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

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New thread as the old one is nearly full.

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

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I have a basket on SNK that's coming close to £200. Looked and some of the bits are not even discounted compared to SNK. So think i will leave Sephora GWP. Ive really wanted to try Necessaire products, but never done so yet!

That's annoying @OvaHere 😒

I've woken early, eagerly anticipating BF deals, and am underwhelmed. I had a Sephora email advertising 50% off deals, only to find that it was the USA offer, UK offer is only up to 30%.

I did get a free Jo Loves candle with a £40 spend, so that may be it for me today.

Escentual has some amazing deals, everywhere else a bit meh. Think a lot of places have peaked too soon.

This was the holiday trio I wanted in a little stocking. Think Cult Beauty only has the tubes holiday trio. https://www.spacenk.com/uk/christmas/hydrated-holiday-trio-stocking-MUK200056749.html

Ah gotcha! I wanted the three tubes set with Toasted Marshmallow balm, it was in my basket alongside the Kayali 4 x 10ml set, the price was good but I was pushing for extra discount, and both got sold out before hitting the 30% off, annoyingly! 🙄

I'm wanting to buy the Dior sequin lipgloss duo for my mum. The cheapest place is £36 at John Lewis, does anyone know of anywhere cheaper? I've already bought her some stuff and now she's sprung this on me 🙈🤣

I would probably get to £200, but Sephora don't stock what I'm after (Oribe gold lust and Omorovicza queen oil)

I looked last night and only 14 products were in the £30% category. The 30% headline is quite misleading. A lot of stuff is only 15% on Sephora.

Cult Beauty is better but there's a limited number of brands in their offer and nothing I really want.

Foreo have a sale on and code BFNOW2025 takes a further 35% off.

I just ordered the new hairbrush for DD as a gift and also as an experiment to see what it does. Also ordered the 4 Plus toothbrush for DH because I've been thinking about using their toothbrushes for a number of years but never took the plunge. I'm a manual toothbrush girl but this one tempts me. I'll let him test it because he only uses electrical, then see if I would switch myself.

What I really, really want is the FAQ102 radio frequency device and the FAQ402 microcurrent with LED device.
I have been using the Bear device for years and updated to the model 2 version already. I really absolutely love it for ease of use. I think FAQ402 would replace the Bear for me. I still use the face silicone cleansing brush gizmo and that is an ancient second model.
Decisions, decisions, decisions. I will definitely be thinking on it today. it's so much money... the reduction is so good...

Sephora also have it for £36 but have a 40% discount if it's your first order

Your Mum has excellent taste with the sequin lipstick Jojo!
Can anyone talk me out of buying Guerlain pareure gold primer? It is in my cult beauty basket .i am being seduced by the gold sparkles as I love the Mac yellow radiance prep and prime. I really don’t need another primer though….

Medik8 have very slightly changed their BF deal now - it's 25% off all products and a free peptide serum ( not the advanced one) and another 4 free minis if you go over a £150 spend. Earlier in the week it was a free hyuralonic serum (not the advanced one again) and the minis over £150. The peptide one would be more useful for me but of course I stocked up earlier in the week.

And Space NK are offering a free product on a £85+ spend, and in the app you get a free make up bag too. The products aren't wildly exciting imo though ( lip oils, and 😱 a black eyeliner, a sunscreen )

Morning all!

I am tempted by a couple of things:

CB - use my £5 voucher towards repurchasing the ludicrously overpriced shampoo- extremely unexciting - but it is nice

Also contemplating trying some of the PK density hair range

Allbeauty - buy a perfume that is heavily reduced

I'm also a little disappointed by offers today. I could have maybe got to £200 at Sephora if they stocked everything i want, but they don't, and Cult beauty has several items cheaper anyway.

I think I'd get to the £85 at SpaceNK with items priced the same as Cult Beauty (thanks @LightandBreezy for the info!), then I'll get 1 cheaper item from CB, as well as one SpaceNK don't stock... I've got a £5 credit for CB too.

Nothing else has tempted me beyond what was already on my list, so i guess that's good!

Any good value offers at Boots? I have £16.50 credit to spend 😬

Wow I'm disappointed by the BF offers today. So many sites have been offering 25-30% off all week and I've been holding off thinking there'd be some great GWP or extra deal today, but they're all still the same as earlier in the week. If they'd saved the 30% for today I'd have thought it was a great discount, but now it just feels so underwhelming!

Escentual is the 'wild card' win of the day - loads of disounts on there plus extra discount code. Probably single handedly from this thread we have bought them out of the parfums de marly sets.

Anyone else feeling a vague mixture of irritation and overwhelm with BF offers etc? The irritation is at seeing things I’ve bought being heavily discounted - space nk fragrance advent and cult beauty edit and stockings. Lesson learned to not buy eagerly at first release next year! Irritation too at changing offers and the sense of overwhelm. I put some items in my cult beauty basket with the code ANNIIECB (thanks to pp) last night and today the discount has lessened which is annoying considering today is BF!
Overwhelm is simply there is almost too much to contemplate and I also have that slightly queasy feeling that I really have spent enough! I really do not need anymore beauty or clothing items. I actually need some new hiking boots urgently but somehow that does not have the same instant hit feeling for shopping for as sparkly beauty bits! I need to start Xmas shopping for others but I’m dithering too. I did get a couple of bits in space nk as I had a voucher but I would say space nk haven’t exactly gone for it like Cult on the discounts. Also by terry had some good freebies and i needed some loose powder.
It is my day off today and I had contemplated meadowhall but I fear that will be horrendously busy!

I feel the same @LoveLabradors
My inbox is heaving with offers, and all the email subjects are so repetitive but misleading - as though we will instantly believe that today's offers are better than previous, or that their offers have just got better rather than stayed the same as the past 2 weeks or even diminished.

I would love a little shopping spree for shiny new things but it seems every retailer wants my money, anyone's money, and will bombard us to get it. It's so senseless.

I got my Garmin watch, John Lewis price matched Amazon so that was cheaper than the prices I’d been watching. Didn’t Black Friday start for tech?

I haven’t got any beauty stuff because I don’t really need anything right now, there’s nothing I want thought I’d like to try the Glow Recipe vault. I’ll look at purchasing that once I’ve run out of cleanser, toner, serum and moisturiser but I’m well stocked t the moment. I quite like spending at Cult Beauty in that way, as there’s always a discount for gold members whereas with space NK etc you are waiting to see if the next gwp is good. So I don’t feel like I miss out on Cb, or pressured as feel like I know there’ll be an offer soon.

I haven’t bought the Slip pillowcases yet! I can’t decide how many to buy, do I buy one ? Or two so both sides of bed match? And then should I get 4 so that I have spares!? I know the answer is two but I’ll probably order after lunch 😂

Other things I was watching were Boden clothes, but I’ll wait until after Christmas sales, they didn’t have a bigger discount today. They go out of stock with offers and then back in stock as people return things a lot. I don’t find the same with M&S though - all their stuff is gone after recent 20% offer.

Oliver Bonas deals are on a small edit, none of which matches my shopping list. They are quite good at identifying what not to go in sale - stuff I want is never reduced! Mostly homeware.

@LoveLabradors Just checked and the couple of things I had in my CB basket have gone up too.

I had a nagging feeling if I was going to buy I should have done it last night for Sephora and CB.

However none of it was stuff I need right now or limited edition stuff so I'm not going to get any of it. I don't want the Sephora gwp enough to spend another £70 to get up to £200.

Probably for the best really.

I did get some nice bits from Escentuals though inc the PDM men's set as a gift. So thanks to @IDontHateRainbows for salvaging my mood this morning.

@LoveLabradors agree today has been disappointing, and the wide range of different offers at different times over the last week or so has been very confusing.

Given up on beauty and bought a set of pans at a really good price from Amazon.

@OvaHere Escentual have some great offers but nothing I actually want which is a relief. They are often very good for offers and always put a nice couple of samples in orders. I think they are an actual old fashioned bricks and mortar pharmacy in Cardiff or somewhere.

@LoveLabradors I bought a couple of the Caudalie shower gels which were £4.40 each with the extra discount. I'm almost at the end of one I'm using. Also bought the Guerlain Meteorites as I've always wanted to try them but usually too expensive for a whim purchase, £24 was a bargain though.