The Beauty Pie: Nominated for the Liebster Award!!

So I have been nominated for the Liebster Award by two very lovely ladies: Bekka and Jasmin! Thank you guys so much for nominating me, this is so much fun! The Liebster Award is a great way to reach out to other bloggers, while promoting smaller blogs!

So here goes:

The Liebster Award is an award given from blogger to blogger to help get recognition for blogs with less than 200 followers, and it is the perfect way to get more involved in the blogging community by passing the award on.

Basic Rules
1. Link back to the blogger who nominated you.

2. Tell us 11 facts about yourself.

3. Answer the questions that the blogger who nominated you asked

4. Nominate 11 other blogs that you love.

5. Create 11 questions for the bloggers you nominate.

11 Facts About Me:

1. I have two cats named Jasmine and Lexi.

2. My family is Cuban.

3. I was born and raised in Miami, went to school in Orlando, then NYC, now live in Philadelphia.

4. I got married on April 13, 2013.

5. I met my husband, who is from the UK, online in October 2007.

6. I am obsessed with Greek yogurt.

7. I have an MA in Art History.

8. I get really bad allergies, especially when the seasons change (and I'm allergic to cats of all things!!).

9. Spanish was my first language, but I can barely speak it now (but I understand perfectly).

10. I love to cook, and I basically taught myself (okay, and a little help from hours of watching the Food Network).

11. I LOVE daytime TV talk shows!

Bekka's Questions:

1. Your favourite quote? Probably the one I used for my high school senior year quote: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." It's from the BEST movie ever, Ferris Bueller's Day Off :)

2. Your top 3 favourite books? The Ruby Ring by Diane Haeger, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie and The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (kind of not a "book" but it counts!)

3. Why did you start blogging? I was inspired by my favorite bloggers, and I thought it sounded like lots of fun! And I was right haha.

4. What is your favourite thing about blogging? Meeting new people who love all the same things as I do :) Oh and having an excuse for buying lots of makeup!!!!

5. Do you have any pets? Yes sir two cats.

6. List 3 tips you have learnt from blogging. Always try to be entertaining, be honest, and develop good camera skills because you will need it!

7. Who inspires you? Tanya Burr is definitely my favorite blogger/YouTuber. She is just perfect and played a huge role in my inspiration to become a blogger.

8. Something you cannot live without. My husband, family, pets, makeup, clothes, and my computer.

9. Favourite beauty product I'd have to say foundation. It's so important to start out with a good base for any makeup look. And you have to figure out which one works best for you! I cannot stress how important that is. Oh and I am obsessed with cream eyeliner.

10. What is your favourite joke of all time? What do you call a pile of kittens? A MEOWNTAIN!! :P

11. If you had all the money in the world, what would you do with it? Definitely go on vacation for like a year!

Jasmin's Questions:

1. What is the one makeup product you couldn't live without? Probably cream eyeliner.

2. What did you want to be when you were growing up? First I wanted to be a teacher, then an astronaut, then a doctor.

3. Favourite brand of makeup? Drugstore: Milani or Rimmel, High End: Benefit.

4. Favourite brand of skincare? Genove for sure.

5. What are your hobbies? Blogging, yoga, nail art, cooking.

6. What country would you most like to visit? It was always Italy, but I finally went there! Now probably Germany.

7. Favourite film? Marie Antoinette, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, A Knight's Tale.

8. Why did you start a blog? Because it sounded like a lot of fun, and I was looking for a new hobby!

9. Favourite thing about yourself? My creativity.

10. Are there any blogs that inspire you? Tanya Burr, Zoella, Clothes Encounters, Inthefrow...

11. If you could live off one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Probably pizza (I know, I'd be dead within a year lol).

And here are my questions for my lovely nominees:

1. What was your favorite vacation?

2. What is your favorite season?

3. How would you describe your style?

4. What was your favorite cartoon growing up?

5. What do/did you study?

6. Which blogs inspire you?

7. Where do you love to shop?

8. Gold or silver?

9. What is your best childhood memory?

10. If you could live anywhere, where would it be?

11. What is your favorite beauty product?