Giveaway Time: $45 GIft Certificate to Virtually Anything

As a CSN Preferred Blogger, I've been offered to do another giveaway or personal review of a product.  I decided with the holidays coming up - some lucky reader should win a giveaway to get something for themselves or start their holiday gift shopping!

A CSN refresher... CSNStores.com has over 1 million products and rising. From sites dedicated to specific needs, like stools to popular home decor products and new sites like www.EveryGameRoom.com.  See all 200+ sites here!

So what's in it for you?  A $45 gift card to CSNStores - that means you can spend that winning anywhere in their suite of stores!  Need a holiday gift?  Cooking goods to get ready for all the holiday baking?  A home decor piece?  Or maybe apply to something larger, like furniture!  Options are endless....

Armless chair, cute owl pillow, festive platter for holiday gatherings, even boots to keep warm this winter!

So how to win and start shopping?

Mandatory

1. You must be a public follower of Chasing Davies.  If you aren't already?  Look to the right hand side of my blog webpage and click on the the "Follow" button that is located under the "Lovely Readers" header.

2.  Tell me how you'd use the $45 credit?  Holiday shopping, something for your home, perhaps a holiday pair of shoes, etc...

3.  Make sure to leave your email address if it isn't connected to your profile so that I can contact you if you win.

Extra Entries 
(you can complete one or both of these for an extra entry each, but make sure to enter a separate comment for each entry)

1. Tweet about this giveaway with a link back to this post and include @ChasingDavies so that I can give you credit.  Come back to this post and leave a separate comment with the link to the tweet. You can tweet once a day and you can follow me on twitter here.

2.  Blog about this giveaway on your blog providing a link back to this post.  Come back here and in another separate comment, link to your blog post.

3. Share this post to your Facebook.  Come back here and let me know you've done so!

Disclaimer: Any comments that are incomplete, do no meet all the requirements or are inappropriate will not be eligible. This giveaway is only able to be shipped to those that live in the United States.

You will have now through Monday, November 8th at 11:59pm CST to enter. I will announce the winner on Tues, 11/9 on this blog and email the winner.

Favorite Blogger Outfits: Mix of Patterns

While stripes are still my favorite pattern to wear, animal print (especially cheetah or leopard print) is really sneaking up!  I've been actually looking for more leopard print items to add to my flats!  Well, Maegan, from "...Love Maegan" had a really fun outfit this week!  Mixing leopard and florals:

(plus I love this photo)

Her Outfit Deets:

Cynthia Steffe floral print silk dress 

Vintage leopard print blouse worn under

Sweater vest/cardigan from Alloy 

Vintage black belt with gold buckle
Vintage gold necklace & gold hoop earrings
American Apparel Shiny Stirrup Tights
Calvin Klein snakeskin pumps
Tom Ford cat eye {anouk} sunglasses
Vintage Gucci bag

Mascara Deluxe Sampler Review (Part 4, of 10)

Sephora's Deluxe Mascara Sampler consists of 10 high-end designer mascaras.  My favorite beauty products is mascara, that and concealer (but that's out of necessity), so when I saw this sample pack - I began that path to use and review these trial sizes.

The first 3 reviews:

Hourglass Superficial Lash Mascara

Urban Decay Skyscraper Multi-Benefit Mascara

Korres Abyssinia Oil Volumizing and Strengthening Mascara

And on to sample 4:

Benefit A Little Bit BADGal Lash Mascara

What Sephora has to say: a little bit of BADgal lash for the girl on the go. Even though it's little, it carries a big BADgal punch.

My review:

Pros - Lashes look long.  The mascara really builds off itself extending your lash length.  The consistency is a bit drier, so not smudging or smearing.

Cons - The brush is really big, making it hard to get the corners and shorter lashes.

Reader's Left - mascara applied; right side - plain lashes

BADgal mascara on both lashes - see length here

Reader's left - L'Oreal Voluminizing Mascara layered over BADgal - You can see how it just adds a bit more umph!

Couple swipes of BADgal mascara and then a slow application of L'Oreal

What is your favorite mascara right now?