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

[OvaHere]

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. 😍

Good luck with your op @Puravida23

Just coming back to this to say a big THANKS!!!

We are loving the candle warmer, so easy to use, and just feels very 'gentle' - no flame, never any smoke, easy to turn on and off, and nice diffusion of scents. Brilliant.

I love an advent, and I only have one unopened, so I'm allowed to consider another 😁did start thinking about the amount of stuff I have on the go at the same time, so did a total reorganise of my dressing table with new drawer dividers. Still haven't thrown anything away yet, but it's a start, and it makes me very happy to look at

Good luck with the op @Puravida23

That looks great @Insuffishcakes

Considering the CB edit. I really wanted it when first announced but I don’t have any credit and not convinced I want to spend £45 plus shipping. There’s a new box coming from Boots next week which looks quite interesting too.

Please can someone get me to step away from the Debenhams edits? I now have 3 fragrance and 2 female founders, and considering one more. I haven’t even tried the Decree serum yet but Chat tells me I’m going to love it and so I thought maybe I should stock up….but this could get silly!

Very impressed by Libertys CS. I needed to return most of my order which had come in an enormous box (ok, it was an enormous order) and I was concerned that no one would accept it. They arranged a home collection and processed it all really fast too. Am now considering signing up to BD, especially as I work just off carnaby st on a regular basis and could probably get to some events etc.

Still regretting not getting 2 of the Harrods GWPs, that was the best spend last month by miles!

oo what is the Boots box? I was undecided on the CB edit - its sat in my basket but not sure I need another face mask

This one!

Edited to add: that’s quite a lot of full size products compared to the sample (sorry “deluxe”) things we seem to get in most edits at the moment. Quite a few I would definitely use, although I did just buy the Milk stain when stocking up on Korres shower gel from TX Maxx this weekend (thanks to whoever it was who alerted me to that!)

Trinny has a sale on (early access via email): everything 10% off, or 20% off if you spend over £140.

Oh dammit! I bought what I needed on Saturday.

I finally went for the JL GWP offer. I’ve been eyeing up a Philips Lumea for several months and it finally dropped in price, not as much as the first time I saw it but the cheapest it’s been since, and JL price matched it. That said, Boots now have it £25 cheaper, but the JL deal is worth far more than that.

I’m just hoping that I like the Lumea, otherwise it’s a fairly expensive novelty to try twice 😅

I quite like the look of the CB edit but I am still showing as -126 points, and I’ve not gotten round to challenging them about it; I’m still traumatised by their terrible CS!

I did also buy a Regime Beauty box from TikTok shop as it had 25% off. My justification was that I had been eyeing up the Ole Hendrickson peptide lip treatment anyway

There are quite a few No7 products in £10 Tuesday today, (including some of the moisturisers), plus the new Dove hair gain products as a £10 bundle.

Weirdly they also have Margaret Dabbs foot stuff - didn’t even know they sold it.

Lumens liquid blush, bronzers and highlighters too. Thankfully I’m not tempted.

My 'not buying beauty products and saving money' mantra didn't last long 🙈🤣 Today I've shopped the Harrods sale, bought the 111skin cleansing oil, reduced from £65 to £25, Sisley SPF face cream reduced from £225 to £80, Westman Atelier complexion drops reduced from £62 to £43.50 and the Westman Atelier concealer reduced from £45 to £31.50. I've never tried any of these so I'm quite excited for my order 💃🏻 Definitely didn't need any of it though 🤣

Shopped my stash last night for a new toner and eye cream.

Byoma milky toner - huge bottle! - and a teeny Tatcha eye cream. I use Ordinary caffeine drops in the morning which I don’t think really does anything - certainly no de-puffing or tightening - so we’ll see if I can get a better result.

And then I opened an ampoule bottle for a couple of nights a week and that came from the SK Pharmacy box.

All quietly thrilling!

@TragicMuse
Interested in your thoughts on the tatcha eye cream. I have a mini. Debating trying or selling on.

@TragicMuse please report back on the SK ampoule (which one is it? I think I have 3 now and haven’t tried any!)

Really pleased with CB edit:

@TragicMuse @Doglover73 I have used the Tatcha brightening eye cream and I really like it. I have recently bought another one off eBay. Up to now it’s been my favourite. I am also liking the MZ Skin one that I’m currently using.

@SummerLimes I’m so tempted, not that I need any of it. But I don’t want to buy anything from them until they sort out my minus points status.
Hoping the Fairy comes up trumps 😅

fingers crossed! I’m just keeping the bag and the medik8. Rest I’ll put on vinted.
oh want to try the Elemis.

@SummerLimes Mine arrived today too. I’m delighted with it - really good value. I like the style of bag too.

It's £10 Tues!

The bag is really nice 😊

I ordered a haircare bundle on Vinted. To be fair, the seller did say to message before purchase and I didn't 😳, but she then messaged to say that the products were used (some more than others!)

That's not ok.

Tricky one, if you cancel it you’ll get automatic bad feedback. You might be as well to let it arrive then raise an issue with it not being as described