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Monday, November 21, 2011

Darling Girl Giveaway! - Closed

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October brought us Breast Cancer Awareness month. Along with that, was a collective beauty blogger effort called Team Pink Eye to help raise funds for Susan B. Komen for the Cure.  Many companies graciously offered their products to be used in weekly giveaways.  One of the donors was, Susan from Darling Girl Cosmetics.  She created a limited edition shadow that could be purchased, or won.  I had the amazing luck to have won her giveaway two weeks in a row.  I talked with Susan about doing a giveaway to bestow the LE shadow onto someone who perhaps missed the opportunity. 

Below is a swatch of "Twin Peaks" LE 2011 BCA shadow by Darling Girl Cosmetics.  It is an absolutely beautiful shade.  A low-sheen plush shadow with glitter and a slight gold sheen.  The glitter looks like a very fine periwinkle color to my eyes.  The shadow looks very lavender like in the jar, but the character comes out depending on how you apply it. First is a light application blended, the second is bare but much heavier and the last is over Pixy Epoxy.




In addition, Susan offered up five deluxe samples of her spectral shifts. From her webstore "Spectral Shifts are silky, sheer multipurpose shades that can be used as eye shadow, face highlighters or depending on your complexion blush. Don't let the colors fool you. Most of a shift that makes them very wearable."




Mystique is a gorgeous robins egg blue with a delicate pink shift.
Morbid Angel is an oddly pretty highlight shade. It's a smokey lilac taupe with a just the barest hint of green iridescence.
Haze - Beautiful taupe with violet shift and purple and red iridescence.
Ramblin' Rose is a gorgeous ecru with a delicate red shift.
Little Miss Sunshine is a gorgeous buttery yellow with the loveliest red shift.

I recently found these cute little lipstick rounds from Jane Cosmetics.  There seem to be about 4 varieties of them.  Taffeta (warm corals/peach), Satin (cool pinks), Brocade (reds) and Leather (mixed).  I picked up a couple extra of the Satin and Leather to toss in with this giveaway.  I really love these little things.  They make it easy and quite inexpensive to try different shades.  I am still trying to hone my lip selections - and these are just great - plus they have that cool compartment underneath them to store the brush with mirror.






On the left is the Satin collection, the right is the Leather. I swatched the Leather collection first on bare skin, it didn't turn out as well  The Satin which is swatched over Rock A Betty's  "Stay Put, Already" color-locking lip serum. I intend to reswatch Leather over the RABB lip serum. The Leather collection is now swatched over RABB's serum.

That leads us to the most exciting part of this post.  All of these items are up for grabs. This giveaway is open to participants in the US and internationally, unless prohibited by law.  The approximate value of the prizes is $20.00 US.

This contest is open from November 30, 2011 - December 23, 2011 at 11:59pm EDT.

Feel free to leave more than one memory/comment.  All these special memories remind me of many I cherish - I'd love to hear any and all of yours.





11 comments:

  1. zombielovrrNovember 30, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    Omg Twin Peaks looks so awesome swatched over PE! And her Spectral Shifts are to die for!

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  2. Miss BekkaNovember 30, 2011 at 7:42 PM

    For some odd reason, one of my most memorable holiday happenings was the year that I got a big stuffed elephant for Christmas. I thought it was so odd and unique and awesome.

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  3. AnneNovember 30, 2011 at 8:05 PM

    As a kid we didn't have much money growing up - a widowed mother with six kids. One year was especially lean..unbeknownst to us - my Mom baked cut-out sugar cookies, decorated them and hung them on the tree. When we got up on Christmas morning, we were all thrilled to find such a delight. Those cookies hung on the tree and were plucked off for several days after Christmas. They were hard as bricks, but that didn't stop us from eating them until they were gone.

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  4. classactrachaelNovember 30, 2011 at 8:43 PM

    My sister and I could never wait to open our stockings - the stockings were the best part! :)

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  5. DaphneNovember 30, 2011 at 8:43 PM

    I don't think I'll ever forget the sight of a karaoke machine under our Christmas tree. There was a rose attached to a blank piece of paper but I knew it was a gift from my father. He always locked himself in his room during the Holidays but I know that he wanted to hear me sing. :]

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  6. glitterskullsNovember 30, 2011 at 9:12 PM

    waking up to find the cookies and milk missing was always my favorite part about christmases of my childhood.

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  7. caprichosesencialesNovember 30, 2011 at 9:19 PM

    One of the greatest things about Christmas was helping my aunt with the Nativity scene. It was magical.

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  8. prettymomDecember 4, 2011 at 1:10 AM

    twin peak looks so pretty.

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  9. galgotspiritDecember 4, 2011 at 4:56 PM

    OK, someone on the RAT Pack FB page told me how to do it, so here's the URL for today's tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/galgotspirit/status/143491501085831169.

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  10. KarlaDecember 4, 2011 at 8:03 PM

    I don't celebrate the holidays, so I'll give you a different memory. My sisters and I were just talking about dishes our mother made that we loved. My fave was chicken and dumplings.

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  11. AnneDecember 5, 2011 at 2:58 PM

    @Daphne A rose? That is a good man! I hope you sing much better than I - they need to pay me to stay away from the karaoke machine!

    @Teigh Must have been difficult. Sometimes I wish I could find ways to make my grandchildren appreciate all that they have. Thanks for sharing with us.

    @glitterskulls What kind of cookies did you leave?

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