Purse Blog and Luxaholics Team with Adriana Castro
Mar 25, 2009 / Posted in Giveaways by Shannon Mahoney.You might remember, back in December we partnered with Luxaholics to bring you the 12 Days of Handbags Giveaway. Thanks to the great partnership as well as the many designers who donated gorgeous bags, the giveaway was nothing short of amazing. Well, it is time for another great collaboration. This time Purse Blog and Luxaholics are partnering with the fabulous exotic handbag designer, Adriana Castro.

While the actual dates for the giveaway are being ironed out (I will tell you that it will be sometime in May) we all thought our amazing readers would love to be part of the creative process. The giveaway will last for 5 Days and thus, you have the opportunity to select which colors you’d like used for the bags. How awesome is that? Not only do you have a chance to win, but also a chance to vote on your favorite colors for the bags. Enjoy and remember, your vote makes a difference.

Which color is your favorite for an exotic cosmetic case?
- Purple (66%, 1,063 Votes)
- Orange (19%, 300 Votes)
- Green (15%, 261 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,604

What color python should be used?
- Natural (40%, 647 Votes)
- Red (31%, 504 Votes)
- Purple (29%, 473 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,604

Which color should the Day 3 clutch be made out of?
- Red (53%, 852 Votes)
- Green (26%, 411 Votes)
- Yellow (21%, 354 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,600

The day 4 color choices are all gorgeous, but which was it truly worthy?
- Unbleached (47%, 686 Votes)
- Hot pink (35%, 519 Votes)
- Purple (18%, 315 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,465

It's day 5... the grand prize... which should be the grand color?
- Purple Multi (39%, 629 Votes)
- Azalea (39%, 627 Votes)
- Sun (22%, 382 Votes)
Total Voters: 1,622






omg i’m getting so excited just looking at the material!! can’t wiat!!
This is wonderful!
Awesome!!!
A+
Ooooh, exciting! I can’t wait to see what it is!
Will this be open worldwide? Hope so!
i think these giveaways a great hit! it gives many of us norms a chance to own something specials the rich take for granted…. a piece of luxury.
They are all beautiful.
This is exciting.
These are cool!
What beautiful colors. Hope I win one!!!!!!!
I can’t wait for this to start!
love the colors
The colors are so rich and pretty!
I can’t wait!!!
those colors- all of them… are gorgy! Almost impossible to choose favorites!
Very exciting. I would really love to have one of her bags!
Can’t wait to see which get picked!!
WOW, WOW, WOW, THESE ARE GREAT COLORS AND DESIGNS CAN’T WAIT
What beautiful colors! This is a great idea!
The colors are all SO amazing! This looks just so..so…
I don’t even have the words! *faint*
Great giveaways…WOW…WOW…
Love the colors!!!!
awesome!
Truly amazing colors, it was hard picking a favorite!
The beautiful bright colors makes you feel like spring.
I love the beautiful bright colors.
The colors are all so beautiful! I’m especially loving the hot pink.
What a great way to celebrate spring!
I’m confused – is the voting closed? It says “The giveaway will last for 5 Days and thus, you have the opportunity to select which colors you’d like used for the bags. How awesome is that? Not only do you have a chance to win, but also a chance to vote on your favorite colors for the bags. Enjoy and remember, your vote makes a difference. ” – Where do you vote?!?!?
What the heck? Disregard last comment because for some reason as soon as I posted it – the options to vote opened up (it just stated results before). That was weird…
No problem Rochelle. I’m glad there aren’t any glitches!
Looks like some yummy stuff coming our way!
The giveaway will be in May… so this is just for the color choices!!
I wish I could enter to win!!!!
I love the purses
They are just awesome,I have never won anything in my life,would be with just complete with these. Keep up the great work & wish me luck

Rainy
I love these and the chance to win one as I would never buy one.
i think these bags are so hottt!!!
Beautiful colors! I love them all.
This is amazing May is going to be a truly awesome month!
I’ll take one of each
YUM!! I just loved all the colors honestly!!!!!! This is so exciting!!
This is so great! I love these colors!
Wow, GORGEOUS! I can’t wait for this contest.
I voted purple all the way! (well, except the one where it wasn’t an option!)
Loving the purples and the naturals…so gorgeous can’t wait to see the final results of these amazing materials!!
Love the colours, amazing python, esp the purple multi.
Wow ! Love the colors can’t wait to see them.
That Azalea color is simply stunning. I don’t care what the bag looks like, just gimme that color!
Oh my goodness! Gorgeous gorgeous!
Very exciting -I’ve already voted, but my faves would definitely be an exotic in Purple and Hot Pink!
Day 4 didn’t work for me
There was no “vote” option on that day only
They are amazing and I’m enjoying my bags so much.
wow great wonderful.
love the colors
This is fantastic!
OMG exciting!!!!!!! These choices are GORGEOUS, I’m not sure you can really go wrong with any of them… woo woo, thank you TPF and Luxaholics!
And, a VERY special thank you Adriana Castro!!!!!!!
What BEAUTIFUL colors & materials! Wow!
Thanks, Luxaholics & TPF.
Just delicious. I love the self indulgence of skins. Thank you, Adriana, Luxaholics and TPF.
hello gorgeous!!!
I have great taste; my votes were the ones that were all ranked the highest!!
I loved voting for all the colors!!!
OMG, the swatches look gorgeous! I can’t wait!
Thanks for letting us be a part of the process!!
I hope I win, I am so excited!!!
Good luck everyone else.
Good luck to everyone. I wanted an Adriana Castro bag for soooooo long xD
beautiful colors!
I’m getting excited about the Adriana Castro bags tooooooo!! The patch of colors are exciting alone.
After every vote I saw that I liked what many of you liked too. AWESOME
Sorry everyone, poll #4 was accidentally closed for a while, it is now open again!
Those were so difficult to choose from because the colors are all really pretty.
The colors are so rich! The Unbleached color for Day 4 is breathtaking!
The colors are all amazing!
the colors are amazing
These colors and material are so unique and gorgeous.
Wow! These are beautiful!
Wow….Purple is my fav color~!!!
All colors r amazing!!
The colors are just stunningly beautiful. My favorite is Unbleached.
love extics & the color choices are just stunning!
plzplz let me win!!!!!!! the colours are so gorgeous!!!!!
These colors are just stunning!
Beautiful colors and textures – it was difficult to choose!
OH MY GOD!! Enough said XD
This is truly bag heaven. Sigh
Ohhh some of these are close!!!!!
Wow, I actually played a small part of the creative process of a soon -to-be bag!
TPF rocks!
wow, these colors are so vibrant and wonderful!
i love all the purples & the details of the material..
I really loved ALL of the colors so no matter is chosen, it will be HOT!!!!!
I loved all the colors, so hard to choose!
love the colors!
love the colors,can’twait!
such hard choices! But I am so excited!
Ohhhhh… Hope I win!
This is exciting because you get to have role in the creative process. Love’s it!
gorgeous colors!!! wow!!
Great color choices.
oohh i’m loving this!!
I love the purple multi!!
Wow, all the colours are stunning! The azalea makes my heart sing!!!
what a fabulous idea!
love the skins!!!
I’ll take one of each!
what an amazing event this would be!
Oh this was a hard survey! They were all beautiful but my heart belonged to mostly the purples. Gosh it’s pretty. I can’t wait to see the final product!
I voted! It was hard to choose though! So many lovely choices =d
awesome – very exciting !
I love the metallic and the unbleached python. The azalea is beautiful also!!
All of them are awesome!
I never won anything so i’m really hoping that i’ll win this time. I love Adriana’s beautiful designs!
the colours are amazing,but i have more chance of marrying george clooney,than wining,good luck to eveyone will be a great prize for whoever wins
Can Canadians participate in this giveaway too?!?! I hope so!! The colors look awesome.
I want to win even once!
is this giveaway still only for US residents or is it now open world-wide.. ?
because i was totally bummed i couldn’t join the last giveaway
All of them are fantastic, but the hot pink is awesome!!
The vibrant colors are amazing!!!
The candy colors look really yummy!
Wow! These are amazing.
Those colours are all so rich – hard to chose.
I so love Adriana Castro ahhhhhh
Well looking at this contest from the point of view of a person who only had 2 hanbags at any given time I can hardley wait….
Beautifully crafted bags, stunning colour palette’s
Can’t wait to see!
There really is NOTHING like an exotic bag….truly dreamy…
its one of the best opportunities, not only to win but also to get input on designers’ work and popularity.
they were all so fab it was hard to pick
Wowwwie! That are some amazing colors and materials, it promises lots of good for that give away!
Love the hot pink!!!!!
The colors are gorgeous ….Can’t wait.
Hot colors!
Great choices!
Wow, these are some great colors and some nice looking swatches! Can’t wait to see them!
So hard to choice. So much loveliness … I love it all!
LOVE THESE COLORS!!! Cant wait!
Fabulous colors!!!
awesome colors
OMG! The skins and colors are incredible. Thank you TPF!
I love anything pink.
The colors are so brilliant. I’m definitely looking forward to this contest!!
this is fantastic
Looking forward to this event in May, and I’m surprised how I nearly 100 % consistently agreed with other voters on the top choices until the bottom poll which was almost a tie.
I am drooling in my morning coffee already!!!!! How gorgeous!!!
Love the colours!
I am loving all of the pinks!
All the colors are beautiful! I loves me some python!
The choice of colours and leathers made it harder than I thought to decide but the purple is my grand fav.
OMG droooooooooooool!
ME ME ME Pick me!! Fabulous as always!!
the colors were so amazing that the voting was so hard! no wonder u guys pawned it off on us…
Beautiful colors! The python, the purple multi and the unbleached color are my favorites.
love all the purples!!! <3
These colors are so hot!! sizzle~~~~
love all the colors!
They are all so gorgeous, it was hard to decide!!
woooow! i love this!
So beautiful!!
i really need an exotic skin leather bag and I think purple was it color for those leathers.
I am in love!
Love these colors!
WOW!! Those patterns are incredible!! I cant wait to see the finished products in May!
Amazing colors !!!!
Beautiful!
After a long, dark and cold winter, leaves off the trees and snow turning black, it is energizing to see such beautiful spring colors. They make the heart sing and remind me of all the blooming plants and new life that spring brings with her!
WOW, loving this for summer!
LOVE the textures and patterns… great summer colors for a seasonal bag.
This was fun and exciting.
The unbleached and purple multi are very beautiful and different. I’m excited to see the finished product.
They’r Awesome!!!Making use of beautiful leather,From vibrant to classy colours.To express different mood and attend in different occation…what can say?!?they’r to just too good!!!
cant wait to be the lucky 1…*Drooling* =p
I would love any of these pieces! The colors are so gorgeous that they’d spruce up any outfit!
Awesome! I fall in love with teh colors!!
This is amazing!!!
I love these colors!
These colors are out of this world!!!! Can’t wait to see how it pans out
thanks for including us in the choosing
This giveaway is on my birthday month! Love the gorgeous color choices. Hope I get something great for my birthday!
Can’t wait to see the bags!!!
wow these are awesome- can’t wait!
love all these, would love to win
Such fanastic colors, I am looking forward to hearing more!
Hopefully Canadians will be eligible this time…..
Can we have something for the rest of the world please?
i.e. Europe
Africa
Asia
Australia / New Zealand etc
As there are lots of us who frequent the Purse Forum that don’t live in the US
(the last giveaway was for US citizens only)
wonderfull colors, can’t wait to see what they look like
LOVE ALL THE COLORS BUT THE PURPLE IS TDF!
I love seeing true deep saturated colors back into handbags. They become more of an accesory rather than just a place to haul all our treasures. The purple in any of the samples , is a refreshing and exciting choice…the color of royalty~yet so blendable and almost neutral when part of the big picture of an outfit.
And in the snakeskin, in my opinion..the closer to natural the better. The snakeskin can be worn with anything and bring a touch of elegance to anything from jeans to cocktail dresses.
Fashion is exciting now and accesories have never played such an important role in the look and feel of an outfit.
Thanks for the chance to vote and enter…this was so much fun!
Love them all!! So hard to vote…
Wow!
Any would really make my day…well, make that my month!
Can’t wait !!! beautiful colors!!
May 9th is my birthday and that would make a lovely gift. Anyways I really like the color options and the python material is cool.
oh, wow! that was like choosing among gorgeous diamonds – the colors, the textures…pure sex!
JUST FABULOUS!!!!!
These colors are so pretty! Love them!
Basically I love all the colors but my favorite one is those colors that are not too much in lighter, the reason is because of the texture of the leather. It’ll be so perfect at the end touched with not that light of color, make it become more exotic!
I love the colors and textures! I have always like the luxe look of python, and purple is so regal and popular this year. I love hot pink, silver, yellow and green as well. The multi purple python is a beautiful mix of colors as well. Can’t wait so see these bags!!!!!
amazing!
OMG THESE are awesome colors!
Purple is my fave – but I love them all!
The colors are amazing. Thanks so much. Day1-GREEN; Day 2-NAVY BLUE; Day 3- Red; Day 4-PURPLE; Day 5-PINK. Those are my picks.
All colors are gorgeous! But natural colors are my favorite in general. Somebody will be lucky!!
Love them all!
I NEED those purples!!
Such a nice colors! Right for my spring!
can;t wait to get one. the colors are great. love it!
What classy and unique styles! I would love to win one or two or three. lol
Exotic skins are rock!!!!