Contest Winner Announced

Last night, we concluded the contest over at facebook in which a spanking new 28 neutral palette and Human Heart Nature Intensive Hair Mask were given away to a lucky blog reader. I was overwhelmed by the responses. I was expecting only around 50-100 entries given the option to join as many times as you can. After all, I don’t really know if people are reading my blog at all.   Most of the time, I just feel like I’m talking to myself around here. In the end, there were 1,836 entries to be raffled.  After seeing the number, I almost choked realizing how tough it would be to choose the winner.

As I mentioned on the contest mechanics, each entry will be assigned a number. The winner will then be chosen randomly through random.org. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to view all of the comments on facebook at once especially if we’re talking around a thousand plus comments. Instead of choosing a single number out of 1,836 and look for the winning number by counting backwards, I decided to do it another way. Since the contest ran from March 1 to 15, I picked a number from 1 to 15 from random.org, it yielded the number 15.  From the entries on that day, March 15, I copied them to the random list generator.  Each entry was assigned a random number. From that list,  I generated the winning number, still through random.org. Rest assured it was drawn fair and square.

And the lucky blog reader is…. Ms. Peewee Abesamis! She will be receiving the 28 Neutral Palette plus a Human Heart Nature Intensive Hair Mask. She already contacted me with her mailing details. Air21 picked up her package this afternoon from our house.

If I had unlimited resources, I’ll also give the same prizes to everyone who joined, especially those who submitted the most number of entries. I’m really touched that some even invited their husbands and relatives to win the freebies for them.  As a reward, I’m giving away a free ebook on beauty tips to everyone who joined. If you still haven’t got your copy, instructions are posted on the facebook page.

Thanks so much to everyone who joined this blog’s facebook fan page. I know the word fan sounds arrogant but I couldn’t customize it to become a Facebook Blog Update Page. I just wanted to find venue where I could connect with you better. Don’t mind the word fan. It’s not like I’m gunning to be the next Angel Locsin or something.

If I’m not posting here as much as I used to, blame it on the frequent brownouts here in Mindanao. Along with the dehydrating summer heat,  it tends to make my blogging powers fluctuate, too.  It’s difficult to think when you’re inside an oven.

This early, I’m already preparing my next set of freebies for you! Just hold on, I’ll keep you posted on this one. Til then!

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Blog Freebies!

After keeping you waiting for ages (my bad, sorry).. finally, here it is!

I noticed that many of who visit this blog are just starting out their makeup artist career or are simply new to unraveling the wonders of makeup.  So to help you  build your stash, I’ll be giving away one 28-piece Neutral Eyeshadow Palette, which is also known as the 28-piece Bridal Palette or the MAC Dupes because of its resemblance with some of MAC’s eyeshadows. If you’re interested in knowing what MAC shades they duplicate, please read Ms. Jennifer Do’s post about it. This is worth at least Php 900 but is yours for free.

Not only that!  In support to Human Heart Nature and their Gawad Kalinga advocacy, I’ll be throwing in one of my favorite HHN hair products, the Human Heart Nature Avocado and Gugo Intensive Hair Mask . I’m sure you’d love it as much as I do. I hoarded quite a couple of it for personal use (ugh.. that’s how bad my hair is).

Note that both freebies are brand new, the eyeshadow palette comes in a box.

This blog contest is open to Philippine and International readers.

To win these goodies, it’s really simple! Here’s how:

1. Become a fan of The Doctor is vaIN  page on facebook

2. Under the Wall post saying ” UP FOR GRABS, ” with pics of the freebies, leave a comment below stating  ” I WANT IT!”

3. Contest runs from March 1,2010 to March 15, 2010

4.  Entries will be assigned a number and  one winner will be chosen through Random.org, which will be announced on March 16, 2010

5. You can comment as many times as you can, with the line “I WANT IT”  to increase your chances of winning.

6. Winner should contact me at info@vanityclinic.com with his/her mailing address

7. The goodies will be sent to the winner through Air21 if within the Philippines and Philpost if winner is from another country.

So what are you waiting for? Please go to “The Doctor is vaIN” Facebook page and join now. I know this isn’t much but this is my way of thanking you guys for your support to this blog!

Stay beautiful!!

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Michelle Phan and Bryanboy On Vogue March 2010

The March 2010 Power issue of Vogue Magazine, with Tina Fey on the cover, features the most influential style bloggers in the world. Among them are Youtube beauty guru, Michelle Phan and our very own Filipino fashion blogger, Bryanboy of bryanboy.com

Michelle Phan is one of my favorite beauty video bloggers whose phenomenal success in youtube caught the attention of one of the biggest cosmetics companies, Lancome. She recently inked a deal with them as the brand’s official video makeup artist. In addition to her regular makeup tutorials, she will be making a video each month, featuring her favorite Lancome products, trends and events. Michelle, who was once turned down when she applied as a sales associate in a department store for the same company, proves that dreams do come true – if desired ardently enough. She’s on a roll as she lands on the pages of the Vogue Magazine’s US issue next month.

The Vogue feature wouldn’t be complete without Bryanboy, the wildly popular fashion blogger from the Philippines who attracts around 5,000 page views on his blog on a daily basis. His signature bag pose, fashion IQ, along with his witty and often times bitchy commentaries, earned the thumbs up of fashion enthusiasts all over the world, including top designers like Marc Jacobs, who named a handbag after him- the BB ostrich bag. It comes as no surprise that Bryanboy is now gracing Vogue, which is considered to be the gold standard in fashion magazines. What can we say, he’s used to the fabulous lifestyle.

Michelle and Bryanboy are joined by other famous bloggers like Tommy Ton, Garancé Doré, Mary Tomer, Yvan Rodic, Todd Selby, Hannelli Mustaparta, and Catherine Kallon.

Below is a video from Style.com capturing some snippets from the magazine shoot.

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Back To Regular Programming

I think I just grew wrinkles that aged me 20 years older, due to some site problems. This blog had several issues the past week. It was loading uber slow that I decided to change hosts after encountering various problems with my previous host. Also, I was using an old version of wordpress which puts this blog at risk for more troubles.

I’ve attempted in the past to upgrade to the latest wordpress but I ended up with an empty blog. The techie wanna-be in me tends to try out things that often leads me to technical misadventures. Good thing I was able to restore my blog that time although I didn’t know how I did it.?!? Uh, divine intervention?

I transferred to a host specializing in wordpress just so they’ll have my back the next time I encounter difficulties troubleshooting my blog. However, the issues plaguing my site was larger than life and it had to take the award-winning  technology blogger, Jaypee of Jaypeeonline.net to figure things out. If you are reading this far from its sickly disposition, I owe that to him. Thank God I was also saved from bleeding my brains out trying to solve something way beyond my capacity. To think I was considering using Drupal and Joomla before. *covers self in shame* Yeah, I just heard you say, “ambisyosa.”

Aside from the upgrading, Jaypee was able to find some errors that were making this site an easy prey for attacks. Some of which, were probably of my own doing. I could just imagine him shaking his head in disgust over the mess I created in my own site, but  I couldn’t thank him enough for sharing his expertise that would have cost me an arm and leg had I hired a techie professional. No wonder he’s blessed to have plenty of blogger friends who are all praises for him. And yes, he has minions who read his blog all the time.

If you’re having problems with your current web hosting and are looking for a new hosting service, you might want to try WP webhost where you can avail of 30% discount using Jaypee’s code: Jaypee30. Cool, huh?

Thanks are also in order for CDO Bloggers president and wordpress theme designer, Chiq Montes for her expert advice.

By the way, my apologies to the email subscribers of vanityclinic.com who received an alert yesterday about an entry I wrote for my semi-personal blog on another site. I didn’t know how that happened (yet again!). Oh well, welcome to another episode of my technical misadventures. It’s so creepy, it’s like parking my car in the wrong house. Sorry about that.

Ok, now that my blog just came out of the ICU, prepare for for more makeup tricks and answers to some of your beauty questions. Til then!

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JLo’s Beauty Secrets

If you’re wondering who’s the artist responsible for most of Jlo’s trend setting makeup looks, it’s Scott Barnes. He is Jennifer Lopez’ favorite makeup artist who just launched a book called ” About Face,”  revealing celebrity beauty secrets.

J.Lo was there to attend the book launching, wearing a strapless classic black Louis Vuitton dress. She appears on the book’s cover, and wrote the foreword in support to her makeup stylist and beauty adviser. She shares that Scott Barnes taught her tricks on highlighting and contouring, among other tips that she learned from the beauty guru.

Scott Barnes spills his secrets on replicating JLo’s beauty in “About Face”. According to reports, he wrote easy to follow instructions on doing makeup on yourself. It’s just like hiring Scott Barnes himself to do your makeup, except that it’s your hands doing the moves.

JLo is starring in an upcoming movie, “The Back Up Plan,” which is due for release in April. There are rumors that she will be appearing on the hit TV series “Glee,” soon.

About Face is available from Amazon.com.

About Face is a compendium of everything make-up artist Scott Barnes has learned during his career working with A-list celebrities including Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jennifer Aniston. About Face is packed with techniques for every area of makeup application. Part One focuses on dramatic makeovers of real women with a twist: each woman comes in looking the best she thinks she can look. The author then deconstructs and debunks their look taking them from attractive to (more…)

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