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

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New thread. Everyone welcome to join to chat about beauty bargains or just beauty in general.

Thanks to everyone who regularly contributes and keeps us whizzing through these threads.

Now we're in June we might be seeing the first Advent reveal before the month is out! Exciting times. 😍

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You may be ok if low volume and it's just the odd thing. I think they are cracking down on high volume sellers but as they wont let you sell beauty on pro account there's no solution.

I’ve made over 80 sales on eBay this year. Not sure what counts as low volume!

I've had a warning from Vinted about commercial selling. Wouldn't mind becoming a pro seller, but obviously not allowed when selling beauty products.

Have opened an eBay account, but find it slower than Vinted.

Congrats on your pay rise @OvaHere

Congratulations 🥳 @OvaHere The Milkybars (or rather BACs) are on you 😁

I have gotten a bit of a pay increase but after a mess up with HMRC (not my error), I owe them money, so I’ve not actually seen the extra pay.

What is with Vinted forcing pro accounts on people but then limiting what they can sell?
At this rate, all of our partners will be setting up accounts on our behalf to shift what we don’t want to keep 😅

In other news, my MZ skin haul from TK Maxx has arrived today, I’ll crack it open later once I’m settled for the night

This is what I do. Also if theres 10/15% off stuff onsite without needing a code. Its frustrating.

There seems to be a vinted crack down - annoying whatever it is.

I have exciting news- used up another face cream- 12 to go which I’m not optimistic to do in 6 months (must not get 5 advents and several
beauty boxes in November this year - hmmm).

I’ve also used up a serum, and 2 night creams, exciting times!! Now onto some of my SK haul, will see how they are. First impressions are much more functional than my lovely Dr sebagh rose serum!! But hopefully they’ll make a massive difference to my skin!! I’m also using a Skin Rocks gel cleanser I got as part of an edit and really like it!

I’ve also used up a couple of creams recently, and have another cream and serum almost done. It’s very exciting when you get to pick out something new from the stash 😅

I spend a vast amount of time organising, reorganising, itemising and colour coding via category products in my planner. It’s one of my absolute fabulous things to do 😳

Serums are green - obviously.

Favourite not fabulous!!

I used up a small La Mer cream and Charlotte Tilbury water magic cream in the past month and moved onto the Medik8 protect cream which is too thick but nice enough once it settles, I was adding my MZ skin creams to my stash and decided to pull out a new cream to try tomorrow, so I’ve gone with Shiseido Future Solution LX. I was tempted to go straight for one of the new MZ creams but I need to start using them up in order.

Annoyingly, when I opened my TK Maxx package, all of the products had stickers on, in addition to the price sticker. Felt like less of a treat and more of a bargain basement purchase (which I suppose they were in a sense)

@Thelifeofawife -TKMAXX did that with my FS perfume bargain - huge sticker with price, my name and order number - on the gift packaging itself. It didn’t come cleanly off, either, so just as well it was for me and not a gift!

Such a weird thing to do, especially when it was in a sealed delivery bag with my details on there.

@Thelifeofawife I have that shiseido cream in my stash. That’s annoying re tkmaxx. I do love MZ skin but can’t buy anything otherwise maybe I’ll only be able to get one AC.

Argos do this with Lego which I do buy as gifts. It drives me wild but I always peel it off in the store and if it doesn’t come off cleanly I return it. Thankfully the staff are sympathetic and know how annoying it is!

@user593 - it’s so annoying!

BTW: You can often get stickers off cardboard by applying heat from a hairdryer to dissolve the glue, (but I don’t even own a hairdryer, so that’s not an option for me!)

I am planning to move onto the Shiseido Future Solution cream next too. It should be perfect for this time of year. Just working my way through an Aldi La Praire dupe which seems to be taking forever to use up.
Also nearly finished my MZ eye cream that came in the Harrods advent last year and trying to decide whether to move on to the REN or Murad eye cream next.

That’s a good tip, thank you!

I’m using Caudalie Glycolic Night Cream (nearly finished) and Laniege Water Bank Cream (just opened) but excited to have an excuse to crack open a jar of MZ Skin The Rich Moisturiser next.

I'm going to be moving onto this one next too. I'm currently using the Lancaster from the Harrods ac. I liked the mz skin eye cream but now it's too rich for me to use on a morning, so I'm going to start using it on a night instead, once I've finished the ab rich eye cream. I've moved onto a Sisley eye cream which I received as sample, that one is really nice, one of my favourite eye creams that I've tried, and luckily, there's a lot in the sample sachet 😀

I tried the beauty of joesen mask last night. Felt a tiny bit stingy but not enough to remove. Left 15 mins. My face was a bit red after, as is usual for my skin. I applied medik 8 night moisturiser when I took it off as my skin felt slightly dry but is lovely and soft this morning. 🤩

Ive had an email from face the future saying have you seen this. On you tube. Mini vids about products.

How are you finding the Lancaster moisturiser? I have that still to try as was planning to maybe use at the same time as the matching serum. I am using the EGF power serum that I think was in the previous year’s advent. It seems to be lasting ages despite being a small bottle.
I agree that the MZ eye cream is very thick and seems to get thicker as you reach the bottom of it!

@pinkchampagne1 I opened the Lancaster mini last night, I probably should use the serum at the same time. Will dig that out tonight. Only used it the once but first impression was that it soaked in quite quickly and my face didn't stay feeling surface level moisturised for very long.

I've avoided that Lancaster cream & serum all this time because they contain retinol and I've either been using a different retinol or avoiding it. Interested to hear how it is!