a field of radishes and counting my blessings !

Hello dear readers (my, my, my... I am speaking to myself , nobody's here anymore...)

I had a no-blogging month due to some perturbations in December 2010. Hurray, it's over, let's embrace 2011. And what not to love in 2011 when you receive THAT !!!???

I won a give away (really weird, I never win anything, it's like a rule in my life !!!). But let me say something, when I win, I win BIG TIME . I had a hard time trying to make everything fit in the photo !

Stickers for the nails : I have a weakness in the knee for the "Camée" in the right. Have you ever seen such delicate and girly stickers ? I will feel like Keira Knightley in Pride and Prejudice whith those on my nails !

Then there is this amazing palette from Sephora , all sleek and compact ! But I am a tough cookie , I though : humph the pay off of the e/s must be poor (I am not a big fan of palettes). OH, dear palette, let me apologize sincerely : those swatches were made of 1 swipe and no primer...Holly molly !!!

Now, meet my new babies ! Look at that blue, that dark plum, this mushroom color : I must have died and went directly to heaven...I want to paint every single nails I have on my body a different color just to test them out !

Now here is the problem : meet my radish nails aka false nails....bouhou ! Because of me being sick all December long (told you December was crappish...), my nails broke painfully on a regular basis. As I had a voucher for a salon (courtesy of my latter employer) I decided to have my natural nails covered with gel to prevent the breaking...Only to remember, once I have the radish nails on , why I hate false nails : because they look SO false (yeah I am that intuitive in real life !)

So I guess I am stuck with a field of radishes at the end of my fingers for a month or so ...I need to have my natural nails protected for a while. I am starting the multi-vitamins thing to help them grow stronger and then bye bye radishes !

This fabulous color called : Chocolat irisé (foiled chocolate in English I guess) was offered by the sweet Lily along with all the goodies mentionned before. I say sweet because she added candies from my childhood in the package (not shown in pics cause already eaten !). If you like nail varnishes, just go and subscribe to her blog : I think she has swatches on every existing nail polish available on earth....

Dear Lily, would you marry me ?

Caro-radish lady xxx

I decided to pick a new winner for the give away....

... as the 1st winner didn't show up....I gave her until last wednesday to clame her gooddies but then I felt bad every day and decided to wait a little more ....but we're Friday night now ...So I guess it's time to re-use random.org !

Here is random.org's result :

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

3
Timestamp: 2010-05-21 23:07:19 UTC

And number 3 is Lovelyviolet5 ! I hope you're gonna be more enthousiastic than last winner, hon' haHA. May be my goodies are gonna sail across oceans to reach their new home. It's exciting !


Caro xxx

And the winner is ....

30 lovely ladies participated in my give away and random.org picked number 23.

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

23

Timestamp: 2010-05-16 15:08:09 UTC

Caitlin (23), you are the winner !!! YEAH !!! So you can contact me with your email address as a comment on this post then I'll send you your goodies. If I have no news on the 18th , then I'll pick another winner...

Have a nice week end everybody, this was so much fun to read your comments on the give away !

Caro xxx

GIve away on MUA !

I was supposed to wait for 50 followers...But I can't resist ! I started this blog to practice my english, to have my own little secret garden (ME-Myself and I hahaha) and I am so happy I did...I met so many nice persons in the make up world, I am amazed ! So, as It's just a guilty pleasure for me, I wanted to give back a little love, so without further ado, to the gifts...I wanted to give it a personal kick, so here we go :

Mascara : Marcelle volume precision in Black. It's my HG mascara : it's dark, it doesn't clump, never flakes. It gives length and volume. I could talk about this single item for hours ....
Eye liner : Annabelle smudgeliner in black. I personally never use the smudging tip because I use a pencil brush to smooth my eyeliner but feel free to do otherwise. I have this liner in brown and I swear by it because even though it's easy to spread it and to smudge it , it doesn't go everywhere (Can you hear me feline Khol liner ????)
Palette : It's just Annabelle colors and the palette to fit them in. I chose a purple color : Purple Reine (Who doesn't like purple....silence following the question), whipped (you need an highlighter in your palette and this one looks like a vanilla Chantilly !), Graffity (my favorite black of all times, a black infused with little sparkles), B-Ray (a classic navy blue which pigmentation is unbeatable)
Pigments: I sampled my own collection (part of it). Vanilla pigment from MAC (description not really needed I guess), Myth from Annabelle (a complex taupe color infused with holographic shimmer, it's BEAUTY), Violet Vibe from Annabelle (again, who doesn't like purple ???), Greed from Annabelle (a bold matte green color), Copper from GOSH (like liquid metal on the lids) and Rosewood from GOSH (a stunning red with a pink hue in it, like a Cranberry !)

To enter this INTERNATIONAL contest, you must :
- be 18 or older
- be a follower
- leave a comment as original as ENTER ME but You can be more classic and just say how fantasmabulous I am ....
- do all of this before the 15th of may at 24h00 in Montreal.

No multiple entries for lobbying for my blog on Twitter , Facebook or your own blog, just do it if you feel like it...But your love for me needs to be pure HAHA...and frankly, I don't want to make it something complicated (lazy, lazy....)

Good luck my lovelies !

Caro-Santa Claus of the day xxx

Gigantic Annabelle haul at the warehouse sale!

At the beginning of the month, Annabelle cosmetics had a sale, open to everyone, in Montreal...Dirladada, I live in Montreal ! So I went a little bit out of control :
4 palettes : one that you can personalized, 3 that were already put into beautiful metallic boxes (I have taken pictures open and closed so that you can see the gorgeous details...)
2 pairs of false eyelashes
1 black eyeliner
2 packs of wipes to remove eye make up
3 mascaras (coughing in shame ...)

When I went home, I felt a little bit embarrassed...Who really needs so much make up ? MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE...Ok, not really! So what do you think about a little give away ? I thought that, as I purchased my HG mascara twice, I could give up the back up and then once thing leading to another, I could add the custom palette ( as I repurchased colors I already own...). And there all shame vanished, HAha (powerful laugh), I felt I was in a generous mood (very good for the Ego let me tell you !). So , if you will give me a few days to wrap it up...I'll be hosting my first give away in a few days! How exciting !

Caro-nice fairy of your dreams (mouhahaha) xxx

another give away !!!! Konad plates on painted Lady fingers.

Am I obsessed with nails lately, no ?...Just a little bit !

here is the link to a fantastic give away:

http://paintedladyfingers.blogspot.com/2010/03/konad-eight-plates-contest.html

New Konad plates ! I already bought the fantasmabulous m57 and the one with little animals (YEs I know I am a big baby ! ...and I am 35 , sad, sad !)...but I am drooling over the other ones ....

Caro xxx

This Katherine girl from OC nail art offered the plates for the give away, isn't she sweet (ok I am biased, on my bill she wrote a cute smiley head and it melt my heart that the bill is just a little piece of unpersonal paper from the printer ...a BIG baby, I told you !)

Give away from nailjunkie : drooling !

here is the link :
http://www.nailjunkie.com/my-first-giveaway/

Oh my , oh my ! So many stuff I want to try ....Argh ! I never win anything ....But I discovered a blog that seems to be pretty addictive (yeah !)

Caro xxx

Give away from Miss P's !

I discovered this blog but jumping from one blog to another (my one and only sport sadly....)

She is having a very generous give away as she reached 200 followers (in fact she reached more than 300 followers !)

here is the link :

http://missp-princess-life.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-first-giveaway-200-followers.html

Good luck !

Caro xxx

Give away on L1LMAMAJ blog

go and check this out : she's pretty, talented and has just been hired by MAC to be an artist (she is not lucky, THEY are ;-))))

here is the link to enter, it's easy and you'll get to learn so much about colors and blending !

http://l1lmamaj.blogspot.com/2009/11/50-followers-giveaway-easy-and-good.html