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

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We set a record with the last thread. Just 2 weeks from start to finish!!!!

So here's the new one and we're now in double digits.

As always everyone is welcome to join even if you've just been lurking, but like those kids on the back of the school bus your Mum warned you about, we are a bad influence.... 😈

I’m waiting for my Boots Stackers box to be delivered. I will take a pic when it arrives.

Yay can’t wait! I have £50 in points and am thinking about it. But I really just need a brush holder and Flying Tiger have lots of cute makeup organisation items in https://flyingtiger.com/en-gb/products/blue-makeup-brush-organiser-and-cleaner-3069540 they have a little washing machine for beauty blenders and a makeup brush washing machine too. Oh and now they have 30% off with SPRING30

The spacenk edit is available.
As predicted apart from its a SF jet lag serum and a navy cuticle balm.
£60
I half want it now unfortunately.

Just back to the selling 30 items online Q. I think this might relate to identical items, e.g. selling 30+ identical cult beauty edits, not selling more than 30 different items of clothing and shoes.

@BakeOffRewatch - that’s so cute - I like Flying Tiger!

My parcel is <20 stops away, according to RM tracking!

EBay sellers seem to have cottoned on that the Nocturne Verden balm from the Liberty calendar is nice. There are a lot for sale, but, unfortunately at much higher prices than in December/January.

I don’t need any more, but it shows that some sellers, (unlike me), are willing to hold their nerve and hold out for higher prices.

I now have a live RM update with a moving track on the map - that’s a feature I haven’t seen before - so exciting!

Popped into Boots and SpaceNK earlier and only bought sunscreen (Beauty of Joseon) so feeling pleased with myself. Had hoped to test Frederic Malle Portrait of a Lady in SpaceNK not realising they don’t stock it. Tried Byredo Alto Astral instead which is very nice but I’m not sure about the coconut. I already have 3-4 ‘summer’ perfumes anyway so probably not in need of another. Also swatched their Betty palette (I haven’t used mine yet) - so pretty! Wasn’t bowled over by the Summer Fridays lip duo so crossing that one off the list.

It’s arrived - I am so so pleased with it!

My order came in two boxes - the first had been opened with half the stuffing pulled out so I was really worried. Fortunately, whoever had torn into it had decided they didn’t want my three bottles of hand soap!

The second box was intact and the Stackers box was in another box inside - really well-packaged - see pics. The organiser is in perfect condition and all the contents came beautifully wrapped in tissue paper. The inner box was labelled: Elevated Star Gift which made me wonder if it was originally meant to be for Xmas in-store or something.

It’s an absolute bargain and I am very tempted to get another one, (which would be very very wrong!)

Ooh lovely: let me know how much you can get in once you have transferred some of the stash. I’m fed up with everything being in make up bags and wash bags

I’m about to stock it with stuff @SheilaFentiman - will report back!

@IlovePond it looks lovely and Im now considering it too!

@SheilaFentiman I’ve just moved from wash bags to these stackable Muji containers. Not as pretty as the Stackers but I really like that if I buy more stuff I can just buy another layer 😅

https://uk.muji.eu/products/pp-vanity-case-14-7470

https://uk.muji.eu/products/PP-Vanity-Case-1/2-P-21117-H-000000.html

I also bought a bunch of these for items I don’t use often/ want on rotation. They look (to me) just like the SpaceNK ones at a fraction of the price:

https://www.justmylook.com/products/justmylook-cosmetic-travel-bag-black

I've bought 2 more of the CB GWP goody bags on Vinted, whoops! I'm actually not even sorry 🤣

Well they are a bargain so I don’t blame you 😆

As promised - here’s a picture. I have been able to fit quite a lot in, but it’s strictly overflow stuff that’s waiting in the wings, as I am going to have to put my perfume back in front. That shelf is definitely tidier, though.

Thank you, Pond, that looks pretty good!

I’m also feeling simultaneously pleased with myself that I have chucked a few more things away and annoyed that I let it go off!

In my defence, most of it was well-used but then forgotten about and the rest seemed to be little bottles of body lotion picked up from hotels, (back when I used to go away regularly 😿)

I was also very brave and threw away a recent Perricone MD lipstick that was just awful and I was never going to wear it again!

I was also very brave and threw away a recent Perricone MD lipstick that was just awful and I was never going to wear it again!

Weirdly, I’m currently trying to use up a Perricone MD lippie! It smells nice but it’s very solid so hard to slick on!

I’m also on a no-buy of shower gel for the foreseeable future as I have acquired industrial quantities of ‘good stuff’ which is going unused, whilst continuing to buy ‘family’ stuff and using that instead 🙈

Totally agree @SheilaFentiman - mine was like a brick or a crayon that a toddler would use!

Oh good, not just me!

I might give it a try with a lip brush but I have a lot of other lipsticks so perhaps this is one for the bin!!

I have this situation too 😂 Huge bottles of Soap and Glory and Child’s Farm and then lots of posh deluxe sizes from the edits.

I've just ordered a Willpowders protein and got a free glass mixer, one of their collagens and got a shiny scoop thing and an Inkey list exosomes (absolutey brilliant) and got a free tripeptide lip. All on TikTok, they have some decent deals on there. I am new to shopping there so not sure if it's always like this.