Beauty chat - freebies/gifts with purchase/offers THREAD SIX

[OvaHere]

New thread as the old one is nearly full.

Everyone welcome whether you are looking for beauty bargains or just want to chat.

Previous thread

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5425536-beauty-chat-freebiesgifts-with-purchaseoffers-thread-five

Got the hair and grooming stockings - they seem like “useful” ones, although absolutely not needed. I wonder if tomorrow there will be even greater reductions🤔

It smells nice on my husband. He's had the one out of the stocking and I sold the one out of the HN FAC on vinted 😊

Looks good. I don’t like how they make it a lottery with some people getting a £260 air dryer

I can't decide between the CB make-up stocking and the Glow Recipe edit 😬 decisions decisions

Both 😈

ANNIIECB stacks on Cult Beauty to add further discount to the 30%. BDCB doesn’t stack, but does work on the Cult Beauty Advent Calendar

Just ordered using that code, thanks!😃

Thank you! ☺️ The code worked for me

You’re welcome, I was trying to figure out if k could use codes to get what I would like even cheaper at CB 🧐

Has anyone bought anything from Escentual before? They have some perfume I'm desperate for, but I'm worried about being scammed or receiving fakes.

Yes, I bought from them at the start of the month, and last year. No issues.

Thank you 😍 I may have to order a few things then 💁🏻‍♀️

Do we think Sephora will have another gwp bag tomorrow? They've had a different one every day this week. I've got a basket I'm debating but haven't fancied any of the gwp so far. All better than a kick in the teeth obvs 😂but trying to decide if to push it another day.

@JoRaRaRa I’ve had things from Escentual a few times, not had any issues.

They used to do a monthly mystery perfume sample box, where you got 8 unnamed perfume samples matching a theme, like vanilla, almond, etc, then there was a livestream at the end of the month to find out what the fragrances were. I miss that, got to try some really good stuff.

I am holding out for tomorrow as that is essentially Black Friday and maybe wishful thinking but hoping it’s the best one of the week.

Yeah wait til tomorrow if you go to bed soon it's not long and then when you wake up its BF.
It's coincidentally also beauty drop credit day for me (not sure if it is for all BD members or if they stagger it) which means I'll be on the liberty website to spend my £20 that I just paid £25 for.

Oh I like the sound of that. Monthly was probably too much, they should've done it quarterly so the novelty didn't wear off with people as fast.

@OvaHere i would expect that tomorrow would be the best gwp 🤔

@JoRaRaRa you would expect that to be the case but I keep having a nagging feeling that the GWPs might just have been an enticement pre BF and on the day there will be nothing.

I suppose if that happens I can just walk away. It's not like I need any of this stuff.

Yeah, we have had a few disappointments this advent season so it wouldn't surprise me 🙈🤣

In case it's of interest given the Ouai chat, I was just scrolling Ouai on Cult Beauty and came across an apparent waitlist for an upcoming edit...

I planned to get the detox shampoo myself but have been holding out for tomorrow (probably in a set with the scrub) but now I may hold out until this releases 😎

It’s 11% on Elevator. Better than a poke with a stick, but I wish it was a bit cheaper. I shall have to buy some, my neck has gone so crepey since my last lot ran out a while ago. So I think it’s become an essential for me!

CB did have the Holiday Trio on (and in my basket with 25% off), but it’s sold out 😪

So I'm wide awake at stupid o clock, have been playing with BF baskets and am annoyed.

Sephora do have a star gift today (on the app code BFBAG) but have put the min spend up to £200 so I should have bought one of the previous days as my basket was just over the £120/130 min spend for the other gwps. 😡I would now have to spend another £70 to get a gwp. I should have anticipated this.

The majority of my basket is Make up by Mario which is 15% off at Sephora, so not that great a discount. I went to MBM website where they have 25% off sitewide. Sounds fab but there's something weird going on with that. My basket there comes to $78 with 25% off but when you go to Shop Pay it converts it like for like - so $78 becomes £78. Then there's £10 shipping on top inclusive of charges.

With the exchange rate $78 should be about £58. So the 25% off on the MBM website inc shipping comes to £88 and on Sephora at 15% off is £85 with free shipping.

Pictured below is the Sephora gwp. I don't want to spend an extra £70 for it where as in the previous week the gwp would have been a bonus to what I wanted to buy anyway.

Not sure I'm going to buy any of it. I'd be better waiting for when they do gold members 25% off MBM as they did in the recent savings event.

TLDR - I called this wrong and should have bought yesterday or one of the previous days this week.

@OvaHere that does look like a great gwp though 😍 but yes, very annoying that the min spend has gone up 😕 I was thinking of buying some stuff too, but I might just buy the 1 thing I'm really after. If it's still in stock. I bought some stuff from Escentual last night, it had 50% off plus an extra 12% and I'm going to be too busy to watch the bargains today 🤦🏻‍♀️ I'm thinking that I best start focusing on other people now or their presents really will be me smelling great and having soft skin 🤣

I also think the Sephora gwp looks really good. But can understand @OvaHerenot wanting to spend more than you need to get it. For comparison, the Sephora in my country is offering this today.. with a £100 (equivalent) spend 🫠 pretty abysmal. I miss the uk offers 😭