Congratulations Stargirl Heuser!!!

by VioletLeBeaux | Aug 5, 2010 | Competition, Notices

Ok so the votes have all been tallied and as you can guess from the title, the winner of the competition is Stargirl Heuser!

Congratulations!!

Here is her entry:

Calling all princesses! VioletLeBeaux.com features everything a girl needs to be a princess, without breaking the bank! Creative, step-by-step tutorials show you how to use a couple gems and a bit of lace to turn everyday blah into something fit for a princess!

I am sending you an email now to post out your prizes 😀

Exciting!Here is the votes tally from both polls:

Html poll:
A- 56
B- 31
C- 11
Total=98 votes

Nuffnang Poll:
A- 121
B- 79
C- 29
Total=229 votes

Combined:
A- 177
B- 110
C- 40

Total= 327

Thank you so much for everyone who entered and for everyone who voted! I am going to be bringing you some cool exciting things soon!

Thanks everyone for reading!

Finalists in the Celebration Give Away!

by VioletLeBeaux | Jul 28, 2010 | Competition, Notices

Hi lovely readers!

I’m very excited to announce the finalists for my Celebration Give Away 😀 I couldn’t believe how many people entered and the quality of the entries made it really hard for me to choose the 3 for you to vote on, I even had to ask James to help me! So without further ado…

Entry A!

Stargirl Heuser says:

Calling all princesses! VioletLeBeaux.com features everything a girl needs to be a princess, without breaking the bank! Creative, step-by-step tutorials show you how to use a couple gems and a bit of lace to turn everyday blah into something fit for a princess!

Entry B!

SaffronSugar says:

A blog dedicated to the frillier side of life, focusing on beautifying yourself and the world around you. Learn to customize and create clothing to your liking, decorate your living space, and be inspired by the luxurious “hime gyaru” look from Japan.

Entry C!

Brigitte Pernia says:

My blog? Well, it’s unique. There’s no other one like it. It’s creative, artistic, and entertaining. A place where all girls of all ages can come to, to find their inner princess. From tutorials, to sharing my personal life, violetlebeaux.com is the place where all things are possible.

So to vote please use the poll below or on the side bar. I will be leaving it up until Midnight my time next Wednesday. Only votes in the poll will be counted so make sure to cast yours!

Thanks so much for all the time you guys took to enter!

Good luck everyone!!

*EDIT* A couple of people have let me know that they can’t see the poll. It’s a Java Script poll so please make sure that you have all the latest versions of your software/browser etc and make sure your firewall isn’t blocking java. I am looking for a non-java solution to this so you can all vote so please be patient. */EDIT*

*EDIT 2* Ok.. Hopefully this will solve the problem. I have added a html poll below so that fingers crossed everyone will be able to see it. If you are unable to vote in the Nuffnang poll please vote below. If you can see the Nuffnang poll please use that. At the end of the time I will add the results together and find the winner. Apologies if this seems a little convoluted but I want to allow everyone the chance to vote to keep it fair. I will release the total number of results and statistics with the winner announcement. */EDIT*

VOTING IS NOW CLOSED!!!

Thank you for voting, winner will be announced tomorrow 🙂

Celebration Give Away! -CLOSED-

by VioletLeBeaux | Jul 17, 2010 | Competition

EDIT This give away is now closed!! Thanks so much for all of your entries!! /EDIT

Morning everyone!

This post is a day late but hopefully it will be worth it 😀

I’ve been wanting to do a give away for quite a while now to celebrate a few mile stones but it didn’t seem like the right time until now. It’s just ticked over to more than 300 Google Friends, we’ve moved to a new exciting city, I’ve just opening my Store and there are some seriously big things coming up soon for my blog!

I’ve made so may new friends along the way and it makes me really happy that I’ve been able to meet some of you guys in person too! I’m really honored that you have all stuck with me and continue to read here <3

This blog has come a really long way since I started it and I hope it’s only going to get better from here ^_^

The thing is that every time I meet someone and they ask me to describe my blog I tend to fumble a bit and try to explain it. It can be difficult to explain the blog to people that aren’t into these things already >_<

So what I need is an elevator pitch and I’m having a competition to come up with it!

So let’s celebrate!

This is what I’m offering in my give away:

1 Set of Nails- Gilded Roses
1 Hand made Usamimi
1 Blue spotty headband
1 Ice Cream bracelet
1 Black rose ring
1 Cover Girl Wetslicks Amazmint Lip Gloss
1 Rimmel Full Volume Lip Gloss
1 Strawberry Stars Ring
1 Rna Alternative wallet/train pass case
1 set of 1000 Hour Purple Foil False Lashes
1 Cow shaped soap
1 Hello Kitty Rock Star Charm
1 Pink Umbrella with Lace trimming (from an upcoming tutorial)
1 Eco Tools Shower Flower
1 Heart Shaped Silicone baking Trivet

How to Enter:

To enter this contest you must be a follower either through Google or RSS. Please make sure you leave a valid email address otherwise I cannot contact you if you win!!

What you need to do is describe my blog in 50 words or less in the best way to explain it to someone who has no idea about crafts/cute things/hime gyaru etc. *edit: 30 words seemed too hard so I’ve upped the limit to 50 ^_^*

Please post your entry in a comment on this post. Entries received anywhere else won’t be counted!

ONE ENTRY PER PERSON.

Creativity is greatly encouraged!

Extra Entries:

You can get extra entries in the following ways:

Tweet/Facebook about the contest (1 entry)
Blog about the contest (2 entries)

*Edit 2… Ok there has been some confusion on the entries system! If you just want to enter once you can put your Elevator pitch into a comment and be done. If however you have more than one idea for an Elevator pitch you can Tweet/Facebook/Blog about this competition to give you the opportunity to have your other ideas entered. Eg. If you have 4 ideas you need to be a follower, tweet, blog and FB about the competition then you can leave a comment with 4 ideas in it. Please leave the link to your tweet/FB post/blog post in the comment so I can see it. Does that all make sense?? If not just let me know in the comments or email me ^_^ /Edit*

Details:

Entries will be accepted until Midnight Melbourne, Australia time next Monday (26th of July 2010).

I will then choose the 3 I like the most and there will be a vote here on the blog to choose the winner. The poll will be open for 7 days. The winner will be notified by email and will have 7 days to reply to claim their prize.

Now here are some photos of the prizes 😀

Nails:

Usamimi ^_^ Don’t worry it’s not the one I was wearing in the tutorial, I made two!

Blue Headband:

Super cute icecream bracelet:

Rose ring:

Yummy lip glosses. I picked the Rimmel colour because I use it all the time and the Amazemint one is really cool because it smells and feels like mint! Reviews are coming soon for both of them ^_^

Strawberry star ring:

Wallet/Train Case:

Lashes for a really big crazy co-ordinate:

I couldn’t go past this guy, how cute is he? I would never want to use him because he’s so cute!

Kitty:

Fold up umbrella! I’m doing a tutorial on how to jazz up your umbrella soon and this was the one I used ^_^ Pink with black lace trimming.

Very soft Eco Tools bath sponge:

Adorable Heart Trivet from the same range as my heart mixing bowl and measuring cups ^_^

So I hope you like everything and I hope you guys all enter!!

GOOD LUCK!!

Why I love Nuffnang…

by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 13, 2010 | Competition, Hime Gyaru, Life

This Valentines day Nuffnang is giving it’s bloggers a chance to win a $250 gift voucher, so we thought what better way to spend Valentines Day but together attempting to win enough chocolate to keep us happily blogging away for a whole year. And so…

Once upon a time there were two lonely bloggers… they both loved pink and they both loved sparkles, they both loved anything fancy but they lived 1000 miles away from each other 🙁

The distance seemed insurmountable. They would never meet on a train, they would never meet at a supermarket… would their sparkly paths ever cross?

And then along came a little blue man… a Nuffnang man! He left them a little trail of digital bread crumbs to lead them to each other…

The bloggers were ecstatic! They finally had someone else to share their pink sparkliness with!

They shared similar academic pursuits…

And a love of exercise…

And it was nice to have kindness and support in such a mediocre gray scale world….

Or not….

They explored the possibilities of alternative nutrition…

Though each was sweeter than the other… at times.

They dazzled the locals with style and grace…

And spread love and happiness where ever they went!

But they kept large sticks in their large handbags in case of disaster…

They went to bed early every night and made sure to get their beauty sleep…

But that didn’t always seem to go to plan…

So they practiced their elocution until they fell asleep!

All of this joy is thanks to one little blue man, thank you Nuffnang we LOVE you!

And while their world is now more beautiful, there is always room for another seat at the tea party!

We have more special Valentine love to spread to the insanely cute Cheesie of www.Cheeserland.com because if we can have this much fun when she’s not even in the room, imagine what we can do when she actually visits!

Next on our lovely list is local Melbourne princess Aurora Hime and her Tumblr that never fails to inspire!

Last but definitely not least is the devilishly dark and deliciously decked Miss Amelia Arsenic of Destroyx for more reasons than we could possibly list.

So if you want to improve your reality, don’t take the red pill, take the little blue man!

We HEART you Nuffnang!

Thanks Nuffnang!

My Perfect Vintage Christmas Competition

by VioletLeBeaux | Feb 2, 2010 | Competition, Life, Outfit Of The Day

Quite a while ago, well before Christmas in fact, Super Kawaii Mama aka Candice DeVille had the most awesome vintage Christmas competition ever.

It was her Perfect Vintage Christmas Competition and I made a video entry (you can watch it here). And guess what? After voting on a semi finalists… I won! HOW EXCITING IS THAT?!

Firstly I want to say a huuuuge thank you to Candice for holding the competition, I really enjoyed making the video and omg prizes!

Firstly a 30 Pound gift voucher from Notorious Kitsch!

I had SO much fun picking out everything from Notorious Kitsch, there were just so many things on their website that I couldn’t decide :O

What I ended up with waaaaas:

-I Married A Monster From Outer Space greeting card
-Looking for Trouble pouch
-Of Course it Buys Happiness business card holder
-No Reason Note book holder
-Sew n Save Tin
-Je T’aime Paris magnetic Address BookAll of that for 30 Pounds! One of the coolest parts? She threw in an awesome set of mini emery boards in the shape of an old hotel match book! SO COOL! I keep them in my purse now for emergencies 😀 Fiona was so delightful to deal with and she really went the extra mile to find cool things that were in stock for me 😀 Go check out her store now!

Prize number 2 was a swimsuit from For Luna!

They make the most beautiful swim suits I’ve ever seen. They are all retro themed and have really flattering cuts. One thing that I *really* liked was that you can choose some of the designs to fit your bra cup size. As a girl who is slim but *cough*curvy*cough* I have a lot of trouble finding swim suits that well… fit. After chatting to Vicki about which style would suit my figure the best as well as be very supportive I picked one out 😀

This is what arrived at my door… How cute is the packaging?!

And this is the swim suit, you can see it on the site here. It’s made of quite thick material and it has boning in the sides to give you a really nice shape.

Okokokokok after much debating I decided to post some pictures of me actually in it.. but I’m completely self conscious so be nice ok! I normally don’t even leave the house without stockings and a cardigan so this is quite out of the ordinary! I’m also a little paranoid that the photos will end up somewhere I don’t want so extra water marks today sorry!

Hahaha so pasty and white, I love being pale! Epic tanning fail=

I really can’t say how much I LOVE this swimsuit, I used to hate swimming and going to the beach because I was always scared of having a “costume malfunction” but this is so supportive and nice that I go swimming with James all the time now 😀

What you don’t check your false lashes while you’re swimming too?

James played with the colours here to make it look really pretty!

How cool does my hair look here? Next time I want to order this one and feed my leopard print obsession some more!

Last but definitely not least I got a $100 gift voucher from Blue Velvet Vintage.

I had a huge amount of fun trying to decide what to choose from Blue Velvet Vintage, there were so many pretty things on the site that I came very close to spending a lot of my own money too *_*

Adorable business card!

So what did I get? First I got this super cute bracelet by Sarah Coventry. Unfortunately a couple of the rhinestones had fallen off in transit but they were very easily fixed and Theresa was extremely apologetic. Anyway it looks so pretty on!

The other item I got was this super awesome purple pleated skirt from the 1950’s!

It was way too long on me so I took it up around 10 inches very carefully and taadaa:

Too cute right?

I absolutely love it!

Thank you so much to Notorious Kitsch, For Luna and Blue Velvet Vintage, I really appreciate all the wonderful gifts they made Christmas extra special!

Special thank you goes out to Super Kawaii Mama for being incredibly awesome and holding this competition! LOVE.

What do you guys think? Did I pick well? What would you have gotten for your vintage christmas prize?

Competition Quick Post…

by VioletLeBeaux | Jan 26, 2010 | Competition

Just a super quick post because I’m still working on something big for you guys that is going to be worth the wait!

Anyway in the mean time I just wanted to give you a heads up that the Skin MD moisturiser I did a review of here are having a Valentines Day give away thingy where you can win a bunch of moisturiser and other fun things.

I’m still waiting for a reply from them about the postage charges to Australia and whether we could get a stockist a little closer to home ^_^

Click here to have a look and enter.