The results are in and the winner has been chosen for the Make Believe giveaway!

The winner is:

Ayesha's Blog!

Congratulations Ayesha, I'll be contacting you to post your winnings!

Thank you to everyone who entered, please do continue to enter competitions I run in the future for your chance to win =)

I'll be blogging about the final tanning products very soon, so keep tuned for the reviews!

 

Make Believe giveaway ends tonight!

Hi guys, apologies for the lack of posts lately, it's been manic recently with bookings, photoshoots and other work, so I'm trying my best to keep up with blogging but have been failing miserably!

Do follow me on twitter & instagram (@frootibeauty) for more regular updates (and previews) of what I've been up to.. I update them religiously on the go!

Just thought I'd remind you guys that the Make Believe giveaway is ending tonight at midnight; winners will be announced at some point this week so keep a look out!

For your chance to win both the bronzer and tinted moisturiser, enter here. 

All you have to do is follow Make Believe on Twitter and Facebook (and be a follower of my blog of course!)

Good luck and promise to blog very soon!
 

Review: Make Believe Sunbeam Bronzer and giveaway!

Hi my lovelies!

This weeks TFWOC review is the last of the Make Believe products - the Sunbeam Bronzer. 

This bronzer is matte and a deep peachy-brown colour as opposed to orange-brown or red-brown bronzers. It comes with its own kabuki brush which is surprisingly soft and decent quality compared to other products that include brushes (usually they are much cheaper quality!).

swatched on my wrist

Packaging: I love the packaging of both the Sunbeam Bronzer and the Tinted Moisturiser as black and gold give a classic rich-like feel.
Finish: Matte.
Texture: Pressed powder.
Application: Can use the Kabuki brush provided, or face/blush brushes.
Smell: No particular scent.
Who this would be perfect for: I think this product would be better suited to cooler/peachy skin tones rather than more darker ethnic/yellow tones, but again, like the tinted moisturiser, the peachyness isn't too obvious once blended in on the face. It doesn't give a "dirty" look to the skin and I quite like that it has a useful brush included, ideal to carry around if you just wanted to touch up on bronzer. Having said that, the packaging is quite chunky to carry around so you'd have to have a big makeup bag!
It does give a more healthier look to my complexion (NC35-40) without it looking obvious. Very fair skins can use this for contouring. I'd say matte powder bronzers are better for normal/combination to oily skin types as they don't make the skin look shiny but give subtle colour.

FrootiFactor: I'd give this product a 4 out of 5 as it does what it says on the tin but you get the added bonus of a decent quality kabuki brush and a mirror to travel with, so I give it a 4:

The Sunbeam Bronzer is available from the Make Believe website here for £15.

GIVEAWAY:

If you would like to win both this Sunbeam Bronzer and the Glow Tinted Moisturiser all you have to do is the following:

RULES:

• To win, leave a comment below saying "enter me".
• Follow Make Believe on Twitter and Facebook.
• Please make sure you are a follower of my blog, this contest is only for Frootibeauty followers. 
• This competition ends on the 5th of November 2012 at 11.59pm GMT and a winner will be chosen at random whereby Make Believe will send the products out to the winner.

Good luck!

Have you tried any Make Believe products? Which bronzers would you recommend?

 

1000 follower contest!

Hi dolls, apologies for the lack of posts lately I've been ever so busy but should be back on track very soon!
For those of you looking for inspirational looks for weddings and occasions or to match an outfit, please feel free to browse my makeup looks album here (all with links back to here with written tutorials!) or by clicking on the blogger label makeup looks. I find that looking through makeup looks is much easier through my Facebook page rather than with blogger.

As you may or may not have seen, I've finally reached my 1000 GFC followers and now also on my Facebook page too, so I've been putting together a few goodies and decided to hold a competition for those who would like the chance to win some of my favourite products; the products in this competition are enough makeup to do a full makeup look!

Here's a list of all the products up for grabs: 

> Urban Decay Midnight Emergency Kit (Limited Edition) with eyeshadows: Midnight Cowboy, Midnight Rodeo, Midnight 15 and AC/DC, full size lip junkie in Midnight Cowboy and eyeshadow brush 
> Illamasqua full size Powder Eyeshadow in Inception  
> Urban Decay trial size original Eyeshadow Primer Potion (UDPP) 
> Urban Decay trial size 24/7 eye pencil in Zero 
> Urban Decay Naked Skin foundation samples   
> Benefit trial size Bad Gal Lash mascara 

> Clinique trial size Moisture Surge Thirsty Skin Relief 

> Clinique trial size Blush in Sunset Glow 

> Clinique Lipstick in Rosette 

> We Are Faux eyelashes in Roux Sixteen 

> Violent Lips Temporary Lip Tattoos in Pink Leopard Print

> MUA Great Lips Lip Balm from the Love Hearts collection 

> MUA Nail Varnish in Shade 6 

> Miniature Marc Jacobs Daisy fragrance and other fragrance samples

 
RULES:

• To win, create or send a makeup look of your choice; I love seeing creativity and particularly love anything sparkly or purple! 
• Entries MUST be created by yourself, I will check that you created it!
• You can submit entries via email to enter@frootibeauty.co.uk 
• Please make sure you are a follower of my blog, this contest is only for Frootibeauty followers. 
• You can enter as many times as you like, but can only win once. 
• Please try and submit at least 2 photos, one closeup of the eye and one of the overall look. 
• This contest is open internationally so anyone can enter.
• This competition ends on the 21st of September 2012 at 11.59pm GMT.
• I will publish the winner on my blog once I have chosen my favourite look.

I hope to see some great creative looks; I'm not looking for perfection so have lots of fun!

GOOD LUCK!

 

Mont Bleu Review and competition!

Hello my lovelies! It's been a busy and exciting time for me the last couple weeks and there's still more to come, so I look forward to sharing all of that with you over the coming days/weeks. I've reached a milestone on my twitter page last week (1000 followers) so I thought I'd have a small giveaway, sponsored by Mont Bleu a Czech brand specialising in crystal glass nail files.

They kindly approached me to review their products and offer my readers a giveaway of a crystallised nail file too!

I was sent a crystallised nail file and compact mirror, both of which were cleverly picked for a lover of purple:

For those of you who don't know, I'm a lover of all things sparkly, a typical girly girl, so when I first received these products my eyes approved of the sparkle-factor.
As you can see, the products are very glitzy and glamourous, and sparkle beautifully both with and without flash. I did not expect the crystals to be that clear and pretty to be honest!

Mont Bleu crystallised nail file
This is my favourite of the two items, for various reasons; it's in the girly colours I love (pink & purple), it sparkles beautifully, has an ombre effect (which I'm loving on anything right now!) as well as being more pleasant to use than metal files or emery boards.

without flash

with flash - look at the sparkle!

It has a decent thickness and is not flimsy at all and it comes in a velvet pouch great for keeping the file in. 

The one sent to me was the Comet color - Amethyst (€10/around £8.32), but there are so many to choose from, that you'd be spoilt for choice! Prices for the crystallised nail files start from €8/around £6.70 and you can also buy personalised ones too.

I've decided to give a new marking system in reviews too, the "frooti-factor" which I will scale from 0 to 5.

For the Mont Bleu nail file I have to say it ticks all the right boxes and would get at least a 4.5:

Mont Bleu crystallised compact
The compact sent was a heavy duty plastic mirrored finish and had cutely placed crystals on it in a similar design as the nail file (Comet design). 

This one is called Purple Comet (€12/around £9.98) which came in a lovely presentable leatherette gift box; other metal and plastic compacts start from €3.99/around £3.32). 
One side is magnified whilst the other is a normal/unmagnified mirror. My only qualm with this type of mirror is getting fingerprints all over the front, and that the stones would fall off. 

However, I've been carrying both products in my handbag for the last week to test it and not one has fallen off yet.. Impressive seeing as my handbag goes through a lot of abuse! 
So my overall rating for the mirror - (4):

I reckon these products would make great gifts for other girly girls out there like me (of all ages), as the sparkle on these products are amazing as well as the choice of other products that can be gifted. 

Frooti readers have been given a 20% discount code "BLOG" to use on all products, including tweezers, makeup brushes and more so be sure to use it if you plan on buying for yourself or for others. 

They do also do wholesale orders too (here), for those interested for corporate events.

Now for the competition!
Mont Bleu have offered one frootibeauty follower chosen at random to be given a crystallised nail file too, so to enter, please do the following:

• Leave your email address in the comments box below along with "enter me" and your twitter and facebook name. You can email me if you'd prefer not to display your names openly - contact@frootibeauty.co.uk
• Follow Mont Bleu on Twitter here
• Like Mont Bleu on Facebook here 

And there you have it! This competition ends Friday 30th March, where a winner will be chosen at random.

Good Luck!

And the winner is..

I've finally managed to put all the entries into the random name picker on classtools.net, thank you so much to all who have entered my competition, it was an overwhelming response!

So the winner of this competition is............

Kim - Dottie K

Congratulations Kim of Dottie K, I hope you enjoy your products!

As for everyone else, thank you for entering and hopefully next time I can have runners up prizes too, I feel bad there's only one winner!

Stay tuned for more makeup looks and reviews and maybe some more general posts.. do let me know if there's anything in particular you'd like to see =)

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Time's Up

As you know, my giveaway ended last night (all entries after midnight will not be counted). Stand by as the winner will be announced soon!

Thank you all for entering, the response was overwhelming, now I need to sort through the entries and use a random name picker as usual to find a winner!

Wishing you all the best of luck!

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Blogversary All-Urban Giveaway!

Hellooooo my lovelies!! 

First of all I want to apologise for not blogging for a long time, after I came back from holiday I was out of sync with stuff, work, makeup appointments etc, so I sincerely apologise!

On the plus side, I've managed to put together a giveaway for my blogversary as promised, so fear not, I am back!

This giveaway is particularly generous as I would like to show my appreciation of my followers over the past 12 months.. 
Since discovering blogging I've been more aware of beauty products and the beauty industry. I've learnt beauty tips from other beauty bloggers and vloggers, been introduced to new brands and most of all had fun experimenting with new makeup looks and sharing them with like-minded people.

So as a thank you I'm giving away all Urban Decay products:

> Vegan Palette with trial sized original primer
> All-Nighter setting spray (full sized)
> Supercurl Curling mascara (full sized)
> Primer Potion in Greed (full sized)
> Baked 24/7 eye pencil (LE, full sized)
> Lust 24/7 eye pencil (sample sized)
> Stardust eyeshadow in Retrograde (sample sized)

Here are your ways to enter:

  

Note: You must be a follower of my blog to enter (I do check!)

Post a comment saying "enter me" leaving your email address; this is mandatory =)

 

Extra entries:

2 entries (each bullet point):

• Add a picture of my giveaway (using the first picture in this post) in your side bar.
• Follow me on Twitter http://twitter.com/frootibeauty and tweet about this giveaway. You can click the Twitter symbol/logo underneath this blog post which will take you to Twitter and post about this giveaway. Leave a link of your tweet in your comment below for 2 extra entries. 
• Join my facebook page: frootibeauty (don't forget to post a link to your facebook name)

Competition rules:
> You must be a follower of my blog

> One comment/entry per person - I won't count any more than one!

> No anonymous posts

> Email addresses are needed

> Closing date: Friday 28th October 2011.

> Open worldwide.

This giveaway is open internationally. It is your responsibility to know your customs laws to make sure that you receive the products. Once the items leave my hands, I am no longer responsible.

Good Luck!

 

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Happy first year anniversary to Frootibeauty!

Without realising, it's come up to my first year anniversary on blogger! In light of this, I'll be holding a giveaway after I'm back from my holiday next week!
I haven't yet decided what I'll be choosing for the giveaway, but if you have any ideas please do post them!

I look forward to hearing your suggestions and thank you to all my lovely followers I've gained in this year.. I love blogging but without followers that actually read my ramblings, it isn't quite the same; so thank you!


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Competition Winner!

It took me all day to check the entries, but I finally got there and used the random name picker from classtools.net to choose a winner!

And the winner is: 

Ellis of EllyBellyBaybee

Congratulations hun, the package will be on it's way to you soon after I email you about your details!

I'd like to thank everyone who entered once again, a lot of you had up to 10 entries by blogging, sidebars, liking on facebook and tweeting, so well done! I'm really happy with the great response you've all given and hope you can take part again next time =) 

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Last Hour

As you must know, my birthday competition will be ending in just under an hour 12am (GMT), so get your last entries in (here) if you'd like to bag yourself an Urban Decay Dangerous palette and Clinique goodies!
Any entries after this time will however be disregarded, so make sure you enter before midnight.

I'll be checking the entries tomorrow and the winner should be announced sometime this week, so stay tuned for more info..

Thanks for all the entries, I wish you all the best of luck! =) 


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