Peet's Coffee Give A Cup {Giveaway}

I am a human living in Portland, Oregon spending my days with a 20 month old baby boy. 

You'd better believe I am completely in love with all things coffee and caffeine. 

Peet's Coffee and I go way back to my nanny days. Then, I was a single human living in Portland, Oregon spending my days with a 3 year old AND a 9 month old. 

You'd better believe that I REALLY loved all things coffee and caffeine. Thankfully, Peet's was about 60 seconds away from my nanny fam's house. 16 oz. White Mocha every morning on my way to the land of Legos and Thomas the Train.  

Recently, Peet's unveiled their new Single Cups, (five years in the making), and launched a fun social sampling experiment in the process. {Give a Cup} is a celebration of coffee and the people who drink it. 

How it works: 

Check out {here} and vote on this week's topic. The topics are current and sometimes a bit quirky, like zombies and hot dog eating contests. What matters is if you Give a Cup or Don't Give a... Cup. Real cheeky Peet's, real cheeky. Your votes determine where Peet's host their next sampling event in {The Sip Truck}. 

I've given a cup about the San Francisco Giants, Deep Dish Pizza, and this week's topic: Boy Bands. Well, technically. Yes to Boy Bands of the 90s. NOOOOOOOOO to Boy Bands of right now. no no no. I'd rather have zombies attack and destroy all the coffee in the world. 

Duh. I gave a cup about zombies. Walking Dead!

What do you Give a Cup about?

Let your voice be heard, and maybe The Sip Truck will be rolling into your city next! 

P.S. Enter below for a chance to win $25 coffee buckaroos to Peet's! 

   

a Rafflecopter giveaway

xoxo

{Bon Bon}

Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post by the above mentioned. All opinions are my own. 

FairyDrops: A Mascara Review

{my current mascara collection, including one very chewed up Benefit's They're Real! ahem. Baby Bean}

Recently, I took my 2nd voyage up the East side for another visit to {Pretty & Cute}.

Ever since my Fiberwig mascara dried up long ago, I've been drooling for a new tube of Japanese ink.

Heck, ever since I've been a Sephora VIB, I'm always drooling over a new tube of something!* 

Enter in, {FairyDrops}, a best-selling product from Japan with a cult-like following. Inspired by the desire to enhance your eyes both on and off camera, a Japanese TV personality created FairyDrops , which features a luxurious formula highlighted with miniscule fibers, working together to create dramatic, doll-like effects. Available in four different formulas, including waterproof, not to mention, packaged in THE cutest tube of mascara with one of THE most unique applicator brushes. 

Man, that's a whole lotta THE to live up to.**  

Check out the photos below to see if it does. 

BEFORE

nothing. zip. nada

AFTER

one coat of FairyDrops

EVEN MORE AFTER

two coats + bottom lashes. just for fun.

BUTTERFLY WINGS

Pros: 

-Applicator brush with three spherical segments! You can literally get every single lash your eyeballs own, especially those pesky corner wisps. I LOVE this brush.

-Suuuuuuper lengthening formula.  Two coats in, and I'm wearing a set of major false lashes. 

-Long wearing/No flakes/Holds curl/This stuff ain't coming off. 

-Ok, it's easy to take off. BUT only when you want it to. (I normally use Vaseline to take my eye makeup off. You can use warm water to slowly wipe/slide FD off of your lashes!) 

Cons: 

-Not an easily "build-able" mascara. 

-You might not see too much difference in lash volume/thickness. 

-Price is a bit spendy. My mascara purchases have ranged between $1-$28, and I've seen success all across the board. Check out my favorite drugstore mascara {here}

Product Rating: 8.5 out of 10 

For me, FD delivered what was promised. Dramatic. Check. Doll-Like. Check. My eyelashes were fluttering all day. Check and Check.

Did I mention how cute the packaging is!?

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What's your current go-to mascara? Like, Love, or Holy Grail status? 

xoxo

{Bon Bon}

*Sephora once carried the Scandal Queen version, but it was overpriced and a slightly different formula for the US. You can order the real deal, original Japanese formula from Pretty&Cute's online store {here} 

**Especially in the Mascara department, since those makeup commercials have turned me into a cosmetics cynic with the claims they usually promise.

"Lashes look 6700% longer!" 

"You'll whisk away in a new convertible that you won for being so beautiful with your beautiful eyelashes, and your mascara won't smudge!" 

"THISWILLCHANGEYOURLIFENOW"

As the model is clearly wearing the most ridiculous pair of fake CGI photoshopped Kim Kardashian lashes ever. 

Anyyyyyway. 

Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored post. All products were purchased with my own money. All views and opinions are my own. yadayadayada. 

Whim Wham Weekend

Summer always embellishes that insane time-vortex phenomenon where the days feel looooooong yet the weeks zip by. The sugary good-full haze of blackberry basil lemonade, sweet tea, iced vanilla coffee, dirty shirley temples, and pisco punch sure help take the edge off of any impending vacation ending doom. You know, THE doom, when your cart rolls past the aisles of 50% off summer merchandise at Target and into the school supplies Abyss. 

I'm 25 years old, and a row of TI-84 graphing calculators still breaks me out in hives. 

Until the natural grey of the Pacific Northwest ushers us back inside, and until I need to find the sine, cosine, and/or tangent of life, we'll be outside sipping on Mexican Coca Cola, wearing flowers in our hair, and learning the art of the somersault. 

Summer School. 

A+++



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xoxo

{Bon Bon}

Independence Day

{Neskowin, OR 2013}

Our July 4th was spent in a picturesque Norman Rockwell-Americana-ish city by the sea, also known as, Neskowin. 

(You know a city is gonna be good when they have the word "WIN" in it) 

Bean scooped a million grains of sand into his shiny yellow bucket, his hair, his shoes, and his mouth. 

His timid toes wouldn't fully embrace the soft terrain until much later. The Toms tan-line lives on!

We ate clam chowder, cheeseburgers, ice cream sandwiches, and s'mores while anxiously waiting for the sun to dip below the waves. Goodbye light and hello sparkle. 

Whenever a firework's eight seconds of snap, crackle, pop was finished, Bean would yell, "MORE MORE MORE!" 

"How do you ask nicely?" 

"Peazzz!" 

...

Happy Birthday America! 

xoxo

{Bon Bon}

Splurge vs. Save: Eyelid Primer

Beauty confession of the day: I have greasy eyelids. 
Phew. I said it. It's out there. We can still be friends, right? 


A few months ago, I started noticing my eyeliner+eyeshadow doing a vanishing act about midday. Didn't matter if it was the good pigmented stuff either, by noon even my Nars had said "sayonara." 
As fate would have it during such a troublesome time, (hellooooooo first world problems), the bins at Nordstrom Rack were overflowing with discounted tubes of Urban Decay Primer Potion, in the now defunct "genie bottle" shape.* (general consensus: who cares what kind of bottle it comes in, could've been shaped like a turd, this.stuff.is.awesome!)

I snatched up a handful of these magical wish-granting tubes and never looked back. (For a week straight, I alternated between singing "Genie in a Bottle" and "Never Had a Friend Like Me." while getting ready in the morning).

That is, until another fateful day. This time, in the aisles of Target. Of course.
In the e.l.f. section. 
Recently, they released their version of a primer, which you can buy...all .17 fl oz of it, for ONE DOLLAR.


urban decay vs. e.l.f.
$20 vs. $1
1 Bottle vs. 20 Bottles




What do you think? No-Brainer?





xoxo

{Bon Bon}




Notes: These two products seem to match up well, and do pretty much the same job. The same. The consistency of e.l.f. is only slightly different, a little thicker/pigmented. 

*They were $7 each, instead of the normal $20. Which is why I had never really bothered with investing in it before. 
My supply is going to run out someday, and I'll have to ask myself if this is worth twenty more points on my Sephora V.I.B card? Right now Daniel has his fingers crossed, "please go with the dollar, please go with the dollar." 

InstaWham Weekend

Two  words: Bulgogi Burritos. 

That about sums up our weekend. 

Plus, the always-appreciated verbiage of all things Summer. 

Portland sure does this whole June-August thing well. 

P.S. What do you guys think of the video option on Instagram? Yay or nay? I'm still trying to decide. A picture speaks a thousand words, right? 

...

xoxo

{Bon Bon}

SpotLight: Pretty & Cute

I may be half-Korean, but until my brief stint in Hawaii where my "Unni" (Big Sister) Jaeyoung took me under her wings, my basic knowledge was pretty much: 

Bulgogi=Good, Kimchi=Bad. 

Top Ramen=Really Good. 

You get the picture.

My recent visit to NYC and one particularly unforgettable night in Korea-town, once again opened my eyes (and tastebuds), to all the good that arises from the East. 

Food/Fashion/Technology/Trends. 

Lots of good. 

Especially, the Beauty products!!!!

ooooooohmgosh. 

You thought Sephora was bad, until you see a rainbow of lipgloss tubes with BUNNY EARS! 

If you follow my Instagram feed, you know that I entered through Heaven's gates yesterday. 

Hello Kitty angels, floated down from the sky, plunking melodies on golden harps upon clouds of BB Cream...

Fortunately, beauty extraordinaire Ruth helped bring me back down to earth and pick out some fun new products to try, (after I yelled, "It's so FLUFFFFFY!" and drooled all over the floor at Pretty & Cute's newly located flagship store). 

I'm pretty sure this is where princesses buy their makeup.

Girl's day, anyone? 

{Bribing the Bean with Curious George and a donut from Starbucks only lasted so long)  

xoxo

{Bon Bon}

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Pretty & Cute offers row after row of pretty packaging, trends, and technology from Korea, Japan, and Taiwan's most prestigious brands, at an affordable price. 

Check out their online store {here}, or visit them in Portland {here}

not a sponsored post. all opinions are my own. 

Products Bought: Missha M Perfect BB Cream/Etude House Royal Jelly Mask Sheet