Fab.com

Here’s how it works:

• You get $5 for adding your Fab purchases to your Facebook Timeline.
• You get $5 for revealing your username to other Fab users when you buy. Your username will appear in the Fab Live Feed when you purchase.

So you can opt to do one or both. Limited time promotion. This offer and monthly free credits expire May 31, 2012. You must have social shopping enabled for at least 10 days in the month to get the credits. You can opt-out of social shopping at any time by clicking “edit social shopping preferences”.

What do you think? Will you use Social Shopping?

Need a Fab.com Invitation? Here’s a link for Fab.

Our Portland friends will want to check out the Portland Art Museum that day or one of these participating Oregon museums:

• Antique Powerland Museum, Salem
• Baker Heritage Museum, Baker City
• Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland
• Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene
• Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland
• Oregon History Museum, Portland
• Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, Portland
• Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, Hillsboro
• ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum, Ashland
• University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Eugene
• Washington County Museum, Portland
• World Forestry Center Discovery Museum, Portland
• Yaquina Pacific Railroad Historical Society, Toledo

Starbucks

Valid in East China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Netherlands, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, UK, Ireland, Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, but “ask your local barista for details”… nice disclaimer :)

So when I first opened the box of Cover Girl goodies, I was a little confused because there were three more boxes to open, all proclaiming to be the “Smoky Eyes” kit, and then I noticed in the corner of each box that there were slight differences — bold, glamorous, and natural (obviously my first choice). So the Smoky Eye line is: CoverGirl SmokyShadowBlast, LineExact Liquid Liner, and LashBlast Volume-Blasting Mascara.

Step 1: CoverGirl SmokyShadowBlast. I’m not much of an eyeshadow person… too much time and I rarely get it even. However, I’ve always been a big noticer of eyelids. Slightly odd perhaps, but when I wear eyeshadow, it’s fairly noticeable, you can see my entire eyelids even when my eyes are open, and I have big eyes — chock it up to gigantic eye sockets? Anyway, I really liked the roll-on eyeshadow (double-ended). Super quick and easy, I would actually purchase this product.

Step 2: LineExact Liquid Line. I seriously don’t “get” liquid liner! Not a fan. Is it my nature girl roots? I tried the liquid liner, and did a bit of smearing, but it felt like I had liquid liner on my eyes, kind of heavy. I’ll stick to my brown “crayon” pencil eyeliner.

Step 3: LashBlast Volume-Blasting Mascara. I’m a strictly a brown lash mascara girl since I have lighter hair, so it was nice to see brown mascara included!  I’m a Maybelline Great Lash (pink/green) user by default, but I really liked this one. I could probably be convinced to use any mascara, provided it didn’t make my eyes water, came in lighter shades, and wasn’t prohibitively expensive; so I’ll be adding this one to my “mascaras that work for me” mental list.

MyBlogSpark & Cover Girl have offered up a $20 gift card to Walmart to one of you — so let’s get this show on the road!

How to Enter the Giveaway: Leave a comment on this post, with the words “HIGH MAINTENANCE!”

Totally optional bonus points: Get 1 extra entry for each of the following (& don’t forget to leave an extra comment with your bonus points!)

1. BONUS POINT: Follow the Frugal Bon Vivant on Twitter.
2. BONUS POINT: ReTweet the giveaway on Twitter (make sure to include @FrugalBonVivant in your tweet so it’s counted!)
3. BONUS POINT: Like the Frugal Bon Vivant on Facebook:
4. BONUS POINT: Blog about this giveaway, linking to this post.
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PRIZE: $20 giftcard to Walmart provided by P&G.

GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Monday, July 26, 2010 at 11PM PST

ELIGIBILITY, DISCLAIMER ETC: One winner. Ships anywhere in the US. One entry per e-mail address. Winner will be randomly selected. This product review was based on using complimentary Cover Girl product provided by MyBlogSpark. Bloggers also received a Walmart gift card to share with their readers. Cover Girl does not represent or warrant the accuracy of any statements or product claims made here, nor does it endorse any opinions expressed within this blog.

Haagen-Dazs

<3 free ice cream! deal via

This seems like such a joke — love it. Must. Have!

The challenge involves baking a blueberry cobbler, leaving the empty baking dish out for 24 hours and then putting it in the dishwasher with Cascade Complete. However, I’m in the middle of a move, so by the time I got the info to review, baking in a half-packed kitchen was a little less than desirable. So instead I put it to the test of getting dried Kashi apple cinnamon instant oatmeal off my cereal bowl (If I don’t leave it in the sink to soak before putting in the dishwasher the cinnamon “bakes” to the bowl in the dishwasher and I end up hand washing after).

The results: The oatmeal bowl ended up spotless, so that was good news. Now the deal with Cascade Complete is that it’s an all in one dishwasher tab. I don’t currently use any of the “jet dry” rinse agent (the blue liquid) type products in my dishwasher, so while I was excited that it worked, I can’t vouch for it in comparison to a regular dishwasher detergent/rinse agent combo. But does their 24-hour claim hold true? Yes, I was surprised that it was better than my current one. If the price is reasonable, I would recommend it, but I’d have to do some price comparisons first. :)

Now the folks at MyBlogSpark & P&G have offered up a $25 gift card to Walmart to one of you — so let’s get this show on the road!

How to Enter the Giveaway: Leave a comment on this post, with the words “OATMEAL!”

Totally optional bonus points: Get 1 extra entry for each of the following (& don’t forget to leave an extra comment with your bonus points!)

1. BONUS POINT: Follow the Frugal Bon Vivant on Twitter.
2. BONUS POINT: ReTweet the giveaway on Twitter (make sure to include @FrugalBonVivant in your tweet so it’s counted!)
3. BONUS POINT: Like the Frugal Bon Vivant on Facebook:
4. BONUS POINT: Blog about this giveaway, linking to this post.
5. BONUS POINT: Subscribe via RSS

PRIZE: $25 giftcard to Walmart provided by P&G.

GIVEAWAY CLOSES: Monday, May 24, 2010 at 11PM PST

ELIGIBILITY, DISCLAIMER ETC: One winner. Ships anywhere in the US. One entry per e-mail address. Winner will be randomly selected. This product review was based on using complimentary Cascade product provided by P&G. Bloggers also received a Walmart gift card to share with their readers. P&G does not represent or warrant the accuracy of any statements or product claims made here, nor does it endorse any opinions expressed within this blog.

Ulta

No purchase necessary, but if you buy any two Fekkai products you get a free Brilliant Glossing Cream.

You should follow the Frugal Bon Vivant on twitter and I’ll send a reminder out next weekend.

Free Food:

• Free breakfast + coffee @ IKEA – April 2-4
• Free sample of Orville Redenbacher popcorn
• Free hashbrowns at Waffle House – heh

Almost Free Food & Restaurant Coupons + last week’s deals that haven’t expired:

• Jamba Juice: $1 off smoothies coupon – expires April 10, 2010
• Free cookie @ Atlanta Bread Company – become a Facebook fan – ends June 15

As usual, the frugal bon vivant is not responsible for the insane amount of spam or junk snail mail that you may get for prostituting your email/mailing address for these offers! ;) Know of any free food deals? Email me!