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

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New thread as the old one is almost full.

All welcome to chat about beauty purchases, upcoming beauty boxes/GWP and to share your bargain finds.

I’ve been using two Dr Levy products for a while - brightening serum (every morning) and stem cell mask (once every couple of weeks) - and I found they don’t absolutely nothing. Could be just my experience though?

I don't think I've ever tried it. I think the eye booster has retinol in it and I avoid that in eye products as it irritates.

Same. I'm assuming it's going to be leftovers from the sparkle edit.

Yes @pinkchampagne1 i think it might be only 3 products too. I think it'll be the decree treat tincture serum £130🤞the neom perfect night sleep candle £20 and then the Avant face and eye night cream (tube) £97, which all come to £247, the box is meant to be worth £248 🤔🤔 and I think they all match the shapes 👀

I've never tried the Dr Levy eye cream but it's meant to be really good. I've got quite a few in my stash otherwise I'd have jumped on the offer 😁

Ohh let’s hope so. Was the Avant cream also in the sparkle edit?
They seem to be only mentioning the NEOM product to tempt us into buying the mystery box, but surely that would be the cheapest item in there if it is worth £248. 🤔

Yep, all 3 of those were in the edit. I want it to hurry up and arrive now so I can either dance with glee or feel guilty for leading you all to an Avant disaster 🙈

Also, I wonder if neom is a more popular brand so that's why that is mentioned? 🤔 I could be completely wrong though 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think of Neom as a relaxing/sleep time brand so maybe that’s why it was named?

@JoRaRaRaI quite like Avant products so it wont be a disaster for me, especially at that price 😆

You don’t need to feel any guilt. Whatever the contents, it should be good value for under £30 if it is worth over £200. I am excited to receive it and find out what’s inside. Thank you for sharing.😊

Im resisting the mystery box.
Im not keen on dr levy products. Ive tried quite a few although they are popular. Always in edits. X

I know you all hate Avant, but if it is that vivifying cream that's the one I really like, so give it a try!

Top sleuthing.

Just got an email for a new JML edit for £20 www.justmylook.com/products/justmylook-aura-reset-edit?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%201&utm_id=01KFN4WFCV76DQ3FHSF9PBZM8G

Happy birthday @JoRaRaRa . Hope you are having a lovely day with all your birthday beauty goodies. I have cracked and bought the FTF mystery box mainly for the treat tincture potential which I am using at the moment and enjoying but I do like neom too so low risk if it is not that serum. However I really could do without another candle . My candle shelf looks like a shelf at TKMaxx at the moment I think I must have about 20 (neom is among them) and I keep forgetting to use them . I am hoping for the body lotion or scrub
My skin is looking pretty good at the moment but I can’t work out what is responsible. I have a sneaky feeling it might be the skinceutical vitamin c which I had a small sample of but I really can’t justify replacing. Does anyone else use this . Is it really that good?

I didn’t get far enough to look - I hate websites that flash a load of messages across the screen so you can’t see the product. I don’t care how many people have viewed it, I just want to be able to see the picture! 🙄 Boots are also buggers for doing this.

For those who have more patience than me, I hope you get a good bargain 😅

I was on boots buying the Biodance which was in my basket and browsing to see if I wanted anything else and this little popup letting me know I had something in my basket that I had to click on the X to clear. Turned on adblocker and filtered it. I do not rate boots site at all, so many annoyances.

Thank you 🥰🥳

I'm the same, my living room resembles the candle shelf in tkmaxx. They're all lined up on the fireplace, ready to be the next one to be burned 🤣 The Decree serum is really nice, I've bought it twice at full price. I noticed that it has a max 1 box per customer, which is making me think that it definitely could be the decree 🤔 but it also says no returns, so I'm not risking getting my husband to buy one too 🙈

Same! It's very annoying when you're trying to view the products 😕

Happy birthday @JoRaRaRa hope you have a lovely day.

Thank you 🥳🩷

Re: Aldi dupe of Augustinus Bader The Rich Cream

The texture is lovely and very similar to the original, which initially impressed me. I’ve been using the AB Rich Cream on my face at night and the Aldi dupe on my body, and the difference is really noticeable in the morning. My face still feels hydrated and comfortable, whereas my body feels dry and in need of more moisturiser. I usually only moisturise my body once a day, but with this I’ve had to apply again in the morning or I end up feeling itchy and tight.

It’s also quite awkward to use as a body moisturiser because the pump only dispenses a small amount. That’s probably fine for facial use, but not practical when you’re trying to cover larger areas.

Overall, although the texture is similar, I don’t think it performs anything like the original. I wouldn’t repurchase it, and I definitely wouldn’t want to risk using it on my face in case it dried my skin out.

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but Erborian have 30% off if you buy 3 products plus 3 free minis when you spend £49. Maybe it's common for them to have offers like this, but I have been completely converted to the cc cream so I did an order recently and have been trying out all my new products, love them all! They give you 3 free samples as well, so I feel like I've been able to sample pretty much their whole range 😆

This has 36% off bringing it down to £44.99. It's a lot of wellbeing stuff plus a bit of skincare so not everyone's thing but if it is then not a bad deal. The Neom bath foam is 200ml size.

www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/face-the-future-x-holland-barrett-edit-box-6100010219

Happy birthday @JoRaRaRa 🍾