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Looks like your regular garden variety junkmailv via snailmail, comes in a black envelope.

Lancome’s Le VIP Club

“Your Elite Access to French Beauty at It’s Best”

Lancome VIP Beauty Bonus coupons:

• July30-August 9 Virtuose Divine Lasting Curves Mascara in Black
• September 10-20 L’Absolu Rouge Advanced Replenishing & Reshaping Lipcolor
• October 15-25 Photogenic Lumessence  Light-Mastering & Line Smoothing Makeup SPF 15 
• November 5-15 Magnifique Scent

I told you I had some exciting taste tests lined up for you guys. Attune’s probiotic wellness bars are low in calories AND delicious!  I am going crazy over Strawberry Bliss, fantabulous strawberry flavor fuzed with yogurt topping.

By now you’ve seen that probiotic yogurt commercial enough to know that you need to take care of your digestive track so it will work efficiently. 

Attune’s Probiotic Wellness Bars have 5 times the live cultures in yogurt, making it a power product in my opinion!  From the press release:

• Attune probiotics are proven to survive in the digestive tract, where they can provide optimal health benefits.
• Attune’s probiotics have been clinically tested to support a healthy digestive system and a strong immune system.
• Attune wellness bars also include prebiotics, which support healthy digestive function and work in harmony with probiotics.

Delicious Flavors and Pricing

•  The Attune Chocolate Probiotic Wellness Bar is available in 100-calorie Mint Chocolate, Chocolate Crisp and Blueberry Vanilla varieties, as well as a new 80-calorie Dark Chocolate flavor. Retails for $1.19 per 20-gram bar.
•  Attune Granola Probiotic Wellness Bar (170 calories) has a light, yogurt-flavored coating and comes in Wild Berry, Strawberry Bliss, Lemon Crème and, new for 2008, Mango Peach.  Retails for $1.59 per 40-gram bar.

100 Bars of Attune Giveaway

…are given away per day for a limited time.  Have a free coupon mailed to you for your very own Attune hoard.  Look for Attune bars @ Whole Foods.

Chain of events, Please place *I* in front of each statement…

• fall in love with the Daria Werbowy Lancome collection
• decide to purchase the two lip products in the Daria Werbowy Lancome collection
• procrastinate and all of a sudden get very busy
• finally post about the Daria Werbowy Lancome collection
• continue to lust over brown lippie for a few days
• decide to purchase lippie, get credit card ready, get it upstairs
• go to www.mypoints.com and go through the Lancome link
• search for the Daria Werbowy collection and find out the Color Fever Lipstick is sold out!
• go into shock and fear and post
• am encouraged to purchase through Sephora, publicly by Kia and Jeanne and behind the scenes I receive 4 emails within a few hours, lolz
• finally make my order, get 2 mypoints per dollar (boo) here’s what I get:

Sephora order:

Items Ordered	Item #	Price	Qty.	Amt.
	Lancome Brazilian Earth Colors - Color Fever Lipstick - Beige Caracaï	1078765	$26.00	1	$26.00
	Smart Sample - Benefit You Rebel - 0.11 oz	1060961	$0.00	1	$0.00
	Smart Sample - Decleor Hydra Floral Hydrating Comfort Cream - 0.16 oz	1067677	$0.00	1	$0.00
	Smart Sample - Tend Skin - 0.25 oz	1096072	$0.00	1	$0.00
	Smashbox Photo Op Under Eye Brightener - 0.24 oz	942086	$18.00	1	$18.00
	Too Faced Glamour to Go	974162	$18.50	1	$18.50
	Sephora Brand Men’s Sample Bag Bonus Gift	1115559	$0.00	1	$0.00

If you want the Men’s Sampler, put the promo code *SAMPLER* with any $25 purchase.  I can’t wait til it gets here.

 Stop the “FREE” Totes.  I have too much, I’m trying to downsize my consumption of our resources, no I’m not a saint, I do purchase things that I don’t need and could do without. 

One of the problems is “free” totes have opportunity costs.  I waste time thinking if I want this “free” tote, a day or two of having it on my floor by my back door, a week or two of it bouncing around in the trunk, possibility of me getting all wet while trying to unload the accumulated donation (I always seem to visit thrift stores whilst it’s pouring rain for some reason).

On top of that, the need for a tote is not that high on my priority list, I may need one every few years and I like to have something that is versatile and can go anywhere, neutrals work best.  Something that folds or crinkles into a suitcase or pocketbook.  I’m not going to state my opinion on this particular tote because in certain, very limited circumstances, I would sport it. 

In addition even the classic styled ones need to stop, what is the fascination with giving away totes?  How about those beautiful organizing boxes with the pretty paper or even plastic organizing boxes, a hat box, a pouch (a la Sephora), a shadow box…

Is this tote versatile and classic enough to make it into a long term fashion strategy, non!  Do I feel cheapened by the offer, yes! Is it something I would be proud to be seen with, no again.

All around it bothers me to death that this tote is thrown in, it seems like such a waste.  I am tempted to make the purchase and accept the tote for the free samples as an added value to my purchase but I feel that I’d only be encouraging these type of offers.

If you’re still interested, go to VictoriasSecret.com pick out your $50 in beauty products and enter GETGLAM code. 

The thirteen samples are:

Thierry Mugler Innocent Secret

Michael Kors Island Capri

Borba Firming Diamond Shimmer Lotion

Booty Parlor Add Magic

Supersmile Whitening Toothpaste

Clarins Radiance-Plus Self Tanning Body Lotion

Joey Correct-A-Line Face Serum

Strivectin-SD

Patricia Wexler M.D. Skin Serum

Very Sexy Makeup Mini Mascara

4.2 oz Secret Garden Collection Body Wash

Full Size Beauty Rush Lip Gloss in I Want Candy

and the TOTE!  If you totally disagree back it up by sporting one of these free totes on the street, beach, museum, etc…