Sponsor Intro and Giveaway with Erin

Today you get to meet my featured sponsor of the month, Erin! Erin is such a great supporter of my blog and she has been a bloggy friend for a LONG time! So happy for you to meet her today!

Meet Erin:

Hello A Complete Waste of Makeup readers!! I'm Erin and I blog at Just a Few of My Favorite Things!  I blog about vitally important topics such as my undeniable love for the color pink and anything glittery, my hope to one day marry Ryan Gosling, my always growing nail polish collection (you can never have too many shades of pink or red nail polish -- that is a proven fact), and all of the adorable/creative projects I see on Pinterest that I will probably never even attempt to make because I'm kind of lazy when I get home from work, and by lazy I mean I watch way too much Judge Judy, Dr. Phil and HGTV. :) I'm an elementary school teacher living in Virginia and on a daily basis remind myself that I do, in fact, love being asked questions by my students such as "Why haven't you found a husband yet?", "Did the world have telephones when you were a child?" and "Do I have to use punctuation today also?

Social Media Links

Blog : http://erinsfavorites.blogspot.com

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/JustAFewOfMyFavoriteThings

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ERaff1483

Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/eraff/

I love blogging, I adore Neely's fabulous blog and am thrilled to be hosting a giveaway! 

I'm giving away three things that are an essential part of my daily life:

1.) Makeup -- Sephora Mini Bag Makeup Palette

2.) Nail Polish --- Essie Resort 2012 Collection

3.) Coffee -- $5 Starbucks gift card

Such fab stuff right??

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Sponsor Intro and $75 Amazon Giveaway: Nathan!!

Im sure you are all familiar with the awesome that is Nathan. He is our resident male blogger and has his yearly blog awards as well as he hosts a few awesome linkups! Plus well he is awesome and has an oh so adorable family!

Meet Nathan:


Hi everyone, thanks for stopping by Neely's blog today! My name is Nathan and I'm a male blogger from the Northeast! I enjoy camping, hiking, fishing, pretty much all sports and especially my family! I blog about everyday life and all other things in between. I started this particular blog in April of 2011 because I wanted there to be a place where I could "get away" and a place where I could keep a detailed account of my life. I'm amazed at how many great friends I've met through blogging! I never thought that by having an online blog I could reach so many people but it's definitely something I've been surprised about! I have some pretty cool bloggie friends and I hope to eventually have a few more! Feel free to stop by, see what's up, and follow me on my journey!
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Nathan is generously offering one of my readers a $75 giftcard to AMAZON! I mean the possibilities are endless: clothes, movies, games, toys, food, makeup, nailpolish, tervis tumblers....what can't you get on amazon???

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A Touching Guest Post by Kristyn

Today I have a fun treat! Miss Kristyn is guest posting to tell you a really exciting story that happened to her last weekend!!!


Hey A Complete Waste of Makeup readers. My name is Kristyn and I blog over at Chits and Giggles.  I have been blogging since April and blog about what is happening in my life. Today, lucky for you, I am going to share an exciting story that happened to me on Friday.


Last Friday night Jeremy and I had Martini's and IMAX planned.  I was really excited because the movie we were going to see was a Cirque du Soliel: Journey of Man movie.  It was great.  It sort of tickled your whistle and made you want to see more Cirque stunts.   Anyways, before we left Jeremy asked me to come watch something.  I thought he was in front of the computer to print the vouchers we needed or something like that.  I really had no idea.    So I sit in front of the computer and he has YouTube pulled up.  The title of the video he has pulled up is The Past, The Present, The Future.  Now, I know what most girls would think and I went there too, but I didn't want it to not be what I thought it would be and then be disappointed the whole night.   So I really tried hard to not think "This is it"....   He started the movie.  One of our favorite songs, "Home" from Phillip Phillips was playing and I just started crying.  Not really because of the video itself, more because of the song.  It's weird, but I do love that song.   Anyways, watch the video below:  

I said "Yes!" in all my terrible crying glory.

  The ring:  

Congrats Kristyn! So excited for you! Go check out her blog and follow along for the wedding fun :)



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Sponsor Intro and Sephora GIveaway: Rachel @ Simple Little Joys

Today I am introducing you to the darling Rachel @ Simple Little Joys. Not only does she have an adorable blog but she has some truly inspirational stories like her weight loss journey and has some awesome ideas!

Meet Rachel:

I'm the girl behind {simple.little.joys}, my little corner of the Internet. I'm a twenty-something RN, enjoying the young, unmarried life in my favorite town. I'm a lover of SEC football, strong coffee, celebrations, and all things chocolate. I can't get enough of Mexican food, Tory Burch, fall weather, and Giuliana Rancic. I write about anything and everything--trying to keep up with life as it unfolds before me! You may see anything from weekend adventures to DIY projects…sometimes you'll even find some of my favorite recipes and updates on my weight loss journey! Come stop by and stay a while, I'd love to have you!

You can include these links if you would like…this is a link to my weight loss story http://racheldillard.blogspot.com/p/my-weight-loss-journey.html

And this is an example of one of my favorite DIY projects 

http://racheldillard.blogspot.com/2012/09/diy-fabulous-fall-wreath.html

Here are my social media links:

Facebook is https://www.facebook.com/rachdillard

Twitter is https://www.twitter.com/rachdillard

Pinterest is http://pinterest.com/radillard1/

Now Rachel is giving all of you the chance to win something fabulous!

How about $30 giftcard to ....

Yep! Worth it :)

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A Happy List

Spending time with my family

Macaroni and Cheese not out of a box

Dinner/Drinks/Brunch

Concerts that go on longer than expected

Good email chains

Cartwheels

Dallas Cowboys

A good book

New clothes

Finding something in my closet I forgot I had

Organizing

Making new friends

Discovering something new

Seeing a life changing movie...like The Perks of Being a Wallflower

When someone gives me a compliment

Making someones day better

Cinnamon Rolls

Pumpkin Spice ANYTHING

Cool but Sunny weather

Bagels

Little notebooks with cute sayings

Movie quotes

Nights that go on and on and on

Long conversations

A great bottle of wine on a patio

Series Finales of TV shows

The September Issues



What's on your happy list?















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Giveaway: Amanda Catherine Designs

Boy do I have a treat for y'all today!

Today's giveaway is brought to you by the lovely Amanda of Amanda Catherine Designs

A few months ago I purchased a 4 pack of prints from her shop which are currently hanging over my bed, I love love love my super girly prints :)

I got these:

Aren't they so super cute? I also think these would be adorable in a nursery of a little girl. Just saying.

Here are some other favs of mine:

Well the wonderful miss Amanda is letting ONE of my readers pick ANY TWO prints from her shop! You could find prints for any room of your house! There are also amazing 2 pack prints on there as well! I am overly jealous of this giveaway :)

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Changing the way you eat

When you begin to lose weight, the loss will come from your muscles as well as your fat store.

As you progress with your new eating plan, however, you need to make sure that you are using all the calories you are eating, and so you need to begin using you muscles more. Muscle burns calories where fat doesn’t and so although you don’t need to go overboard with the exercise, a little more activity once you have got used to the change in your eating habits can help you to keep your weight down.

This is important because one of the key problems with the so-called “yo-yo diet” is that people lose weight rapidly from muscle and fat stores by following a strict or crash diet. When they return to more normal eating habits, weight is re-gained, but it is always fat gain and never muscle. This often means that whilst they can be back to their pre-diet weight, it’s all fat, which is unhealthier than the original starting point.

Over-exercising isn’t the answer though, particularly if you are unused to physical activity. Sudden extreme exercise can put additional strain on your body and is dangerous to your health. The best way to approach your weight loss is to change the way you eat, so that you are beginning to lose weight at safe levels and then to make sure that you talk over any increase in physical activity with your adviser before you start.

Your goal for a successful diet is to make sure that you are eating the right foods for your body. That is why SureSlim prepares a personalized eating plan for you, taking into account the detailed results of your blood test analysis. This shows us how we can help you to balance your body’s processes to help you lose weight. Setting proper weight loss goals is important, and we help you to start losing weight whilst feeling in control of your eating. We know that weight gain goes back on as fat, usually because you stop eating the foods that work for you and start eating the ones that work against you. Controlling what you eat, along with moderate activity increases when we think the time is right, will help you to see how you can make your eating habits, weight loss and weight maintenance a positive part of your life.

This is a sponsored guest post. I was compensated for posting this but not all opinions here are necessarily the ones of A Complete Waste of Makeup. 


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