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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Exciting! I’m still deceiving if I want to avail £25% or wait and use my £15 later on Patrick Ta.
What this £5 about ? Was it part of same £15 gift card promotion ?

I contacted them too and they've offered me a £5 goodwill gesture. I've replied to point out that's not a goodwill gesture, that's just giving me what they owe me!

Has everyone received their £15 gift vouchers from promotion that was on?
I placed a few orders and haven't had any. Just checked emails.
Have messaged them. Just wondering if its just me 🤣

Finally using the Boots Recycle Scheme. I have 15 empties. Does that mean I need to do three drops across different days to receive £15 in total? If I deposited all 15 in one go would I only receive £5? I often need nappies but I’ll need to plan this. Period products, shaving gel, toothbrushes and toothpaste are things we need regularly too. The Boots pricing varies wildly from store to store though and their cheapest prices are online.

It's the £5 ones I haven't received not £15. 👍♥️

@Doglover73 That's so kind of you, thank you, will message you now 😊

@BakeOffRewatch , yes, you need to do 3 seperate drops on 3 seperate days.

i’ve just done my first couple of drops having been signed up for ages and never actually recycled anything. It was a lot simpler than they made it sound!

Whrn you go to the drop off point you just select them on the app and then put them in bin (both times the bin was rammed full when I did it)
then the voucher appears in the app, but don’t activate it until you are at the till .

https://uk.elemis.com/the-mystery-collection.html

Surprise your skin with six face and body formulas at 56% off off which includes our bestselling Pro-Collagen Overnight Matrix and Soothing Apricot Toner.

Elemis mystery box £125 + free gift with code CYBER (applies to all orders over £120)

Image is of the free gift.

I've just bought the mystery box from OK beauty. It's £26.25 in the BF sale 😊 It says one product is worth more than the box retails for (I bet it's an Avant product 🙈) Anyway, I'm excited! I just thought, why not, I've not treated myself for a while 🤭
https://www.okbeautybox.co.uk/products/secret-black-friday-beauty-edit-worth-over-201-pl

I've had the email for the early offer at £28 for the mystery box, but when I add it, it comes to £35. Code BLACKFRIDAY3 doesn't work 😒 how did you get it for £26.25?

Also, 😂 at you not treating yourself for a while 😄

25% off some perfumes and beauty at Carolina Herrera. Doesn’t include the BACs but does include some perfume sets and there’s a GWP and the usual samples at checkout

I've found the answer to my Q. The mystery box may be sold out already

"The Black Friday discounts are time-limited and only apply while products are in stock. Please check if the product you're viewing is available, as some items on the Early Black Friday 2025 page are out of stock and thus won't show the discount."

I’ve just purchased the mystery box through the email they sent me. The discount code was PRIORITY3

I clicked through the email and it was £28 for me.

https://www.okbeautybox.co.uk/products/secret-black-friday-beauty-edit-worth-over-200?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=bT7crPrIdaaL33UFDHTiOY8lD7hzF3ZBDUFWxCxsD1Y6QsgH0O77Ovn_opB628vz.VWpuVt

Posted on the BAC thread - not exactly beauty (but close enough) Missoma have started their sale. The jewellry AC are not included, they seem to have removed them. 30% off site wide and some items 40%. Runs through the weekend.

I dithered between the mystery box and the festive survival bundle and plumped for the bundle in the end as I know between myself and DD we will use it all - I’m going to use some of it to plump up her bac. I spotted they added two free extra products and free shipping on all orders today, which I’ll never say no to 😆

OK, I clicked right through to the pay now bit and then the discount applied. FOMO meltdown avoided 😁

ChatGPT told me the contents based on the full ingredients that Elemis helpfully listed: overnight matrix, soothing apricot toner, cleansing oil, green fig bath & shower milk, a body cream which is similar to frangipani but doesn't exactly match anything they list, and a body wash which doesn't match anything on their site but is similar to the cool down body wash and the bottle shape looks like their muscle soak one.

That was enough to sway me since I use several of those already :-)

I didn't receive the £15 one and it took me days of arguing before they sent me the code, really pissed me off. And now I realise I haven't had the £5 one either, which they said would arrive on the 19th! What have they said when you've messaged them?

I've had loads of issues with promotions on cult beauty, they always suck me in with a great offer then tell me the freebie must have not been in my basket when I checked out. Must remember to save screenshots!

I bought a MAC lustreglass lipstick in shade syrup from Boots BF offer and paid fully in points.

I saw it in the MAC calendar unboxing Miss Boux did and it's my perfect sort of shade which I already own in various forms.

It was a very unnecessary purchase but made acceptable by costing nothing.

They've been quite irritating recently given at one point they were my favourite retailer. The silver lining being that it will go towards helping my low buy 2026 willpower.

Has the LF declining discount with QUICK been mentioned yet? I used it for a Morphe palette and a Mac sparkly cream eyeshadow and stacked it with a £5 discount, came to just over £20 so I’m happy with that

Posted on the AC thread by accident so a repost

Medik8 Early Access BF has started

25% off plus free Hydra B5 and 4 piece gift set (both have min purchase levels)
I've been waiting for this one as I have £15 in reward points so I redeemed them went to checkout and I can't use them in the sale. I now have to use them up before they expire in Feb.

I hate it when they do this. So I'm taking my bat and ball home and not buying any of my basket (was stocking up rather than a need). 😒

My CB £5 appeared as account credit with a use by date of some time in December. Got £10 as evidently I inadvertently did two orders during that time. Never had an email, it was just there.

Have just spent it, along with the £15 gift card to get another fragrance stocking and some little bits for my intern at work who is lovely and very into beauty and fragrance.

The code QUICK works on the Look Fantastic Beauty Vault and takes it down to £105 🎉🩷