Secret Giveaway WInner!

Hi everyone!  Before I get into anything, I want to apologize for not posting.  I had a mani I was going to do Sunday night and post Monday, but I broke THREE nails.  I wasn't at home so I couldn't get them evened out the way I wanted.  Plus, the mani I had planned was for longer nails.  I do have a couple of posts planned for this week to get back into things.  Hopefully there will be sun so I can take pictures tonight!  YAY!

On to the "Secret Giveaway."  I really feel like sometimes people only read blogs to enter giveaways.  I want to reward my readers.  The ones that actually take the time to look, read and comment.  I love you guys!  I think I'll be doing these a little more often.  They're really fun.  :)

Now, I also apologize that I don't have a spreadsheet picture or whatever, I didn't get many entries so I just went in order and assigned each qualifying comment with a number.  You can handle looking at that :)  And now.  The winner:

*AMBER*

Okay Amber, since I didn't see an email address, send me your info so I can get your prize sent out soon!  Thanks for reading!  

Okay guys, that's all for now!  I'll have a post up later.  THANK YOU to everyone who takes the time to see what I have to say!  I love you all! Thanks for looking.  

September is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month: Teal Toes: Giveaway

Hi everyone!  Today I have a special post, and I'm a little behind.  I meant to post this in the morning, like I usually do, but I fell asleep super early last night and didn't get my nails painted... Then some stuff came up with family tonight.  I'm just now getting around to it.  I'm sorry.  This might all be old news by then!  Oh, and forgive my hands.  They are stained from walnuts.  My "city boy" cousin has never seen one before, so he didn't know what was inside the fuzzy green thing and I had to show him. :)

If any of you haven't heard by now, September has been officially designated as Ovarian Cancer Awareness month.  Keeping in tradition of other awareness groups, the color chosen for OC month is teal. President Obama has declared September 2 as "Wear Teal" day.  As bloggers, we all decided to paint out toes/fingernails with the official Teal Toes polish to commemorate the first official wear teal day.

Teal Toes is a foundation that was created to spread awareness of ovarian cancer.  Their mission is simple: Use a conversation starter (in this case, painting your toenails teal) to begin dialog about the symptoms of cancer.  Simple.  When someone asks you about the colors on your toes, you tell them about it.  They even have cards to hand out with the symptoms outlined on the back to make it even easier.  For information about the foundation and symptoms/stats/more information please visit: http://www.tealtoes.org/welcome.

Diamond Cosmetics contacted Teal Toes about being a partner, and will now donate $0.25 of every bottle of their new color "Don't Teal My Heart Away" to oc research.  Given that fact, Diamond Cosmetics has kind of become the official Teal Toes polish for bloggers.  I happen to have some as well.  :)  Since I don't want to show my toes, and I thought I wouldn't be going anywhere today, I painted my fingernails.  I just did the Don't Teal My Heart Away, with a coat of Essence Edward on the accent nails.  I got a beautiful mani from it.

I am disappointed that the mani's amazingness didn't translate on camera.  You'll just have to trust me though.  As for the tip wear, not sure where it came from!  You can't see it irl!  

So, to help raise awareness, I am giving away three bottles of Diamond Cosmetics Don't Teal My Heart Away.  

Anyone in the world can enter, all you need to do is leave a comment telling me what your favorite cause is.  What do you donate to the most?  What is most dear to your heart?  I will pick a winner Tuesday morning.  

Thanks for looking!  I can't wait to read all your responses :)  Have a great weekend! 

First Giveaway! Happy August!---CLOSED

UPDATE-- Giveaway now closed! Thanks everyone! 

Hi everyone!  I'm not going to talk much today, we have lots to cover!  Today is the beginning of my first giveaway!  YAY!  It is going to be easy, quick and to the point.  I really don't want to have to spend years going through entries for this one!  Here's what you'll be hauling with this win! 

Look at all of it! *drools*  All Beauty, the company that owns Ardell and China Glaze, was kind enough to donate tons of stuff for you guys to win! Some of this stuff I totally want.  

From Ardell, you will be receiving three sets of lashes, DUO lash glue and Brow Tamer brow gel.

From Seche, you will receive a bottle each of the Clear Base Coat and Fast Dry Top Coat, cute little toe separators and a Pro Shine buffer. (I guess those last two are from EzFlow. ha!)

Miscellaneous items I love: Wet'n'Wild Energizing Lip Shine in Frenzied, W'n'W Blackmail, Sally Hansen Native Bronze and NYC Ice Queen.

I'm also throwing in a bottle of cuticle oil that I had laying around.  I'm sure you could all use some more! China Glaze Peppermint Cuticle Oil. YUM

Body Quench sent some Quick Tan spray and Daily Replenish lotion.  You should let me know how the spray tan works.  They scare me! lol 

Andrea Eye-Q's Makeup Remover Pads

China Glaze Crackles in Fault Line, Black Mesh, Tarnished Gold (the one I really want! Darnit! lol) and Lightening Bolt.

China Glaze Stella (another wish list for me! lol), Emotion, Life Preserver, Traffic Jam and Pelican Gray

 Zoya Ivanka

Finally, what could this be?  Is it?  Could it be... gLORIous?  Yes!  It is!  I bought a bottle for me and picked up an extra of this gorgeous holo top coat for one of you! It's incredible.  

So, here's how we're going to do this.  Today until August 21 at 11:59pm CST (my time zone), all you have to do to enter is
1) Be a follower
2) Comment telling me you are a follower.  Leave your follower tag, how you follow and your email.
3) Get an extra entry by either blogging about the giveaway OR putting me in a sidebar/giveaway page.  Leave a SEPARATE comment on this post with the link to the post. (If you don't put them in separate comments, you won't get the extra entry!)

On August 21, I will put the number of comments in random.com and let it choose a winning comment for me.  Simple!

So, that's it!  Unfortunately, I can't send these to international followers.  I'm thinking of a good giveaway that will be JUST for international readers, but I haven't come up with anything different yet.  I'm sorry!  It will come soon though!

Thanks everyone for joining, reading every day and being so supportive.  I appreciate every single one of you!  Good luck!


Listening to: To the Sea - Jack Johnson
To The Sea, 2010