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

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Welcome back everyone to the new thread and hello to any newbies - join us now in time for the autumnal fun. 🍂💄🌂

As always when the Advent threads are running hot this thread is a little quieter but holiday releases, sets and edits are just around the corner. I'm super excited to be going to Sephoria London in October - I still can't believe I lucked out getting a ticket.

Some exciting homegrown news -after a few technical hiccups the FB group is now searchable (but private) MN Beauty Chat Swap/Trade/Sell.* *For those interested in the group we have a few joining rules you will be asked to abide by. Thank you @MrsBnow12 @CinderellaParker for your help.

@SummerLimes and @Reb642 - Anya Hindmarsh indeed, aka overpriced tat, (imo).

I do like my Uniqlo x Anya Hindmarsh woolly hat, but that was <£20!

This looks nice but there’s no way I need more lip products!

That’s so pretty @user593

I literally just opened that email and thought the same. The Kissu lip mask is my favourite and I just finished mine yesterday. I use the clear one on a night though so this colour wouldn't make sense for that. It does look gorgeous though.

Ah thank you, ordered the Tatcha lip mask. I got into a bad habit in the past couple of years of picking at dry skin on my lips when stressed and the only thing that works is to have lip balms all over the house. Nice to have something that will add a bit of colour and moisturise.

There was a lady on Grand Designs who bought a disco shark for her interior design, maybe she would like the leather rhino too??

@SunnyPinkMoose I'm always happy to help, especially with enabling 🤭

@IlovePond please tell me you bought the rhino!! 🙏🏻

That tatcha lip mask looks really nice but I have so many balms and masks around the house, I don't think I need anymore. Plus I have 2 unopened tatcha lip masks.

I’d love to go shopping with the couples from Grand Designs. The husband is an artichoke interpreter and the wife cures recalcitrance in upcycled French carrots. Their budget is 1.9 million pounds.

I quite like the leather animals, but wouldn’t get the rhino (my warped mind is thinking this is only something one would buy to have in a kinky room 🙈😅)
That said, I wouldn’t get any of the animals (even for £30 at B&M, which is far more my budget as I spend too much on hoarding beauty products to have lavish decor 😅), but I could see one looking quite well placed in an older house with dark wood and a grand chesterfield sofa.

I’m loving the look of the Tatcha lip mask!

@MrsBnow12 Thanks for the Boots icon set info, off to see if there’s any left, despite being seriously late to the party 😅

@HolidayHattie I’ve had the Boots trending beauty box in my basket for weeks. I keep going back to it but haven’t checked it out as I’m hoping for a reduction, mainly because I already have a few of the items in my stash (unused). I do have a load of points now though 😏

@SheilaFentiman - I now need to know what a disco shark is!

@Thelifeofawife - the rhino was definitely the centrepiece of a rather weird collection.

@JoRaRaRa - I managed to restrain myself 😹 I think perhaps the last one left, so it’s all yours if you fancy adding it to your front room!

It was like this though she didn’t hang it from the ceiling !

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1585678642/disco-ball-shark
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I bought online and my first from them. Moisturising. Not the best colour for me but I can get away with it. 🤩

Good grief @SheilaFentiman - I can’t unsee that!

That’s Xmas sorted…

I thought that was quite cool until I spotted the price!!!

Thanks for the heads up in the sculpted boots box. Ordered and added a 1.25 handcream that was in the free next day delivery promo so being delivered today.
I quickly scanned the ingredients of the serum and missed that it has niacinamide although chat gpt says its a very low percentage so I may be ok

And back to more sensible pricing... All Beauty have 20% off loads of fragrance and skincare, including some k-beauty. The majority of products in the offer are already reduced, so it's a saving on top of savings - code is FLASH20

https://allbeauty.com/collections/offers-limited-time-offers

Example basket below (I'm keeping the candles).

The BoJ Ground Rice & Honey Glow Mask that gets a lot of love on the thread is £9.92.

Is that the Aimee HydraGlow Serum? I have a sample sachet of it that I could send you, so you could try it without opening the full thing, if you want?

It's annoying that everything seems to have niacinamide in it. It's not an issue for me as such as I don't seem to have any reaction to it. I'm using up the niacinamide cleanser at the moment from last years SNK advent, but I'm sure I don't need all this niacinamide so I feel for people that do react to it.

I need some hair product advice please ladies (now my Frankenstein BAC can't take anymore skincare post-Mintd delivery...). I have never bought any hair products. I had ignored the Cult Beauty edits but now I'm reconsidering and thought the Fine box would suit me better as my hair is thinning due to peri and it is bleached. Co-Pilot agrees with me except it says the K18 Molecular Repair Mask (from the other box) would be the best product for me.

I was thinking of trying to pick one up on ebay but then I clicked on @keepincool's All Beauty link, filtered by hair care, bath & body and women and the K18 is the first product!! So fate is telling me to buy this and the CB hair edit, yes? Or should I be considering anything else...?!

I would love a picture of your bundle whenever you’ve opened your advent it sounds a great deal x

Hair box coming soon.
Off Beauty Detective insta

STYLEKOREAN have 36% off a basket of $140+ today only:

https://www.stylekorean.com/?

I was putting together a KBeauty basket from AllBeauty due to the generous code then realised I might as well go the whole hog on SK!

@Twinsandsome here you go

And with the photo!

@JoRaRaRaI am away at the moment and popped into the Sephora today and it’s better in real life than the pictures. Also didn’t help I now want Wish as well but can wait until I am back for that one.