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.

Thanks @Hicupping for the heads up about the Liberty sleep edit. I shouldn’t have bought it, but it’s lovely!

The CB edit on the EU site is now OOS, btw, (just as well 😹)

I sometimes message BD with deals, although I've not done that recently. I did used to think that Ova was BD, she says she's not, but I'm still not 100% convinced 🤔🤣

Although, recently, I've noticed that deals we've spoken about on here have taken hours to appear on BD's insta, like the Eve Lom ac this morning and the was it a Liberty edit the other day? The one with the 10ml mz skin moisturiser.

BD is fab, and very much keeps me in the beauty loop. I wouldn’t be very surprised if they were not aware of this thread, whether they post or not is another question.

It’s not me😹

I'm really not BD. 😂Keeping up with this thread is plenty. I appreciate her work though, I'd never keep on top of scanning all the various websites for offers.

My beautylish box still hasn't arrived with Evri. I thought it be out for delivery tomorrow but I'm not sure now. My anticipation is reaching fever pitch which will mean more disappointment if it's stuff I don't like.

🤣🤣 Yeah yeah, I believe you

People who ordered the Tatcha advent calendar from Harrods... 🌸💜 Did you get a scarf thing around the box? I've seen you tubers with a scarf thing but mine didn't come with one 🤔 I was going to make a dog bandana with it.

No, unless I thought it was some sort of ribbon and got rid...

I know some of us are meant to be on a low buy - but I've seen a couple of nice K-beauty deals today:

Look Fantastic have the Beauty of Joseon Rituals kit at £29.60. code Email10 takes another 10% off taking it to £26.64.

The toner is 150ml (RRP £15.50), 30ml eye cream (£15) and 60 eye patches (£17) - the eye patches get good reviews.

https://www.lookfantastic.com/p/beauty-of-joseon-ginseng-ritual-edition/17535648/

Boots have a Style Korean beauty bundle for £19.00 which isn't showing in the beauty box section:
Product details

1. TOCOBO Calamine Pore Control Cleansing Oil 20ml
2. ROUND LAB 1025 Dokdo Cleanser 40ml
3. Haruharu wonder Black Rice Hyaluronic Toner 30ml
4. COSRX Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence 30ml
5. Dr.Althea 345 Relief Cream 10ml
6. SKIN1004 Madagascar Centella Hyalu-Cica Water-Fit Sun Serum 15ml
7. MEDICUBE Zero Pore Pad 2.0 6ml (2 pads)
8. Mediheal Madecassoside Blemish Pad 20ml (10 pads)
9. Biodance Hydro Cera-nol Real Deep Mask 34g (1ea)

I shopped Boots via the Klarna app to get 7% cashback and by some fluke they gave me another £8.00 Klarna bonus, so it only cost me £11 (or £10.23 with cashback)

@JoRaRaRa - the Tatcha staff at Harrods were wrapping the gift sets in a furoshiki cloth at Xmas. Maybe they were sending out the a/cs to influencers wrapped up similarly.

Ah maybe it was that. I assumed they all were like that and I've spent days thinking about how I'll use it 🤣 then to find that I didn't even get one 🙈 what a load of pointless thinking!

Speaking of Tachta - I received my Fukubukuro order yesterday - OMG! I didn't think it was possible to fall in love with a brand - but I'm in love 😍- everything is so gorgeously packaged. I'm making myself use some of my stash first before starting on the Tatcha. I'm worried once I start using it anything else will just be "meh!"

I may give it a go next January @keepincool if I am ‘good’ this year and reduce the stash!

If they hadn’t whipped out the two free gifts from my basket, I would have gone ahead this year, but I resented paying the same amount of money for less stuff!

Ok! I’m taking that Boots offer. And the mask with free cream from a couple of days ago!

FREE DELIVERY!

That’s really interesting that Boots have bought a StyleKorean edit to sell on via their website. I notice one picture has the cute SK suitcase, but it doesn’t seem to be included in the Boots offer, (misleading and sloppy of Boots to leave that picture in, though).

I am tempted but my low/no-buy seems to be going out the window so I really shouldn’t…

I know what you mean about the suitcase, I saw it and hoped it was included, but doubt it is. I guess the little aeroplane won't be included either 😢

I did wonder about the SK and Boots link. It popped up when I was googling something else, I'd never have spotted it otherwise.

Malin + Goetz in administration. Never understood appeal of the brand but some must have liked it.

not mad keen but they were better than more Bamford in the Liberty Beauty Drop! So expensive!

@keepincool - I am assuming that SK originally included the suitcase in the edit as it’s the same as the pink suitcase from last summer, but Boots bought it without that packaging to reduce their costs.

I don’t expect most people would think it was included unless they had seen the SK suitcase offer last year.

Speaking of which - I need to start using that SK suitcase stuff. It’s just sitting on my chest of drawers looking cute atm 🙈

@Hicupping - I hope people who have placed orders recently don’t lose their money🤞

Always a shame for the staff too.

Speaking of Bamford - I am obsessed with their sleep mist atm!

I didn't rate their mist at all. OTO one I find very good.

I liked this brand. Back in the day when I used to subscribe to magazines for the free gifts I had a lovely mini set from them. And recently enjoyed the lip balm from a kit/edit enough to repurchase more from Tk Maxx.

I also bought the SpaceNk advent based on the M&G perfume which I'd wanted anyway.

I guess I'm a fan and am very sad for the staff. I will be taking advantage of any clearance bargains though!

Very tempted by the Boots GWP bag as I can fairly easily get to £100 spend across all the brands (Fenty, OPI, Bobbi Brown etc) that qualify for it...

https://beauty-detective.com/boots-premium-beauty-bag-gift-with-purchase-january-2026/