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

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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

Hi are the slip scrunchies wear the cost please.

All my real slip scrunchies came in edits. Mostly I buy the mulberry silk scrunchies from Tesco - W7 brand. About a fiver for four. Personally, I don’t notice any difference between them and the originals. Do check they are silk when you buy them. Some are mulberry silk but some are labelled satin. It will say on the back. You want 100% mulberry silk.
I’m sure there are plenty of other dupes out there too.
edited for typos.

@Addictedtobeauty thank you

My CB order arrived, I must have ordered just before they removed.
Happy to try the cleansing balm, fan of molecules/medik8 and DD will take the Summer Fridays .

It’s a great edit and I hope there’s lots of stock for you all.

Which edit is this?

Cult beauty. Sally Hughes. Think its available from Mon. A few got them through a link on beauty detective that was then removed.

That’s a great edit @SummerLimes. I see from BD someone used a discount code on it. Was it BD10?
I’ll try all the usuals when it comes out!

BDCB.
ANNIIE20 didn’t work and that was as far as I got !
Hope it works got you 🤞

If you like your liquorice balls this site does them. I've ordered once from them before, no issues. www.liquoriceheaven.com/products/lakrids-by-bulow-laemon-salty-liquorice-white-chocolate-lemon?variant=53511526908278

I loved aniseed balls. 😍

Thanks @Hicupping these might be a good option for my mum, she's normally quite hard to buy for but she loves liquorice and these are a lot posher looking than Bertie Bassett.

I bought this for DD recently, and it was seriously good for her. Almost tempted to go back in for another with this code!

Just cracked and bought the Chanel Les Beiges Water Fresh Blush in Warm Pink. I haven’t tried the Light Peach I bought a few weeks ago when Boots had all those offers on but I tested them at the airport the other day and they’re all really lovely! They seem to be almost permanently out of stock at Boots though, but Warm Pink was still in stock with 20% off.

I am still debating whether or not to get the bazaar & housekeeping box for 20% off. There’s quite a few products I haven’t tried. Does anyone know if Zelens is any good?

https://www.hearstmagazines.co.uk/harpers-bazaar-beauty-box-15-bundle-cpc-sale?sv_campaign_id=78888&sv_tax1=affiliate&sv_tax2=&sv_tax3=Skimlinks&sv_tax4=mumsnet.com/app&sv_affiliate_id=78888&awc=2202_1784322365_618664edf379bd9a9e1f4b4b029de2b6

Never sure re Zelens. I don't have the same suspicion as I do re Avant but their retail prices always seem very high for what they are. Probably a good idea as I found DH slathering his arms with a tube of their sunscreen the other day! His comment: "these tubes are quite small [it was full-size] so it's a good job you've got plenty in the cupboard"

@BurningTheToast 😹

@fish1818181 My only experience of Zelens is the B12 night cream from the Liberty a/c and the tea shot from another a/c ages ago. I liked the cream so have bought more via eBay from other people’s calendars.

Sadly, I was put off by both the mud colour of the tea shot and the unpleasant consistency, so only used it a couple of times. I’ve just chucked it away as it was really old!

I think zelens has a soild reputation and sells well as a stand alone product, unlike avant imo. Caroline Hirons has the brand in her kits and they are popular. My skin isn't wowed by it. I think I may have bought the first set of this duo and sold bits on and it looks great value but imo only if you are going to use a lot of it and not try to sell too stuff on. atm selling is pretty slow. Ime anyway. For reference my skin doesnt like medik 8 c tetra advanced or the advanced peptides so I think its my skin not zelens thats the problem.
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I used the medicube overnight peeling mask last night. I have used it once before. Quite like it. Peeling bits off as I type. Like pva glue 🤣
Doesnt irritate my skin so a win atm.

Ive git the zelens b12 cream from liberty advent and will use at some point as reviews are good and for what its selling on at id rather try it. By the time I do ill probably love it then there'll be none left on vinted. 🤣

I love it @Doglover73

I’ve just looked at the price of Kilian Angel’s Share following my successful sampling of this perfume at the JL event.

Good grief - I won’t be buying any at that price!

I am going to wait to see if JL do a 20% off everything promo at some point as I do have a £40 gift card in my virtual wallet. I might just be able to spring for a 30ml then 🙀

On a related note: I did not realise that the founder was from the Hennessy alcohol dynasty. I wondered why they were giving out cocktails inspired by the perfumes at the JL event 🙈

Is Angel's Share in the Liberty beauty drop perfume discount today? I used my BD vouchers to buy it last year when it had 20% off.

As you're not buying the AC you could use your vouchers.

I have the Zelens B12 Overnight Repair Mask. It’s perfectly fine, but not amazing. I think my skin just isn’t receptive to it though. I made a good few £££ selling some Zelens creams I got from TK Maxx on eBay a few years ago. It does seem to be a popular brand.

Angel's share is 20% off if you're a Liberty Beauty drop member @IlovePond . Only for today though. Plus there's a free 7.5ml of Angels Share when you spend over £200 on Kilian

Stash-arranging on a Sunday 🙂

I’m going to buy a bottle of Angels Share when my Euromillions win finally happens.

In the meantime, I remember the Perfume Parlour dupe being pretty good so might get some more of that.