Winners of My 1 Year Anniversary Giveaway

Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to everyone who entered!
I was really moved and became emotional at one point reading your New Year's Resolutions and comments. Some people really got personal and honest and I was so humbled by that. Thank you!

I wish I could give something to everyone who entered as it always makes me sad that I can't. T.T
But please don't feel discouraged if you didn't win. More opportunities will come in the future and believe me, the more giveaways you enter (not just mine), you will have a chance at winning something. :)

Here is the video announcing the winners. I would appreciate if you watch it since I also share my New Year's Resolution as well.


Now on to the winners.... drum roll please...
I wish I can do a drum roll on this blog post. lol
Btw, it took me a longg time compiling all the entries. I wanted this to be as fair as possible so that's what delayed me.

Blog/Twitter Winner:
Ahleessa

Facebook Winner:
kimcho5

YouTube (E.L.F. Prize Pack) Winners:
melodylinody
amoresarah

2nd Prize Winner:
ssusho

1st Prize Winner:
joanlovesjake

**Winners must send me a YouTube message or email me at iAMminky3 @ gmail . com with their name, shipping address, and (if you are under age of 18) if you received your parent's permission.**

Thank you again for entering and stay tuned for more!! <3

HUGE 1 Year Blog/YouTube Anniversary Giveaway and New Channel

Hello!

I'm excited to finally announce my HUGE 1 Year Blog/YouTube Anniversary Giveaway.

I guess you could call this a Happy New Year's giveaway as well.

Everything is sponsored by me. :)

I would say that this is my biggest giveaway I've ever held so far. I'm happy to have collected these prizes and not only will I have 1 winner, or 2... but I will have 6 winners! :)

I'll show the prizes first:

First Place

1. Restoration Hardware Luxury Slippers (stuffed with real down feathers)

2. iTunes $15 giftcard

3. MAC Chromographic Pencil (from Cham Pale collection)

4. Lovely White Notebook

5. Photo album

6. Custom designed earrings made by my sister

7. Winter cute hat

8. E.L.F. (Eye Lips Face) Studio Lip Stain

More Pictures:

Pretty earrings made and designed by my sister.

Second Place

1. Dog Plush Doll from Bath and Body Works

2. Lovely White Notebook

3. Pacifica Body Butter from Sephora

4. E.L.F. Studio Lip Stain

5. Photo Album

4 Other Winners

2 Winners from YouTube comments or video responses or Blog Post

1 Winner from Facebook Page - MINKY3macaroons (iAMminky3)

1 Winner from Twitter or Blog Post

The Rules...

Everyone must be a YouTube subscriber, blog follower, or both (that would be great!)

I will be closely checking that everyone follows the rules.

Every entry will be carefully counted towards the giveaway.

YouTube

1. You must be a subscriber to my YouTube channel: MINKY3macaroons

2. You can enter only once a day. I will make sure that you keep this rule. More than one entries per day will result in comment disqualification.

3. To enter: Answer these 2 questions

-What are your New Year's Resolutions?

-What are you looking forward to for this new year?

4. Open to all my YouTube subscribers, including international subscribers!

5. If you are under the age of 18, you will need your parent's permission to enter. I will need to get your shipping address.

6. This giveaway ends on January 21, 2011 when I post (closed)
7. Favoriting and liking the video will give you another entry.

8. For extra chances of winning, post a video response video or slideshow. I prefer "live" videos, but if you choose not to show yourself through YouTube, then slideshow is fine.

-Answer the same questions like the comments' questions.

-Make sure to tell me that your video is for my giveaway and include my username: MINKY3macaroons

-Only video responses to this actual giveaway video counts. Make sure to let me know if your video has trouble being requested for video response.

-Video responses count as 20 entries!

Facebook Page

1. Please "LIKE" the page: HERE

2. Look for the post about my giveaway and comment below. I will post instructions on what to comment there.

3. Please introduce yourself if you would like or say hello! :) I like meeting new people and making new friends.

4. This is an awesome place to talk to you all since not everyone has a twitter, but most everyone has facebook (I'm assuming. ^o^)

Twitter

1. Be a twitter follower: iAMminky3

2. Say hello and let me know that you want to be entered via twitter for my giveaway.

3. RT my random posts about this giveaway and such throughout the next weeks that this giveaway is open.

4. All those will count as an entry toward the giveaway.

Blog

1. You must be a blog follower

2. Comment to this blog post about anything you would like. :) (Your New Year's resolution, your favorite 2010 memory, what you're looking forward to this year, etc.)

3. Make sure to include if you're a YouTube subscriber and let me know your username.

4. Also, make sure to include your blogspot address or something where I can track you! Plus, I love reading new blogs and this is a way for me to discover new blogs out there.

5. You may enter once a day.

6. If you would like to post about this giveaway on your blog, feel free to do so! :) It would actually be greatly appreciated. Just share the link for me and it will count as 5 entries.

Hope these rules are fairly simple!

I'm going to be busy taking care of all this, but I'm really excited and I hope you are too!

All winners must respond within 3 days after I announce the winners. I will try my best to announce the winners asap after January 21.  If a winner or winner(s) don't respond within 3 days, I will automatically choose new winners.

I will announce winners through my blog, facebook, twitter, and possibly YouTube.

Thank you for reading!

GOOD LUCK! xo

Goodbye from Mr. Big!

Review of Foster Grant Sunglasses and Giveaway (Pic Heavy)

It's been sooo long! I haven't blogged for more than a month! Gasp!

I'm sorry everyone for being gone and not updating. Life has been crazy, yet again. To top that, I've been sick and also suffering from summer allergies.

This blog post and video is so overdue. I was very grateful to receive 5 wonderful pairs of sunglasses from Foster Grant and was planning on posting this long before, but I was internet-less for quite some time.



I was contacted by Foster Grant to review these sunglasses for the summer and also was given an opportunity to throw a giveaway for my readers/subscribers on youtube!

These glasses came well packaged and was wrapped nicely so none of the sunglasses came broken. What's nice about Foster Grant sunglasses is the quality and the amazing prices! I was very impressed by how sturdy they were and they don't feel cheap at all. I don't really like wearing super cheap sunglasses that seem like they'll break after a few wears.  Also, these are excellent for the summer since it's 100% UVA protected.

I'll just jump into showing you the sunglasses they sent me.  Foster Grant sent me 2 pairs of aviator sunglasses.  Aviators are "in" for this summer and lots of celebrities are seen wearing them.  For many years up until now, the popular wayfarers were the "it" glasses, but aviators have slowly taken over again.

The first style they sent me were a pair of gold aviators called Madonna.

I usually have issues with sunglasses sliding down my nose and falling onto my cheek bones because of the structure of my nose. I don't really have a prominent nose bride. What's nice about these aviators is that they seem to work with my nose really well and don't fall down onto my face.

The next pair of aviators that they sent me were white ones called Wireless.

The stock photo shows a purple one, but the ones they sent me were white in the same style.

These aviators are slightly larger than the Madonna, so I do have a problem sometimes with the glasses hitting my cheekbones or sliding down. However, I still like the style and usually the sliding down issue isn't that big of a problem.

The next sunglasses that they sent me were fashion glasses called Plaid. The design is very pretty because of the side plaid details of the glasses and the pretty purple colors.

These glasses are extremely comfortable as they aren't really round.  They have more of a streamlined look, but still super cute.  They also fit nicely above my nose.

The next pair of sunglasses are the unique-colored Safari.

What's cool about these glasses is the rhinestone details on the sides. These glasses are more rectangular shaped, which I'm not the biggest fan of.  Also, they don't really fit my nose and face very well since it sits right on top of my cheek-bones, which is my least favorite when it comes to wearing shades.

I feel like the Safaris don't really flatter my face very much since I have a long, oval face.

The last pair of sunglasses that they sent me are probably my favorite out of the 5, aside from the aviators.  These sunglasses are called Milan.

Something about these shades make it feel as if they were high-end, designers sunglasses.  As you may be able to see in the stock photo, the side details are divine with a snake-skin-like pattern and square rhinestones embedded. They also fit my face nicely and don't fall down. They're actually a little on the tighter side, but that doesn't keep me away from wearing them.

Foster Grant is so generous and is sponsoring my giveaway to my readers/subscribers to my youtube channel!

There will be one random winner. :) The winner will be able to choose a pair of sunglasses.

Please read all the rules:

1. You must be a subscriber to my YouTube channel: iAMminky3

2. Go to the Foster Grant website: www.fostergrant.com and tell me which pair of sunglasses is your favorite! (Please, no Enter Me comments!)

3. You can enter only once a day. I will make sure that you keep this rule. More than one entries will result in comment disqualification.

4. Open to all my YouTube subscribers, including international subscribers!

5. If you are under the age of 18, you will need your parent's permission to enter. I will need to get your shipping address for Foster Grant to send you your prize.

6. This giveaway ends on July 24, 2010.

7. I will post the winner on my blog and will be announcing the winner hopefully via YouTube as well. Also, I will let you know through twitter. Follow me on twitter! :) @iAMminky3

Good luck and have fun!


Oh and if you have facebook, makes sure to like their facebook fanpage!
Foster Grant on Facebook

MAC "To the Beach" Collection Lazy Day Lipstick Giveaway

Exciting news everyone! I've been saving up my money and I finally bought some new prizes for my giveaways and this time there will be not one, but two winners. ^o^  I will be holding two giveaways: one for my YouTube subscribers & one for my blog or twitter followers.
The reason I'm holding these giveaways is to celebrate summer :) and to also just show my appreciation to those of you who have been so sweet and so supportive. Also, I'm almost at 400 subscribers for YouTube! Definitely exciting for me! :D

Both giveaway winners will receive a brand new lipstick from the new MAC "To the Beach" collection in the color 'Lazy Day' which is a lustre lipstick:

For the YouTube giveaway, please watch the entire video and read the rules:


1. You must be a subscriber. Please don't enter if you are planning to unsubscribe after the giveaway is over. It is not fair to my true friends and subscribers who have been so supportive to me.
2. Comment entries, but please NO "Enter Me" posts. Any enter me's will be resulted in disqualification and will not count.
3. To enter, ask me any random questions about myself, beauty related, etc.  This is for an upcoming Q&A video that I will be filming using some of the questions from this video.
***Please be appropriate though. Inappropriate questions will also result in disqualification.
4. Each entry must be a different question.  To avoid any spamming, each entry must be a separate and new question(s). (However, it's okay if you accidentally used the same question as someone else.)
5. If you are under the age of 18, you will need parent's permission to enter.
6. Giveaway ends June 6, 2010 when I "close" this video.
7. Open to international subscribers!
8. Winner will be posted on my blog on June 6, 2010. Please make sure to check my blog that day. (I may make a video announcing the winner. I'm still deciding if I should or not). The winners have exactly 2 days to contact me or I will generate new winners
9. Please don't bother with spamming out other comments because I will be able to see them all.



For my Blog and Twitter Followers:
Thank you to all of you who have been following me! I've been wanting to give back to you all for a long time and I'm glad that I found the chance.
If you are a twitter follower, blog follower, or both, simply comment on this blog post and like the YouTube giveaway, to enter, just ask me a random question about myself or a beauty question. This is also open to my international twitter and blog followers as well.
If you are a twitter follower, make sure to let me know your twitter username. Also, RT this message, which I will be posting on twitter:

RT: @iAMminky3 RT this for a chance to win the MAC To the Beach lipstick in Lazy Day giveaway. http://bit.ly/9nfV2O


I will keep track of all the retweets and they will all be included as an entry. So Retweet as many times you want! :)

**You must be a blog follower, a twitter follower, or both to enter. I know that many people don't have twitter, so I didn't want to exclude those. Also, please don't enter if you plan on unfollowing me after the giveaway. That isn't fair to the people who have been following me from the beginning. Twitter is a way where I can keep in touch with new friends I made and just keep you all updated on what's up in my life. My twitter username is: @iAMminky3.


Here are the swatches of MAC Lazy Day lipstick:

Good luck!

I hope this post wasn't too long, but I do hope that you will all enter and read all the rules. Also, be sure to check out my tutorial of the look I had in my giveaway video! Click here to go to the blog post.


Disclaimer: I purchased all the products in this video with my own money. I am not affiliated with the company represented and I am not being paid to make this video.

New Winner of NYX Cosmetics Giveaway! [Please Read]

Since the previous winner of the NYX giveaway never contacted me with their shipping information, I have generated a new winner. :) Please read the entire post to see who won. I updated this post with the new details.

Thank you to everyone who entered and thank you to my new subscribers! <3
I hope you all subscribed not just to enter my NYX giveaway, but because you enjoy my channel.  Thank you also to all my new blog followers and twitter followers. ^o^

Before I announce the winner, I want to hear your feedback about giveaways. Since I hold many giveaways, I want to make sure you understand that I am not holding giveaways to gain more subscribers.
This is just my small gesture to thank everyone who's subscribed and have been so supportive. I've met some really sweet youtubers during my short span of time making my beauty channel.
Oh and please remember that the giveaways that I've held so far are all sponsored by me! They are all products that I bought with my own money [aside from the circle lens giveaway].

Are you guys okay with me holding many giveaways or do you think that I should hold them sparingly? I know this is a silly question and all, but I do want to read your input.  I really love entering and holding giveaways because it's exciting to see who will win!

To everyone who entered and may not have won, please don't feel discouraged! I really appreciate that all of you took the time to enter. Like I always say, I will be holding more and even bigger giveaways with multiple winners soon. Please help me out by giving me giveaway suggestions!
I hope that even if you didn't win, you will not unsubscribe or unfollow me on twitter or my youtube channel. The worst feeling is when I know that people subscribed just to enter and then plan on unsubscribing later. It's unfair to my real subscribers and followers who take their time to watch my channel and keep in touch with me on twitter.

Okay. So on with the winner since I know all of you have been waiting really patiently for me to post it!
So in order to generate a winner, I decided to first generate a random number to see which page I should choose the winner from. I had exactly 7 pages of entries.
The number I generated was:

Since I randomly got the #7, I took all the entries on page 7 of the comments and then used classtools.net with the random name generator (fruit machine).
The winner chosen was:

Congrats heybelindah! Please send me an email at: iAMminky3@gmail.com or a YouTube message with your shipping information so I can ship the prizes to you. :)
If I don't hear back from the winner by Friday, May 7, 2010, I will generate a new winner and announce that winner to all of you.  I hope this time the winner will respond.

Also, since heybelindah is one of my twitter followers, I will include some extra goodies along with the NYX prizes. ^o^ To the rest of my twitter followers, I have some more surprises in store for you! :wink: :wink: LOL!

I hope that you can also follow my blog because I will be moving on Saturday and won't have the time to film any videos. I really want to keep in touch with all of you and I think the fastest way is to update my twitter and blog! :D I'm hoping to do some blog tutorials and reviews that are LONG way overdue. Sorry to everyone who's sent me requests and have been waiting! I haven't forgotten about you.

I have more giveaway surprises coming up and some will be geared towards only my twitter and blog followers. Stay tuned for more details after I move. ^o^

xoxo,
minky

NYX Cosmetics Giveaway!

Here are some details to my NYX cosmetics giveaway!
There will be one random winner who will win these 3 products all bought by me! :)
Although, it's not the biggest giveaway in the world, I hope you will all enter. These products are really worth it! :D

The winner will receive the NYX 10 Color Eyeshadow Pallet from the Runway Collection in the color "Romance," the NYX Long Lip Pencil in Natural, and the NYX Blush in Silky Rose.

For details and swatches, please check my previous post!

Rules:

1. You must be a subscriber to my youtube channel. www.youtube.com/iAMminky3

2. This is optional, but it would be awesome if you could follow me on twitter and my blog! My twitter username is: iAMminky3

*This isn't required since I know that not everyone has a twitter, but let's just say that it's like receiving extra brownie points? ^o^ I update quite frequently on my blog and twitter and I will be posting the winners of my future giveaways on both twitter and my blog. It's just a way to keep in touch with all of you.

3. If you are under the age of 18, you will need to get parent's permission to enter since I will be needing your address to ship the prizes to.

4. To enter a comment: Just type in "enter me" or anything close to that and then let me know what's your favorite beauty/makeup product! I love to know what other people are liking these days!
*You can enter as many times as you would like! So make sure your first entry has the favorite beauty/makeup product and then your next comments can just be an "enter me" comment. (Saving you extra time there! HAHA)
**Also if you are a twitter follower, let me know what your twitter username is! ^o^ (maybe a little surprise for my twitter followers??)
***Please remember that only comments on the giveaway video count.
5. This giveaway ends on May 2nd when I post "closed" on the video. All comments made after that won't count.
6. Giveaway is also open to all my international subscribers as well!

The winner will be posted here on my blog on May 2nd so look out for that!
Good luck everyone! Please let me know if you have any questions. I will randomly generating one winner using random.org and classtools.net.

My First Twitter/Blog Giveaway!

So I just got back from the CVS drugstore and acquired a few items for my next videos, but I also decided to get a little something for my twitter and blog followers! I promised last night that I would be holding a twitter giveaway, but I had no idea how I would hold it. Since it's my first twitter/blog giveaway, this is kind of an experiment, but I have a good feeling that it will work! :) It may not be a big one, but I am planning to hold bigger ones in the future!
The rules are really simple!

1) You must be a twitter follower. (This is a giveaway for my twitter followers, so that's a must! ^o^ )
--- If you are just a blog follower and don't have twitter, just let me know! I don't want to exclude my blog followers from entering!
2) Comment below this blog entry and just write down why you would like to win.
3) This is open to everyone, including my international followers!
4) If you are under the age of 18, you will need a parent's permission to enter.
5) Make sure to include your twitter username so I can check if you are my follower.
6) Then let me know on twitter (@iAMminky3) that you entered my twitter giveaway. You can copy and paste this:
Hi @iAMminky3! I just entered your twitter giveaway! My entry is on http://tinyurl.com/yase4xe

*You can also include another message if you would like.
7) If you haven't subscribed to my youtube channel: YouTube or am not following me on this blog, it would definitely be a bonus if you could! (This is optional though since some people may not be able to do so)

It's just simple as that. You can enter only once a day and I will randomly choose a winner. Since it's not that big of a giveaway, I wanted to keep it short and sweet.

This giveaway ends April 3! I'll post when the giveaway is closed on here and my twitter as well!

Good luck and hope you enjoy!

Here are a few pictures of the prizes that one lucky winner will win:

One lucky winner will receive a Loreal HIP Duo Eyeshadow in Sculpted 106 and a brand new Revlon Colorburst Lipstick in Soft Nude (which is one of my favorite lipsticks from the drugstore).

Sculpted is such a pretty duo of a pink and purple color. Pink and purple are so in for this spring 2010!

This a picture and swatch of the same  lipstick that I own.  It's such a pretty nude color. :)

All products were purchased by me. My gift to you!

xoxo,

minky

Enter My First Giveaway on Youtube!

I absolutely love giveaways! They are so fun and may be hard to win, but what's exciting is entering and waiting to see if you have won or not! :)
To give back to all my supporters, subscribers, followers, etc., I am having a small giveaway. It's not huge, but I promise that bigger ones will be coming up soon! I'm just seeing how this will work out since it is my first and hopefully it will be a success.



Rules:
1) You must be a subscriber to my channel.
2) You can enter as many times you want.
3) All you need to do is comment below with "Enter Me" or anything like that.
4) If you have a twitter and are a twitter follower of me (iAMminky3), then make sure to put your username down. If you do happen to win this random giveaway, then I will include a special gift including the other prizes as well.
5) If you are 18, you will need a parent's permission since I need your address to ship the prizes to.
6) Giveaway ends March 28. Any comments after that will not count.

I will try to post the video with the winner's username as soon as the giveaway is closed!

Good luck to all of you and this is the first of many giveaways to come! I love giveaways. ^o^