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

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New thread and it's welcome to the roaring twenties beauty addicts!

It's been a little quiet on the exciting edit and beauty releases front what with all the advent malarky but summer is drawing to a close and soon those autumn/winter releases and holiday edits will be popping up to tempt us.

If you're new here welcome and hello and for everyone else nice to see you back on Mumsnet's most tempting thread series that you cannot ignore even if you want to. 😈😍😂

I wish I’d bought the summer wine bag and check it often. Oh well! There’ll be more next summer.

I think the revolve x etoile box is probably tiny as well, I’m wary after my cake stand vs pudding cloche experience 😅

I don't think it is. It's their larger one that retails for $120. I did almost buy one last year as it's one of those brands that influencers promote. Nikki La Rose did a whole youtube video on hers and they do look really nice. I think I would prefer to choose my own colour if I got one so it's on my Black Friday list to look out for.
https://etoile.com/products/duo-vanity-case?variant=39341877231719

I finally got around to uploading my empties to the Boots recycle app. Approx 45 done so far, and a good 20 plus to go.
It has helped me to see how much of certain products I’ve used. I’ve gotten through several bottles of Medik8 B5 intense, Medik8 c-tetra and Dermalogica biolumin-c and several pots of Elemis marine cream (plus minis), plus a few pots of Murad eye cream and Laneige sleeping masks.
My skin definitely looks more hydrated, but I do need more work on the lines.

For those who have used the scheme, are shampoo bottles not allowed unless they are minis?

@Thelifeofawife worth having a read of this thread. Contact lens packets, toothbrushes, electric toothbrush heads, hand wash refill bags - lots of things count. https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/ethicalliving/5482634-has-anyone-used-the-boots-recycling-scheme?page=3&reply=154019430

And if you’re still doing nappies, nappy sack packets, baby wipes packets, nappy packets count as well. As do sanitary towel packets. You can find out what they take if you have a scroll of the options after taking a photo.

Ive been checking out all the edits and kits from last year. Now that most of the Advents leave me completely cold, I am going to pivot to GWP goodie bags, sale and Kits/ Edits.

Hopefully some nice ones will be announced.

I waited one day with the SpaceNK GWP for spoilers on the advents, it leaving me cold, going back to my basket and it was sold out already 😑

Another day has passed and still no sign of my missing items from Space NK and no communication or response from them. Shocking. Clearly they are another previously good company who have tanked. I have to wonder if SNK and CB have just arrogantly assumed their large market share will always continue as their CS is so poor. The smaller companies seem to be outshining them on the CS front.

@LoveLabradors same! Still not heard anything, no dispatched email and no reply to my query.

Same here too. Silence……

CB are giving a £15 voucher with £60 spend. Given all the Ts&Cs they tend to put around it, I wonder whether you won't be to use the voucher towards the BAC or any edits.

Shampoo, conditioner and, I think, bubble bath, are excluded - though shower gel/body wash is ok.

I put my lens cases in the blister pack section.

The packets from single use face masks are taken as well.

And you can collect the points on over the counter meds so whilst Piriton is a little bit dearer, I get 600 points back for that and a cheap item to make up the spend.

Sorry it’s not beauty related but trying my luck here if anyone had any experience with Paypal dispute . Massimo Dutti has refused to refund the money for the missing item. I have raised a dispute with PayPal but not sure if they will be able to help or I should go to bank directly. Thanks in advance!

Hi I’ve found PayPal to be helpful when I had an order not arrive. I got my money back.

@JoRaRaRa @LoveLabradors are you Deluxe members? If so they have a phone line and I've always found I get through straight away and the CS to be really helpful in person.

Ah that's good to know, thank you. I've just googled it and found the number; +44(0)2087402086. I'll give them a call.

Anyone wanting a general ticket for the Sephoria event, they go on sale soon at 10am.

They actually sent me a notification about this one. 😂

Haha! That's good of them to let you know when you already have a ticket 🤣 It's been really difficult to sit on my hands and not try to bag a ticket 🤣

The queue is insane. I’m not even sure I want to go but I wanted see what it was about.

I saw someone say they were number 4000 in the queue. I think about 5 or 6 sessions are on sale today though so a lot more tickets available. I guess you can't be choosy about the day or time though.

I started at 11,000 something at 10:02!

Sold out! I didn’t get one but I’m not disappointed.

Weird, I’ve just rejoined the queue and it’s put me back at 10,000 even though when I reached the front of the queue last time it said they were sold out. There’s going to be a lot of disappointed people.

trying my luck here with all the beauty experts around! Does anyone have any recommendations for blackheads on the nose? I’ve tried Paula’s choice BHA in the past, but my skin is too sensitive for it.

Sorry you didn't get one but glad you're okay with it. There must have been so many people online. I love to know how many tickets there were for each session.