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Sorry folks!! I know I have been totally MIA recently...I am getting married and was out of town doing wedding madness!!

However, I am back and ready to blog! Today's fun tidbit:

Benefit's Summer Sale-Abration!



Benefit is having a HUGE sale right now! 50% off a giant selection of Benefit Cosmetics products and major discounts on countless others - totally worth a look. Plus, with every $35 order you get a FULL SIZE California Kissin AND if you enter PRETTY50 at checkout you get free shipping on orders over $50.
Now that IS a Sale-abration!

Happy Shopping!

Keep

Manic Monday

Have you guys heard of this site?

www.CouponCabin.com

Daily Candy featured it today in one of their emails and I am shocked to say I did not know about it!! ( I like to think of myself as being up on all the cool spots in coupon cyber space...)

It has tons of deals and coupons, not only for things like groceries, cleaning supplies and pet products but beauty items too!!! They have active discounts for drugstore.com, beauty.com, Bath and Body Works and SpaFinder among others. And these aren't all one kind of coupon either- some are online discount codes, some are printable coupons.

Click here for the full low-down as told by Daily Candy.

Keep Looking fabulous!
BGND

Summer Steals!!

It has been a while since I posted any bargain codes for all you online shoppers and I felt it was high time!

Here are currently the best deals to be had in cyber-space in my opinion....enjoy.....
And pardon the picture above- just thought it was worth the laugh!

Benefit Cosmetics
Free shipping on all orders over $50 - enter PRETTY50 at checkout.

Bliss World, LLC
15% off and free shipping on orders $50 or more - enter 039908 at checkout.

Bloomingdales.com
$5 shipping on all beauty and fragrance products - no code needed.

Bobbibrown.com
Free FULL SIZE (!!) Shimmer Wash eye shadow in Copper Penny and free shipping on orders $65 and over - enter EYES55 at checkout.

Clarins.com
Free Extra firming Travel Gift Set & Free standard shipping on orders $75 or more - enter CLARINS35 at checkout.

Drugstore.com
Get 30% off any three Allure Best of Beauty Winners - click here for more information.

ELF Cosmetics
50% off orders up to $15 - enter CAROLINA at checkout.
Free shipping on orders of $30 or more - enter ECTAPBY at checkout.
Free mini make-up collection with purchase of $15 or more - enter FREEMINI at checkout.
5 $1 items for free when you enter 5FOR5FREE at checkout on orders of $10 or more.

Kiehls.com
Receive a free deluxe sample of VitalSun SPF30 Lotion plus free ground shipping on orders of $30 or more - enter SUNAF at checkout.

Lancome.com
Free shipping on any purchase off $45 or more plus a Sensational Summer Lip Color Sample Selection - enter JUNELIPS at checkout.
Free shipping plus a deluxe sample collection on orders of $50 or more - enter JUNEBEAUTY at checkout.

Lush Cosmetics
Get 15% off your order - enter GIFTFORYOU09 at checkout.

Origins.com
Free FULL SIZE A Perfect World Highly Hydrating Body Lotion with White Tea when you order $25 or more - enter APW6 at checkout.

Sephora.com
Free Sephora reusable nylon tote with any online purchase - enter EARTHDAY at checkout.
Free travel size Sevin Nyne Tanning Mist when you purchase full size - enter TANMIST at checkout.
40% off Decleor products - click here for more info.

ULTA Beauty
20% off any one item - enter 97176 at checkout.
$3.50 off any $10 purchase - enter 27908 at checkout.

Happy Shopping!
BGND

Friday Fun!!!

So today's blog post comes from my good friend and loyal reader Beth....

As you know Clinique has been having their usual "Gift with Purchase" the past few months. But as we all also know, sometimes you just can't get to the store and do we all really use the same color lipstick?

Well Clinique has finally caught on to the fact that they should do "GWP" in a more up-to-date way - ONLINE of course! On Clinique's website you not only get a GWP - you can customize it!! And for Mother's Day (you folks didn't forget that it is this Sunday did you?), they are throwing in FREE shipping with any Mother's Day gift purchase or any purchase over $40.

Sounds like the perfect excuse to either shop for yourself (yay treat!) or make that last minute Mom's day buy....

Thanks for the 411 Beth! (A fab Mom herself!)

Have a great weekend and keep looking fabulous,
BGND

I'm sale-ing away....

So the economy sucks! Blah, blah, blah..we have heard it all before. Now is time to take advantage! Most places are doing whatever they can to up the ante and get people to shop. This week's blue ribbon sale winner?

Too Faced Cosmetics!!

They are having a MEGA sale....What is mega you ask?
Up to 75% some of their most fab products!! LOVE IT.

I checked out the selection and there really are some good things to be found..
Duo Shadow Vintage - $5
Diamond Gloss Vintage Sets - $18.50 (Includes three full size glosses)
Herbal Eye Concealer Vintage - $4

And this is just what caught my eye on a quick glance!

If you are looking for a beauty fix but don't want to feel bad about spending the dough...look no further than TFC!!

www.toofaced.com

Keep looking fabulous!
BGND

Hark how the deals, sweet online deals.....

So we all know the economy is a stinker right now...However, we all love giving a little something at the holidays....and sadly the two don't always go hand in hand. Well have no fear!

Today BGND is back for another round of "online discount codes"!!! Back in October I gave you, my fearless readers, a list of discount online codes so that you could buy yourself some Halloween treats. Well today I present you with an up to date list so that you can go out and save some money on all those gifts you are buying...or perhaps just save a little on something for yourself!

So here are the latest codes in no particular order....

Happy Online Shopping!

Sephora: Free Shipping on Orders over $50 - Enter SHIPPING50 at checkout.

ELF Cosmetics: 50% your entire order - Enter BATH50 at checkout.

Macy's: 10-15% off your entire order and free shipping - Enter GIFTED at checkout.

Benefit Cosmetics:

$10 off when you spend $50 or more, $25 dollars off when you spend $100 or more - Enter BEAUTY10 or BEAUTY25 at checkout.

Free standard shipping on $25 or more - Enter DECEMBER at checkout.

Free shipping on $50 or more - Enter PRETTY50 at checkout.

Clinique: Free Holiday Sample Trio of Clinique Favorites plus free shipping on $50 ore more - Enter TRIO at checkout.

Estee Lauder: Free shipping on orders over $25 - Enter CREG0202 at checkout.

Lancome: Free Shipping on any order plus free deluxe sample collection with $40 or more - Enter HOLIDAY8 at checkout.

Prescriptives: Free standard shipping on $35 or more - Enter FREESHIP2 at checkout.

ULTA: 20% off any one item( some exclusions) - Enter 97176 at checkout.

Keep in mind BGNDers - these are only the tip of the coupon code iceberg- there are many many deals to be had..I just picked a few of the best to share with you. So if you want a deal on something and you don't see it here- be a cyber sleuth and go find it! Chances are it is out there!

Keep looking fabulous!

BGND

Put your online shopping addiction to some good..

It is the holiday season folks and we are all going to be avoiding long lines at all costs in favor of some good old fashioned-in your pajamas- online shopping. Oh who are we kidding, we love online shopping all year long especially for our beauty products! Well thanks to REAL SIMPLE magazine I have some good news for all of us BGND gals. Whenever you shop online, instead of feeling guilty that you spent another $75 online at Sephora, you can feel great that your money is at least partially going to charity. How you ask?

Well in this month's REAL SIMPLE they mention the fabulous site - http://www.goodshop.com/. Goodshop.com will automatically donate a percentage of your total purchase to the charity of your choice. AMAZING.

You simply go to their website before your shopping binge and pick your favorite charity and then from the goodshop.com website you can link to many many sites- including Sephora, Drugstore.com, Target.com, Walmart.com and many many more!

So yay for guilt free online shopping at Sehpora and all your other favorites....

Keep looking fabulous!

BGND

Scary Steals!

Well, Halloween is here....the costumes, the candy, the deals! That's right...Halloween may really be for the kiddies but you can still trick or treat - for beauty items! Many many websites have deals at Halloween time....those lovely little secret discount codes that you enter to save you shipping costs, give you a free gift or even get some % off your purchase. So tonight, curl up with your laptop and in between answering the door for your neighborhood cuties, order yourself some treats online!!

But beware, all of these are ONLINE ONLY discounts and many of the codes expire before the end of the weekend and in some cases at the end of today so catch them before they disappear!! BOO!!

Sephora:

Givenchy - http://www.sephora.com/browse/section.jhtml?categoryId=C19802&cm_mmc=email+ret-_-news1+20081025+promo-_-modl+likebrd-_-giv&dicid=364742:14450575544:5258272

Smashbox -http://www.sephora.com/browse/section.jhtml?categoryId=C19806&cm_mmc=email+ret-_-news1+20081025+promo-_-modl+likebrd-_-smash&dicid=364742:14450575544:5258352

Marc Jacobs - http://www.sephora.com/browse/section.jhtml?categoryId=C19804&cm_mmc=email+ret-_-news1+20081025+promo-_-modl+likebrd-_-mj&dicid=364742:14450575544:5258354

Frederic Fekkai - http://www.sephora.com/browse/section.jhtml?categoryId=C19801&cm_mmc=email+ret-_-news1+20081025+promo-_-modl+likebrd-_-fekk&dicid=364742:14450575544:5258356

Bliss - http://www.sephora.com/browse/section.jhtml?categoryId=C19800&cm_mmc=email+ret-_-news1+20081025+promo-_-modl+likebrd-_-bliss&dicid=364742:14450575544:5258358

Jean Paul Gaultier - http://www.sephora.com/browse/section.jhtml?categoryId=C19803&cm_mmc=email+ret-_-news1+20081025+promo-_-modl+likebrd-_-jpg&dicid=364742:14450575544:5155818

Benefit Cosmetics:

FREE U.S. SHIPPING at http://newsletter.benefitcosmetics.com/W0RH00428479E17A7811A29B093E30!
Enter promo code SPOOKY08 at checkout.

FREE some of a kind Gorgeous Mini with a purchase of $35 or more, enter code LOVEMINI at checkout.

Bath & Body Works:

Add $10 of Bath & Body Works merchandise to your bag. Add your free True Blue® Spa or Aromatherapy item, up to a $15 value. At checkout, enter promo code FREESC.

Clinique.com:

FREE shipping and a FREE travel-size Moisture Surge Extended Thirst Relief with $35 or more, enter code MSURGE at checkout.

E.L.F. Cosmetics:

Buy one item, get the second for 50%, enter code GET50 at checkout.

Kiehl's:

Free ground shipping on all orders over $75, enter code KIEHL at checkout.

Prescriptives.com:

Free shipping on orders over $35, enter code FREESHIP2 at checkout.

ULTA Beauty:

$5 off $10 or more, enter code 96306 at checkout.

Keep looking fabulous,
BGND

Shopping Surprises

Just a quick little shopping tip for your Friday..
If you are looking for some hard to find beauty item and the usual sites are coming up empty (Drugstore.com, target.com, beauty.com, walmart.com etc...) - there are two sites that should not go unchecked.

1 - Ebay.com
I know a lot of people are scared off by eBay but it truly can be your best friend for so many things. Often times there are not only hard to find beauty products on eBay but also things that have been discontinued. I have bought discontinued colors of some of my favorite lipsticks and lip glosses, hard to find/keep in stock OPI nail polish and many other beauty finds. So if you are looking for something and you can't find it either online or in any of your usual stores- don't forget about eBay!

2 - Amazon.com
I know, I know...most people only think of amazon.com as a place for books and dvds only. But what amazon.com can be SO GREAT for is beauty products. This was the only place I was able to find the foot lotion that I love recently and it was the cheapest that I have ever found it. Add to that the benefit of free shipping and you have found your go-to place for all your products.

Anyway, hope these two spots will make your hunt for beauty goods easier- I know they have for me.

Have a great weekend and keep looking fabulous!
BGND