Update: This giveaway has now come to a close. Congratulations to Irene, who entered via the Facebook giveaway page! Please be on the lookout for an email from me soon! A few months ago, the famed Urban Decay Naked Palette — which had been getting regularly sold out everywhere since its release last year — came back in stock at Sephora online and I immediately snatched one up. And you know what? It is just as good as all the online reviews say...
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Update: A big congratulations to CH, who entered via the Facebook giveaway page! I will be contacting you shortly so that you can claim your prize! Yesterday, I wrote about the new Time to Call™ app from Vonage. This free-to-download app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch allows you to make calls of up to 15 minutes to landlines and mobile phones in over 190 countries, while billing your existing iTunes account with no monthly charges or commitments. In an effort to promote the app, Vonage is sponsoring an iPad 2 Giveaway with 75 websites in participation, EACH site giving away a separate iPad 2! Can we say fan-freakin-tastic?!! Be sure to check out http://www.callsfromsmartphone.com/ for the full list of participating sites, because you can enter...
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A couple of weeks ago, ooShirts contacted me about a possible sponsorship. After perusing their website, I couldn't help but agree — not only is their custom design process simple and intuitive, their prices are some of the lowest I've come across on the web. Here's what ooShirts is all about: ooShirts is an online custom t-shirt printing company. Their main office is in Berkeley, California but they have printing departments all over the country. That’s how they’re able to offer complimentary shipping, which is certainly a plus! You do the entire design/order process on their website, www.ooshirts.com. The Design Lab has tools to let you upload images and add text directly to an image of the shirt that you’re planning to order, kind of...
Continue readingUpdate: the giveaway is now closed. Thank you to everyone who entered! I will post the winners shortly. June 2011 was a big one for this blog. We started the month with a site re-design and I began my efforts to monetize my site. This has also been the biggest month ever in terms of traffic. Back in April, I received a little over 95,000 unique visitors and so had set a short-term goal of 100,000 visitors per month by the summer's end. Well, as of 12:00am this morning, I had received...
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If you are Asian, there's a very good chance that you already know what BB Creams are — after all, they have been all the rage in Korea, Japan, and China for the past few years. So if you're familiar with BB Creams, please feel free to skip the next section. :-) What is a BB Cream? BB Cream, or Blemish Balm Cream, first originated in Korea when a famous actress underwent laser skin surgery and used a German formula of concealer+regenerative/protective cream during her recovery...
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