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Two Ways to Win a Clarins Barocco Shimmering Gold Powder for Face and Décolleté

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

clarins barocco collection holiday 2010 review

Eureka! There’s gold on them thar cheeks, faces and décolleté — Clarins Barocco Shimmering Gold Powder, that is.

Clarins formed it into delicate gold-dusted nuggets, which they plopped into an elegant black cylinder decorated with a black scroll and tassel. It’s perfect gold rush material, and they even included a black powder puff.

Are ya ready to strike gold today? 🙂

A Makeup and Beauty Blog Giveaway!

  • One (1) Limited Edition Clarins Barocco Shimmering Gold Powder for Face and Décolleté (a $35 value).

  • 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. Tell the story behind your favorite piece of gold jewelry, or about the time you tried to find the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, or about the time you auditioned to become a Solid Gold dancer! — 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 Clarins Barocco Shimmering Gold Powder for Face and Decollete (a $35 value) http://bit.ly/egDoas

  • The deadline to enter is Friday, January 7, 2010 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).
  • 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 Tina. Congrats, Tina! 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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  2. oh yeah! i just came back from st kitts for winter break
    and i’d love this gold powder to help recreate a golden tan

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  7. Pretty shimmer – I love gold tones in make up in my jewellery not so much ! I do have my wedding rings but for those this would be the only gold I owned 😀
    Good luck everyone ! And thanks for another great contest !

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  11. My favorite piece of gold jewelry is a pair of loop earrings I have since I was a kid, and my engagement ring, if course!

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  12. My boyfriend left to the Army in South Carolina Tuesday, and I have no contact with him for 5 months. Tears won’t stop coming dowwwn… I’m just a sad sad sad puppy 🙁
    This would give me a chance to crack a smile… hehe

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  16. I’ve never tried to find the pot o’ gold at the end of a rainbow, but in the 3rd grade, I did spend a lot of time looking for a four leaf clover… I never found out, but my friend & hunting buddy ate a bug while we were looking. It was then I decided to have a crush on him that lasted all year.

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  18. You seem to find the best things for giveaways!
    Gold! I can imagine that it looks gorgeous – especially on olive skintones (hint hing :D)

    Hail T-Money and K-Dawg (LOL). Have you reviewed this product in the past?

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  19. Hi k-dawg, choose me!! as a poor college student, I can only savor products like these while looking at your blog. To make matters worse, it was 2 degrees this morning on my walk to breakfast… my skin is definitely in need of some sparkle and shimmer!!!

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  24. My gold story…two years ago for New Years my singing drag sisters and I were invited not only to BE the entertainment for New Years, but it was for the Grand Opening for a brand new club here in Phoenix called Babylon. I found the cutest dress on sale at Charlotte Russe. It was covered in these amazing gold metal tear drop shaped dangly sequins, with a tube top cut up top and it was about mid thigh in length. I was soooo excited! Perfect dress for the perfect evening!

    Until that night when I went to put it on. I remember I tried it on in the dressing room and I remember it being a little uncomfortable but I figured it was just because it was so shiny and sequined and I wasn’t used to anything like that….but when I got it on…OMG. It was sooooooooo uncomfortable. It was not lined, and all around the seams where a machine had cut the fabric, there were all these little jagged peices of metal poking me from every direction, especially around the upper seam where it was rolled and sewn. It was fine if I stood perfectly still, but that wasn’t really going to be practical. I had to change my dress to a purple one at the last minute. I tried and managed to change backstage so I could be in the dress for my set and the midnight bell but it hurt so badly on stage when I was wearing it that I couldn’t concentrate and ended up ending my set early. Had to put purple dress back on for midnight bell. Very sad night indeed. LOL..

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  35. Ooooh! gold! i’m more of a gold girl than silver.. and most of my jewelery are in the golden tones 🙂 my fav piece has to be a diamond ring set in gold.. not bought by my husband.. lol.. but rather my dad! 🙂 it was a graduation gift.. and my first piece of jewelery with a diamond! absolutely love it 🙂

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  41. I’m a gold makeup freak. I love everything gold in makeup…. but yet i’m not as much a fan oh gold jewelry. Odd eh?

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  47. i love gold – always have! My son (9yr) gave me the most awesome gold necklace for Christmas last year! It will always be one of my favorite pieces!

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  50. My gold story:

    In the summer, I am the olive goddess. When I want to shine, I use Beyonce’s gold star shimmer lotion on my shoulders and neck, and I use MAC Golden bronze loose powder on my temples and cheeks.

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  51. I love gold! I often tend to stray away from gold in the summer, but when winter rolls around I love to wear it. It makes me look a bit tanner instead of this pasty pale skin =)

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  63. I love all makeup that contains gold! It can make us ladies feel like golden goddesses at times! 🙂 Clarins products are awesome and I love that they created golden nuggets! 🙂

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  65. My favorite piece of gold jewelry is this necklace I bought on Etsy from imyourpresent and it’s a huge teddy bear with little pearl cabochons on it.

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  69. It would give a nice glowy look. I love gold jewelry I think it gives such a nice elegant look specially gold bangles. But unfortunately gold is so expensive now. I have a gold necklace and it has my name written in arabic. It is simple but looks very beautiful.

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  83. I tend not to like gold colors (jewelry, etc.) on me but recently I am finding a new found love for it. I love the look of gold eye shadows, lip glosses, eye liners, highlighters and flecks of it in blushes and bronzers! I’m also slowly becoming fond of gold nail polish and jewelry.

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  84. I love gold jewelry! My very first real gold piece of jewelry was a GUCCI watch. My mom’s best friend gave it to me for Christmas.

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  86. I’m so sore from my bootcamp this week!! I’m just determined to lose this baby weight now though!! 🙂 Thanks for this awesome giveaway, you always have the best posts!!!

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  88. a gold cross pendant with a diamond in the middle is my most priced piece of gold. I received it over 12 yrs ago from my parents on my way to bootcamp. I take it with me on every deployment, along with ALL my makeup!! 😉 This is only piece of jewerly that I have not lost!

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  90. I’ve been wanting to try this product. It seems like a great product to warm up my pale skin. I’ve been really into highlighters lately and this Clarins one really tickles my fancy 🙂

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  92. When my grandmother passed away a few years back she left me this beautiful antique gold choker – from the early 1900s – made in India. The style is influenced by the British who were occupying India at that time. I hope to pass it along to my granddaughter some day – and I hope she’ll cherish it as much as I do.

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  95. Oh, as a pale girl, my skin ONLY does gold metallics! Silver and luminous white make me look bad-ethereal! Loving the turn back to gold cheeks and decolletage! 🙂

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  103. The picture reminds me of rabbit food or golden droppings. The rabbit that laid the golden droppings…..think it would sell as a children’s book?

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  120. I wonder if I can mix this with clear gloss. Golden gloss always manages to make my pigmented red lips look nude =D

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  124. I’ve found a recent love of gold jewelry this winter. Until now, I was strictly a silver-toned gal. I would love to pair that with a pretty gold Clarins sheen! 🙂

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  129. This looks gorgeous! I have never tried Clarins make up. This would be a great starting point! I tend to prefer silver but my Guerlain butterfly meteorites never show up on my skin. (This is fine because just opening the container and smelling them makes me happy!)

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  132. Mmm, gold 🙂 Thus far I’ve been more of a silver person, but I think gold would add to my makeup collection nicely…

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  134. I have a wonderful Skagen rose gold watch my parents got for me a lil before my 18th birthday. I really love it and get compliments on how pretty and sleek it is all the time. It’s so simple and pretty it really makes me wonder why people bother dropping $1000s on very fancy watches.

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  138. Hm, ya know. I really don’t like gold jewelry, but I love gold on my eyes. I can’t seem to get enough eyeshadows that are golden or bronzed or anything like it!

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  141. I don’t have a lot of yellow gold jewerly! While I love the color for makeup, clothes, decorations, etc., I prefer white gold for jewelry!

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  145. I might thought of implanting gold tooth which gives a really *shining smile* especially when those flashes are on them… 🙂

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  149. This is so pretty! My fav gold eyeshadow is Goldilux from Sugarpill cosmetics. They are an indie brand and all make up junkies have to check them out!

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  150. I have two pieces of gold dear to me – a ring my paternal grandma gave me for my high school grad that was the last gift my grandpa bought her in Italy before he passed away and a cross my maternal grandparents had
    made for me when I turned eighteen! Love!

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  151. I am sure you will hear this a lot… My favorite piece of gold jewelry? The ring my honey gave me. Not an engagement ring, that one will come next, but my “hopefully this will hold her over til the BIG ring” ring! I love it, its beautiful, just three saphire stones and some small diamonds…. but it is my favorite piece of gold jewelry!

    Thank you for the opportunities to these wonderful giveaways! Happy New Year to you and your family!!!

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  152. I WOULD LOVE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  153. well well well…look what the make up leprechaun found at the end of the rainbow 😀
    thanks for hosting this giveaway!

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  157. Being south indian, gold has always played a major part in my life – ever since I’ve gotten married I have a LONG gold chain around my neck as a symbol of my marriage, a bit OTT but nice 🙂

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  164. Covergirl has a new lip color set out, lip perfection, and the most beautiful bright bold red (Hot) and Pantone official color of 2011, honeysuckle (Flame). You’ve *got* to try them out…I really like them even though I’m forever faithful to NARS’ Heat Wave, 🙂

    TOMORROW IS FRIDAY, THANK GOODNESS.

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  168. OK, so I don’t have any good stories to tell about the time I auditioned to be a Solid Gold dancer (it was pretty uneventful anyways) but I can tell you about the orgins of my cats name. One of my furbabies is named Feff. Yes, Feff. Not Fifi, not Fido, but FEFF. My sister said Feff reminded her of the cat in this Sesame Street video because she’s floppy like the video cat, except my Feff isn’t GREEN!!! Check out the video is super cute! (Hope this works I’m kind of a techno-phobe!)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Stlfc-SYmhw

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  170. Oh, that’s so pretty!

    I have a short gold chain which I bought for myself quite a number of years ago. I remember that the person at the jewlery show was quite pleased that it found it’s home; I’m short (under 5 foot tall), and short necklaces do best on me. It was too short for most everyone else, but completely perfect for me! =)

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  173. I just ate WAY too much of the brownies I made. I feel sick. I guess my latest Sephora haul could make me feel better.

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  177. Being short in stature, my friends have kindly bestowed the title of leprechaun upon me. Maybe if I had the shimmering gold powder I could actually live up to my nickname.

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  182. So, so pretty! I’m really fair, but that shade of gold tends to be universally attractive! Now, for a story: one of my relatives got me the Kat Von D palette from Sephora this Christmas. Not exactly my style right now, but close, and it has a nice array of knock-off UD eyeshadows. Anywho, I tossed it in my bathroom & kinda forgot about it until today, when I heard my 6-year-old daughter rummaging around in there. By the time I’d caught her, she’d dabbed her fingers in all the pans of eyeshadow & apparently found a favorite: Tijuana, a black shade with gold rainbow glitter! Which she had smeared all over her face, her shirt, the mirror and the sink. She was totally shameless when I caught her, “I was making up, Mom!”. I’m a sucker for short & cute.

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  184. I love gold in makeup and I think that this product will be very interesting.
    Thank you Karen for the great contest & Happy New Year!

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  185. It’s snowing here in Philadelphia! Thankfully it will only be between 1-3 inches, so nothing too crazy. Hopefully it stops by the time I need to drive home from work! 🙂

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  187. Ooooh! More Barocco! This is very exciting. Sadly, I used my very best “gold” story earlier this week. I guess I can add to it by mentioning that when I woke up the AM after Halloween and looked in the mirror, I still had gold glitter on my face and in my hair. That’s the joy of lots of hugs and “you’re beautiful”, “I love you” and “I love you too”s. 🙂

    Aside from that, I don’t have many good gold stories since I prefer platinum/silver jewelry. An old HS boyfriend once bought me a gold crocodile necklace charm because I loved Izod/Lacoste back in the day. 🙂

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  190. i laughed at the finding gold at the end of the rainbow thing, but now that i think of it i m pretty sure i did try to find the gold at the end of a rainbow when i was a kid lol. oh lost memories 🙂

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  200. My Mom just called me and asked me if I knew I had a beautiful gold necklace at home in my old jewelry box. Score! Made me remember that I needed to enter to win this gorgeous pot of gold beautifulness.
    Have a wonderful weekend all!

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  201. My sister and I, got our ears pierched when we were a newly baby born. They were put on a small gold hoop earings on both of us 😀

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  207. Happy Friday! I’m so happy the weekend is almost here. Thanks for the giveaway. I think gold eyeshadow is amazing. It looks good on all skin tones.

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  208. I have to say my favorite gold jewlery has to be a ring that as my aunts was given to my mother and my mother has passed it onto me =] it has my favorite gem on it Alexandrite!!! I cant wait to have a daughter and pass it onto her =)

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  223. Thinking about gold I have to confess that this year I bought my first golden eyeshadow, I was scared it was to “golden” for me but it looks amazing and people compliment me on it. Gold seems to be a colour made for me lately

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  229. Funnily enough I had liked a lot of stuff from this collection and didn’t buy anything. I’m planning on a long long no-buy and this would seriously help the resolve 🙂

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  232. I’m a sucker for anything gold, especially with spring on the way. I panned for gold this summer in Barkerville, British Columbia, Canada, and got my own little nugget that looks just like these! How pretty.

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  234. I love love love anything sparkly! I always love gold. I had an obsession with gold colored necklaces and i think they’re still beautiful! This is like wearing jewelery on your face :P.

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  238. My favorite piece of precious metal is my engagement ring; I love what it signifies and the memories from the day he proposed. My husband proposed to me on one of the seven bridges in Amsterdam. He truly is my pot of gold.

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  239. My hubby bought me the most beautiful necklace (gold of course) while we were visiting his family in TX. Being a CA girl Iwas missing home, so he bought me a sand dollar necklace to remind me of home. Awwww

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  240. I am cool-toned so I’ve always thought that golds looked horrible on me. However, recently I tried a gold eyeshadow which looked beautiful with my eyes! I would love to try this shimmering gold for a light glow!

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