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

For liberty BD members there is an extra 10% off the fragrance boxes. They work out just £60.75.

Hmm I wonder why! I love these lip oils. Hopefully old stock and not a sign that they're stopping making them.

I think it was this thread that someone was looking for feedback on the Prequel products? I've been using the pre-glease as my first cleanse but sad to report it's not as good as my normal Clinique TTDO balm. I was hoping it would be as it's better value, but it's not even as good as the Pixi EOD oil and that's a bit cheaper.

That was me. I was thinking of buying the Gleanser and the Milk Peel. Is the Pre-Gleanse just not very good at cleansing?

The Dior foundation cushions are finally coming 😍🩷🌷 They're also releasing some primers and setting powder. But it's the foundation cushion cover that I'm eyeing up.

does anyone have any experience of dr.jart? Anyone any opinions/recommendations?

Thanks! Have been waiting impatiently for these along with the new green eye palette and clover lippy case

Me too! I was starting to think we weren't going to get them. The green clover palette went on sale a few weeks ago but now I can't seem to find it. I wonder if it was a mistake. I'm hoping to buy the pink clover one.

Yeah, I think it's meant to be a first cleanse but it barely shifts my eye makeup. It does seem gentle though and hasn't broken me out or anything.

It was a mistake and they shouldn’t have released it, I expect they will be released in August.

I thought it must've been. Do you know if they sent any out?

Thanks, just ordered one😄

They did as Amelia’s Beauty Chat picked one up and she mentioned her video got embargoed but she now has the swatches out for it

OMG these look gorgeous! 😍 I was eyeing up the foundation as well, I best go do some testing before they get released!

The Liberty bag is lovely, can’t believe I missed it. I was still tempted to order as I want another of the Ilia limitless lash mascara, but I couldn’t do it knowing I’d missed the bag 😅

I have, I love the gleanser (I've got one for my shower and one by the sink now), I've also got the pre-gleanse but I'm finishing off my current first cleanser first 😇 I've tried the half and half which seems nice but the jury is still out. The redness reform serum is also nice although I haven't used it enough to make a proper decision on whether it does much yet, I do know it doesn't pee my skin off which is really saying something at the moment! I also have the mist to try at some point, but trying to be sensible and introduce things gradually which is no fun at all 😁

My daughter (in her 30’s), loves all the face masks. She says they do exactly what they say they will.

Oh that’s good to hear. I’m almost out of shower gel so was planning on keeping the Gleanser in the shower as well.

I need the cherry one! Now!

I've opened my highlighter palette thing and I love it! I might have another one 😂

I love the bag, that was more of a draw than the lip gloss. I have loads of liberty bags but that one is a lovely pattern.

Hopefully mine is en route and will land when I'm away (mr rainbows is home) to be there to come home to.

Very envious of the bag: I’m another one who got there too late!

Back to share a discount find before I go to sleep:

I’ve been keeping an eye out for a particular perfume for dd1 and just spotted it massively discounted on the Lloyd’s pharmacy website. They’ve also got a few other good bits including some Elemis at 25% off.

There’s free postage all weekend and ( even better) the code welcome10 gives. £10 off any first order over £40.

so dds perfume (£70+ everywhere else atm) plus 3 BoJ masks (buy 2 get 1 free) came to a grand total of £31 - without the masks it would have been £36. Weird
, but good!

Does anyone know, at what point does vinted accuse you of being a commercial seller? I've listed quite a lot of stuff over the last few days to make space for AC stuff. Is it when you've listed so much or when you've made a set amount of money? I've got a bag of clothes under my bed that I'm planning to list too.

I would think volume rather than ££ but nobody knows the mystery algorithm. The bots have been quite draconian lately. I gof s final warning/ 5 day ban last month and have listed only a trickle since then of things that won't shift on ebay and been ok so far. Its ridiculous as there's clearly a market for it so they could let people pro sell beauty items if they wanted to apply pro seller requirements.

2nd hand clothes should be ok its new stuff they are after. I have seen sellers selling new clothes cryptically described to get around it.

Idk, but I imagine it’s related to selling lots of all new cosmetics rather than second hand clothes. I have vast quantities to list so am trying to intersperse the beauty stuff with old clothes. Also thinking I may get my OH to list some of my stuff to share it across two accounts.

I also think it’s also selling two or more of the exact same product and make sure you take new photos for every listing as reusing photos seems to upset the bots as well