THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING!

Happy Friday and welcome to the first giveaway on BA for 2015! I originally wanted to do one for January but for odd reason, it missed my editorial calendar. Ah well, better late than never, right? 😛

We’re kicking the first giveaway of the year with some goodies from Paula’s Choice. Now even though I don’t agree with everything Paula Begoun preaches about beauty products (I’ve mentioned on several occasions on the conflict of interest she has with her own brand of beauty products), I cannot deny the fact that quite a number of her Paula’s Choice skincare products are good. One of my favourite serums is the Resist Ultra-light Super Antioxidant Concentrate Serum. The Resist C15 vitamin C serum is a very good one too.

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I reviewed a couple of items from my Beautylish haul a couple of weeks ago (the Benjabelle Brush Tree and the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Finish Skin Perfecting Micro-Powder). This was item #3 in that haul. I’ve heard great things about Charlotte Tilbury’s Cheek to Chic blushes and knew I had to give at least one a go. In fact, this was the very first item that went into the shopping basket when I headed to the Beautylish website. After checking swatches out online, I decided to go for Love Glow.

Now I don’t know about the other shades but Love Glow? Big love!

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If you’re a regular on Instagram, you’d have noticed an increase in high quality images in the past year or so. Images so crisp with immense depth of field that isn’t possible to be achieved with a mobile phone’s camera, even with the use of photography apps. Images that make you wonder if those are even taken with a mobile phone or an actual standalone camera.

Well, I’m 99% sure those sort of images were taken with a DSLR or a fancy point-and-shoot. For Instagram.

Instagram is a highly visual social media platform. More often than not, you’ll consume the images a lot more than the accompanying caption. I’ve been observing bloggers with massive Instagram followers and the photos they post on Instagram are often really good.

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