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This giveaway is closed, and the winner has been contacted (CONGRATULATIONS, STORMY!!!), but check back next Saturday for another Sephora giveaway.
Someone’s a sleepy sheepy this morning. Zzzz…
Rise and shine, morning glory! I was just getting some nice “mommy and toygy time” (pronounced: toy-ɡē) in bed, which is what I call it when Tabs lavishes me with lurvies, but now it’s time to get up. After all, someone’s gotta man the tabby command center’s first watch and make sure that none of the neighborhood cats are invading the property.
In other news, we may drive out to the East Bay today to visit my parents and hit up a couple of furniture stores. I desperately need some kind of storage cabinet and a new bedroom dresser. The drawers on mine don’t even close anymore (and it’s so annoying).
I hope it’s sunny where you are, my friend. 🙂 Good luck in the giveaway, and I’ll talk to you soon.
- One (1) Sephora eGift card containing $50 sent to the winner by email (international readers, you may opt to receive $50 sent by PayPal instead).
- Enter by leaving a comment below.
- Open to U.S. and international readers.
- You must be 18 or older to enter (or otherwise an adult based on your local laws).
- Your comment can be about anything at all, but here are some ideas if you’re stuck:
- Do you watch Face Off?
- When was the last time you took a class for something, and what was the class about?
- To the best of your knowledge, have you ever climbed a tree?
- What’s one makeup trend you wish would just go away already?
- Do you hang out with any of your coworkers outside of work?
- What color are your bath towels?
- One entry per person.
- You must use a valid email address to win.
- The giveaway ends on Monday, March 16, 2015 at 11:59 PM (Pacific Time). 🙂
Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,
Karen
My bath towels are Leopard! I love ’em!!!!
I am currently in grad school so I am taking classes about fluency disorders. My bath towels are all mismatched and bright cause the bright colors go on sale before the neutrals.
I can’t wait until extreme contouring goes away! I know, I’m gonna be waiting a while 🙂
The most resent class I took was a Mac cosmetics master class. Learnt so much from Fatima Thomas!
Yeah, contouring can make an exit soon.
Hey Karen, it looks sunny here as well but I am a.working b. can’t walk outside anyways. I am so happy it’s getting warmer though. Good luck furniture shopping!
My bath towels are regular ol’ white!
Never climbed a tree :0
When i was little i loved going outside, i climbed trees all the time! 😉
I LOVE Face Off! I’ve been watching it for years. I like the more beautiful makeups best.
I just learned how to wax my own eyebrows, and I did a really awesome job.
I’ve climbed trees. I just have trouble going back to the ground.
My bath towels are my favorite color–yellow!
i climbed a tree once in college!
Slay me now but I hope that whole cat eye/winged eye liner trend goes away.. It just looks weird to me. Have a great Saturday!
I climbed a tree when I was 6 or 7, and I fell off and broke my arm! Great memories.
Good luck everyone!
I love this contest, so easy to enter!
The makeup trend I wish would go away is contouring. I find it a bit ridiculous for real life!
Another makeup “trend” I wish would go away is TV showing scenes with women in bed with full makeup on. Everyone knows not to go to bed with your makeup on! Example: Parenthood. Why is TV so afraid of showing an actress fresh faced? I think it is a subtle form of sexism.
Hope I win! I’m a makeup newbie so $50 would help with my experiments. 🙂 love your blog and voice. Keep it up, sister!
I used to climb trees all the time when I was younger. I tried it out again at a botanical garden with my kids!
My bath towels are blue – my favourite colour.
I’ve been obsessed with making tea lately. The loose-leaf kind. So many choices too in shops. It puts me in a good mood and I feel like I am being good to my body. 🙂
My bath towels are a gray and white floral design
Never ever climbed a tree. It’s not on my bucket list either.
I’ll talk about makeup I’m using now…I can’t stop using my original Naked Palette or tarte’s LipSurgence in Blushing Bride!
I don’t think I’ve ever climbed a tree! Also, very ready for extremely contoured makeup to go away.
Someone above mentioned extreme contouring. I was reading on another beauty site about how women come in asking for the Kardashin look, which is all about extreme contouring. 1. Color me dumbstruck because I didn’t realize they contoured that much. 2. Isn’t there something very 1980s about extreme contouring? (Did I just age myself?)
I know most people are probably going to go contouring here, but I wish the Jenner-style overdrawn lips would go away. Its one thing to overdraw (I’m all for that), but the idea is to have it be believable! See some girls and they’ve got two different mouth shapes at the same time.
Also I’m really into watching the snow melt right now…..come on spring!
I’m over the extremely light concealer (5 shades too light) under the eyes! I think it makes your eyes look smaller than “awake”.
Love what you did with the gif! Super cool!
Happy Caturday! Im not a fan of pointy nails.. Looks a bit vampirish and heaven forbid you need to scratch your face!
The makeup trend i wish would just go away is defenitly the eye-brow trend !
First time i saw it i thought it was a mistake… but then i saw tones of youtubers with those same perfect but kind of fake-so-weird-unatural eye-brows like drag-queens does.
Hahaha love <3 this post's gif xD
I used to climb trees all the time when I was a kid.
I love climbing trees. The last time was.. July. The last class I took was.. umm.. Structural Elucidation Methods of Organic Molecules (Chem 70something). It was super fun.
What a nice giveaway! My favorite bath towels are from restoration hardware in several shades of blue. They are soft and thick, but not linty.
love face off I have watched it a couple of times when we visit my father in law. Love their imagination , and all the costumes
Ha, I don’t have much new to add. I agree with contouring & overdone eyebrows. It just doesn’t look right.
I just bought my cats a new water fountain. I am not sure who likes it more, me or them.
The Color of my Bath towels at the moment are a Deep Neptune color.
I’ve probably tried to climb a tree but know I never have!
My towels are blue & purple. Thanks as always for the contest!
One of the last classes I took was a Mediterranean cooking class. We split up into teams & made various dishes which we shared at the end of the session. We made spanakopita, Greek cookies called koulourakia, baked fish on a bed of roasted tomatoes & onions, and several other delicious dishes. Since I’m a self-taught cook, it’s nice to learn from people who are trained in a specific cuisine or technique. More recently, I took a class on lacto-fermentation (like making kimchi & sauerkraut) and a bread-making class. Yum! I just made myself hungry!
Our towels are white — boring I know!
Contouring can be a blessing and a curse. Too much on eyebrows tends to be the only part of the face that is standing out to people, so they focus on “the too much”
My bath towels are sea foam green 🙂
I recently started gym and now I do Zumba and yoga classes!! They are really fun! ^_^
It’s spring break, finally! Won’t be climbing any trees but I will be doing a whole lot of nothing!
I’m a stay at home mom, so I don’t work outside of the home so I have no co-workers to hang out with. When I was working though, the only time I hung out with co-workers was for work functions.
My towels are gray.
I am enjoying a beautiful sunny day, and furniture shopping actually sounds super fun right now! I need another dresser too. Maybe I’ll join you on that quest today!
Yes, I have climbed a tree! I used to climb the plum tree in my childhood home’s backyard and a maple tree in my grandmother’s yard.
I wish they would stop having my favorite lip colors discontinued I hate that
I used to climb trees all the time as a kid, but gave it up in my teens.
I’m over BB/CC creams and back to my MAC Face & Body.
The last class I took was a Zumba class. It was great fun, but I couldn’t keep up, so no on was surprised when I finally dropped out!
I’m tired of almost every eyeshadow palette consisting of warm neutrals. I like bright colors and cooler tones!
My bath towels are blue and black zebra print along with my shower curtain & soap dispenser. Everything else is black.
I also agree contouring can definitely exit the scene 😀
I’ve climbed a few trees, thankfully never fallen from one! Ah to be young and brave again!!
I tried to take a Tai Chi class with my father. Well if you knew my father you’d understand it was a totally bummer move, LOL
My bath towels are purple this week 🙂
I’m looking forward to seeing the Cinderella Movie. I was interested in some of the Mac Cinderella makeup but it sold out right away.
The one makeup trend I really wish would “just go away already” is this particular manicure, and I’m not sure what it’s called. Maybe it’s an anti-French manicure! I just know that the top of the nails are colored black instead of white, so it’s opposite of a French manicure. When they’re colored black, they look dirty to me! Ugh!
Hope things are lovely where you are! I am about to get about another foot of snow tomorrow where I am 🙁 eek! Also would love to recommend and hear your thoughts on The Body Shop Instablur – literally best primer I have ever tried!! Have a great day 🙂
Never climbed a tree, i had overprotective parents !
I actually love Face Off and do Special FX makeup on the side. Last year I worked on a haunted house called Scare For A Cure with Jenna Green from that show. She’s a very sweet person and helped me with certain techniques.
bath towels: always white
Haven’t heard of Face Off. Bath towels vary. Used a disney one today!
My bath towels are pink. Various shades of pink, but always pink 😀
I see new nail polish in my future from Sephora. Although the perfume and make up look tempting too. So many choices!
Just got back from a run (did not wear makeup and this is progress for me even if I wore sunglasses)- I’ve been using my iPhone stopwatch to keep track of my pace, and three miles in I accidentally hit reset instead of lap! Ugh! This is, like, the fifth time this happens to me, haha. Oh well. That’s my random comment 🙂
Excited about March Madness!
the perfect way to combat a very slow to arrive spring is a peachy coral manicure. it’s super gray and rainy here today but every time i look at the pop of color on my hands it makes me smile!
Love me some march madness!!!
I’ve a random comment
I hate it that all the beautybloggers talk about cool make-up brands they don’t sell in Belgium, so each time I go on a trip, I do research about the make-up stores of that city and I buy a lot of make-up in one time 😀
When I was little we had an apple tree in my front yard, and I would climb that all the time!
The one makeup trend that I think has worn out its welcome is ‘corpse’ lips. Uh, I mean, “nude” lips. 😉
My bath towels are white
Hah, I love the randomness of that last question 🙂 Our bath towels are gray. Dark and light gray.
I have an assortment of mismatched towels… I definitely need more
The overdone contouring cannot go soon enough. JLV
I loved climbing trees when I was a kid! Definitely climbed a few back in the day
I’m super excited because one of my former co-workers moved to another state and is coming back for her baby shower! It’s her first baby; can’t wait to see her all cute and preggers!!
I know I may be the only person on this planet and the next who feels this way but enough already with the whole Kyle Jenner lip trend!! Don’t get the whole bloated lip look!! LOL!! But that’s just how I feel 🙂
hsppy Saturday- it’s hot in So. California So we’ll be going for a dip in the pool! I wish contouring & pointy manicures would go away- too much for me!
I had a recent makeup consultation with my fave Bobbi Brown expert. She brings me out of my comfort zone and we build a look that is natural and current to the season. She reminds me of basic application techniques, too. Despite having pink blush on one cheek and coral on another (I bought both)and bold lip color that taunts spring to come, I left feeling beautiful and confident that I could replicate at home. What a feeling!
The last class I took was a silver-working class where we learned to saw, shape and emboss silver sheet to make jewelry. It was quite a while ago, but I still have a couple of the pieces I made.
I used to love climbing trees!
I’ve had an exceptionally terrible week, so it’d be nice to go shopping.
I loved climbing trees when I was younger!
I love my coworkers and try to do things with them often. One is moving to Florida though which saddens me since we’ve actually known each other since middle school but lost contact until she was hired into my building. Instant and lasting friendship.
That’s a cool gif you made with the NARS nail polish colors. It reminds me that I need to paint my nails today. Hmm, what color to choose ….
I took a cooking class in Thailand…so good!
It’s so pretty and sunny!…and I just wanna take a nap 🙁
I can’t get into the super elaborate brows thing, I have to admit…
I love Face Off! I wish I could watch it more.
I took a Fondue cooking class from The Melting Pot restaurant in SLC Utah. Fun and delicious.
my bath towels are blue, bordeaux and white 😀
Face off is great! I love special effects and monster makeup, I find it fascinating what you can do to the human face with makeup and costumes!
i love face off
i havent watched Face Off.. my bathroom towels are mostly white 🙂 and i only work with my brother so not much socializing goes on LOL
Helloooo Karen!
I do hang out with my coworkers outside of work! Since I’ve moved here in AZ by myself, I’ve made friends at work so most of my friends now started out as coworkers 🙂
Love your blog! Almost as much as I love Sephora and free money!! 😀
Of course I climbed trees! And I only fell off once! :p
Love the ever changing nail polish colors in the video banner you created! I love nail polish colors! All of them!
The last classes I took were thru Stanford Continuing Ed. I took a figure drawing class and a French class. Still wish I could get to the point of semi-fluency in French.
It’s going to be warm and sunny here today. Hope you have a wonderful time visiting your parents.
One makeup trend that I wish would go away already is this neutral obsession. It’s just getting boring.
The last class I took was for interior design to see if it was a possible career path. Very fun!
I have climbed a tree 🙂
My bath towels are cream and my hand towels are vibrant orange and lime.
Its finally getting warmer, can’t wait to show off my toenails!!!….:)
I revamped my makeup routine this week. Threw away old makeup, bought some new great things
I used to climb the crabapple tree in our backyard all the time.
I loved to climb trees as a kid. There was one tree that had a long, fairly long limb. The neighborhood kids would pull down the limb and a kid would grab on and fly up when the limb was released. Fun!
I’m over contouring. Bronzing up your face for a healthy glow just looks way better!
Looking forward to the warmth of spring.
i never climb a tree before, because i am afraid that i’ll fall down
Looking forward to the warmth of spring.I climbed a tree when I was 7 fell on my back.
I took a cooking class this week and learned how to make three different pasta dishes.
Oh my gosh, yes…I spent countless hours up in trees as a kid. I always wanted a treehouse, but my dad wasn’t about to put one in the lovely apple tree in our backyard and risk killing it. I can’t say I enjoyed my daughter’s tree climbing phase, though….petrified she’d fall and be seriously hurt.
I climbed trees as a child, but not as an adult.
I had a breast augmentation done this last Wednesday, March 11. Your blog has kept me busy while I am unable to be active. Thanks for the great reviews.
I have watched Face Off before and it’s incredible! The artists are so talented. I actually follow one of them on Instagram 🙂
Of course I climbed trees as a kid. We had a big cherry tree in our backyard and climb right up to get the sweetest cherries.
Hello Karen,
It is not sunny here in NYC but my lil six year old and I are taking guitar lessons this morning. I wish I had a treehouse as a little girl. I have a photo shoot this evening as I photograph events such as Quinceneras 🙂 have a blessed day. Love, Katherine
I have never climbed a tree.
I’ve climbed many trees before, and I enjoyed it.
Purple Nars nail polish looks great on you!
How cool would it be if nail polish could really change color like your gif?!
My bath towels are white
My bath towels are white!
I love “Face Off”!
I want the overdrawn eyebrows trend to go away.
My last class I took was Yoga
Towels are mint… same color as everything else in my apartment. (fav color. oops)
I climbed many trees in my childhood. It’s surprising I never broke any bones, actually.
I have made lifelong friends at work. Even when we live far apart we keep in touch. One of my closest friends I meet at work and I’m now an official Auntie to her two kids!
I wish unkempt eyebrows would go away! They only looked good on Brooke Shields BECAUSE she’s Brooke Shields!!!
Never climbed trees but have climbed rocks! I am psyched to hear and see less extreme contouring with makeup. I like my makeup more natural.
my bathroom towels are beige and baby blue
I’ve never climbed a tree!
I’m well over using eyeliner on the water line. It always fades for me, regardless of how waterproof the liner is.
So not into contouring. :/
I wish the Kardashian makeup look would go away! Too many teen girls walking around with heavily-lined unnatural eyebrows, overly obvious contour, and lips lined too far outside of their natural lip line. So scary that they believe this looks good…
And I loved climbing trees when I was a kid!
i’ve recently gotten a new job and am trying to coordinate a hangout sesh outside of work.
My bath towels are pink
We have two sets of bath towels. The ones we got for our wedding are a chocolate brown. We also have a set from Target that are dark grey with light grey. I also have my back-up towels that were a bargain buy and are pink for whenever I have freshly dyed hair so that it doesn’t bleed all over our nice towels.
I’m 40 weeks and 4 days pregnant, I’m starting to think i’ll be pregnant forever!
Our bath towels are charcoal grey.
I just bought some face towels that are in various shades of pink!
i work from home, with a company that is based on the east coast, and my client facility is on a different state. i don’t have any local co-workers! but previous jobs, i have been good friends with co-workers, including outside of work. 🙂
LOVE Face Off….. It’s amazing what they are able to do!! Also, I really like that they help each other–it isn’t as bitchy and cut throat as other reality tv competitions
Face Off is one of my favorite shows!! I’m always so amazed by the looks!
I had such a nice surprise this week when I discovered that you do videos as well as written reviews! Thank you for improving my week 🙂
I do hang out with some of my co-workers outside of work 🙂
My bath towels are beige and crimson. (I.e. Tan and red) 🙂
That gif at the top of the post is super awesome looking!
I watched some seasons of Face Off!
A makeup trend that I wish would just go away would be the Scouse Brow. Really looks awful!
Hola! Rainy day here in NYC today, catching up on some shows… maybe I’ll watch a face off or two 🙂 😉
Ugh I wish the Instagram brows trend would go away because even though I’m satisfied with my brows, I want the dip brow pomade so badly! I blame YouTube!
no, I have not climbed a tree
My towels are beige. meh. Makeup stains them. OH WELL!
The last class I took was an Aveda Esthetics class. I learned to be an Esthetician, I love it.
My bath towels are dark green. They are worn in perfectly!
I have climbed many trees!
But sadly none in a while.
Over-dramatic, over-drawn/filled eyebrows and unnatural, alien-like contouring 🙁
I see that new Clinique Cheek Pop colors are coming!! Happy Face here!!! Melon, Fig, and Heather Pop are catching my eye.
I’d love to see the cat eye look go away for anyone under 20! My daughter is in middle school and some of those girls wear more makeup each day than I’ve worn in an entire week! Girls, bigger is NOT always better!
My bath towels are lavender to match my Hello Kitty shower curtain!
My bath towels are dark brown and blue. I took an origami class most recently it was a free class but it was fun.
I was always extremely girly as a kid but climbed trees constantly
The last class I took was Organic Chemistry 😀
The pointy nail trend, I so wish it would end already. Im just not into it.
I used to take Zumba classes
My bath towels are white! Makes it super easy to clean 🙂
Go Team Laura! Thanks for the giveaway!
When I was in elementary school, my best friend and I used to climb the tree in front of her house all the time. Of course, every time we did, her dad yelled at us because we might hurt ourselves, but that never stopped us!
My bath towels are tiffany blue and tan.
I learned English three years ago and I’m improving more and more every single day. My french started also recently. So excited I will become trilingual!
I don’t know what Face Off is. I’ve never climbed a tree. I took a phone etiquette class and would practice my answering skills on a tape player, which was entertaining to listen to! My guest bath towels are white and mine our gold and brown. I Don’t go out with coworkers after work. Makeup trend that I wish would go away is glittery powder!!
The last class I took was a Property Management class back in the spring of 2014, nd it was much more interesting than I thought it would be 🙂
The 2 make up trends I wish would go away are extreme contouring and the drawn in eyebrow sculpting.
I have never climbed a tree. Stood in one but never climbed up one maybe out to a limb but that’s about it. Pretty weird, however I don’t like heights. And I have no athletics skills.
I would love to have grey or tan bath towels for my new home we are moving to. We will have to see though. Once you move your broke for a while so I will have to probably wait.
I wish winged liquid eye liner would go away but that could be for the simple fact that I can’t “do” my liner….
The last class I’ve been taking is one to become a personal trainer. Still haven’t completed it…but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Climbed a tree? Or attempted to climb a tree? For me those are two very different things!
Hi Karen! Hv a nice weekend!
Well I’m an architecture student so I’ve been taking all kinds of classes, but I’m currently studying for my enclosures final, which is all about building envelopes i.e. control layers (water/air/vapor), insulation, glazing, cladding, etc. Jealous? 😉
I love face off! I don’t know how much I like the team and coach aspect of this season (even though they brought back Laura who is my fav!). The alien beauty pageant has been my favorite challenge of the season 🙂
Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Crazy rain here on Long Island!
My towels are usually bright happy colors, I tried black but they kept shedding on me!
But I’m really excited for you because I LOVE furniture shopping!! Have fun!
And ladies pls stop overdrawing your lips. Some people can fool the eye well but if you’re not one of them thennnnnn it looks like a mess 🙁
I noticed you’ve been posting a lot more videos on YouTube lately. Love it! But also sad because I gave up YouTube for lent, so I won’t be able to watch them for a few more weeks. 🙁 But can’t wait to binge watch! 🙂
I’m looking forward to the “Nude” trend fading out,I feel like it’s just been done to death and there’s nowhere else they can go with it.As someone who wears wears rainbow bright eyeshadow and lipsticks it gets a bit frustrating when EVERY company’s new release is another nude palette.
One of my coworkers is my spouse & so yes we definitely see each other outside of work!
Undead lips. I can’t pull off concealer-like lipstick, and really don’t think it flatters that many people…
I love how you showed all the colors of the Nars nail polish! fab. tks for all of the pics of our darlin tabs.
The whole eyebrow debate is getting old.
Agreed!
I used to watch face off but I am so behind. The last class I took was a leadership course…and one makeup trend I wish would disappear is contouring. I get sculpting your face, but some of it seems so extreme/overdone/way too much effort that I just prefer a subtle approach to it!
We had a wonderful maple tree for climbing in my backyard growing up!
Trends I wish would go away…beige looking nude lips (looks horrible on me), contouring/highlighting (I have an extremely round face so it doesn’t work on me and I think highlighting makes people faces look oily) and cat wing lined eyes (if you have small, hooded eyes like mine…eye liner doesn’t show up at all).
On a good note…I just put in my first MAC order this morning and I am so excited to get it. I just wish there was a MAC store in Oklahoma but there is not and I’m leery of going to the MAC counter in Dillards.
I love the show Face Off! My husband and I watch it every Tuesday night. It’s something that involves makeup that we can both get into!
Karen, I love reading your blog. And when I die I want to come back as YOU! You seem to have it all together as well as being beautiful!! Okay….winged eyes can go far away. I have enough trouble with just putting on regular eyeliner. I feel like a child and a crayon and I am sure it looks that way too.
I DO watch FaceOff and I love it!! I find the creativity and artistry of the contestants inspiring! And they are always really nice to one another, which is a refreshing break from all of the reality shows where everyone is so nasty to one another.
The one fashion trend I really wish would just go away already is exposed zippers, especially exposed back zippers on dresses and skirts.
The weather was rainy all day. I was pretty upset since it is Saturday and couldn’t really do anything 🙁
I wish the nude or really pale lip would go away. Not very flattering on most people.
I do not watch face off, hang out with my co-workers outside work and I have never climbed a tree! My last class was almost 2-3 months ago on Finance. I use a robe instead of a bath towel, its color is light pink.
One more info, I am a crazy cat lady.
I don’t wish for any make up trends to go away – if someone wants Instagram brows, Youtube eyeshadow or Kardashian level contouring then each to their own I say. But one trend I wish would INCREASE is people being aware of brands that test or allow testing of their products on animals. As consumers we can all make a difference and their are plenty of cruelty free brands out there. There are so many brands available that are cruelty free and we can stop using MAC, Estee Lauder, Makeup Forever, and many others and send the message that we won’t tolerate cruelty to our furry friends. Use Nars, Urban Decay, Laura Mercier, Makeup Geek, REN, Alpha-H and many, many more instead and show you care about animals!
My bath towels are white 🙂
My towels are purple!!! I love the color purple!
Love faceoff! Have you seen this weeks yet? It’s spectacular!
The last class that I took was a beginner’s yoga class at my college recreation center and I really loved it! I am going to try to incorporate the practice into my daily routine. Hopefully I’ll build up to a handstand soon. 🙂
At the moment, I am between my bachelors degree and going back for my masters degree and thus am just working. However, I love school and love learning so I have been taking these absolutely free courses from a site Coursera.com which offers hundreds of courses on different topics from different universities all over the world. I just finished three courses called Learning How to Learn through UCSD, Interprofessional Healthcare Informatics through the University of Minnesota, and Epidemiology through UNC. I’m currently taking Foundations of Business Strategy through UVA and Chemicals and Health through Johns Hopkins. Strangely enough, the first unit in Chemicals and Health had to do with cosmetics! It was very interesting but a little scary in terms of some of the info that they provided about how little oversight there is on the cosmetics industry. There is even a course called Managing Fashion and Luxury Companies (https://www.coursera.org/learn/mafash) for anyone out there that may be interested in checking these classes out. They’re great resume builders and are short term so they’re really made for those of us with other things going on in our lives! That’s part of why I love your blog so much–I can read it in my spare time and there’s so many great tips and tricks for those of us that don’t have hours a day to spend on hair and makeup. Thanks for the opportunity and keep up the amazing work!
My bath towels are teal color!! Love them soo much 😀
My bath towels are blue.
My bath towels are purple 🙂
I am makeup challenged. I wear basic makeup-mostly matte and no glitter!
My bath towels can be a anything from whites to grey or blue or maroon .. It all depends on the mood, season.. And most importantly what’s clean
My favorite topic you listed was: To the best of your knowledge, have you ever climbed a tree?
That is awesome! Yes I have climbed a tree or two, in my day. I am not as good at it as Simba, Baggy and Tazz, but I did OK. Hope you and Tabs have a great weekend!
One of the last classes I took was a flamenco class. It looked so easy because it’s all in the feet, but was I wrong. Just when I got the hang of it, I quit. The lessons was quite expensive.
My bath towels are coral-y orange, teal, and magenta. Hehe 🙂
Sure, I have climbed lots of trees. Trees are our friends!
Karen, I’m loving all your videos lately. Keep ’em coming. I even bought that MAC x15 palette because you raved about it–I got the Cool one. I used it today for the first time, and LOVE. Thanks!
Hi Karen!
I used to watch faceoff but then I got too busy with school/work. On top of that, I already had other shows on DVR. All the contestants are so inspirational and very talented.
Our Bath towels are…. Well we have many but usually white
Thanks for the giveaway. My bath towels are red.
The bath towel question is great because I just bought new ones! lol they are black!
Happy Saturday night. I hope you had luck finding a new dresser. My current bath towel is baby blue. Tomorrow I’ll be using a beige one. Yes I hang out with co-workers outside of work and we have a blast!!
I hope tomorrow Tab’s will let you sleep in, you’re a hard worker. ☺
I’ve been lucky enough to have many co-workers who were also personal friends.
I wish the whole cat-eye eyeliner thing would go away, and take contouring with it. Mostly because I can’t do either, lol! But seriously, why does everyone want to look like Kim Kardashian? That contouring tutorial is all over Pinterest. Ick.
Love watching Face Off! and DVR it all the time. Those guys are so talented and creative.
My bath towels are beige and burgundy 🙂
The one beauty trend I wish would go away is extreme contouring. I don’t mind a subtle daily contor but some people get way to carried away. Enhance your features but don’t change them.
I’m in law school so I have classes everyday!
I just want to say “HI”.
I used to climb trees as a kid all the time. That’s how we usedvto pick fruit off them.
My bath towels are a light grey. But I really want new white ones!
Thank god for spring break! Just had a wonderful relaxing week of bingeing Greys Anatomy! The best part though was i finally had access to Nordstrom and come to find out my foundation was way too dark! I had of course noticed this but thought it was just because of winter but no come to find out Sephora color matched me way off! They had be in Dior 21 but turns out my best match was a 10! Like what the world Sephora? Have i been a pumpkin for the past few months? Totally angry but whatever. So of course i used this as an excuse to buy a new foundation so i got the Chanel Perfection Lumiere Velvet in 10 and WOW OMG AMAZING!!! Love that stuff! Dior Star is my HG for date nights but this is new HG for everyday wear! Lurv it. You should totally try this one if you haven’t!!!!!
I climbed tress during my younger years. It was happy moments.. i wonder if i could still do that
Green…. Towels are green
I love face off !
I used to try climbing trees when I was younger but I never made it very far up :-/
I’m over the ice skater/porn star eye makeup looks I keep seeing on Pinterest.
I believe the last course I took was a beginner level project management course. a few years ago now..
I believe the last course I took was a beginner level project management course at the local technical school few years ago now..
I used to love climbing trees!
I have an old coworker who is now my best friend. We’ve both moved on to working at different school districts, but still are in constant contact with each other. I do miss the old days though.
My bath towels are brick red and white!
I haven’t climbed a tree in years! Last time was maybe when I was 10! Ha
Are you talking about Face off the movie? I don’t watch tv that much.
The color of my bath towel is Green. I love makeup, listening music and painting 🙂
Hi karen, hope you are having a great weekend. My birthday is Tuesday, this would make an awesome gift! 😉 I’ll be 25. My daughter was cleared of her seizures this past week, she is doing great. I’m gonn have to agree with the contouring, sometimes it can be too much!
My towels are black & white.
I LOVE face off it makes me want to be a special effects makeup artist
The trend I wish would be over with already is contouring. I used to love watching contouring videos, but reading a blog one day not too long ago just made me realize.. the 5 shades of concealer all over the face just don’t seem necessary and I don’t think it’s anything I’ll ever need to do. I like to make my cheek bones stand out, but other than that, there’s really no need for a palette full of “contouring” colors.
I have a cute Teddy bear printed bath towel in peachy shade.. and yes i did climbed trees and the last class I attended were salsa dance.. i so want to go back to Salsa.. 😀
I have different colored towels. I wanted it to be all white but it becomes a problem when we have guests and everything gets mixed up.
The last class I took was a hat making class, using felt before it’s actually felt, like from scratch. It was a great experience, although I was the least experienced in the class. It took 6 hours, but I did make the hat. And I occasionally wear it in cold weather.
Hopefully I’m successfully entering this giveaway. Since we can comment as our hearts lead us, I want to say I found International Women’s Day a week ago uplifting. I have read –so many– misogynist and trolling replies on blog posts, sometimes even those that it’s really a stretch to say they have anything directly to do with feminism. Although people who aren’t sexist, or striving not to be sexist or otherwise prejudiced as much as possible, outnumber those commenters…I feel like I still internalize a lot of those negative, trolling messages. So…gurl power! People power! TY 🙂
Lovely shades, empowering feel- Sephora is a class in its own way! Totally love it!
I’m excited about March Madness!!!
I’m excited about March Madness!!!
I saw the movie Faceoff, but I don’t have cable, so I don’t watch that much TV. My bath towels are baby blue, navy blue and dark brown. Not together, but solids. I think the hark brown ones may have teal trim.
And I’d love to take a class. Maybe that’s what I should look into doing.
I have never climbed a tree before. I hate heights!
Those NARS nail polishes are perrty.
I’m crossing my arms I hope to win
I don’t think I’ve ever climbed a tree, I’m much too scared of heights!
Heheh, since I’m still in College (majoring in Philosophy and Chemistry) I have to take mandatory classes of almost every single discipline throughout the whole range of human knowledge, however one I really enjoyed was an Astronomy class since we had to go to the Irazú volcano (yup, I’m from Costa Rica) in the middle of the night so we had to withstand temperatures of 2 Celsius (35.6 Fahrenheit) but it was worth it because the view was magical: not a single artificial light could interfere with the magnificence of the Andromeda Galaxy and bouts of the Milky Way, and several shooting stars could be seen with bare eye, and all you had to do was simply raise your head to the sky (we took astronomical equipment too); also on our way down to San José we had this beautiful view of the city at dawn all misty and foggy.
The most recent class I took was Karate. I was about to be graded but I had to pull out due to injury. 🙁 Hoping to restart in the Fall.
This would make a great birthday gift for me.
I am currently taking Japanese classes and I quite enjoy them!
Will Spring weather ever arrive?!!!
The trend I am tired of is BB and CC and such at US retailers, especially the drugstore kinds. They are over-glorified tinted moisturizers. Most US kinds are not at all similar in texture or coverage (or benefits) to the Asian types and none of those match my skin tone. Over it.
Thanks for the giveaways, it’s fun to enter and read the entries.
1 year ago I start my personal makeup class! My makeup madness start from that time, I guess 😀
I did climb trees when I was younger but was never any good at it because I am afraid of heights!
Can I just say, I’m so glad you’re doing these giveaways where all you have to do is comment, and everyone gets and equal chance, rather than making us jump through all kinds of hoops. I really appreciate it.
Can’t wait for my birthday to roll around so I can get my clutches on Sephora’s bday gifts 😀
I have one yellow bath towel. It’s bright, cheers me up, and easy to find in my room lol.
I love that shade of NARS nail polish your wearing!
never climbed tree. i wasn’t that adventurous as a child. lol
I used to climb mango trees at my grandmother’s house. But I never got up too high like some of my cousins, I just got up the first few branches to wait for them to throw fruit down to the ground.
Hello Karen!
My bath towels are a pretty turquoise – with chocolate accents. I love those colors! I actually found a shower curtain with bible verses on it, that are in my colors!! My little hand towels match too — I’m not done with it, there are more things to the collection that I want to get but these things take time! I’ll get there!!!
I have never climbed tree.
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Haha, nope, I don’t think I ever climbed a tree 😉
My towels are pale grey and pale lavender.
I like Face Off, great show! Love all the creativity that goes into sci fi/ horror/ fantsy themes!
I loved climbing trees- no fear here!
I’m taking a class right now (with my dog Mac), it’s dog obedience.
Hi, My bath towels are pink, fuchsia… real towels for princesses hihi ^.^ Thanks for this lovely giveaway! ♥
I’ve climbed numerous trees…. but not for a very long time! 😉
My fiance and I DVR Face Off and watch it together every week.
I hate obviously drawn on brows and over the top contour. Everyone’s makeup is starting to look the same.
Hi Karen, I don’t watch Face off ; I live in France and I never heard of this show ; but it looks interesting !
My bath towels are sea foam green!
I bought a bunch of towels so I think I have enough colors to make a rainbow LOL
My towels are gray and yellow. I don’t know why but I always decorate my room and my bathroom in non girly colors even though I live alone. Haha
I’m drinking a Tiramisu Frappe from Starbucks. It’s really good. Expensive but good.
My bath towels are purple
Well, being as I just got married, my bath towels are an array of colors! We received sooo many towel/cloth sets. I love them because lots of them are fluffy and soft, but when I wash some of them, so much of the fluff comes off and all in the washing machine! I read that it’s the norm with a lot of towels. We have purple, cream, gray, brown, jade and dark purple. Of course, I make my new hubby use the brown and gray sets, LOL! However, the cream sets do not get touched! It’s so preeeeetty! Honestly, who buys someone (especially someone obsessed with the beauty of things in life) cream wash cloths and hand and face towel sets in a cream color?! Using them would ruin them! I just want to revel in it’s beauty. It’s fluffy, cream-colored, UNTOUCHED beauty 🙂 Have a purrr-fect day, Karen!
I’ve never climbed a tree! So afraid of heights!! 🙁
My bath towels are green. 😀 Fingers crossed!
I hope the contouring trend goes away.
I climbed a tree last week. We used to do it all the time as kids.
During my younger days (elementary) I used to climb trees especially the guava trees at the back of our school. There are lots of guava trees there so my friends and other schoolmates love to pick ripe guavas and there were time that I fell of from the tree I almost got a broken bone.
My husband accidently bleached my favorite, most expensive bath towel
The last time I remember climbing a tree was when I was a kid. Definitely not happening now! 🙂
Haven’t climbed a tree in forever cause I live in a city.
I love Face Off!
Being a passionate crafter, I often attend classes.
I just finished an online one, about new jewelry making techniques (wire work).
Thank you for the lovely giveaway!!!
I moved to my current city for a new job with no friends in the area, and manage to forge a really strong friends group largely consisting of my coworkers, so yep, I hang with them all the time! They’re my best friends and I love them.
I’m in love with Bite’s Rosewood lipstick!
What color are your bath towels? Lavender, Turquoise, or emerald green depending on the week…I usually use the lavender ones though.
I loved Face Off but I don’t get that channel any more.
J’ai beaucoup de serviettes, donc d’une semaines à l’autre ça change. J’en ai une grandes quantité qui ont des motifs et des paysages.
I definitely have climbed a ton of trees. I was a huge tomboy growing up, like no makeup, don’t you dare make me wear a dress kind of tomboy and we had a park across the street. I had a big “Harriet the Spy” phase so I spent a lot of time in trees.
My bath towels are in pastel blue, pink and green
It IS sunny where I am! Still summer here. So off to the pool soon-ish! (hopefully it’ll cure my ever so slight case of hangover-ness)
Those “HD” eyebrows are just plain ridiculous. It’s cool when they paint them in different colors, but for a ‘natural day look’ the overly perfect sharpie brow looks weird IMO.
I have not watched Face Off. In fact, I have no idea what it is!
Face Off is the bomb, I climbed a few trees when I was young enough. But the ombre brows need to disappear with a quickness.
I’m impressed that you were able to get out of bed with Tabs giving you love! Must have been a real struggle 🙂
My bath towels are black. I would have chosen purple or red, but my husband prefers black (and it is easier to match new acquisitions to the older ones when we replace worn out ones).
Oh hell I’ve climbed trees – I was a tomboy. Getting down was a completely different thing, though 😀
Last classes I took was a Macaron making class… it was fun!
The last class I took was just last Wednesday! It was the first class of an Indesign training. I still have three others days planned.
the last time i took a class was for Basic Accounting and and Quickbooks. I thought i wanted to change careers and apply to be an accounting clerk or something, but that didn’t happen.
Hey Karen, to the best of my knowledge, no, I have never climbed a tree. I grew up with my nose in a book! How about you? Have you ever climbed a tree?
I love Face Off the people are so talented and I like seeing their creations!
Used to love climbing trees when I was a kid! We had woods behind our house and that’s where we were, all day long. I miss those days! Only thing I hated about climbing was coming down lol
I love Face Off! It’s such a great show!
My bath towels are baby blue — they are huge and super plush.
My bath towels are blue. Pastel, navy, mid-toned… they don’t match!
Yes I am close with 2 of my co-workers and I don’t know how I’d make it through the days without them!
I have never climbed a tree!
I just finished watching last weeks episode of Empire. Love that show!!!
My birthday is on the 23rd of march, love the opportunity to get an amazing giftcard! thank you, dani 🙂
I used to have a favorite tree in front of my parents house that I would climb up in and just kind of sit there for a really long time.
I have never ever climbed a tree. 🙂
My bath towels are white with little blue polka dots, and they are sooooo soft!!
Most of my bath towels are striped–with teal and yellow as the colors.
This whole contouring thing needs to disappear. That kind of thing should be left to professional makeup artists – I have no clue what to do with contouring powders, pencils, etc. and don’t want to walk around with warpaint stripes! I’m sticking with my blush and that’s it . . .
I learned something new today. Did anyone know black cats are healthier than other cats. They have a better immune system, it’s genetic.
Happy Sunday Karen,
I have climbed several trees in my younger days. Not any at all lately. I have pulled my cats down from some every once in a while. Sweet that they climb them, sad when they can only get partially up the side with their strings on.
The make up trend I want to see go away is ‘nude’. I am too pale for nude. I think it is for those lucky folks with deeper complexions. I would have to use a concealer pen to really be honest with a nude lip, then I’d look ridiculous!
Have a great week.
I used to climb trees even in my teens. I would climb up our birch tree and read. Hmm, that was nice. I would like to do that again, but I don’t have a good tree to climb. Have a great Sunday evee everyone!
You feature two of my favorite topics, cats and nail polishes. I went back and look at your feature on Paul & Joe Kitty holiday polish collection. That’s how I discovered your blog.
I’m in a foundation drawing class at school right now. It’s really fun and I’m not amazing but I’ve learned that it’s actually not that hard to become a decent drawer! It’s about training your eye more than your hands.
Spring was definitely in the air today! Took my kids to the state park with my friend and her kids and we had a wonderful relaxing time. #dontyoujustlovelazysundays
Hey everyone 🙂 I have in fact watched Face Off before, those transformations are mind blowing. The trend I am bored with is the Kylie Jenner lip, but since we’re headed toward spring I figure beauty fans will be moving on to brighter/sheerer lips soon anyway.
I’m tired of this contouring trend. Only looks good when professionals do it
My bath towels are a mix of the last few styles my bathroom has gone through. Mostly deep blue, chocolate brown, ivory, white. I display what matches the current decor, but use the rest!
I have an extreme fear of personal harm, so even as a child I don’t think I ever climbed a tree more much higher than I am tall!
my bath towels are every color of the rainbow!
Thanks for letting us enter into your contest (: i´m enjoying your blog already. I must say, the contour trend (for everyday makeup) it’s a bit ridiculous, also de smokey eyes with a deep purple/wine/black lipstick it’s just too much!
Do dance classes count? I hope so! I take irish dance classes! Right now I’m out with an injury – broken foot 🙁
PS – Love your blog!
I do hang with many of my former co-workers outside of work now. Just booked a gig doing my co-workers wedding makeup, so excited!
I hang out with a few people outside of work. Some of them are the greatest of friends!
My bath towels are aqua!
I do watch Face Off! I haven’t caught up with this season yet, but hopefully I will soon because I LOVE that show. 🙂
My bath towels are turquoise!
to my best knowledge I use to climb trees when I was younger I would follow my brothers and then I could not get down and they would help me down. but I have not climbed a tree lately
The last class I took was in opera. It was about a month ago. The next class I am taking is tomorrow-also opera 😉 I’m really happy that I signed up for the classes despite my ex who tried to convince me that I wasn’t good enough. I got rid of him and now I can sing in several languages! Ha!
My bath towels are green and purple 🙂
“When was the last time you took a class for something, and what was the class about?”
Letterpress class at SF Center for the Book
I live in Hawaii..you have relatives in Hawaii 🙂 My bath towels are tan…like me. ☀️
My bath towels are a medium charcoal grey- I absolutely love them!
I’ve climbed many trees. Which is a big deal for a city kid. So basically it’s like I climbed them all, because concrete jungles.
Happy Sunday!!!
Do you watch Face Off?
Yes. It’s one of my favorite talent oriented shows. Plus it’s the only show that lasted about makeup and the artistry of it.
When was the last time you took a class for something, and what was the class about?
Last year and it was about entering into the workforce.
To the best of your knowledge, have you ever climbed a tree?
Never climbed a tree and have no desire to do so.
What’s one makeup trend you wish would just go away already?
Heavy contour and highlight. I do adore a little light contour and highlight but it’s gotten too extreme too fast.
Do you hang out with any of your coworkers outside of work?
No.
What color are your bath towels?
Black and Gray light my bathroom.
Pearls and pink chiffon…. Ahhh <3
I used to love climbing trees as a kid but then I fell out of one and I haven’t been back in a tree since. 🙂
I am taking photography classes and loving all the aspects of it!
I hope my thesis can do itself 🙁
I wish it was summer so I could wear my new Madden wedges outdoors. I’m wearing them indoors and breaking them in.
Also, I wish simpler more natural makeup would come back on trend. I find the over-the-top, 45-minutes-to-do-your-eye-makeup tutorials are just trying too hard.
I can’t even do a push-up so I’ve never been able to climb any trees haha!
I wish the ombre brow trend would make a quick exit – good for editorial work and Halloween -enough said!! Lol!
I like climbing trees during my childhood years. I took a class for English proficiency in 2005 for Call Center purpose.
My bath towels are white with a lot of flowers!I’m from Italy and today here in Milan is orrible, it’s raining a lot, but with my towels i feel already spring 🙂
No sunshine here!! Snowstorm 🙁
I only use cream or white bath towels! I dont know why… but that’s what I’ve always used!
I LOVE “Face Off” and have gotten a few of my friends into it as well. I am always cheering for the ladies. We can’t let men beat us at makeup! lol!
Contouring is just wierd.
I have two types of towels at my place: huge pink ones and small blue ones. My boyfriend insisted on getting small ones and he got a lot of them in blue, however I love huge towels so I got two big blue ones for myself. The problem is that then le boyfriend loved the big ones and started using them (and didn’t wash them) 😛 so then whenever I went to grab one they were gone. So I bought several huge pink towels because it seems to keep him away from those hahaha.
I just love, love, love your blog! :-*
The last class I took was to get my insurance sub-agents license a few weeks ago! It was rough lol
I just had lower back surgery two weeks ago and as part of my rehab (so far) I am to take three five minute walks a day. Each day I look for snow drops, crocus, the beginning of daffodils coming up from the ground along with the return of robin red breasts and Bluebirds. Spring is on the way!
I’m trying to decide how I feel about the urban decay foundation I recently purchased. My oily skin is such a pain!
What’s one makeup trend you wish would just go away already?:
I can’t jump on the cut crease trend… I can’t decided if I don’t like it or am just jealous because I don’t know how to do it. LOL!!
My current bath towels are kind of a light aqua color. Good for spring.
I wish the extreme cream contouring trend would just see itself out. Too much work, man!
This blog is awesome. I’d like to see more stuff on safe makeup. I’m not buying the toxic stuff anymore. Being a new mom has made me reevaluate everything! Keep up the awesome posts Karen!
Love your blogs so informative and who doesn’t love giveaways 😉
Instagram Brows! They looks crazy! Lol
I watch Face Off because my daughter is obsessed with it. But, I do like it too.
I used to climb trees ALL OF THE TIME when I was a kid! That is actually something that I miss so much!
I used to love watching Face Off! I don’t have cable in my new place but I still go over and watch with my BFF sometimes. 🙂 The things they come up with are amazing.
My bath towels are white.
I used to climb trees as a child. My parents backyard had a weeping willow that had a perfect nook in it for sitting. I used to climb up there and read for hours.
The last class I took was a yoga class yesterday. 🙂
I used to climb trees when I was younger, but the trees weren’t especially tall. I’d love to be able to do that still, but I’ll settle for a night in a treehouse somewhere in Costa Rica, where I could be eye-to-eye with all sorts of wildlife, like parrots and sloths.
We have pretty much every color bath towel – they don’t match at all. We even use beach towels sometimes, whatever is clean. With two young kids (one a competitive dancer) and two parents with full time jobs, we do what we can, LOL!! 🙂
my bath towels are what ever is on sale lol
my boys lose towels as quickly as they lose saocks- so having a set is impossible
Unfortunately, I have never climbed a tree because I have a fear of heights.
I am in desperate need to spring-ify my makeup! I feel like I have nothing Spring-y in my stash! I would love some of the new MUFE eyeshadows…they look beautiful! Thanks for the giveaway Karen!
I am on a sunshine make up hunt to go with me for my cuba trip. This nailpolish and a sephora credit would help buy some new goodies!
I do somewhat wish that the big, dark brow trend would go away – it can be very overpowering on most faces! 🙂 Awesome giveaway!!
I have bath towels in lots of colors, but white is my favorite…. They’re much easier to keep clean!! “)
I actually just got out of my english class where we were doing debates. I’m pretty sure my team won 😀
If it’s too hard to climb, I just might hug that tree 🙂
My Bath towels are black!!
Hi! I’m debating whether to paint my nails green for St. Paddy’s day. Will you?
“Perfect” eyebrows, they are way too overdone, instagram has turned into nothing but eyebrows, crazy instense drag-esque eyebrows.
my coworkers and i hang out all the time.
My bath towels are blue, pink, and white.
All my coworkers work remotely, so I don’t get to hang out with them outside of work. We try to make up for lost time when we go on a business trip though, since there are a few of them I really like and wish I could spend more time with.
don’t hang out with coworkers. don’t watch face off. would love a sephora gift card. Lol
Thanks for the giveaway!
Mabuhay!
I’m currently working on my degree in Speech Language Pathology so I’m taking a bunch communication disorders classes
My bath towel color is Mint! (:
I do watch Face Off great show!
bath towel is blue with pink polka dots!!
My towels are mostly deep red–my favorite color. =) Happy Monday!
I have the most awesome light olive green towels ever. they are from Cariloha.
I grew up in the country so for sure I climbed loads of trees!!
My towels (and sheets, purse, and sometimes hair) are aqua! It’s one of my favorite colors in case that wasn’t obvious…sometimes I wear aqua nail polish that matches my towels and I am moderately delighted when this happens. 🙂
I love Face Off! The final looks are always amazing, but there are definitely a few that standout even as more seasons pass.
I think for me the trend that I’m not on board with is the Kylie Jenner lip look. I’m honestly just not a fan of certain body parts or areas of the face turning into trends.
If my co-workers didn’t live so far away I would hang out with them more so than our monthly lunches and afternoon breaks.
My bath towel has a Canadian flag on it 🙂
Have I ever tried climbing a tree? HA! Too many trees to count. You couldn’t keep me off them.
Yeah I climbed trees as a kid, it was fun and scary at the same time~
I wish the harsh Kim K contouring would go away, i think more natural & bronzed make up looks 10X better!
Thanks for doing the giveaway, fingers crossed xo
No more contouring, please!!
It never looks good.
If my closet could talk it would scold me for my extreme lack of organizational skills :’D
Enjoying the seasons of life as they come! Started planning my April 16th 2016 wedding with my fiance looking confused every step of the way. Hoping for my wedding day to have found a great makeup artist or to learn how to do it on my own 😉