Pink Pair Giveaway — how the winner was drawn
Drawn 8 August 2026. This page exists so anyone who entered can check the draw for themselves.
The rules, as they were published
Prize: one pair, the pink sunglasses from our summer film. To enter: comment SUMMER on the giveaway Reel, or any post, on @total_eyewear, or by our Contact page with no social account needed. Entries opened 24 July 2026 and closed 6 August 2026 at 23:59 UK time. One entry per person. UK, 18+. Full terms: Pink Pair Giveaway Terms & Conditions.
How 327 comments became 153 entries
Every comment was read from Instagram directly, including replies hidden inside comment threads. The total matched Instagram's own comment count exactly, which is the first thing you should check.
| Comments on the giveaway Reel | 327 |
| Less: replies posted by Total Eyewear itself | -171 |
| Less: comments that did not say SUMMER | -3 |
| Less: comments posted after the deadline | -0 |
| Less: second comments from someone already entered | -0 |
| Entries in the draw | 153 |
One person entered inside a reply thread rather than as a normal comment, and every thread was opened to find it. Another entered on a different post, which our rules allow; she had also commented on the Reel, so she was counted once, not twice.
If you count the comments today, you will get a higher number than 327. That figure is the count at the moment the entry list was built on 8 August. Since then we have added our own comment announcing the result, and people have carried on commenting. Anything posted after the 23:59 deadline on 6 August was never eligible, and our own comments were excluded from the draw in any case — so the entry list is unaffected. The fingerprint below is what proves it has not changed.
How the winner was picked
Not by eye. The draw is a short piece of code, run against a fixed list, using a seed phrase that was written down and published before the entry list was built. Because the seed was fixed in advance, the result could not have been steered towards anybody.
Seed phrase: total-eyewear-pink-pair-2026-08-07
Seed number: 1502114731
Entry list: ENTRY-LIST-2026-08-08.csv
List fingerprint (MD5): 0899cb547a6db1b4eb7c8925f85bd255
The fingerprint is a check that the list has not been altered since the draw. Change one character anywhere in it and the fingerprint changes completely.
Check it yourself
This is the exact code that was run. Ask us for the entry list, save it beside this code, and run it. It gives the same winner every time.
import csv, random, hashlib
rows = list(csv.DictReader(open("ENTRY-LIST-2026-08-08.csv")))
seed = int(hashlib.sha256(b"total-eyewear-pink-pair-2026-08-07").hexdigest(), 16) % (2**32)
order = random.Random(seed).sample(range(len(rows)), len(rows))
for rank, i in enumerate(order[:6], 1):
print(rank, rows[i]["handle"])
The full result
1 - @colette756 - winner
2 - @zondaildiko · 3 - @bek2312 · 4 - @itsmeamybb · 5 - @abbiehaye · 6 - @itsbeechyy
The same draw produced the whole order, not just first place. If the winner cannot be reached, the prize goes to number 2, then 3, and so on, decided by this draw and not a new one.
Why we are not publishing all 153 names
The people who entered gave us a comment, not permission to publish a list of them. The fingerprint above proves the list has not been changed, and we will show the full list to anyone with a proper reason to see it, including the Advertising Standards Authority.
One more thing
We will never ask you for payment, card or bank details to claim a prize. The winner is contacted by direct message from @total_eyewear and from nowhere else. We will never contact you from any other account. If a message asks you for money, it is not from us. Please report it.
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