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10 Days of Giveaways: Comment to Win NARS Sandra Eyeshadow Duo

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The giveaway is now closed, and I’m contacting the winner by e-mail. Good luck!

NARS Sandra Eyeshadow Duo
The beach at Haleiwa on Oahu’s North Shore

Snorkeling doesn’t bite

I’ve mentioned Shark’s Cove before as a top snorkeling spot here on Oahu. Another, more famous one is Hanauma Bay, but Shark’s Cove is free and easily accessible (there’s a fee to park and visit Hanauma Bay).

The cove gets its name from the shape of the reef as seen from above and NOT because it’s crawling with sharks. 🙂

It’s located right off the side of the road across the street from a grocery store and a snorkeling rental shop, and visiting is as easy as parking the car.

Yesterday El Hub and I spent a few hours tooling around in the water, joining schools of fish and looking for sea turtles (no luck!).

NARS Sandra Eyeshadow Duo

After a summery afternoon spent exploring undersea worlds, a girl’s gotta have colors she can wear out at night, like the two colors featured in today’s giveaway.

The prize

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One lucky lady will win the NARS Sandra Eyeshadow Duo (a $32 value).

NARS used the same longwearing crease resistant formula they use for their single eyeshadows in this useful color combination of Bone and Silver Mist. Worn together or alone (wet or dry), they can be applied sheer or built up for a more dramatic effect.

  • Richly pigmented powders
  • Effortless blending and color coordinated
  • Multifunction: use as eyeshadow, eyeliner or on eyebrows

How to enter

To enter the giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment with the name of your favorite eyeshadow duo OF ALL TIME!

I’ll pick the winner at random from among the people who enter by 11:59PM PST Saturday night.

Onnea!

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

The giveaway is now closed, and I’m contacting the winner by e-mail. Good luck!

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Comments

  3. Well I guess the only eyeshadow duo I’ve ever purchased is the hip duo, and that’s pretty good. But I much prefer my NARS laguna/orgasm blush duo 🙂

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  4. My very first and only duo! a champagne-bronze duo by ZA, 111. it is soooooo silky not to mention its cheap price! 🙂

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  14. Looks great for a soft, feminine eye! I’ve never met a Nars duo I haven’t like, but of course, I choose wisely based on reviews.

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  15. I don’t own any duos, but I do have a trio! It’s from Clinique and it’s a trio of their colour surge eyeshadows: sugar sugar, south beach and I forgot the other one! But the colors are shimmery white, shimmery nude, and a dark shimmery brown.

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  20. I don’t own any duos, so I can’t pick a favorite. But if MAC’s ‘texture’ and ‘amber lights’ came in a duo, it’d probably be my favorite, because I wear that combo all the time!

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  21. My favourite duo is my Mineralize blush duo in Hot Planet. It’s got glitter but just the right amount so as to not turn me into a disco boll 🙂

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  22. Happy Saturday! Lovely eye shadow duo giveaway prize drawing. My favorite is the Nars Eye Shadow Duo ~
    Portobello Matte Neutral Beige/Matte Warm Beige. I am
    keeping my fingers crossed. Many thanks, Cindi

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  30. Strangely enough my fav duo is from Milani…It’s their Earth duo, they don’t sell it anymore!! The colors were so rich and pigmented, very similar to MAC. I love NARS! Their gloss and lipstick is my fav, so I’d love to try their shadow! Thanks Karen!

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  34. Oh no. I don’t have any duos, either. Ha! Glad to see I’m not the only one.
    I don’t use the glitter stripe in the Word of Mouth Trio for anything other than a pretty divider between the shadows, so can I count that as a duo? If not, can I go throw two singles, Vapour & Dovefeather, in an eyeglasses case & call it a duo? Pretty please?

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  40. I sadlly dont own any duo eyeshadows
    but would love to win this prize:)but
    my fave shadow is COVERGIRL CHAMPANGE!!
    its the perfect all over color or highlight<3

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  46. My favourite duo would have to be NARS Earth Angel. I love the olive shade as they make my eye colour look really vivid.

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  51. Nars blush duo (Orgasm and laguna) is my all time favorite….please let me win this Nars duo shadow cus they look too pretty!

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  56. I have a 3 way tie of adoration for NARS Earth Angel and Bellissima and Brazil. I think I could keep going, but I have been using these A LOT and luv em the most!
    🙂

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  59. Cargo Nevada-champange and medium gold. sooo pretty, but sadly now discontinued. (so I need a new fave!) 🙂

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  64. I don’t have a lot of duos in my arsenal. But I do love Bobbi’s banana with brown stone. I get a lot of attention with that one. I also have a crush on Nars hula hula duo.

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  65. My fave is hip in Gunmetal, its got two beautiful colors. One is this steel green that looks gorgeous as smoke instead of black or brown and the other a shimmering emerald

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  66. I love, love, love my Pandora eyeshadow duo!
    I never leave home without it.

    It’s a staple in my makeup kit

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  70. As a couple of other people have said already, the Clinique duo in Like Mink. The lighter color is really pretty for a subtle all over wash, or highlighting!

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  73. Hi Karen,

    That’s actually really tricky. Not overly original but my favourite’s the Clinique duo in strawberry fudge. I’d usually run a mile from pink eyeshadow but the one in this duo’s really beautiful.

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  77. I really like the L’Oreal HIP eye shadows – the high pigment of MAC but a lot cheaper! My favorite duo is HIP Charisma. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  84. i love Nars’ Jolie Poupee eyeshadow duo. The shadows are so pigmented and makes my brown eyes pop! the colors are so pretty, i love it!

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  85. I only own one duo and that’s M.A.C.’s Heat Element Mineralized Eye Shadow. It consists of a bronzy color and a rich red cranberry color and looks great over MAC’s Sharkskin Shadestick. It’s a beautiful combo that works very well for blue eyes. It’s also multifunctional and has minimal fall out. I’ve used both shades on my lips with a gloss, also I have used it wet for a foiled look.

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  86. The only one I have is by the brand Chambor… pretty bright golds and pinks – looks great with Indian clothes!

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  89. My very first one was the Sweet Liason Suite Array Duo from MAC (brown-black loaded with small gold flecks and bronze glitter, and pale yellowish white-gold sprinkled with pale yellow flecks). The texture is very chalky for the white-gold, but the deep brown is extremely pigmented, if not just a tad gritty. Unfortunately, the two colors didn’t complement the other at all 🙁 The next duo I bought was L’Oreal’s Wear Infinite Shadow Duos in Forest. The pale shimmery lime is pretty, but it’s nothing to get excited about. The other color, however, is the most GORGEOUS shade of rich, deep, pigmented shimmery warm forest green I’ve ever seen! It’s even better than MAC Humid. Love!

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  90. My absolute favorite e/s duo is NARS mediterreanee, it’s unique & really brings out the blue in my gray-blue eyes. It’s not something everyone else wears; I like the boldness of the sparkly orange e/s and the highlight shade isn’t blah either, it has a lot of depth.

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  91. My favorite duo of all time was a GWP from Lancome. I usually don’t like the Lancome GWP’s but this one was an exception. It is called the Exceptional Wear Eye Coulour Duo in Creme Lustre & Pink Veil. Both shadows were full-size pans & I managed to hit pan on both of them which is rare for me. Definitely my all time fave duo!

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  96. My fave duo is Clinique Color Surge in Strawberry Fudge. The two e/s I wear the most together though is Urban Decay Sin and YDK.

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  99. ! idont own any duos ! but i heard nars eyeshadows are sooo pigmented and gorgeous! i would love to try this!

    thanks for this giveaway!!

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  102. My fave duo is hip sassy. I went to Shark’s cove a couple of years ago, and me and my daughter were “trapped” in one of the coves with a huge sea turtle!!!! Scary but exhilerating at the same time! Amazing creatures!

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  109. Hi, Karen. To tell you the truth, I’ve few duos. I’ve purchased trios, palettes, singles, but only few duos. I’m liking L’oreal HIP one with the yellow and the purple. I like how they go on me, so smooth and their color payoff is decent. (although I do prefer lighter colors, these could be a softer color payoff.) Their price is not too bad. And the design is awesome! 🙂

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  110. My favorite duo would be the Clinique eyeshadow duo in strawberry fudge. The pink is a nice light flush of color while the brown shade is the perfect neutral crease shade. Perfect for my teaching job!

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  115. My favorite eye shadow duo is actually by Nars. It’s the color Cheyenne, which is like a gold and purple color. Love it!

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  119. The only duos I have are all HIP as I own more mineral pigments than pressed shadows. I like Magnetic from the metallic group

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  121. My all-time favorite eye shadow duo is Clinique Like Mink. When I don’t have time to figure out which shadow to wear, this one always works for me!!!

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  122. NARS Kalahari. It’s sooooooo wonderful and pigmented and brings out the brown in my eyes beautifully! I heart it!

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  123. I can’t say I have a specifc fav e/s duo, even though I do own some Stila ones. But anyway I would day my fav e/s combo 😛 currently is MAC all that glitters and UD Oil Slick.

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  124. Don’t have many duos, but my favorite so far is NARS Blade Runner for a retro-futuristic smokey eye (one of my favorite movies too!)NARS is great at coming up with combos that are perfect and unexpected.

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  125. Ha…I only own two duo eyeshadows and of the two, Nars Charade is my favorite. At first try, I hated it because i thought the colors were bland/too similar and didn’t work on my warm toned skin. However, after repeat tries and using eyeliner, I find this duo to be a great understated eye.

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  134. I love NARS and my fave e/s duo of all time is All About Eve! I’ve even used one up and repurchased, it’s that perfect 🙂

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  138. I don’t use many duos. I’ve used some of the L’Oreal HIP duos, and they were pretty cool though. Super pigmentation!

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  142. Looove Nars eyeshadow! And coincidentally my favorite duo of all time was from nars. I forget what it’s called, but it’s this yellow-y chartreuse paired with this blue purple. At first I thought those colors were gross, but together they look fab.

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  143. I would have to say that my favorite duo is my MAC Suite in Sweet Liason. It’s great for an everyday look or an even a night look.

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  153. I don’t own any duos, but I would promise to love, cherish, and most importantly, use this duo if I win.

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