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Two Ways to Win a $50 eGift Card from Sephora!

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  • WINNER: The giveaway is closed now, and the winner is Buckycatt! Congratulations, Buckycatt! If you entered but didn’t win this time around, keep trying, and click here to enter any ongoing giveaways before you jet. 🙂

A Makeup and Beauty Blog giveaway
Win a $50 eGift card from Sephora

(BREAKING NEWS) The new Tabs for Sephora has been such a big hit that the company decided to expand the collection by adding a new value gift set. For the same $49.99 price, you get one XXL Tabs and a selection of beauty goodies hand picked to beautify cat ladies and their cats.

The set comes with a sneak peak sample of Dolce & Gabbana’s newest fragrance, Light Blue for Tomcats, a full-size pot of Benefit Creaseless Cream Shadow in Black Cat Eyes, a tube of NARS Larger Than Life Lipgloss in Red Abyssinian and a sample-size pan of Urban Decay Eyeshadow in White Whiskers.

What a deal!

Act now. Supplies are limited.

Tabs hopes that if you win this weekend’s Sephora gift card giveaway, you’ll consider taking home one of the sets. He believes they’re a really good deal. 🙂

What folks are saying…

“Hi Karen. Oh my goodness! I can’t believe I won! :O Thank you so much! You, Tabs, and your blog are amazing! Thank you for keeping me updated on all things beauty and more importantly, for keeping me entertained! Keep doing your thing! Thank you again.”
-Jacqueline

“Thanks so much, Karen. Just in case you were wondering what I got with it, I decided to go with the Clarisonic Mia–I’ve been wanting it for years now, but have never purchased it because of the price. Your eCard helped me finally buy it! I look forward to using it. Thanks again!”
-Jane

“Shut the front door! OMG Karen, you have made my day. 🙂 I’m sick in bed with the flu and this has just cheered me up immensely!!!!!!!! BTW, I’m the one that sent you that pic of my pug in a wig a few weeks back LOL! Thanks again, honestly, I’m beyond giddy right now.”
-Angel

“Oh my goodness! Thank you so much Karen (and Tabs, of course)! I really appreciate this! I’d been eyeing the Anastasia brow pencil in Strawburn to match my red hair!”
-Chelsea (and Jiji the kitten and Quincy the bunny)

“Never before have I been so pleased to check my email right before bed!!! Thank you so, so much! I truly enjoy your blog and check it almost daily! Thanks again! This made my night!”
-Melissa, Edmond, OK

“Hi Karen. Thank you so much, I’m so excited, I’ve never won anything before. My name is Hana … I just turned 25 (today is my birthday!) Yay! Thank you.”
-Hana

Win a $50 gift card from Sephora

  • One (1) Sephora eGift card containing $50 sent to the winner by email (international readers, you may opt to receive $50 sent by PayPal instead).

  • There are two ways to enter, and you can do both of them for two chances to win. First, you can enter by leaving a comment at the bottom of this post, a comment about anything at all, like, what’s your favorite flower? Do you do anything with your brows (like fill them in)? Do you ever wear cat eye makeup? What’s the prettiest fragrance bottle you’ve ever seen? Have you ever finished a bottle of perfume? Describe your favorite sweatshirt — you get the idea.
  • Second, you can enter by following me on twitter Twitter @karenmbb and retweeting (RT) the following message:
    • Follow @karenmbb and RT to Win a $50 eGift Card from Sephora! http://bit.ly/LXBirC

  • The deadline to enter is Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 11:59PM (PT).
  • Entrants must enter using a valid email address and/or Twitter account to win.
  • A maximum of two (2) entries per person — one within the comments at the bottom of this post, and a second entry via Twitter addressed to me @karenmbb.
  • Contest is open to individuals of any country who have reached the age of majority according to their local laws (18 in the United States with these exceptions: Alabama and Nebraska, 19; Mississippi, 21).
  • Sephora eGift Certificates can only be redeemed online and are not valid in stores or available for purchase or redemption in Canada. International winners may opt to substitute the Sephora eGift card prize for $50 sent directly to their email address by PayPal instead.
  • Tabs and I (heretofore referred to as “T-Money and K-Dawg”) will select one (1) winner at random from the entries either left in the comments at the bottom of this blog post or addressed to @karenmbb on Twitter.
  • The winner will be announced here within 48 hours of the deadline.
  • Void where prohibited by law.

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

  • WINNER: The giveaway is closed now, and the winner is Buckycatt! Congratulations, Buckycatt! If you entered but didn’t win this time around, keep trying, and click here to enter any ongoing giveaways before you jet. 🙂

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  10. I finished a bottle of Clinique Happy once and I’m almost through a bottle of Ed Hardy. I’m addicted to the way it smells and since a really cute male told me that I smelled amazing last night I’m not going to stop using it anytime soon!

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  12. Yes I’d love one of those Tabs for Sephora boxes please!

    Yup I’ve finished bottles of perfume! I am weirdly loyal when it comes to perfumes (and foundations. There are things that I can’t try enough of, and things things I prefer to go same-old same-old)! The scent I’ve been sticking to for the past 2-3 years is Dior Cherie. I’ve had the EDP, and now I have half a bottle of the EDT left 🙂
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  20. The only perfume I’ve ever finished is my favorite one (which, unfortunately isn’t in the snazziest bottle): Jo Malone Red Roses. However, a bottle usually lasts a while for me because you need so little of it.

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  22. Up until recently, I only had one bottle of perfume from my wedding: DK Cashmere Mist. I’ve now got Bulgari Omnia Crystalline as well. I wear perfume so rarely so I doubt I will finish either of them.

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  23. I have never attempted to do a cat eye! I need to learn how to use liquid liner rather than a pencil. But it looks so awesome.

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  29. I’m not sure exactly which is my favorite flower YET. I always said I would like to go to a garden and start checking them ALL out to figure out exactly which one I like. With that said, if I had to pick something right now, you can’t go wrong with roses 😉

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  37. I finished many bottles of perfumes, couldn’t even count them…No matter what current fragrance obsession I have, I always have a bottle of the CK Euphoria, it’s my all time favorite fragrance.

    I am going to the art fair today with my hubby and some friends. Have a great weekend Karen.

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  40. I’m currently flower obsessed. So much so that I’m making a DIY flower crown!
    I absolutely LOVE cat eye makeup. It’s the only remotely more “fancy” thing I do with makeup.

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  47. I’m forever trying to get my cat-eye liner down just right, b
    ut I’m SUCH a struggler. My lids are kind of fold-over at the corners, so I dont have a flat surface to work with.

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  48. my dog is getting really antsy because i have one cat in my lap and one on the arm of the couch next to me and therefore, he isn’t getting enough attention.

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  51. I love hydrangeas. I am trying to grow them again – for the third time. I have finished a bottle of Mademoiselle. I am on my second bottle but I am looking for a new scent.

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  54. I’ve never finished a bottle of perfume. I get distracted too easily by the new releases and other pretty bottles on the shelves! Finishing a bottle will probably be a good goal for me.

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  66. My eyebrows are in desperate need of some TLC. I’m hoping to get out to the Benefit Brow Bar next week so they can be tamed into submission 🙂

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  67. Hi Karen! First off, luv the hair! I’ve had an angled bob for a long time but I’m missing having longer hair. Your cut is ideal! Ok, so yeah, I hafta fill in my brows due to years of over plucking. I wear cat eyeliner everyday to accentuate my asian eyes. I love my Guerlain Mitsouko bottles. So purty I can’t throw throw them out.

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  71. happy saturday! unfortunately i do have to do some work today. boo 🙁 time to get focused so i can enjoy the rest of the weekend!

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  77. I just started filling in my brows last year and I’m amazed at the difference it makes on my whole appearance. Now when I look back at pictures I’m just like, ew I should have been doing something with my brows!

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  80. Favorite flower is tulips, followed closely by large zinnias which are finally blooming up here in the north. 🙂

    Thanks for another great giveaway opportunity, Karen!

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  81. When I wear makeup I fill in my brows because the ends don’t want to grow 🙁

    Also, I love roses, doesn’t matter what color!

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  82. I refuse to use a stencil, and I do fill in my brows… so I never have the same brow day twice.

    Unrelated – I just had the best chocolate I’ve ever had in my life.

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  85. Oh tulips are my favorite flowers and I love filling in my brows, ever since I had a horrible waxing I have.

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  86. I love Cala Lilies and White Roses. I will be celebrating my b’day on the 18th so filling my eyebrow will be a must to make my photos look good 🙂 Thank you and best wishes to you and tabs xx

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  89. I would love it if sephora sold cats. Why buy a bunch of products trying to reproduce a cat eye when you can just buy the cat!

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  91. Here i am! (Wave~~)

    I am trying to find the perfect red lipie. So far I am loving OCC’s Stalker. Wondering if anyone has any suggestion for a lighter skin (NC15-20) medium pigmented lips Asian gal?

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  94. Today is my 5th wedding anniversary!
    And, I never wear brow pencil because my brows are so thick and dark that if I didn’t “sculpt” them, they would take over my face.

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  95. My favorite flowers are peonies, hibiscus, gardenias, tulips, lillies and azaleas. I adore flowers. I’ve only finished one perfume that I’ve purchased multiple times…Liz Claiborne (original). But, my current obsession is Flower Bomb, go figure.

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  96. I’ve always been a “signature” fragrance kind of girl. If I find something I love, I will wear that and only that for years until I fall i love with something else. Probably the longest I was wearing one specific perfume would be 5-6 years and it was Clinique’s Happy Heart. I still enjoy the smell and smelling it always transports me back to that time in my life…
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  97. Hi, Karen,
    My favorite perfume right now is Viktor and Rolf’s Flowerbomb perfume. The perfume smells amazing and the bottle is beautiful!!! I already finished the petite bottle in my purse and am about to finish the large bottle sitting on my dresser.

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  98. Having a lazy Saturday with the family – eating lots, watching TV, cuddling with the puppies and the new baby in our house! Hope you have a lovely weekend?

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  99. My new signature fragrance is Versace Yellow Diamond (picked up the smallest size at Ulta just a week ago). I like summery scents or scents with a rose flavor to them, like Dior Midnight Poison. Have a great weekend Karen!

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  100. You know, I try to fill in my brows, but my eyebrows are pretty scruffy already and I feel like I never know what to do with them, or I fill them in too much. Every tutorial I’ve seen features girls with super-thin, super-plucked brows, and that’s just not me–it wouldn’t look good on my face, and that’s not how I manage them. So I pluck and keep them in line, but I would love to see a more full-browed girl do something on keeping your brows in line, and filed in, but also natural-looking.

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  103. I love flowers! Especially gerber daisies, poppies, and tulips. Anything that’s bright and colorful I love 🙂

    I love the way lilacs smell the best though!

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  105. Does anyone know a good caramel scent? Like really sweet and edible smelling? I’m a sucker for those. Using Jacqua buttercream lotion now but it’s not sweet enough.

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  106. Karen, I love your site. I was wondering…. do you own the Naked palette? Sidecar is such a lovely shade that I decided to wear it today but it’s giving me the same issues as usual…. FALLOUT. I want to avoid this. Any suggestions?

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  112. I just tweeze my brows a bit. Like the hair on my head, they’re dark and full. I’m lucky to have a good natural arch, too!

    Umm…I’m this close to finishing off a bottle of one of my favorite BPAL oils. Luckily, as this one gets better with age, I’ve had a backup quietly lurking for awhile now!

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  117. I have finished bottles of Ralph Lauren Romance perfume. Currently halfway through another one. Can you tell it’s my signature scent?

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  121. I’m running late to work because I saw a tweet about this. Winning will make it worth it. And my cats say “hey!” to Tabs. 🙂

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  125. Both my brothers are getting married this year so I’m not allowed to splurge much this summer, but I’m desperate to get my hands on Benefit’s new ultra plush lip gloss. Seems like a dream come true!

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  126. I used to fill in my brows back in the day when I over plucked them! But now I have them threaded and never went back to waxing or the brow pencil! I just love, love, love eyebrow threading…maybe a little too much ;P

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  136. I have really only finished Angel back in my college days, and Benefit’s maybe baby. I don’t go through perfume that quickly– I’d rather spend my $ on makeup and skincare, I think. Peonies are my favorite flower, and my bday is next week! Give a smooch to Tabs.

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  144. I never wear mascara, except when I wear eyeshadow because the powder gets on them. Partly because I am Greek and don’t really need too, but mostly because I am lazy and hate removing it!

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  152. I have thick hair on my brow but it doesn’t look full, there’s a lot of gaps. so one time i try to fill it in with my mom’s brow pencil and it pulled out hair with ever stroke. Never doing that again… maybe a brow shadow next time

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  162. I love peonies, garden roses, dahlias, and sunflowers. I like peonies so much that I have a tattoo of them.

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  163. For me, the Kenzo line of perfumes have the prettiest bottles! I love how they insert a flower in the bottle, its just adorable!

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  174. I looooooove your new hair! I’ve never finished a full sized perfume bottle. I’m not even sure I’ve finished a sample vial, unless you count the ones I spilled all over myself on accident.

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  178. I just found out I have pink eye. Had to throw out 6 mascaras including a lights, camera, lashes and a Dior show!!! What a huge bummer, huh!? A $50 gift card for Sephora would be so awesome right now!!!

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  191. Our tabby is asleep in the mitten and hat basket. We don’t need mittens or hats in this Midwestern heat, but I am too lazy to put the basket away. Thus the cat has a nice comfy bed. 🙂

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  192. I love red geraniums! My mom plants them in her garden every year and they make me want to visit her that much more haha~

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  193. I never finish any bottle of perfume.Why you may ask,well I just get bored with smells and I also wear different fragrances depending on my mood.So the perfumes get rotated and take forever to finish.I am like this with other cosmetics too ,except Decleor products,They are just so divine,I use them and even cut open the tubes of creams until they are completely empty .

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  196. Do people really have favorite sweatshirts? I guess mine would be the most baggiest and softest one I own that’s clean and within reach.

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  197. My favorite flower is the calla lily, even though it seems humanly impossible for me to grow them from seed. 🙁

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  201. My favorite flower is Birds of Paradise and I have this weird thing where I have to finish a whole bottle of perfume before I can buy another. I cannot mix and match. I have smell OCD 😉

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  205. Speaking of perfume, I got a whiff of the Stella by Stella McCarthy perfume, and whoa! I totally know what I would get with a gift card to Sephora! 🙂 Hope you have a good weekend, Karen… and everyone else!

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  206. My favorite flower is the Chinese chrysanthemum. Such a beautiful, textural, bold, and yet delicate flower. I especially like the ones that are dark pink in the center and become the palest pink at the edge of the petals. So lovely!

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  207. I’ve had the worst luck in finding yellow flip flops this year! I have orange ones, turquoise ones, and pink ones, but no yellow. And I looooooove yellow flip flops! I’ll just have to keep looking! 🙂

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  215. I just got back from a beach vacation and my skin (which is normally very oily) is so dry that I went and picked up the Clinique Moisture Surge Moisturizer and its brought life back to my skin! I love it!!!!

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  219. what a coincidence you mention cat eyes. i was channel surfing and saw lauren conrad and was like i want to do that. (i guess its her signature) i never do though lol. ive wanted to for a long time now but im always in a hurry. just not enough time in the day!

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  221. Two weeks from today I leave for vacation to celebrate my parents 30th wedding anniversary! I’m so excited! I definitely need this vacation!!!

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  225. Hey my fav flower is a white or pink rose they are just so beautiful and thanks for having this give away I honestly never been to sephora I know weird but if I win it would be a great first time to sephora

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  234. I love so many flowers it’s hard to choose a favorite. I love all roses, they smell so good. I love daisies, lilacs, gerbera daisies, daisies, lily of the valley. I can tell you the one I like the least and only because I can not tolerate the scent – the smelly kind of orchids they put into bouquet of flowers. Have a great weekend!

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  235. Today I am cat sitting for my make up artist best friend. I get to spend my saturday playing with a kitten and endless make up!

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  240. Hi Karen,

    I like thick brows, they frame eyes in a way that no makeup can. I use Anastasia brow pencil, and then clear brow gel and they are full and glam all day long. I used to use powder, but it does not have the staying power like the Anastasia brow pencil.

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  242. I’m a sucker for prett’y perfume bottles. Right now I’m lusting after Marc Jacob’s Daisy and the Living La Vida one!

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  245. I don’t consider myself to be gullible in the least, but I admit that as I was reading this post, I thought that that set by Tabs was legit there for a second, lol.

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  248. I’m really not a big flower person but I love orange Tiger Lilies, Lily of the Valley, and the smell of lilacs.

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  250. Love the new Tabs for Sephora gift set!! I have finished many bottles of perfume! I used to be a signature scent kind of gal. But I found so many fragrances in the last couple of years that I love that I’m not finishing bottles as quickly as I used to!

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  260. I WISH I could do a cat eye! However I can go through my favorite perfume easily – I only use one kind and I use it every day

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  261. I love my Guerlain Mitsouko bottles. They’re so pretty when I finish them I can’t throw them out. ps: LUV the hair!

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  264. I stayed up until 4:00 a.m. last night trying to see the aurora borealis! I hear you may be able to see it tonight, but I just don’t have it in me to stay up that late again lol.

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  266. Wow i hope i have a chance! :s I really need this, makeup is so expensive for me right now…anyways, my fav color is purple and favorite flower is a rose because it’s beautiful but has thorns..just like me 😉

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  270. I overplucked in my high school days and now I always have to fill in the sparse areas with eyebrow powder or pencil. Otherwise I just feel like my look is unfinished.

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  273. Watching an ER show and they’re talking about pus. I am trying to prepare for a future job as an N.P. but sometimes I wonder if I’ll be able to handle it!

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  274. Once I started filling in my brows about a year ago, I don’t feel complete without it. It really pulls everything together.

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  279. Hi Karen, I just picked up the Nars eye prime because you are always speaking so highly of it, and I love it! My new favorite perfume is from Banana Repulic ( I know, not where you would think of finding a good perfume) its call Vert Full Bloom ( I think) it has a white flower on the bottle, but the fragrance is just amazing, it really is a lovely scent. If you are ever near a BR give it a sniff I know you’ll love it.

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  282. These days I’ve started to wear some clear brow gel, since my bangs are shorter than usual. If I don’t, my brows go all over the place.

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  283. My favorite flower is a tie between peony & anemone – they are both so delicate and pretty and feminine.

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  288. I’m pretty sure I finished a bottle of Tommy Girl perfume in middle school. I feel sorry for anyone who had to sit near me!

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  294. Yesterday, I went cherry picking … 62(!) lbs worth. It was quite an experience, especially because it was burning hot. So hot in fact, all my makeup melted off my face … Yum! 😀

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  295. I normally don’t do anything with my brows. I only fill them in for special occasions when I’ll be on camera.

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  296. I finally found a brow pencil pale enough for me, so now I fill in my brows most days. It makes a huge difference in how I look.

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  300. Favorite flower is a pink rose the darker the better. My least are stargazer lillies because I’m horrifically allergic!!

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  302. I’m new-ish to makeup. I seem to focus on one thing to obsess about and learn about till I go on to another part (ex: I was obsessed with eye shadows, then moved on to lip products and now I’m hovering between blushes/bronzers and brows). Currently the only thing I’m doing with my brows is tweezing beneath the brow (not over bc it hurts too much lol). I do want to learn more about filling them in though.

    Just so you know, JC Penney Sephora’s are getting rid of Cargo completely (at least the one in my mall) so they are at 40% off.

    Are there any recommendations for Cargo products?

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  306. I don’t particularly have a favorite flower, I like them all. I fill in my brows every day, because they’re quite sparse, especially toward the outside. I use a Milani brow marker thing. I tweeze strays, and trim long hairs as well. Brows are so important! Cat-eye makeup is one of my favorite things to do with makeup. I love a lot of Guerlain perfume bottles, but I also love the simplicity of my Chanel Chance bottle. I’ve never finished a bottle of perfume, actually…

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  308. I have two favorite flowers, sunflowers and daisies. No one has ever given me one though, the bf always goes for roses. Not that I mind 🙂

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  312. I just discovered your blog a few days ago and have been having so much fun digging through the archives. Thanks for sharing all this beauty!

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  314. I don’t really wear the cat eye look very much but only because I haven’t mastered the art of liquid eyeliner. It either always takes forever or it smudges. But I’ve been practicing and have recently gotten pretty smitten at it

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  317. I love doing my brows; I’m kind of obsessed with it. Plucking and trimming is a hobby! When I fill them in it’s either with MAC’s Quarry shadow or Fling pencil.

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  318. I’m partial to the Ineke perfume bottle – partially because it’s got clear glass and clean lines, and partially because it’s my first high-end perfume 🙂

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  324. I just realized I’m N10 not NW10! Very important. My big black cat named “Black Cat” (BC for short) says hellow to Tabs!

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  330. My favorite flower is lilacs but my other “favorite” flowery perfume is Daisy by Marc Jacobs and I just finished the bottle.

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  335. My favorite perfume bottles are by Tocca (Guiletta is my absolute favorite, however I recently got the violet scent). The lid has flowers and vines and birds on it, the inside flap of the box says “Love Yourself”…makes me smile everytime.

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  341. Cat eye liner is one of those techniques I love but that I have yet to master. That value set is amazing! 😀

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  344. I really like the look of the new UD palette… the packaging looks great, colors are gorgeous, and the value is there. I’m really interested to see the book of looks that comes with it as well.

    As far as finishing a bottle of perfume, I have done it… but not often. I go through phases- so I’m loving the rollerballs that have become a big deal…the only thing with those is the value is not that great. Jimmy Choo for example- $24 for the rollerball, and you can get the smallest bottle for about $30something…

    Hope your having a great summa!

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  346. I’m trying to per-fect the cat eye liner technique. Can’t wait for your review and swatches of the UD naked skin foundation.

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  347. I’m taking this opportunity to say your hair looks freakin’ AMAZING! I saw the pictures from the last post, and it looks so shiny and full and awesome. I’m super jealous!

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  348. I ALWAYS fill in my brows. Even though they are naturally pretty thick, I don’t feel right if I don’t fill them in with my trusty Bare Escentuals brow powder.

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  349. I have been into beauty and fashion for nearly five years, and I have yet to finish a perfume bottle- some are on their last legs and I rarely use them, but I have never finished one!

    xo

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  351. I just started using brow tamers and I wish I had found them sooner. I like Perfekt brow gel or Benefits speed brow. Thanks for a chance at a giveaway! Have a good weekend.

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  354. I’ve finished bottles of Philosophy Pure Grace and Cacharel Noa. I really miss Noa! What a beautiful fragrance.

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  357. My favorite flower is sunflowers – I had a bouquet of red and yellow ones at my wedding. I love your blog! It brightens my day every day.

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  359. Happy Birthday to PJ! My cute cat turns 1 year today!
    Celebrating it with banana cream pie and fresh organic yoghurt for PJ.

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  361. Aww, Tabs is sooo cute, he reminds me so much of my tabby named Burkey who recently died, I loved him more than anything. I have finished a few bottles of perfume in my 20 years. The current favorite is Viva la Juicy, it is so yummy and the bottle is beautiful and wrapped in a pink bow, it can’t get better than that!

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  362. My favorite perfume of all time, Gloria from Cacharel, is not on the market for a few years. I am desperate, since then I never found anything I like ;-(((( I liked everything about this perfume, the bottle, the scent, the color…..

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  363. I have yet to finish a bottle of perfume. I finished body sprays, but not actual perfumes. I am tempted for a new perfume now!

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  365. Thinking of You fragrance from MaryKay is awesome. Perfect for summer and inexpensive at $34! It honestly my favorite surprisingly. Let me know if you’d like samples!

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  366. I have used up many bottles of perfume! My go to summer fragrance this year is just cavalli!! Thanks for the opportunity to win!! 🙂

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  367. I’ve been reaching for body sprays instead of perfume this summer. I always carry one in my purse, easy to refresh 🙂

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  369. Trekking on with my project pan, its exciting to finally finish up some bits that have been sitting in my collection for a while. Unfortunately some products just seem to be endless pits!
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  380. Hi, this is my first time commenting! I don’t really know what I should say, but I guess I’ll talk about my favorite fragrance right now! I’m currently using D & G Light Blue and I LOVE IT!! 🙂 Sadly, I have never finished any of my perfumes… but I hope this time I will! ^_^

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  383. I keep going through bottles of Vanilla Apricot by Comptoir Sud Pacifique. I thad tried to change it up with fragrances but I give up, I always go back to that delicious perfume. I adore it!

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  384. Tabs – I just love your new collection! U have the cat eye look down!! Is it wrong to abandoned a hot cat for air conditioned dogs? I feel so ashamed, but cool.

    Hot in MT

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  386. I don’t own a cat, but with all those goodies, maybe I should get the Tabs for Sephora set! 🙂

    I have several favorite flowers: orchids, poppies, sunflowers, and tulips.
    Filling my brows with my trusty Anastasia Brow Wiz is the first thing I do after applying foundation.
    Cat eye makeup used to be the ONLY eye makeup I wore, but haven’t done it nearly as much in the last year.
    My favorite perfume bottle design is FlowerbyKenzo’s elegantly simple poppy design. I’ve never finished a bottle of perfume.
    My favorite sweater is one I’ve had since 8th grade, and I’m a college senior now! It’s a Ralph Lauren navy blue sweater with a gray hoodie. It’s getting a bit snug and there’s sign of wear on the sleeves, but it’ll take a LOT to make me give up that sweater.

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  389. Just depotted 5 MAC blushes – too many Chanel, Nars, MAC rolling around – went pretty good – only messed one up a bit – not bad for an old gal and a 1st timer. LOL

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  390. I think this summer has been really HOTT! I’ve been loving loving cut off shorts, cutouts, and sheer blouses anything not too heavy, or that will get me a little breathing room!

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  391. I had a dream the other night that you called me to tell me that I won the gift card and I was so excited! The caller ID just showed your picture with your new hair. Lol

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  393. I never seem to be the lucky one to win any giveaway….but I guess you need to buy a lottery ticket to win a lottery right? 😉

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  396. Down to the dregs of my Daisy rollerball and would love to have a full size bottle – not sure Tabs’ perfume would work for me 😉

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  401. Hi!
    Something about myself?! Well, i LOVE lip balms and all about lips care! I have a big purse full with lip balms and stuff like that… im adiccted 🙂 But i’ve never finished a lip balm, i mean, i buy them, i use them one or two times and then… nothing! (yeah im a little strange) but i still buy lip balms! 😀
    Keep being great, and excuse me because of my awful english 🙂

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  405. Here’s how I do my brows: I buy the $1.00 clear lash and brow mascara from E.L.F.. I take the tip of the brush from the “brow” end and touch it to the tip of the brush from my (black, non-waterproof) Maybelline Great Lash Mascara. I then insert the E.L.F. brush back in the tube and swirl it around a few times to blend and distribute the color. The end result is a black tinted gel that works perfectly to tint and shape my brows – and it only costs me $1.00! For the record, my brows in their natural state appear quite sparse – but that’s because I have pale blonde hairs mixed in with some that are quite dark. My homemade tinted gel brings those paler hairs out of hiding, and is all I need for an “everyday” look (I do use pencil or brow powder in addition to the gel for a more made-up look).

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  406. I’m so happy that UD decided not to sell in China, that I might just have to go and get some more UD goodies. 😀

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  412. This morning Hubby and I made breakfast and I actually found a kind of bacon I didn’t like. I never ever thought that would happen. I didn’t matter how crispy or soft it was, it just didn’t taste good, which is too bad since it was kind of expensive at a fancy gourmet market. Wah Wah.

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  415. Accidentally left my makeup bag on the train to Philly yesterday, so I got to play at Sephora and buy new makeup! Obsessed with the Illamasqua blush in Ambition.

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  417. The prettiest perfume bottle is Taylor Swift’s fragrence. I really hope I win this giveaway

    because it is my birthday!

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  423. Love your blog! It’s so different then so many other beauty blogs I’ve visited.
    My favorite beauty item for summer is BB cream! It’s way lighter than foundation.

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  425. I’ve tried the cat eyeliner look, I don’t think it works for my eye shape. However, the kitten eye look is perfect for my hooded eyes, It’s subtle and fills our my eye lid making my eyes look a bit bigger than they actually are.

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  426. I’m super excited today because I found a new ophthalmologist and now I’m getting my hopes up about having my vision in my right eye back. Everyone keeps telling me to “be realistic” but I can’t help but be a little giddy and hopeful :):)

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  430. My favorite flower would have to be lilacs. We have a huge bush in our garden that you can smell from a mile away in the spring!

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  435. For about the past year I’ve been dying my brows a couple shades darker then my hair. I do this becaue I got tired of futzing with them every day and with my pale hair and ruddy skin I really couldn’t skip a day. Without the dye they are thick and Blonde!

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  439. I fill in my brows everyday. But I don’t pluck them. They are very sparse.

    I never wear cat eye makeup. It’s to much for me.

    I have finished a fragrance several times. Kenzo Amour. But then I stopped using all fragrances altogether.

    I hope you are well, Karen. Have a good week!

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  440. I have to fill in my brows if I’m doing anything more intense than an everyday natural look because when I was 10, I decided I didn’t like my bushy eyebrows and took a pair of scissors to the one, but then got scared. It never grew back in, so one of my eyebrows is missing a chunk. It’s not super bad because my eyebrows did end up thinning out a little bit as I got older, but it’s definitely weird looking.

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  442. I never fill in my brows, they are pretty full and thick already. Every time I fill them, it just doesn’t look right.

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  443. Karen,
    Thank you so much for your blog. We’re in the middle of an overseas move and your blog is the only constant amid all the crazyness surrounding me. 🙂

    My favorite sweatshirt is this old, washed too many times, oversized and starting to show serious wear Michigan Wolverines sweatshirt I inherited from my husband (when he left for deployment and somehow it just stayed with me). I know it has definitely seen better days but it’s the best thing to wear while having some tea and some salted caramels ( I do try not to have the entire box. LOL.) when everything is just not going your way. Sort of an instant pick me up.

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  444. I wish I could pull off a cat eye look! My eyes are too wide set though, I believe. I’ll just have to leave the cat eye look off to my 3 cats- George, Bob, and Tilly. 😉

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  445. I’m really loving Dr. Dennis Gross’ alpha beta daily face peels! It’s too hot to wear makeup so I concentrate on better skincare

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  446. I feel so accomplished when I hit pan on a product; finishing one that’s taken a while to get though, now THAT is grounds for celebrating!!

    PS: anyone that is into brows — for years I’ve been going to any drugstore that carries Wet ‘N’ Wild products and picking up their brown eyebrow/eyeliner pencils. They’re far to stiff and waxy as far as eyeliner but they make a great (and CHEAP $00.99) brow pencil. They have a few different shades of brown as well as black. The wax that makes it an awful eyeliner makes it a great brow pencil!! It amazes me I’ve never heard or seen them mentioned on blogs or in videos.

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  455. HI Karen, I went to the OC Fair today and tried fried twinkies, oreos, and snickers. They were all kind of gross.

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  459. I got to go to Paris this weekend and was actually inside the Guerlain store! Feeling so beauty-inspired 🙂

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  462. I love doing the cat-eye for my monolids! I feel like that’s the best way to show off my sassy feline attitude…and less is more! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  465. Your ecard picture of: I just want to watch Channing Tatum dance to Pony on repeat without being judged. Is that too much to ask? – made my week 🙂 lol

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  467. Had a great weekend with my mom, sister and babies 🙂 yesterday I tried a cat eye with my maybelline gel liner. Turned out pretty good. Today was low key. Just mascara, blush and lip balm. I try to do a different liner each day but font like to skip on the mascara and blush. Makes me feel a little put together 🙂

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  468. I love your blog, I read it everyday to be up to date on everything about beauty. Love The Tabs stories as well! I do love doing the cat eye looks but mainly for the holidays looks. Thanks!

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    • Cat eyes and smokey eyes are beautiful when done with unexpected color combinations, that are blended to perfection!

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  474. This weekend I dragged DH into sephora because I felt like trying out a new perfume. I looked at Hermes because I’ve always loved their perfumes. But surprisingly they didn’t appeal to me this time. And now I’m kicking myself because I forget the name of the one perfume that I did love. It was sitting right above Hermes and it was a tuberose scent. Argh. And its no secret that I love tuberoses.

    Anyway… I also persuaded DH to try out some perfumes and we both agreed that Chanel’s Allure was the winner. We didn’t buy it right then because I like to let the perfume sit on my skin for a couple of hours before making a decision, but now I know what to buy for our anniversary! 😀

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  477. Best beauty tip = stop drinking coffee for 1 month!!! Drink more water, and use crest strips and britesmile. I think Dentist.net still has a promo code for britesmile. Try using the code Toothache – hope that helps!

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  482. My hair is a red-violet shade, so I have been using MAC cosmetics Sketch eyeshadow to color in my eyebrows and it looks great! I am going to do more fantasy makeup, so I will probably color my brows in blue or purple sometimes, just for a kick!

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  486. I never win these but I’ll try anyway lol. 😉 I really want the UD Smoked Palette for the fall. That’s likely what I would buy if I win. *crosses fingers and toes*

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  490. I’ve only finished one bottle of perfume Miracle by Lancome. I LOVED it! Then I went for a few years before getting another one and then I could not stand the smell. It made me sick to wear it.

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  491. Ive been following makeup and beauty blog for years..I just turned 18 last Friday, so I’m so excited to finally be able to join!! 😀

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  492. Hmm.. the only fragrance that I have ever finished completely and bought another bottle of is Dolce and Gabbana Light Blue. I’ll never get sick of that scent!

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  493. I dont really do much with my brows. They’re pretty thick so I just pluck and trim them. I tried filling them in before but it just looked really weird. It made them look really dark and dramatic.

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  497. I love cats, dogs, filling in my brows with Sonia Kashuk’s quad of fill-in colors, and all things bath and body-related!

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  498. Amazing deal.. Beauty Box Tabs should become a monthly subscription. I hope every product in the box is Tabs-sized.

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  499. Karen, your blog really makes me smile 🙂 We recently took in a 1 yr old orange tabby from a friend who was moving away and he is such a cuddler, he’s quickly become the king of the house. And if I win this gc, YSL glossy stain #15 is the first thing I am getting!

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  500. Perfumes I’ve finished (or come close to finishing): Clinique Happy, Lancôme Miracle, Viva La Juicy, L.A.M.B. by Gwen Stefani.

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  501. What’s the prettiest fragrance bottle you’ve ever seen?
    I like simple bottles with a little bit of flare, so my favorite pretty one right now is Tocca – Florence.

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  502. Just wondered if you or anyone else loves the Boots #7 lipliner in Melon? My personal favorite. Have tried almost all brands and this color, consistancy,longevity,etc. are the BEST. Love all your reviews and comments. And of course all the hard work, costume changes,wigs done by Tabs. Exhausting I know. My beautiful, talented, intelligent,funny…Balinese kitty; Angel-Violet-Cashmere sends her love, too.

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