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. 😍

Will do!

Oh how strange! I wonder why 🤔

I've just bought the CB hair gwp from mholtretail.
https://www.vinted.co.uk/member/3159047293-mholtretail
If I didn't have credit, I wouldn't have done so technically I haven't paid for anything 💁🏻‍♀️

I can’t get it to work with the edit - am I missing something?

It just automatically added for me when I ordered. I’ve checked my order confirmation and it does have the gwp on it so I’m hopeful. However if I add the edit now it doesn’t add the gwp so I’m not sure if they have now removed it from the offer.

Thanks for the new thread @OvaHere - I can't believe I've just had one very busy day and come back to a new thread and we're 5 pages deep already! Was the Dermalogica serum you had the pro collagen one? If so it might have been from the CEW Beauty Edit - got that one too and on reflection it was probably the best bargain I got last year. Will definitely be keeping my eyes peeled for this years iteration.

the fairy has quite a few things up just now, I bought from them today and they've got random things that have been there for a week or so.

Oh yes. That was where it was from. One of the best edits of last year. I really liked that serum.

I absolutely nailed an important meeting today so I'm contemplating a celebratory visit to Space NK after work

Mine did that but then let me back in

Mr Rainbows already gets far more beauty/ grooming products off me than the average man so doesn't need anything.

Oh wow, these are absolutely stunning!!!! 🤩🤩🤩

SNK visit completed, I bought the Phlur Rose Whip (9ml) which I always try on in there and a Byoma Milky Toner.

I also had a lovely time spraying various testers and have now taken myself to dinner!

Heads up - SNK are soon changing their tills so they won’t be able to look up loyalty cards by email address, you will need the app or your card in your phone wallet for scanning

It was great especially when they discounted them, think it was just before xmas IIRC

@SheilaFentiman Well done on your productive work meeting.
Funnily enough, I also had a trip to SNK today and tried the Phlur rose whip. I was in the city centre for a work thing so took the opportunity whilst I was there.
I also tested a few other fragrances, and some make up that I have in my stash that I was 50/50 about the shades.

I also went to Selfridges to test a couple of Dior products that I got in my Harrods haul. I’ve realised that the pearly peach highlighter quad isn’t quite as perfect for me as I thought. Now I’m wishing I’d got the rose gold one 🙈

Does anyone know how it works with Harrods - Will I be able to return the highlighter quad and still keep the GWP? I want to get the quad in a different shade but it says they don’t do exchanges, just return and repurchase.

You're not supposed to but worth a try. I returned something in my liberty order which I'd got towards the GWP, it was one thing out of 4 that I changed my mind about, I wondered if they would come after me for the GWP but they didn't. Not sure how it would work if it was hte main or only thing.

Oooh, the fairy posted on the old thread! What were they saying (posts now deleted). I'm not sure if them reading this is hood, please don't put your prices up 😂

Please could I ask you all for some quick advice?

As well as Escentual having the guerlain meteorites on offer (which stacks with their 25% off), they also have the givenchy prism libre on offer, again stacking with the 25% off.

Which one do you prefer / think is better? Although I am 50, I am “blessed” with a very oily t zone and can’t work out which one would be better for me!

I have had both prefer givenchy

Thank you!

Because I am easily swayed and on the grounds that the Givenchy works out a bit cheaper and I am buying without having tested first, I will give that one a try.

@IDontHateRainbows Thank you. I purchased 6 items, all of similar value. I was 50/50 about a lipstick as well but I’d keep that if I could return the highlighter without issue.
I do like the highlighter, the shades are lovely but all very golden, I don’t feel there’s enough range on the quad, and would naturally be very limited to when I could use it

Yes, they posted earlier today. They said that pro sellers were not able to sell in some categories anymore and they were going to make a new account (that is not verbatim ). And something about a bag.

@Thelifeofawife the Harrods small print said that you couldn’t return the “main” item in the order and keep the GWP. I got the impression that as long as you continued to have committed well over half the spend, you’d be fine. But I also thought they don’t take returns on beauty products?

This is probably an entirely stupid question but new to me, do people use eye cream day and night? I’ve only ever used it at night and I’m using a Medik8 retinol eye cream at the moment, but I bought Skin Rocks eye cream (got a great deal on it, presumably from the Libery edit) and I’m wondering if I should make it a day eye cream?