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.

Dont know if its just me but annoys me when things are took out of box and put at the side. At first glance looks like 5 items. 😄
Ok if box is behind.

Im safe with the cult sets. 🥰
I have 2 selfridges edits i bought last summer that ive not opened yet. 🫣🤪

@keepincool you're on fire ! That bundle looks fab.
@Doglover73 i have sold over 200 items and haven’t had issues before so hopefully it’s a rare occurrence.
I’m sorry @AprilLady @IDontHateRainbows also had bad experiences. @BakeOffRewatch She’s only got 2 reviews. I had no chance to not proceed as she purchased outright. Ill
block her once refund processed.

Now I have to show restraint and not purchase @keepincool bargains. You’re really taking us all down with you !

@BlueLimes - I did order the FTF sets on 31 January - so it was outside of my failed low-buy Feb plan 😁

Actually, speaking of chancers, I left 2 boxes in the front garden for charity collection this morning and some git nicked them! It was the charity collection guy who spotted my FTF parcel hidden behind a screen I have. Thankfully that didn't get pinched.

I'm in a small close, so we don't really get passers by. I'm really out of sorts about it 🙁

Oh I got a mini of this body serum in an edit, it's really nice 😍 I'm tempted to go buy it, but I'll probably end up with something I don't want 🙈🤣

I'm sure I guessed those products in the glow mystery bundle 🤔 I need to go see. I'll do a little jump of joy if I was right 💃🤣

It should be the same item - same RRP as the description and it says "this mystery product" implying it's only one product? 🤞

I totally get that! When our renovations work started last year, someone put some stuff in the skip on the first night and it made me really uneasy. We live at the top of a quiet cul-de-sac, so the thought that people already knew on the first day that we were getting work done really unnerved me.

I read an article about doorstep thefts, and apparently they target cul-de-sacs as people tend to be more trusting and will even say to couriers to just leave it on the doorstep, behind the bin etc. Through streets are more likely to be opportunistic thefts. It was quite interesting. I'd recently had some dog food and the Liberty glam kit nicked off my neighbours doorstep, hence why I was reading it 🤣

I missed this! Your sleuthing skills are amazing JoJo 🤩

Happy to take one for the Team - as ever 😁

Thankfully I've not had too many issues with vinted. I did buy a load of stuff from the Harrods calendar go missing. The bag obviously split in the post so I ended up with an empty mail bag, but I was on holiday so I didn't report it in time 😩 I also had the incident with the PDM Oriana perfume, where the seller said they'd only sprayed a few sprays of it on their wedding day, yet when it arrived there was less than half of it left. No issues yet with buyers, thankfully.

I like the look of the cult beauty sets, but I don't think they'll sell out, so I'm going to wait until my no buy Feb has finished.

Which reminds me, has anyone received the vb palette yet? It went onto SNK yesterday so I'm a bit peeved that I could've received it today if I'd waited to order it 😮‍💨 Mine hasn't even been sent yet, when I tried to cancel though (to order with the code) the other night, apparently it had already been processed 🤨

I've got the allies of skin cleanser, apparently it's really good. I can't wait to use it but I keep focusing on the bigger bottles in my collection, as they don't fit in my drawer 😩

I'm going to apologise now if I seem a bit down and fed up today. I'm going to try out my flamingo eyeshadow today and hopefully that'll cheer me up 😊 I was going to say that it's probably because I didn't buy anything yesterday, but that's a lie, I bought some jeans in the river island sale 🙈🤣

Decree, PC azelaic and then decree again over 3 nights may have been a bit much and I ended up with these red bumps. So gone back to Q&A azelaic, red light mask and I've added a couple of drops of Byoma's hydrating oil at end which I recently got as the ingredients look excellent. It's done really well, no spots. So if you're in the hunt for an oil have a look at this. I've got Bader oil as well and I think I prefer the Byoma so far.

I’ve bought the cult beauty LPD edit - art of everyday. I will use everything an I need new eyelash curlers. I tried replacing my utterly
ancient she uemura eyelash curlers last year with shiseido ones and I just can’t get on with them. I pinch my eyes too often. The Kevin aucoin ones get good reviews so the rest is a bonus really! If not it’s back to searching eBay for more replacement pads for the decades old she uemera ones!
Talking of selling on products, I listed an unopened and sealed UK Lash serum on eBay which came in an edit. I received an email from eBay saying UK Lash had requested it was removed from sale. On further looking there are no UK lash serums on eBay for sale. Does anyone know why they do this please?

Can I also thank whoever recommended B o Joseon centella calming serum further back up the thread? I ordered that and one of the calming centella masks and oh my goodness in a couple of days my irritated, sore and red skin has calmed enormously. I’m so happy
to have found this! The mask is the best ever sheet mask I’ve used. I’ve even saved the left over liquid in it for the last two nights as a serum. I’ve just ordered another pack of three from cult beauty for a bargainous £4.80 with the blue light discount. They are astonishingly soothing and make the skin glowy too. I’ve just ordered the honey and rice mask too which gets fabulous reviews. I’ve been so sick of my skin so it’s a very happy find 😊

The centella masks are really good for soothing.

The honey mask is very good too but you might find it causes a bit of irritation initially. I always have glowy skin by the day after though. It's something I only use once a week or less as I don't think it's designed as a frequent use product.

You may have overloaded your skin on the actives. I have to do repair nights every 3 nights or I irritate my skin too much.

The byoma hydrating oil is brilliant and such a bargain price. I think it outperforms much more expensive ones!

How do you use it?

They've just bought out a ceramide mask (with actual ceramides) the ingredients look good.

CF update ( first time called someone that!).

She is going to use it - but the box was bashed so she was unable to gift it as intended. I’ve already refunded her.

New Boots edit.

https://beauty-detective.com/boots-x-cosmopolitan-beauty-box-2026/

That is @keepincool hopefully a one off but not nice.

Feel free to DM as I will be selling the LM as I picked up a new one recently.

😮 Definitely report her and try and get your refund back - FCF!

That's really annoying. I think you have the option to request they return the item for a refund. If you can do that in future it might prevent such a situation as they have to pay the return postage. Not 100% on that as Vinted 'rules' seem wildly changeable.

I wanted both LPD edits from Cult Beauty but the lack of code has haggled me down to the daytime one - I'm trying to find a quick makeup routine as I'm either all in or barefaced, so hoping this edit will help with a happy medium 🤞

I know I've already purchased quite a lot in Feb - but I've also made £235 on Vinted so far this month, so it isn't all bad (I'm just thinking this out loud in my safe space 🤗)