are you enjoying the first week of june? Is it already flip-flop weather in your area? It looks like it’s getting better here and we are slowly moving away from “november weather” to “march”…yeay. I don’t give up hope to have a really warm june here. *Fingers crossed*
So today i have good news for you. You can be the {June – Winner} of the Avene Skin Care Travel Kit, which i talked about a few months ago. And as that post had a lot of great feedback, i’ve decided to give one of you the chance to get your hands on these Avene products, which i find are great for warm summer weather.
The kit containsThermal Spring Water (50ml), anExtremely Gentle Cleanser Lotion (50ml)and aSkin Recovery soothing Cream/Mask (5ml). And these products come in a fun little pouch, that’s just perfect size to have in your purse. I use Avene products for quite some time now and can really recommend them. You can read the whole post and decide whether you want to enter or not. 😉
Take a look:♥ Avene Skin Care Travel Kit ♥.
The giveaway is as usual international (not sponsored) and will run until June 23th. In case you would like to enter, click on the {Rafflecopter}.
Good luck everyone.
Until next time – stay beautiful.
happy sunday to you. Another week went by and so much has happened in the bloggers community. Of course i have found a few really great posts, written by talented bloggers, that are worth sharing. 🙂 So grab your favorite smoothie and let’s get started with our weekly {Sunday Read}.
As usual, you can always go ahead and take part in this sunday read event. Grab this Sunday Read photo! The rules are very simple: Pick out some of your most favorite posts written by others & tell me exactly why you picked them. Then all you need to do is to link up down below.
My treasures this week:
1) When it comes to our jobs, we often think back of th every first one and how we felt, when we made those little mistakes, from which we learned afterwards. Am I right? We all learned how to become a better team player and worked on our social skills, which are as important as all the needed IQ for the particular job. And as little as it looks, we learned to smile that confident and friendly smile, that makes us a “human colleague”. Jade from Jade Isabelle talked about these and many other interesting topics in her {5 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started My First Job} post, that i found really worth sharing with all of you.
2) Most of us love to travel. It’s a great way to experience new cultures, great local food, meet people and get inspired by the way they see life, even fashion and beauty tendencies can be incredibly different from what we see day by day in our own countries. Traveling opens your eyes to the important things in life, if you give that destination a real change to show its whole beauty to you. That and what discovering of great new landscapes can really mean, is whatOrganised Cluttertalked about in her {Why You Should Travel Out of Your Comfort Zone}.
3) While scrolling down my Blogroll a quote caught immediately my eye. It was saying: “Comparison is the thief of joy”.
So i had to stop and look at that blog post.
The quote consisted of just a few words, but there was so much meaning behind them.
It basically challenges you to believe in yourself, your knowledge and power to move things, to come forward in life and by being just yourself – being happy.Tiannafrom Storybook Apothecarymade her point very sharp and clear and left me somehow very inspired for the rest of the day. Read for yourself: {Stay Inspired}.
4) What do you think about challenging yourself to go a whole week without complaining and being negative?
What about trying to see all what’s happening around you in a bright and positive way?
I came across this great {7 Days No-Negative Challenge}over on Brooklyn’s blog This little Blondeand thought, that i had to share this with my readers and remind myself to go more positive through my working week and take things easy.
Try it, challenge yourself and have a wonderful & happy new week! (Pictures taken from each of the sites, all rights on these belong to the mentioned bloggers.)
I hope you find the motivating posts interesting to read and enjoy checking out these blogs. Don’t forget to say HI from me.
What posts’ did you like over the past week, my gorgeous readers? Please link up and let’s all benefit from it.
Until next time – stay beautiful!
ps: To celebrate the week of motivation and positive thinking i’ll be giving away 1 (english) copy of Elizabeth Gilbert’s book: “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia” How liberating it would be to just cast off the reins of your current life and go on a year-long trip to three far flung countries of the world? Elizabeth Gilbert does that in Eat Pray Love, by embarking on her journey with specific purposes – one country for pleasure of the senses, another for spiritual enlightenment and the third to restore balance in her life.
How to enter: Leave me a comment saying what are the motivating things in life, that help you in your sad moments.
What makes you feel better? (Please write a little more than just 5 words, would love to hear about your “remedy”!) Winner will be chosen on friday May 31st via random.org
it’s just me dropping in with a little “Thank You” note for all of your latest support, comments and emails. Makes me so happy to see you being that active on here.
So to make it even more fun for everybody, i decided to share with you “My Secrets” and to let you have some “Womanity”.
What is she talking about, you will ask yourself? It’s simple. This is a mini Giveaway for those of you, who follow me via email (or WordPress of course). I noticed, many of you who comment on the regular basis are my email subscribes, so that is my little reward for you. One lucky follower will win:
A stylish little makeup pouch and a 100ml / 3.3Oz Thierry Mugler Womanity Perfumed Body Milk. “Womanity by Thierry Mugler, This is first in a series of fragrances that celebrate women .
The first was angel and the second was alien. In this new celebration of the divine feminine, three accords were used to symbolize the three faces of every woman.
There is sweet ripe fig fruit, symbolizing a woman’s feminine side joined with a savory note of black caviar that symbolizes her sophistication and complexity. Finally, there is fig tree wood which evokes power, intuition and wisdom.”
hope you are doing really well and are ready for some exciting news.
This amazing giveaway, that i’m going to tell you about, is a huge opportunity for every blogger. (Yes, to enter this time, you have to be a blogger yourself!)
You can win advertising space on 18 different blogs! Exactly – you read it right – eighteen!! So all you need to do is to swing by the host & one of my favorite beauty & lifestyle bloggers site:
Nykki talks beauty – where you can enter and try to win this incredibly great prize!
I have to admit, i would LOVE to win this huge & generous prize myself…so if you’re too lazy to enter, i wouldn’t mind! 😛 No, seriously – i’m gladly sharing this exciting news with you, my fellow bloggers!
That’s it, now run over! (You can say HI from me to Nykki!) Good luck!
this is going to be a very happy post today. First of all, thanks for being with me for 100 blog posts! I really appreciate all of your support, feedback and love. And second of all, i really feel like summer is near. And to celebrate all that i want to offer you a great opportunity to participate in a fun & Sweet Summer Swap. 🙂 That’s right, my co-host Sabrina from Polish Alcoholic and I will be hosting this swap to make it more fun for all of you. Btw: We both would love for you to push the “follow” buttons or become an e-mail subscriber! You’d make us so happy.
Here are the rules:
Sign up between May 12th-May 17th
There is a $20 limit (without the shipping costs)
At least 4 different items, that you would love to receive yourself. (Your most favorite summer things, like a cooling face mask, bathing salts for the feet, a body spray, a summer nail polish (now who would have thought :P) your favorite summer snack, chocolate, gummy bears ect. )
You will get an e-mail on May 18th,telling you who your partner is. (You can connect via Twitter or email, to maybe get an idea of what to get for the swap.)
Ship your package by May 25’th. (So everyone should have their package during the first week of june)
Write a blog post about the package, that you got by June 10’th.
(Of course we all want to know, what you received!)
Don’t forget to spread the word about your post on Twitter later on using the hash tag: #SweetSummerSwap
Disclaimer: Just so we are clear, if you sign up for the swap and don’t send out a package – you will be banned from any further competitions, giveaways or swap’s in the future! So join at your own risk and don’t forget, that this is supposed to be fun for everybody!
as you can see, there is a lot going on in the blogger land these days. Different challenges, tag’s, reviews and giveaways. So today i’m sharing with you some mega exciting news.
My fellow beauty blogger and friend Ange from Hairspray and High Heels celebrates her 1st year blog Anniversary with a big and fabulous Giveaway. (Congrats dear Ange, you deserve some applaus!!) And you as my dear readers will only benefit from that. Ange teamed up with some of her favorite bloggers, to make one lucky winner a really happy Sephora shopper.
$250 gift card! I guess you will be able to find some really great goodies there. Do you know, what your number ONE item on the list would be? Some new spring & summer perfume? A long-lasting foundation or maybe a fancy palette?
This Giveaway is open to International residents ages 18 and over and ends at 11:59pm EST on May 20, 2013. Go ahead & enter the Rafflecopter below:
don’t you feel like weekends have the tendency of going by way too fast?
I definitely do, but to make sunday evening a bit sweeter for all of us, i want to share with you a great blogger and a her lovely milestone giveaway.
First i have to say, that blogging isn’t about reaching huge numbers, it’s more about passion and doing what you love and enjoy.
But if that passion connects you with many other similar minded people all around the world and makes it easy to have new wonderful friends, reaching a milestone, like 1000 Twitter and 800 Blog Followers is a big thing.
That’s what happened to my dear beauty blogger friend Laura and her fresh & fun blog A Scottish Lass. As you might imagine, she is from Scotland and is a “self-confessed shopaholic” that loves Polka dots, cocktails, cake and coffee.
Laura was so excited about people loving her blog and the daily support,
that she decided to do a generous M.A.C. Giveaway. Believe me, you’re going to (❤‿❤) this:
The winner will be recieving:
Mac Lipstick (colour of your choice)
Mac Pro Palette x4 + 1 Mac Pro Eyeshadow to start of your collection (colour of your choice)
How amazing is that? I bet all you M.A.C. lovers out there just shouted: Wohoooo!
So if you want to check out Laura’s blog & the giveaway, you’re more than welcome to do so.
(You got 19 more day’s to enter) For the Giveaway –CLICK HERE and don’t forget to say Hi to Laura from me.
Btw: Lately there were two really nice posts on A Scottish Lass, that I would suggest taking a look at:
1) Maybelline Colorsensational Vivids review – some great ideas for your new spring lipstick! 2) April Favorites – where Laura talks about a few products, that i’m personally interested in trying, like the Organix – rejuvenating Cherry Blossom Ginseng Shampoo & Conditioner and also the Urban Decay Naked Skin Foundation.
Hope you love Laura as much as I do. Until next time – stay beautiful!
how are you doing? What’s new on your side of the globe?
Today i want to share some really fun news with you.
Sabrina – the Polish Alcoholic and I have teamed up to make the most of the huge sand nails trend this spring. You see them everywhere. Big brands like Zoya, KIKO & OPI have their hyped collections out there. The german drugstore brand P2 has it’s own little 6 piece collection on the market and as i’m really liking it, i thought it would be worth mentioning.
As we all probably know, Sabrina has just the best nails to make any nail polish look great, so that’s why it’s her hands you’re seeing on the pictures. You can find four of the six P2 Sand Style swatches in her recent BLOG POST and to make it even more fun for you, i’ve decided to give away 3 sand style polishes of the winners choice + Ultra rich hand serum with grape seed and evening primrose oil & permute extract.
So all you have to do is to swing by Sabrinas blog and enter through the Rafflecopter form, as usual. Good luck everyone.
how are you doing? Today’s post has 3 different parts, that i’m sure you are going to like. So grab your favorite cup of tea & let’s begin.
By the end of march my Twitter friend Radiand i have decided to do a little nail polish swap. As Radi lives in Bulgaria she was kind enough to offer me some of the polishes that are being sold there & i on my part of course picked out a few german based brands for her. You can see her post on the swap HERE. She also did a beautiful design with the KIKO Sugar matt, that was originally the idea for a swap.
Today i got the parcel from Bulgaria and obviously couldn’t wait to try some of the sparkling goodies, that i’ve found inside. I tried my best to take a few good pictures in today’s horrible light, but the gloomy & grey weather didn’t make it easier for me. I really hope you get the idea anyways. As you can see the “Perfect” base coat appears much more purplish in the flash light. The Jolly Jewels polish has quite a thick consistency and is really opaque in just one coat. In this shot the “shiny jewels” are much more noticeable & visible. They have a lovely rose gold shimmer to it.
I really like how the two polishes became one mani. Now i’m really curious for how long it’s going to stay on my nails.
Have you tried any of these polishes yet?
As the second part of the post i would like to share with you Radi’s guest post with you. I asked her to do a nice & fun spring nail art and she did a really great job, if you ask me. But see for yourself and don’t forget to visit her blog, to see more great swatches and design ideas.
Hello everyone! This is my first guest post I`m making for Luchessa`s blog and I hope you like it!
I`ll show you Step by Step how to paint these cute ladybugs on my nails. First are the things you`ll need: Base coat, pink polish, top coat, black, white and acrylic paint, regular and detailed brush.
1. Make the pink french and when it`s dry paint the bodies of the ladybugs next to each other.
2. Outline the ladybugs with black acrylic paint. Make their legs, dots and heads, too.
3. Make two white dots and smaller black ones over them in every ladybug`s head as eyes.
And a little waterry white paint onto the wings` edge.
4. Cover with top coat!
And here is one closer look of theese cute ladybugs on my both hands: And this is the complete look of the design:
Hope you like it and it`s useful to those of you who like painting their nails.
All the best,
Radi
So what do you think, Beauties? Isn’t it just a cute mani? If you try to do it yourself, make sure to take a picture and tweet it to Radi, who can of course be found on Twitter HERE. And now to the last part of this post. For those of you, who read it until this point, it should be worth it. 😉 You can WIN a great Golden Rose rich color nail polish in 07, sponsored by Radi. And a KIKO sugar matt 641 strawberry pink (sand polish) + a Ultra Glossy Stylo Lipstick in 816 Pearly Hot Pink (bought by me), that’s going to match the polish color perfectly! All 3 products are part of the Pink Dream Giveaway, which is going to run for a week, until April 18th and the winner is going to be picked via random.org
And the rules for this international Giveaway are going to be very simple:
1) Follow Radi’s blog via Blogger.com or email, 2) Follow me via WordPress or email, 3) Tell me in the comments below how you follow AND:
WHAT POLISH COMBINATION IS YOUR FAVORITE ONE IN THE SPRING TIME?
Good luck everyone and stay beautiful until next time!
There is no doubt that Isabelle Thornton of Le Chateau des Fleursis talented. This French-girl-gone-Utah has a wildly popular blog full of interesting DIY posts, photography, giveaways, and great reviews. Aside from being an awesome blogger, she also creates fun apps for phones. Previously her “Make Me Skinny” orBon Bon apphas kept many entertained as they edited and adjusted photos on their iPhones, and now I’m excited to announce she’s released an entirely new app! This one is different, and for Android!
Let’s face it, sometimes you spend more time with your smart phone than you do with your spouse, friends, coworkers, and family… You sleep with it, eat with it, and admit it-you take it to the bathroom with you! With Smartphone DNAyou are creating a new kind of experience with your Smartphone.
Smartphone DNA is an app dedicated to Twitter users, and it allows you to collect your Twitter DNA via your Android phone, and then compare it against other twitter users to see how much you match! This is a great way to locate new Twitter friends that have things in common with you!
How it works:
Smartphone DNA shows you a list of apps you currently have installed.
You select the apps you want to share as part of your DNA
Smartphone DNA shows you how closely you match the DNA of other users.
To celebrate the release of Smartphone DNA, Isabelle is offering one lucky newsletter subscriber a brand new Kindle Fire HD! Can you say wow? This is the reader of all readers-with a 7″ full color HD display, exclusive Dolby audio, and ultra-fast WiFi it’s top of the line. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to have one for yourself!
Follow the break to enter the giveaway: Continue reading →
You can read the whole post and decide whether you want to enter or not. 😉
Beauty expression by Luchessa 