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

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Time for a new thread, our first in a MN Community Group. We've chatted and purchased beauty bargains so much we've become a literal tribe! 😂

In other news PLouise was out of the gate with ridiculous speed announcing the first advent calendar waitlist in April.

In celebration I thought I'd try out a poll. It runs for 7 days, there was only 6 options so comment in the thread for those that come under 'Other'.

As always, welcome back long standing beauty bargain hunters and hi to anyone new who would like to join. Usual caveats about the threads being bad for you wallet still apply, but enjoy anyway. 🤗

Presumably a lot will go back though! I quite liked the white knit dress but I have two small boys so nothing white is staying white!

I did by chance by a really nice 90s looking Gap sweatshirt in Next yesterday though.

I bought the trench coat, both the denim jackets, the jeans in all 3 colourways, the Capri jeans, the blue hoodie, the cargo trousers in both colourways, the beige bomber jacket, the t-shirt in both colours, the beige Bermuda shorts, the denim shirt, white shirt, beige dress and the bright blue overhead jacket 😳

I picked this up and think @Doglover73 did as well.
I follow Andrew on Instagram so knew when it was launching, it’s a great box as the Azeliac and cleanser are two I use regularly.

I don't normally spend a few £1000 on clothes in one go though. I don't think much of it will fit / suit me anyway and I bought a lot of it in 2 sizes so I'll be taking half of it back. Things were selling out from my basket which was annoying 🤣

Oh don't get me started on weight loss, I dieted all last year but then have struggled since Christmas and put it all back on 😮‍💨

Before I joined MN, I was definitely more of a fashion and clothes buyer, so he's used to parcels arriving. Anyway, I'll let you know when the orders arrive as to what his reaction is 🙈🤣

My cult beauty sun edit is FINALLY being delivered today. CB are still blaming evri, evri are still blaming CB.

Also, where is that look fantastic new season edit? Why is it taking so long to release?! 😕

I still have no parcels on the way. Only thing that came this week was the 2 Morphe brushes. Very strange feeling. 😂

I'm trying to ignore SNK double points and anything else that pops up. I want to splurge next month in London if I feel like it without a guilty conscience.

There's a code 15OFF that can be used at SNK as well as double points.

My third FTF Easter Mystery bundle arrived today and I don’t think I have anything else due to arrive 🙌

I think the code excludes the UK

@JoRaRaRa @Thelifeofawife I’m on WLI and dropped 3-4 sizes, still a lot to go but it soo tempting to buy clothes even though I know I’m not finished. I think that’s one reason I’ve been trying to focus on cosmetics and skincare, fits any size!

@user593 thats amazing!! Well done you!

That's a shame.

I'm the same @user593 but I haven't been able to resist the clothes! There's so many on Vinted. It's so short sighted though, I've replaced my whole wardrobe but I'm only halfway down (lost 6 stone, 4 to go) so as soon as I buy them they don't fit me any more 🙈

Well done that's a great weight loss 😍

I'm on mounjaro but I can't seem to get any lower than 14st 🙁 I'm currently 14.8, I just seem to yoyo. They won't let me go up to 12.5 and I think the 10 has stopped working. My trench coat was too big last year and I wanted to replace it but wanted to lose a bit more first so I said I'd get a new one this year instead. I'll have to look through my weight logs but I think I weigh more now than this time last year 🙈 I sold all my bigger clothes to help fund advent calendars so I need to now tell myself to lose weight to fund this year's ACs 🤣

You are all amazing and inspiring! I’m at the very beginning of my weight loss journey. Amazingly I think my weight is only going from my toes and fingers at the moment because despite loosing 20kg I’ve not quite gone down a dress size soo all of my money is currently going on beauty!

It would seem that the Holt and fairy have a new gwp. The benefits one. I'm not sure what it has in it or if it's worth the dollar though.

That’s a great loss! I’m a little way behind you at 5st but I’ve got a lot longer to go. I can get into 18/20s now though which means a whole new range of shops have opened up to me 🙈

I’ve been on them since the end of November but not gone higher than 5mg. I wonder if you scale down and then go back up you might trick your body into thinking it’s a new dose?

Yes, this is what's been so exciting, it's way more fun shopping now! 😆

I've been on Mounjaro since September. A few months later I joined this thread and started buying fancy skincare. My skin looks so much worse now 😭 I keep comparing back to old photos. But it's hard to know if it's because I've made bad choices with skincare or just because my face is so much thinner now

I'm also on the jags (good Scottish word!) I've lost 3 stone but that's since Dec 24 so v slow. Currently 14 stone ish, would like to be 12 (i mean, I'd like to be less but 12 st would be amazing!). I'm on 5mg, have been trying to keep on that as its so expensive but going up to 7.5 as 5 no longer making any difference. I think i should have gone up months ago to be honest! I still look "fat" grr. But hopefully with better skin 😂

@namechange0998776554799000 My skin overall looks much better, but I’ve been having microneedling alongside all the fancy skincare. The only issue I’m having is my neck, I’ve just bought the Elemis neck cream to try. I do think it takes a while for the skin to catch up when you lose weight, so it might just be a matter of time.

My skin -and face- looked horrendous initially. I think it was a combination of weight loss and also not being used to it. I think it's better now that my body is used to eating less.

This seems to be the new one. M Holy