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

[OvaHere]

New thread for everyone. Welcome back and hello to newbies and lurkers.

Advent season has now officially kicked off despite the heatwaves. There's a dedicated thread for advent calendar discussion with spoilers here
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5549187-beauty-fragrance-advent-calendars-infochat-2026-spoilers?page=1

Me too, at least the games will be on at a reasonable hour

I realised after the match I hadn't put the hedgehog food out. Just as I was heading in I heard scuttling. Hiding in the porch barely able to see in the dark but a loud muncher. Listening to a hedgehog munch away is quite soothing.

She goes to the gym and she's seductive are my favourite 2, I use those 2 the most so I'm sure you'll get plenty of wear out of them 🥰

That's cute 🩷

I've got She's Seductive, Out of Office (from the xmas set) and Soft Launch which was the coral colour they launched a while back.

I did have that very dark one from last year's CB advent, impulsively bought from Vinted. I changed my mind on that one and sold it on unused.

My favourite one is Soft Launch.

They've just re-released out of office as a permanent shade so I picked that one up to get free p&p and the free mini duo with the mystery bag.

I have soft launch, I like it but it's very light on me. Was it she knows who she is from the CB AC? I bought it from vinted too and wore it a lot last year which is why I then went on to buy a load more 🙈🤣

I was pissed off by this initially, too much fucking rolling on the floor for my liking, but the ref was solid and ultimately we didn't attack enough - they came back from Gordon's goal and totally out-played us in terms of relentlessly applying pressure, the stats said it all with 75% Argentinian possesion. I'm utterly gutted and watching it slip away was so painful. BUT JUDE WILL PREVAIL. He's such an amazing team player in every way and he's got another 3 world cups in him hopefully. Overall as much as it hurts to say it we weren't great. Felt very sorry for Gordon today.

@LightandBreezy Argentina were phenomenal in the second half - no one can argue with that. They deserved the win (but it definitely still hurts).

The lightness is probably why I like that one. I'm very pale so doesn't take much to look over blushed and I find PT quite pigmented. I've also got into coral colours more recently after favouring more pinky tones. I'm finding if I bronze my face a little they suit me more than I thought.

@Addictedtobeauty you're so right. They did not bow to pressure or give up at any point. It was a brilliant response from them. Hate them for that 😂😂😂

My Patrick Ta mystery bag arrived today. Same ss @MrsBnow12 🤩

I just don’t like all that tripping up malarkey. Still they were better in second half admittedly.

maybe it is the loss of last nights match ….but not feeling massively excited about the reveal of the harrods beauty calendar or fragrance calendars on beauty detective …any thoughts ?

https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/the-summer-scents-kit-000879633.html

New Liberty kit.

I am quite impressed with the Harrods beauty calendar. The Bioeffect serum is my favourite but it is so expensive. Also keen to try the AB eye cream as I didn’t have last year’s Liberty calendar and happy that the lip colours are not bright red. All in all I think it is more exciting than last year’s

@SummerLimes i’m soo pleased Liberty have gone back to these kits rather than those boxes. This seems really good value especially as it’s double points this week for BD members.
I would have really liked them to release this earlier in the season when I’m struggling to find which scents are for summer. I might actually buy this and keep it for Easter next year when I usually move over to summer scents as I have quite a few large summer scents open at the moment.

I think this is a pass unfortunately. It's a great kit but too many dupes of scents I already have.

I'm a bit gutted about the scent kit. There are too many "either this or that" Liberty fragrances for my liking. I really want the Adelphi Sun, but I'm not willing to take the risk of getting one of the other fragrances, as i already have them. I suppose some will find their way to Vinted so might just wait and see.

Ooh I like the look of the Liberty edit, and I don’t usually bother with them. However, given that I thought the Harrods scent tote, I’ll ponder on this.

I listed a couple of my YSL fragrances from the Le Vestiaire set and Vinted has deleted them saying they are prohibited because they are classed as samples - I added the 7.5ml and 2ml as a bundle. Vinted is flooded with smaller samples, it’s ridiculous

i have mulled over the scent kit and realised that I know I have all but 3 of the scents and it is very possible if I look through my stash I have more so when I have 5mins (I think I have that time sometime in October) I will make up my own summer scents kit ready for next year. This feels a bit strange but I’m quite liking the more restrained approach. Not sure how long it will last!

Agree with all this. I like the Harrods too, it's the one to beat for me. I like luxury skincare that I can't normally afford to blind buy, and this one ticks that box. Also like that it's not a red lipstick, not sure why there's 2 lipsticks and a lip gloss though. But I think there's 33 products, so quite a few double doors, so if the lip products are in double doors, it's fine 😊

I had an armani one deleted for the same thing. I listed the 7ml but bundled in a 2ml sample of the same scent. Luckily one set sold before the AI bot got to it but wary of relisting now. Not sure if it was the carded sample that caused the issue because I've previously sold loads of 7ml type dabbers with no issue.

@OvaHere Thanks for this, I have appealed it but may try to relist without the 2ml if unsuccessful (though that now feels like a risk)

I am not actually that fussed about keeping the 2mls seeing as I have the bigger set, so could actually sell the whole set of those if need be.

Vinted drives me mad with stuff like this

The Liberty order I placed yesterday is arriving today 🙌 I wasn’t expecting it to arrive before we leave for holiday tomorrow so that is nice surprise!