This week’s prize is Smashbox’s Halo Yellow Color Correcting Hydrating Powder, a yellow powder designed to tone down facial redness. It’s also oil-, talc-, and paraben-free.
Here’s how it works:
- This giveaway starts today and ends Sunday, June 20, at midnight.
- You can enter once per day. (If you enter more than once per day, only the first entry will be counted.)
- This giveaway is open to readers anywhere in the world.
- A winner will be selected at random from the valid entries.
- To enter, leave a comment on this post, and tell me a character from a book (any book), and what brand of makeup you imagine that character wearing.
- Winners will be contacted by email, so please use an email address you check (addresses will be hidden, and will not be used for any purpose other than contacting the winner).
Good luck!






Barbie would be wearing MAC Hello Kitty collection lol
Ugh, I haven’t read a book in ages! *ducks and covers* Um… pretty sure the last one I read was Hour of the Star. So: Macabéa, and NYC or Wet ‘N Wild.
Harry Potter’s Aunt Petunia would wear Clinique makeup. No idea why.
Cinderella is wearing MAC 4-sure:)
Bella from Twilight would be wearing Clinique
Tania in The Tropic of Cancer would definitely be wearing Urban Decay
Sophie from Sophie’s world, I imagine, would be wearing mineral makeup…since it’s no-fuss and light on the face!
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Eve from the Bible wearing Clinique
Nan from Jane Green’s “The Beach House” would wear Chanel Rouge Allure.
I imagine cat woman to be very much using Urbay decay liners for those cat eye looks
hermione granger from harry potter would wear bare minerals
alice in wonderland…wearing what else? but paul and joe’s alice in wonderland collection
I’d imagine Georgina Kincaid(Succubus Blues ) wearing MAC all the way
I imagine Anne Boleyn to pretty natural colors. all matte with long lashes
I would imagine that Snow White would be wearing Shiseido, since they have so many whitening products.
Little Mermaid, aquaeyes waterproof liners from MUFE.
I imagine Cinderella to be wearing Dior makeup once she’s a princess of course
Princess Buttercup from the Princess Bride (yes, it’s a book too) would wear Origin.
Princess Jasmine and YSL, don’t know why
I imagine Sybil Vane from The picture of Dorian Gray wearing Coralista Benefit Blush.
Rosalie from Twilight – Dior
I imagine Elizabeth Bennett from Pride & Prejudice would wear Bobbi Brown–neutral eyes and a pop of bright pink blush on the cheeks!
Bella would wear NARS Sheer Glow
Hermione Granger, probably something classy like Chanel. Emma Watson is so pretty! I just hope she doesn’t get all jaded and sexualized as she gets older after HP ends.
Cinderella wearing NARS.
Sleeping Beauty would wear Make Up Forever : classy and deep, highly-pigmented colors that would last her throughout her hundred year long sleep.
OK this isn’t a fictional char. but the authors of Run Like a Mother, Dimitra McDowell and Sarah Shea would probably wear bobbi brown SPF lipstick.
Sookie Stackhouse would wear Cover Girl from the local drugstore.
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Cruella DeVille would no doubt wear makeup from TwoFaced!
Stephanie Plum would wear Benefit’s Bad Gal mascara.
hey karla! i would picture isabella swan from twilight wearing bobbi brown or clinique because she doesnt wear makeup and those brands would look natural.
I’ve always loved Snow White-I think she’d wear NARS!
Scarlett from Gone with the Wind could only afford Wet n Wild but she was sooo delusional & desperate for Rhett’s affection that she would do or sell anything to buy a gorgeous deep red lipstick by Dior!
Snow White’s evil stepmother queen would wear MAC!
Holly Go Lightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s in Dior
I am draming that Sleeping Beauty would be wearing Lancome products, sweet, feminine, romantic and very delicate.
I imagine Sybil Vane from The picture of Dorian Gray wearing Coralista Benefit Blush!!
Belle from beauty and the beast wearing Lancome!
Cat in the Hat would wear MAC fluidline, lol
i imagine snow white wearing nyx round lipstick in snow white
Madame Bovary would wear T.Leclerc
I imagine Vera from Saki’s The Open Window short story to be wearing Chanel makeup
Bella from Beauty and the beast would be wearing NARS.
The last book I read was ALADDIN with princess Jasmine to my 3 year old daughter. I think Jasmine would be wearing NARS makeup.
Kinsey Milhone would wear Josie Maran (very natural)
And I don’t want to live this life–The story of Nancy Spungen by Deborah Spungen. Nancy would wear Wet & Wild that she shoplifted from the local drugstore.
Juliet from Romeo&Juliet would wear Illamasqua -to me, this brand calls for romance
Portia from Merchant of Venice would rock Armani’s makeup line.
I always thought Belle from Beauty and the Beast would wear Lancome. The rose logo-that must be it!
Jo March (Little Women) after she became a famous,married author would remember her poor childhood & although she could afford MAC or YSL would instead wear Clinique ….thinking it was chic but not pretencious.