Mascara Special: Guest Bloggers found

I would like to say a massive thank you to all of you who put themselves forward to help me out reviewing mascaras. I really didn't expect such a fab response. To say that it has been difficult to choose 3 guest bloggers is a major understatement. I absolutely loved however reading your comments and discovering your blogs. I am so happy, I have discovered so many nice blogs in the process.






This little exercise also showed me that L'Oreal was not the most popular of companies, by any means! It was definitely an eye opener. Anyway, with further ado, the lovely girlies chosen for the guest review and who will be sent 2 mascaras each are:

    Jennifer from The Makeup Journal.
    Jade from Beauty Butterfly Blog.
    Sophie from Melovemakeup.

Ladies, I will be sending you an email tonight for confirmation and to get your address details.


I have already started to collect mascaras for another round of 'guest bloggers wanted' so watch this space. You might get an email from me in the not so distant future :) 


Thank you very much again everyone. xx

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::: Mini Testing & Mini Shout out :::

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Update


13 April. Day 2 of testing. It has not been 24 hours yet that I've installed 'intensedebate' as a widget on my blog (not as part of a template) but I already feel I need to uninstall it. Everything was fine and dandy last night. 3 very kind guinea pigs (Grace, Ola and BigFashionista) left me comments. They would get notifications when I would reply to them and everything was hunky dory. Alas the 9 comments (their comments and my replies) left through 'intensedebate' had disappeared by mid morning the following day and the widget, along with the 9 comments vanished. Another lovely guinea pig (Sparklz and Shine) tested this morning, never saw the widget loading and left me a comment through the native system of blogger. This is definite no-no for me and I find the widget too unreliable to keep. What a shame, I had high hopes for this little fella. Might try disqus in the future to see if it performs better but for now it's 'bye bye' intense debate.


Thank you to everyone who helped me testing it :) xx liloo
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So, I was on Zoffen’s blog today and I noticed she had a cool thing going on her blog. Not a giveway, not a contest, but some snazzy blog system powered by ‘Intense Debate’ which I noticed before but didn’t really pay attention to. For a while now, I have been disappointed with blogger's comments system. I get notifications when my readers are kind enough to leave a comment but they never get one when I reply. So I wanted to install this gadget and see if it would improve the commenting system. It also gives me the opportunity to do a little shout out to Zoffen, who I had to tweet about every time she’s made a new makeup tutorial on YouTube. (http://www.youtube.com/zoffen)



 

So who is Zoffen? She’s an extremely talented makeup artist, from Denmark who works for Mac. She does makeup tutorials on YouTube and I have discovered her through twitter. The queen of colours, makeup artist Cora aka Vintageortacky on YouTube  tweeted about her and since then I have been hooked.

Anyway, I would really love it if you would comment on this post in order for me and you to test this new ‘ intense debate’ gadget thing I have installed on my blog. Any feedback would be much appreciated. If the page takes for ever to load, if you hate it, if it crashed when you tried to comment, please let me know. Thank you very much x I leave you with a photo from her look/tutorial zoffen recreated from Lady in the Telephone Jail Scene.

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