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

[OvaHere]

New thread. Welcome oldies and newbies.

I'm expecting this thread to be busy as we head towards both advents and autumn releases.

There's a dedicated advent thread for advent calendars here to keep up to date with reveals, waitlists etc.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5549187-beauty-fragrance-advent-calendars-infochat-2026-spoilers?page=32&reply=153745800

Thanks @OvaHere and welcome @Clearingaspace

New CB perfume samples sounds exciting

I got a perfume sample in a boots order the other day (XO Blue) not had a freebie from boots before

@Fillybuster medik8 is often one of the cult beauty featured brands for gold level members which you need 1000 status points for. I’m a gold member and I definitely haven’t spent £1000 in the past calendar month, so double points must count towards it. That means you get 25% off. Gold members are often given a 25% off everything code as well.

@IDontHateRainbows cbxbeautycalendar

No chance of me hitting those elevated levels 🤣

@Fillybuster i use a lot of medik8 and find buying it from them direct the best when they have 20% off because you also gather points there and their reward programme is great like I have £90 of points sitting at the minute. On BF they used to do 30% discount but as past 2 years it’s been 25% and free products ie if you spend 100 or better product at 130 etc. xx

Make sure you keep an eye on the points as they do expire. I had to spend mine earlier in the year so not to lose them.

Thank you everyone! Having a meno moment….what’s BF@Twinsandsome?!

Black Friday 😁

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Thank you! For some reason I was wondering what website this was….🤣

Thanks so much for the welcome! What a friendly thread!

Space nk app. Posted on old thread then thought it was quiet 🤣

I use medik8 and have actually worked upto retinol 24. I ordered direct from medik8 friday they have 20% off, you also get rewards everytime you shop.
Lookfantastic also sell medik8 and have frequent offers

10ml is a bit stingy for a body wash. Travel size would be 20-30ml.

Here are 3 more codes I’ve used:
BDCB, which seems to work on more products than ANNIIECB
SOCIAL15
FIRST15

Morning all (been here ages, new username as felt like a change)

I have a tube of the Gatineau self tan stuff and want to give it a go but I've never used fake tan before and am a bit baffled. You are the people who will know...

Do I have a shower and exfoliate first? Do I just put in on the bits where I naturally catch the sun? What about face and neck? Body lotion then this? If I do it before bed will it come off on the sheets? Does it last or will it come off next time I shower?

Thanks for any tips! x

Thanks, the thing i wanted to buy seems code resistant as the earlier codes worked on some things but not this. will try again.

Shower and exfoliate 24 hours prior, use oil free moisturiser (i like isle of paradise) on feet, knees, elbows and hands only atleast 3 hours prior to self tan. Will need to use oil free moisturiser afterwards aswell as oil pulls out the tan. Let tan develop and shower off with water only (i still use bodywash on pits and bits at this point 🤣)

New launches are usually excluded from promotions at first, but that rarely lasts long. Give it a month or so and there’s a good chance you’ll be able to use a discount code.

Absolutely pathetic. Its a disincentive to buy as it's more of an insult than not getting anything.

Clarins online has 9 samples with orders today and 15% off

Very wasteful too, all that plastic for one shower.

Sephora sent me an email earlier with a declining discount 20% until 2pm then 18% then 16%. Lookfantastic are a fan of those. Do they work on people?

I only just saw the email but wouldn't use it on principle when I can see I would have got 20% an hour ago - that's just annoying. Or do they get enough people panic using the 20% until 2pm that it works out better than just offering all day 20%.

Just musing about the marketing. There's nothing I want from Sephora atm.

They don't work on me. I haven't ever bothered with them. I get the FOMO but given there's always offers...

Ilia purchase arrives. Very happy with the lip pencil, gloss and the liberty bag is so cute. All in all a worthwhile purchase. Also 2nd liberty scent kit arrived with adelphi sun, which was the one I wanted. Perfume roulette!

Hi, I went to Aldi today and found the lip oils - three options: cherry, clear and some kind of pink. I put one in my basket, then read the notes on the back: ‘minty tingling’ or something similar and thought ‘Oh no, better not!’

Such a shame as I was very keen to try them but I know that minty/tingling/plumping sensations do not agree with my lips at all 😿

It’s weird, as I have zero problems eating minty products. It must be the ‘plumping’ ingredient that adversely affects me.