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

I don’t that what your referring to but feel like I don’t want to 😮

@HolidayHattie The Ordinary brought out a PHA lip exfoliator last year. Maybe trying that a couple of times a week paired with a good balm or cream might help.

www.boots.com/the-ordinary-pha-5percent-exfoliating-lip-serum-15ml-10372599

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@HolidayHattie I haven’t tried it myself but lots of people seem to rate the Ordinary lip exfoliator, the 5% PHA one.

Edited: cross post with @OvaHere, sorry !

Years ago The Body Shop used to do a lip scrub stick which IIRC had something like apricot kernel particles in it along with a soothing emollient. They don't do it any more.

Cult Beauty Sali Hughes edit is now available (again.. )

In Spare Prince Harry wrote that he used 8 hour cream when he had frost bite on his 🍆.

@user593 , @SummerLimes , @OvaHere , @CorneliaStreet

Thank you for the suggestions and I will investigate them. My lips are literally exfoliating themselves every day so it's more the balms or serum recommendations that I'm after, but exfoliators may be useful on the rare occasion when I want to wear lipstick.

I think it may be caused by the medication I'm on.

🤣🤣🤣

CBAFF is working, didn’t try the others

Things I did not expect to be doing before 0730 on a Monday - hearing about Prince Harry’s bits.

i need more coffee 😀

Thank you.

I couldn't get any codes to work so I've used my £10 discount voucher for this.

Do you have a link? I'm not seeing it.

Edit: ignore me, ive found it.
https://www.cultbeauty.co.uk/p/beauty-box/cult-beauty-the-sali-hughes-edit-worth-over-210/17947951/

CBAFF just worked for me.

Thank you, I've been sat refreshing the app with it showing as notify still - force closed and reopened and suddenly there it is! Glad to get to an edit while a code is still working for once 😅 £5 voucher on a £40 spend with vouchercodes too

Such a nice edit. I had a larger bottle of the Shiseido SPF in a CB sun edit a few years ago. It was the nicest SPF I've used. I ended up buying a bottle on Escentual.during one of their sales.

Thanks @MrsBnow12 looks like a great edit and thanks for the code

Such a great edit I bought 2- I know my DD would be eyeing up the SF, Medik8 and SR so it made sense to double up.

Trying to remind myself it's nearly advent season and not to get silly buying edits just because a code is working 🙈

Thanks for the ideas and for thinking about me @LightandBreezy - it is me with the Liberty BD dilemma 🙀

I finally decided - in the early hours of this morning post-football - that I preferred the Chloe Cedrus, (although I like the Kilian very much too).

In the end, I bought it from CB because I had £20 account credit, plus I got 20% off with a code and it cost just a few pounds more to get the matching body lotion with the 50ml perfume. (CB had a gift set available at a special price.) As I had PP TCB credit to use, it ‘only’ cost me £53 of ‘my’ money so I am very pleased, (even though I shouldn’t really have bought it).

I am going to put it away for my birthday which is at Xmas.

I will probably save my BD money until if/when the summer GWP makes an appearance and decide then.

I have just ordered that CB edit despite trying not to buy any beauty bits until I get this years advent calendar. It was too good a deal to miss and I am using my last cleansing balm at the moment so needed a new one in my stash.
Thank you for the code. 😊

Here’s the Cedrus ‘deal’. Code: ANNIIECB brings it down to £98.40

https://www.cultbeauty.co.uk/p/chloe-atelier-des-fleurs-cedrus-eau-de-parfum-and-body-lotion-duo-gift-set/17638972/

Thank you, I've just managed to buy it with the CBAFF code 😀 I was going to pass this one but I liked the medik8 liquid peptides advanced from the snk calendar so I'm willing to give this one a try. I'm also a fan of Shiseido and perricone so I'm looking forward to trying those 2 products. A great edit 😍

That's totally not what I just did 🙈🤣

Ooh thank you I’ve also bought with the code. I’ve been wanting to try the peptide and with the moisturiser ( I’ve only got one in reserve!) and sun cream I decided it was a bargain!!
edited for typos!