Teeny Manolo

You’re all just too nice. Or maybe you retain a fondness for our subject from all that unresolved sexual tension back when Diane shared a desk with that sexy biatch Sam Donaldson. But you didn’t really go for the jugular with last week’s Friday Caption Contest and for that we can only say: you are better people than we are. All our personalities agree.

Among the entries, only one can take the crown (pictoral evidence aside) and so it is time to choose:

Meg Says:
August 24th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

Thirty plus years trying to be a serious journalist and this is my reward? Screw it, I’m heading for the bahamas.

As predicted by qc, Meg indeed wins. And what does she win for so convincingly getting inside the mind of former beauty queen but also highly-experienced, award winning journalist Diane Sawyer? How about this sassy, sexy, leather-trimmed newsboy cap from Nordstrom:

Oh, the many delightful, horrifying things I thought of calling this post…the many amusing, appalling things which I shall not use so as to leave them for your deployment in your witty captions in the comments section. Here now, almost late enough to be a Saturday Caption Contest, is our picture for this week. Click to enlarge, if you DARE!

from Good Morning America and Universal Royalty

Ewan is on a bit of a tear, sending Justin Chambers off to the ICU, where sixteen percent of you will gladly sit by his bedside and feed him grapes.  Or, uh, something like that.  It’s a bit difficult to make the ICU sound sexy.

So, I was sitting here wondering, who should Ewan face this week?  I knew that there were many more good-looking celebrity dads that have not yet made it onto my radar, and suddenly I came up with our next challenger.  How could I have forgotten our challenger?  So handsome, and he played a lawyer on television!

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Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Looks like the terrifying twosome scared off most entrants, but two brave souls stepped up and from them one commenter has been chosen as the winner of the prestigious Last Week’s Caption Contest!

Jennie Says:
August 16th, 2008 at 10:45 am

OK son, lets try that again…One, Two, Three…

Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper
Tryin’ hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)
If you’re blue and you don’t know
where to go to why don’t you go
where fashion sits
Puttin’ on the Ritz

Congratulations and imaginary swag to Jennie! And what Darth-tastic, space-age swag it is, too: Cloche Vader!

With a record-breaking 238 entries, it will soon be time to announce the winner of the first Stila prize package.

But first…

If you didn’t win, don’t fret, I’ve got more! Two more prize packages, to be exact. There will be a Grand Prize filled to the brim with Stila products, retailing for over $175. Also, a runner-up will be awarded another prize package with over $100 in yummy Stila goodness, all provided by the lovely folks at Stila Cosmetics.

The runner-up package includes: Vintage Shadow Pot, Eye Shadow Duo, High Shine Lip Color, Lip Glaze Stick, and a Smoky Eye Palette.

The Grand Prize consists of: Eye Shadow Trio, a gorgeous Mazatlan Eye Shadow Trio, Smoky Eye Palette, SPF 15 Illuminating Tinted Moisturizer, High Shine Lip Color, Glitter Eye Liner and a Lip Glaze.

And how do you win such fabulous stuff?

By penning a winning haiku, of course! The subject of the haiku must be somehow related to beauty/makeup. It can be funny, serious, outrageous, whatever kind of haiku you do best. You will be using the classic 5/7/5 format, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five again in the last line. An example has kindly been written for you by raincoaster:

Stila will be mine
Ain’t no two ways about it.
No three-ways neither.

Assisting me with the judging will be my esteemed colleague raincoaster, as well as El Jefe, The Manolo himself.

So, here are the official rules, blabbity blah…

1. One entry per person.
2. Haiku not adhering to the subject matter outlined above will be disqualified.
3. Contest open to residents of the US and Canada.
4. Contest ends at midnight (Pacifc) August 29, 2008.

And now, the moment you have all been waiting for, the winner of the first prize package from the first giveaway!

Danielle of Elle in Wonderland, you have just made 237 people extremely jealous!

And the rest of you, come up with your best haiku and leave it below in the comments! Good luck and good haiku-ing!

Also, while you are here, why not add Teeny Manolo to your RSS feed? I promise you won’t regret it!

Here are our fearsome subjects for Friday’s Caption Contest. Don’t listen to their silvery tongues; they will try to tempt you with cookies!

Well, the weekend has come and gone, the placenta is buried, the comments have accumulated, and it’s time to announce the winner of the Friday Caption Contest.

gemdiva Says:
August 8th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

Taking only what they could carry, The McConaughey clan set out in search of a better life and a gas station with clean bathrooms and a baby changing table.

And what virtual swag shall we hypothetically present to our champion? Obviously nothing other than the MARC BY MARC JACOBS ‘Dr. Q - Lil Riz’ Pleated Hobo bag. If she’s rolling with this packmule posse, she’ll need both hands free.

As I mentioned before, Stila was ever so generous with me, and even though I am giving away a ton of makeup, I also got to keep some for myself!

You may or may not know that I love lipstick.  Actually, I have a confession to make. I am a complete lipstick whore.  At this moment, I have approximately twenty liptsicks.  And it isn’t enough.  I will never have enough, I tell you!

Ahem… Back to the review.

When I saw the High Shine Lip Color, I knew I had to try it.  The packaging (as always) is so pretty, with little vines and leaves etched onto the inner tube. 

The lipstick itself goes on fairly lightly, it isn’t greasy or heavy.  Stila describes it as buttery, and I would have to agree. And I have to point out that there is a large difference between “shiny” and “glittery” and this has a lot of shine with not a lot of glitter.  Which is fine with me, because my days of nightclubbing are a thing of the past.  It wears well, and it has now become my favorite everyday lip color.

If you think you might want one for yourself, go and enter the Super Fantastic Stila Giveaway, for the High Shine Lip Color is just one of the many goodies in the first prize package. 

You know what to do with this lovely image from lolebrity.net, so do it in the comments section (and yes, it is permissible to say “raincoaster, you are WAY too self-promoterly” but only once in each comment).

Aaaaand the winner is….

David Boreanaz!  Otherwise known as Buffy’s Angel, and currently starring on some show I don’t watch.  But maybe I should rethink that, because dude just won over Brad freaking Pitt!  Sorry Brad, somehow you have lost touch with your female fan base.  Either that or the female fan base just prefers guys in tubs over ones frolicking on the beach.  I don’t ask why, my friends, I just put up the polls.

Today’s contestant hails from a mighty clan of Scots, and seriously, he’s had me ever since Moulin Rouge.  There was something about the way he threw himself into that part that has forever endeared him to me. 

So, we will see if he had the same effect upon you, or if you are all about splish-splashing with David.

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