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

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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

I bought four of the SNK Shimmering Spice candles 190g as I think they’ll make handy presents. I have enough candles to last me a life time.

I’ve just been through my stash box(es!) and I really, really shouldn’t buy anything else. It’s bonkers how much stuff I have 😑 at least I am starting to get through it now, but I also have more makeup than I could ever reasonably wear given I don’t wear makeup very often so I really must stop it!

That said I tried the WA Ja Rêve lip liner from an edit or GWP I got recently and I really like it.

This one is a great price and sounds really nice 🥰
https://www.spacenk.com/uk/fragrance/home-fragrance/candle/christmas-wish-3-wick-candle-UK200058075.html

Thanks. I think I'm going to leave it, I've bought enough. I really want another of the Voluspa Fir ones again so I think I'm going to get that later in the year.

I didn’t like anything at Radley in the end, but got 4 Molton Brown shower gels for £60 and a Lucy & Yak dress for £45 (blc discount) Also M&S pants multi pack for a fiver.

I got a few Christmas bits from SNK sale. I missed out on the keyring though, it wasn’t showing as an option so I guess it sold out (I looked on both the app & website)
I had forgotten to check out earlier so a couple of bits went OOS, but at least it stopped me going mad to top up for the GWP.

I’m quite glad I restrained myself, and I had a £5 voucher on a secondary account so used that up.

Thanks to the PP who mentioned the sale. I wouldn’t have checked otherwise

I got this one, looks good for the price. I like most Neom candles so hopefully this will be nice too

Just to flag there’s 1,206 items in the sale on the app and 1,198 items for sale on the website. The Neom Christmas Wish 3-Wick Candle was OOS on the app whilst simultaneously showing as in stock (and allowing me to buy it) on the app, so make sure you check both!

Does anyone bother with the Sephora mystery gifts with purchase? There’s one on at the moment (spend £80). I’ve only gone for it once and it was a great little selection of products I hadn’t tried before; but I’ve also heard about some shockers as far as gwps go.

Personally I don’t as I have done it twice and have had rubbish gifts so it wouldn’t entice me to place an order

I didn't see this one before I bought the spacenk ones, if I had, I would've got it instead. The spacenk ones are nice but I don't think they're as scented as neom ones. I really had to stop myself from placing another order 🤭

I placed another order for the neon candle because I had missed it.

I had a look at the SNK sale - even though I am supposed to be reducing my stash. I am tempted by the Gisou hair perfume. Has anyone tried it?

Having just been away on holiday for a while, I did get through quite a few mini products from the horde/hoard, so could possibly add a hair perfume and maybe a shower gel too to my stash! (Btw: I went up North and have never been so excited to have to wear a jacket in August!)

Thanks

I have the gisou perfume in rose and lavender. They're nice but I don't really bother with them much.

I’ve also ordered for the space nk gwp. It’s not amazing but I could actually do with topping up travel cleansing minis and intetmittently use Paula’s choice of a bit spotty. I also needed several
things like night cream, hand cream and face oil. So it seemed worth it. I’ve also ordered the Neom Christmas candle as I use that one every year - I usually get the last season packaging one in tk maxx but this is a better price. I can confirm it is lovely! I actually prefer it to my diptyque Sapin ones!

I ended up buying several of the Neom candles as well as Christmas presents for my mother in law and sister in law, and others 🙈

I’ve never got on with Diptyque Sapin. I normally burn Feu de Bois over Christmas.

I did have the Sapin Room Spray but my DS (then 1) managed to smash it. I preferred it to the candle.

I saw the neom candle oos but will look on website page now. Thanks x

50% off the vitamin c range at Rodial today.

https://www.rodial.com/collections/outlet?filter.p.m.filter.range=Vit+C&filter.v.price.gte=&filter.v.price.lte=&sort_by=manual

Thanks @JoRaRaRa - I think I will resist!

Escentual have 25% off selected (most full price) items with the code ESCENTUAL25

I've got the offer via email but I assume it will work for anyone with an account. They do this quite often and I find it useful for stocking up on staples like Elemis, LRP etc

I also like how simple their reward system is - you just accumulate points and can take them off your basket even if it's a random amount (81p for me this time 😆)

@user593 funny how we are all so different with scent. I really struggle with feu de bois. I’ve got a small candle of it that I got in a Liberty gwp and I put it out every autumn but have never lit it as don’t really like it! I do like the Sapin well enough but ended up with two a couple of years ago when diptyque duplicated my order and they very kindly
allowed me to keep both orders with lots of free gifts in too! So I am bravely persevering with them 😂. My fave Christmas candle is diptyque pomander, love it so much! But I think Diptyque have really pushed it with price rises - ridiculous now!

Escentual are excellent. Great offers, fast delivery and easy points system. A really
underrated company and the bigger ones like CB could learn from them!

Thanks @JoRaRaRa I've been contemplating Gisou too but I barely remember to put actual perfume on, I don't like my chances with hair perfume.

Unless Molton Brown released an Indian Cress one cos I love that!

I've got all sorts of goodies arriving today. SNK sale stuff due to arrive. There's a chance the TF quad from HN will arrive as they did dispatch it yesterday surprisingly.

I've also got 2 cleansers coming from Medik8 which I didn't need but had £25 in points due to expire so I had to spend them or lose them.

Also the new K18 hair growth stuff I bought from CB because it was double points and I had a voucher. I'm using The Ordinary at the moment but going to try this next. I'd hoped SNK might have it in their advent as a star product but clearly not.

After a fairly restrained month I've been bad this week.

Ooo Selfridge's have a mask library out. Looks very good 😍
https://www.selfridges.com/GB/en/product/selfridges-sheet-mask-bundle-worth-15933_R04675622/