Apothica.com Review + Giveaway

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As women and especially mother's it's hard to find time for us! Let me introduce you to Apothica.com. Apothica.com is a place where you can 'Beautify for You!' Apothica.com is an online beauty boutique, which carries the finest selection of skin care, body care, aromatherapy, and cosmetic products on the market today, including the most natural, organic products available. They are dedicated to providing you with high quality products formulated to promote and enhance your natural beauty.

I received the Laura Gellar Baked and Beautiful Kit. The kit contains Spackle Under Make-Up Primer, Medium Balance-n-Bronze, Apricot Berry Blush-n-Brighten, Apricot Berry Dream Creams Lip Palette, Bewitching Bronze Eye Rimz, a lip brush, eye liner brush and a double ended application brush.
When I first tried the make up I didn't realize that you had to be pretty light-haded with the application. I looked like Snooki!!

Laura Gellar is a true innovator in the world of cosmetics. Her interest in makeup bagan at an early age and translated into a career as one of the industry's top makeup artists. Operating under the idea that women wanting to look their best doesn't necessairily mean following the latest trends, Gellar creates products with inviting and wearable colors.
By pioneering a new category in makeup with her 'Baked' collection, Gellar's line of cosmetics has an almost cult-like following. Baking saturated colors in terrecotta pans for 24 hours creates rich textures and breathable coverage. It has a marbled effect and is able to be used on so many different skin tones and textures. Laura Gellar cosmetics is unique and will leave you with a glowing and smooth complexion.

Once I got the hang of how to apply the makeup I thought, 'I am a pro!' I can do this! I'm able to apply it in less than 5 minutes and as a busy mom and full time student that is very important to me. One of the most amazing things that I loved about the Laura Gellar makeup was the users guide that was included in my kit.

There were tips and suggestions on how to apply each piece of the kit. For someone who only wore mascara this was very beneficial, useful, and very handy. Because of the baking and marbled effect you can mix and match pieces, so your able to use the Balance-n-Bronze as eye shadow or as another eyeliner. Your really getting the best bang for your buck with these items.

Apothica not only carries Laura Gellar, Napoleon Perdis, Becca Makeup, Hourglass Cosmetics, and Oscar Blandi as well as many other favorite brands!

Buy It:
You can purchase the Laura Gellar kit that I got or another item at Apothica.com.

Win It:
One Ma21cuteboy reader will win a $25 GC that can be used at Apothica.com that can be used at SkinCareRx.com. Apothica.Com, and/or SkinBotanica.com.

Mandatory Entry:Please leave a separate comment for each entry & make sure your email address is in your comment or profile so I can contact you if you win.
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Contest Guidelines:
Open to everyone(they ship to most countries but you'll have to check & make sure they ship to you)
Giveaway will close on April 12th at 10:00 pm MST
Winner will be chosen via Random.org
Winner will have 48 hours to claim their prize or another winner will be chosen
Winner will be notified in a winning email as well as in a post on the blog
I verify each entry, if you didn't complete the mandatory entries you will forfeit the prize.

Oh My Goodness, Oh My Goodness!!

I was surfing through 6,000 emails when I came upon one of my faves Cluck Cluck Sew and found this amazing tutorial that I just have to make! This is the time when I wish I were an amazing seamstress and could whip some of these babies up like I was eating a chocolate bar!!! LOL

I hope some of you make them & I while you are I will be cleaning my keyboard of the drool!

Purse Brite Review + Giveaway

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Do you love handbags? I do, and I am not ashamed of it! What I am ashamed of, is the inside of my handbag. It's in no way pleasing to look at or go through trying to find something. Luckily there is a solution to my problem and yours if you have a handbag that is 'unorganized' like mine!

'Purse Brite' is an economical way to keep your handbag organized, functional and more pleasing to look through. 'Purse Brite' has 5 large pockets two of which are expandable making it easier to fit larger items such as sunglasses, cell phones, cameras, smaller video cameras, or anything else that is too large and awkward to be placed in the regular pockets but keeps them there snug and secure. One of the five larger pockets is divided into a top and bottom pocket, it's like two pockets in one! You can place your work ID or another card that you use often in there for easy access. Besides the five large pockets there is another larger one with a hook and loop closure, one smaller for loose change, one larger for dollar bills, a credit or debit card. I loved that it held my change and wasn't falling to the bottom of my bag. There are also two pen slots, three slots for either lipstick or lip gloss and a larger slot for readers or a granola bar. There is also a  key fob on the corner of the 'Purse Brite' it's convenient so your not digging around looking for your keys. That's a lot of storage 'around' your bag and leaves so much room in the center for a wallet or anything else you'd like to put in there. Once I organized everything into the 'Purse Brite' I thought my handbag looked really bare, but it wasn't it was just organized! If you have children whether they are younger or older you carry around a lot of their things as well. I often find a car or two in the bottom of my bag and find myself carrying around a handheld gaming device with all of the games. With the 'Purse Brite' your able to transfer all of your items from bag to bag; in seconds! Your everyday handbag can be put into a diaper bag or vice versa without having to carry around a lot of bags. As women and moms it's a way to make our lives easier and who doesn't like easier?

'Purse Brite' is an 'As Seen On TV' product that works great! If you've ever seen the infomercial and thought, 'I sure could use that,' or 'I don't think I need one of those.'  Your wrong on this one. I don't know how I got along without it for this long. I chose the beige because I feel like it coordinates well with the handbags that I already own and will purchase in the future. The attention to detail is amazing.

The 'Purse Brite' comes in three different color choices, Pink, Beige and Coal/light black. It also comes with a 'Purse Brite' Light, 5x Magnification Lighted Mirror and 'Luma Tweeze'. The 'Purse Brite Light' is absolutely amazing especially if your using a deeper bag or tote. It lit up my bag amazingly well, it is bright, compact and has two different functions-one that you can push to use quickly or one to push and keep it on for a few minutes.(I have to admit I used it one night to finish reading a book!) The 'Luma Tweeze' has a light and a magnification arm that swings in and out so your able to use it with or without magnification. I didn't care for the 'Luma Tweeze,' it's a great concept but just didn't work well for my needs. I love the magnified mirror! One side has the 5x magnification and the other is a regular mirror. The only thing I would change is having both sides of the mirror lighted. If your using the regular mirror you get light but when your using the 5x magnification you have to adjust the mirror to see with the light. I can't believe all of the hairs I had been leaving behind(GASP!).

Buy It:
You can purchase 'Purse Brite' on the TVTopTen website for $12.95 plus shipping & handling.

Win It:
Thanks to TVTopTen one Ma21cuteboy reader will win a 'Purse Brite' of their own!

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Contest Guidelines:
Giveaway will close on April, 7th at 10:00 p.m. MST
Open to U.S. Residents only
Winners are chosen via Random.org
Winners will have 48 hours to claim their prize or another winner will be chosen
Winners will be notified via email as well as in a winning post on the blog
I verify all entries! If you didn't do the Mandatory entry you will forfeit your prize


*Disclosure: I was provided with a 'Purse Brite' from the Company or PR Agency for the company to facilitate this review. The opinions expressed are that of my own and others' may differ. For more info please visit my disclosure page. Thank you to TVTopTen for this wonderful opportunity.

Winners...

Thank you to everyone who left your feedback on Future of Ma21cuteboy! I have asked around & did some research; I see so many ups & downs in some of the changes, but ultimtely it just scares me to change something that seems to be working & not know if it will work when the changes are said and done. I am not good at choices & descisions like this...

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Update on Exciting News...

Do you remember me telling you about my Exciting News? Well it turned out great! The hardest part was judging all of the cute kids! I just kept thinking what if it were Chucky being judged? There were some with chubby red cheeks, some doing the cheesy smile, some that were caught off guard, professional pictures, and ones where the kids were just being kids! It was a tough job but I guess somebody had to do it right-RIGHT?

The other bloggers were absolutely gracious, fun and sweet. It was comforting to know that they didn't know me and I didn't know them! LOL They are some amazing women who you can read more about on their blogs: Utah Mom's Life, C. Jane, Enjoy It and I Never Grew Up.

The editors, photographers and other staff were absolutely amazing! We had lunch after our tough judging job and talked about our families, blogs, and lives. It was great getting know everyone and learn a little about their families.

I decided to wear a white t-shirt with some cute detail on the sleeves & neck from GAP, some jeans with patches from GAP, some cute bronze flats from Yosi Samra and a cute pink-berry colored rain coat from GAP. I felt a little over dressed and a bit like a big pink berry but I guess it's going to be in a magazine and there is nothing I can do about it now!!! I was just really excited that they chose me to be part of this and hope that more fun opportunities like this come my way. It was great to meet other bloggers IRL(in real life), and learn a bit about them, their blogs, and mostly more about myself!

Thank you Samantha and all of the staff at Utah Valley Magazine for making me feel really comfortable an welcome and including me as a judge.
You can see the 'Cutest Cuties' in an upcoming publication of Utah Valley Magazine.