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

[OvaHere]

This is the thread where we are all bright orange from Vitamin C overload. Luckily we have a truck load of Bronze Primer to cover it up. 😂

Last thread was probably another speed run record. Let's hope there's no March Madness. We're in need of a break.😳

As always anyone welcome to join and contribute. Although you shouldn't if you know what's good for you. 😉

Thank you for sharing the perfume offer @OvaHere ! I've just realised I misunderstood and didn't need to order five to get the offer but nevermind. There were only four I hadn't tried before but I added in Jo Malone Wood Sage & Sea Salt as I love that scent. It won't hurt to have a mini for my handbag and at only £1 that's a bargain. I also got some extra perfume minis to qualify for free postage.

I haven't bought anything today. Trying to be good as I did get some stuff in the Lancome buy one get one free earlier this week, plus the Vinted CB edit and the Debenhams edit.

I'm slightly tempted to get the SNK gwp just to sell on and offset a purchase but there really isn't anything I want to buy from there at the min unless I bought a back up serum or something. I think I'd rather hang on to the vouchers until I do want something or they do nice edit.

New edit from Next £30. Would be a nice gift.

https://beauty-detective.com/rhs-x-love-roses-beauty-edit-2026/

That’s lovely. Will not order.

25% off Laniege at John Lewis.

CB fragrances already dispatched and will probably arrive tomorrow. I was kind of hoping for Monday so DH wouldn't see them 🙈

What is the code? Is it EXTRA? If thats the one it must have stopped working or maybe its not for everyone as does not seem to work for me 🙈

Face the Future have an offer over the weekend , any purchase with code BIRTHDAY for a £5 off £30 future spend voucher.

I don't need another mystery box......

The JL code wasn’t working for me - despite it being advertised next to the product!

It’s RTC10 in case anyone wants to try it.

After not sending out my 40% off order, CB sent me an email are asking me how was my haul 😂😂😂

For me neither. It does say its for fashion and homeware, but was worth a try 🙈

Yup, I just got one too. Rude!

Can't remember if this was posted. Free Mother's Day gift set (£35) with 2 selected beauty purchases.

https://www.next.co.uk/shop/promotion-61ab37-0?p=1#0

I now feel slightly less annnoyed with myself for forgetting to try it!

I tried it against a key ring (sorta fashion…?) but no use 😀

Well I think it’s safe to say that it’s time for me to stop buying things and start working through what I’ve got (let’s ignore that I’m expecting a SNK haul and x2 Debenhams edits) - I’ve just spent over an hour pulling the house apart looking for a box of beauty bits (things I’ve taken out of my February calendars and the FtF mystery boxes) - only to finally realise that I had sorted through and re-boxed them in (one of) my back up box! 🙈😅

Also, I have an eBay/postage question…I listed an item with Evri £2.94 postage, it’s now sold but the postage is coming up as £5.46, the buyer said they haven’t changed it. (They paid £2.94)
I don’t understand what’s happened? I’ve sold loads and it’s never changed the postage cost

Omg. This is me
The hours, literally, ive spent looking for stuff is unbelievable. I put things away never to be seen again. I still cant find my hildum order! 🫣
No idea what I got free or if they even put anything in free. 🤪

For those that were asking about the Skincare Freaks Facebook groups, there are 4 different groups that I know of. They all have different rules about pricing, bundles etc and you will need to agree to the rules before you are accepted. On the largest two groups they apply fair pricing for all products, the price is calculated by applying the percentage discount from the edit/advent to the items you are selling and if the item is a gift then it’s 50% of retail price. All payments are via PayPal goods and services and the buyer pays the fees as the items are calculated on a no profit basis.
The groups can be fast moving for popular items and things that have been in Caroline Hirons kits.
You can sell swatched and sprayed perfumes on the groups as well, just need to show usage and list when it was opened.

This happened to me a few times with Yodel, I just assumed because I am in NI it’s more expensive to post. Is your buyer from the outside mainland UK?

🤣🤣 This is the kinda thing I'd do. I got an advert for help with overconsumption earlier, I think even my phone is telling me something. I bought 2 of the debenhams edits too. I'm starting to think that I really don't need to buy 2, 3, 4 of things just because it has a star product in. I'm finding that I'm buying serum wayyyy faster than I'm using it. The last few months, I've been buying up the ubeauty serum from the Harrods ac on vinted, then the FtF box for the decree serum, then the CB Gwp and now the debenhams edit, 12 serums, all this year and we're only in March 🤭 I really want to do low buy this month, but I've already spent £300 🙈 it just all goes so fast!

Ah yes, they said they are UK but just checked the postcode and it’s NI.
Surely it should not change for the seller to have to pay the additional cost?
Its giving me the option to change it to another service (ie Royal Mail), it’s still more than what the buyer has paid for postage but not as excessive

ANNIE20 from Holalolla's list just worked on CB 20% off
Had a basket full, dithered on something else and then the SNK sold out.

The Mother's day gift is a Margaret Dabbs handcream (45ml), Elemis cleansing balm (10 mg) Moschino Toy fragrance 5ml, and an OPI nail varnish

This is what’s happening with me, but I will get through the products, and at some point probably sell a few more bits that I’m not particularly drawn to.

I’ve got approx 20 mascaras that I need to work through, and I don’t wear it as much these days as it’s so hot in my office and they aren’t all good at saying put 🐼

I fell at the first hurdle again this month, I can’t even blame my birthday any more. I just need to rein it in a bit now unless something particularly exciting comes along