 yrs now. She has a 17 yr old which is me, a 14 yr old , a 8 yr old, and a 7 week old. She Should have the best mother of world award. We dislike when she stresses out because we are the only ones that can put a smile on her face. I feel like this makeover will make her feel really good about herself and time to herself. Especially now because she just had my little sister and she is having post pardom depression she need to get out and get beautified. I really hope she win because she would love this opportunity and me and my siblings would to so PLEASE pick my mommy!

I dont know where to start. I am a single and working mom with an 11 year old son. I would like to be picked just to have myself pampered for a change. I have self esteem issues that I have been working on that come from always being called ugly and slow as a child. I know hair, makeup, clothes and shoes dont make the person but it can help! If only for one night I would like to look up and feel beautiful. I want my son to see his mom look like a superstar!!!

Thanks to all who are giving to this contest. Whoever wins will be blessed!

Hello Everyone! Hi Sandra Darling!

After being an avid reader of your blog for YEARS, this happens to be the one post that made me stop and finally create a profile. Unlike most of the women on here, I am not a mother… but I DO know the trials and challenges you women face.
You see, I’ve watched my mother struggle as a semi-single mother with a full on working career through some of the roughest tribulations a black woman can experience. I say semi-single b/c though my father has been in my life- and he has, financially my mom has carried the brunt of the burden. I watched her tearfully grow after divorcing my father. I watch her selflessly give her three children everything she had, just so we would never go without. My mother went from a six figure salary to jobless and homeless in a matter of 3 months. It was hard, watching her fight to keep all of us above the tumultuous waves of welfare.. harder still, to watch her go hungry so that myself and my two younger brothers ate… literally.
But there is a phrase that she clung to, and passed on to me. “Though the sorrows may last for the night, joy comes in the morning”. This past year my mother began working again in Dekalb County Government. She took up college courses again and is now a semester away from graduating! We’ve gone from no lights and no heat, to somewhat of a stable household, and happiness.
She is my role model in every right, and after so many years of watching her selflessly provide for me, I want to give her the world. I am now In college and working hard, following the example she has given me. If anyone deserves this amazing gift, its my mommy. She is truly superwoman. I would have her tell you herself, but the crazy woman won’t pat herself on the back for shit! Sandra, PLEASE grant this amazing gift to the ULTIMATE diva, a woman who has held her head high, NO MATTER THE COMPLICATIONS OF LIFE! If you ever met her, you’d know she deserves it too… her smiles says it all.

LOVE AND BLESSINGS!

Elle

I am a working single mom so I fit both categories lol! I have 2 amazing girls. I feel I deserve to finally look and feel beautiful because all my time goes into making sure my girls look and feel beautiful. I currently work for The Department of Family and Children services so I also work hard on making sure my clients feel beautiful and good about themselves. It breaks my heart when my own children wished they could make money just to get their mother a makeover so if chosen that would make my girls so happy.

Hello Sandra, I’m a hard working mother of 4 that recently lost her job but blessed that I’m still able to pay my bills. I would love to have this make over so I can look and feel good about myself. I’m a mother first and with that comes duties. Helping with homework, projects, cooking dinner and just making sure that they are loved and not slighted. I put my kids first then I come second, That’s a rule I have lived by since I had my first born. I Also attend school so that I’m able to make a better life for me and my family. In the mist of all of this I lost myself. I wear a pony tail all the time and I never dress up. Its always a shirt and jeans especially on the weekends. My kids ask me all the time when will I get my hair done or just go out to get a break. This makeover and photo shoot would mean so much to me and my boys. Thanks so much

Hello My name is Shamekia I’m 28years old, Single mother of 3.I think I should win this contest; because I’ve worked very hard to provide for my children with out their father’s in their life. I’m going to school for BAT ,working part time, taking them to different sports practice and spending money on them making sure they have everything needed its tiredness and don’t have time for myself but that’s my job.I think My kids would be Happy for me to win something they can’t do right now and I’ve always wanted to experience one. It will make me feel better and boost my self esteem higher and build confidence. This is why I should win #singlemom

Hard Working Single Mother that raised two dynamic girls (Well at least I think they are special)that are away in college. My outer appearance wasn’t/couldn’t be my number one priority, children were first. Now that they are off and about, I guess I need to start investing in moi.

I would LOVE to be the recipient of this beautiful gift. I’ve always said that Atlanta has the most beautiful black women in the world. From their hair to their gear, they always look nice. I sure hope I’m the lucky winner of this fabulous gift.