So, this happened. And it was exciting!
In the interest of Rae not spontaneously exploding out of sheer awkwardness, I’m going to leave you with a few pictures (but not a lot more words). Instead: just a quick merci!! to the lovely ladies and gents at Marcelle (Isabel, I’m looking at you) for this fantastic opportunity – I am always happy to work with a great Canadian brand like Marcelle, but the BB Cream in particular has been getting some serious l o v e in the Chen household as of late.
So, thank you for the opportunity to show my support for a great product! :)
I’ve never been a fan of the “celebrity endorsement” type of advertising, but I feel it’s quite different when it’s bloggers and companies they routinely work with, rather than a stranger with a contract. It’s just– it’s a very different level of trust, you know? I’ll trust a (good) blogger’s word for something because I know that they really have tried and loved the product, vs. the word of a stranger that just happens to be famous.
Anyhow. It happened! There was lots of flailing involved! And you should try the BB Cream, because I can’t use it (‘cones) but I really like it. :D
(My mum, who has never in her life owned a foundation, makes me prep her skin for a night out with the BB. Wears really well, works great with her combination oily-dry skin, and fills in large pores like a dream! So, yeah, I’d say it’s a hit.)
More Marcelle B.B. Cream coverage…
Today’s free time went into the structure of theNotice, rather than a post itself – so, those of you reading through a feed won’t see anything different, but those of you on the blog itself should be able to see it.
It’s just a small change, but one that I’ve been meaning to do since sometime early last year. As I’m sure you know by now (because I complain about it all the time), I’m horribly indecisive – so, rather than a static ”popular posts” list, the sidebar now features three randomized images under the heading of “required reading.”
The images lead to all of the makeup looks, lip features, and bb cream posts on theNotice — with regards to the latter, we get a really startling number of hits off the keywords “Marcelle BB Cream.” (It’s kind of awesome.) I was planning on doing a fourth, for our beauty blogging series, but then I got bored. (It’s coming, honestly. Sometime.)
Hope you like the small site tweak, and let me know how its working with your OS+browser combination in the comments!
Just a reminder for all of you who follow theNotice on Google Friend Connect: Google will be discontinuing this service at the end of the month, so please take a moment to update your subscription if you’d like to stay updated & entered in giveaways, etc! (And I have a few choice words I could say about this move, but, well.)
Feel free to follow us through RSS, email, Bloglovin’, and/or Twitter to get your daily beauty fix ;) Hope to see you around!
I’m bad with celebrations.
No, seriously, I’m actually just extremely bad at them. Holidays and get-togethers, I can do, but I try to get out of celebrating my birthday every year, and god, things like blogging anniversaries? I don’t even know where to start.
(Mainly, I think I’ll just stand around and flail.)
Instead of telling you all how thankful I am that I’ve been able to stick around for four years and do something that I thoroughly enjoy, I’m just going to announce a giveaway.
And another giveaway.
And another giveaway.
And… another giveaway?
Yes, really. Because, well, what better way to celebrate your fourth blogiversary than to do four colour-coded giveaways? :D
The rules
Each giveaway will run for one week, and I’ll email the winner once the giveaway closes. We’ll be running them through Rafflecopter, and you’ll have 48 hours to get back to me before the prize gets passed along to the next person. The four giveaways will be open to everyone, regardless of age, habitation, or favourite brand. (However, if you’re under the age of majority in your country/state/province, you’ll need parental consent!)
Also, the giveaways will be run in terms of colour.
It’s going to be epic.
xoxo,
Rae
Alright, so – half a year after I needed to figure this out, I finally did. Turns out, you can totally move your GFC widget. AKA I didn’t need to start from 0 when I switched to thenotice.net and abandon four hundred-something of my favourite people.
(There were so many sarcastic jokes in that last sentence that I can’t even… okay, I promise to stop now. It’s two in the morning; what more do I need to say?)
Anyhow, here’s the important part:
If you’re following theNotice right now, but you weren’t following before we switched over to thenotice.net, you may need to re-join the site (or you’ll get lost in cyberspace)!
Basically, I Let’s be honest here. I don’t even know what was going through my head that convinced me this couldn’t be done. I made the decision to switch to wordpress about ten seconds before I did it (shh, don’t tell anyone), so I suppose you can say I wasn’t at my most lucid just then.
To everyone that we’ve met over the past few months: please, please, please move your mice over a few inches and follow with our new old new-old widget! It’s been brilliant, and I might actually cry if I lose you. Crying. With tears. And running eyeliner and just general ickiness.
(And no one wants that, now do they?)
And to everyone that’s been wondering why in the heck their google readers haven’t been showing anything from theNotice from before: I’m sorry. I screwed up really badly, and I’m sorry! But I missed you, and I hope you can forgive me? :)
Anyhow, I’m off to bed. Talk to you in the morning, and… I don’t know; I’m sure I can scrounge up something (something awesome, that is) in my drawers as an apology-giveaway prize ;)
