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

[OvaHere]

New thread. Welcome back everyone. It's taken a while to get through the last due to how busy the advent threads have been.

All the holiday releases are coming out now and Black Friday is looming. So take a seat and buckle up. 😊

Hi! Sorry, I am a lurker on this thread, but don't usually post! Hope you don't mind my asking, but what is the code please that will stack? I am keen to buy the advent calendar, but can't afford it at full price! Thanks!

They sent them out via email but it’s personal to your account. Either 15% off or 20% off. Check your emails over the last week or so because they were easy to miss. If you didn”t get one add the AC to your basket and leave it there and see if that provokes an email. I know some people on here emailed CS to ask for a discount with some success so that could be worth a try too.

forgot to say it’s great to see you delurk. Join in it’s fun but expensive. 😂

Thank you! I will check my emails from them! Will try and join in more - it's such a fun (albeit expensive!) thread to be a part of!

My Face The Future mystery bundle is still en route, allegedly, except it is still on track to be delivered between 3-5pm on Monday 12 October. Evri can time travel?? My other half has been calling it the 'Witness Protection bundle' and is using Evri's apparent ability to operate the Delorean as further proof of its high security status.

Will it ever arrive? Will it journey to my little village via an alternative dimension? Will it be a selection of great products that I'll enjoy using or a car boot sale pile of shite?

@DidILeaveTheGasOn I hope it arrives soon 🤞🏻 Also, please share the contents with us 🥰

Speaking of mystery boxes, I just received one from Rituals which is lovely. £17 and I got a 175ml hand balm, lip gloss, 20ml hand mask and mini vitamin c oil. The box is lovely too (just thin cardboard, but pretty).

I think the contents are random so everyone will get something different, but would make a lovely for someone if you know they like Rituals products.

Oh, and if you spend over £40 you get a free body cream duo (or a FS body mousse if you spend more, I think)

https://www.rituals.com/en-gb/surprise-box-1122494.html

Absolutely, will do @JoRaRaRa!

@namechange0998776554799000 More mystery?! I’m game!

There’s a Grown Alchemist hand cream that I really like, the orange 🍊 one. I managed to buy a lot of it for two pounds something from I think All beauty after a tip on here. I put it on at night and then put the body shop hemp cream on and my hands are lovely in the morning and don’t look so haggard. It does get annoying though when their products are in every box . It’s another PK .

Do spill the beans when it does reach you! I'm stil dithering about it.

Stayed in a supposedly 5* hotel recently and all the toiletries were Grown Alchemist, tried them all, they all smelt like bin juice to me. Husband hated them too. Obviously I had tons of minis with me from various edits, so wasn't a problem but still disappointing. Have since thrown away or donated anything else by them, life is too short and my stash is too full to use horrible hand cream

Another GA hater. I'm always put off when it's in an edit. Which in itself isn't a bad thing. 😂

I must be the only one who doesn't mind a GA hand cream, especially in colder months 😅

@JPMJuliz I will try to remember that (may not have much success but will try). I recently threw away a Grown Alchemist hand cream because I really didn't like the scent, I could have sent it to you instead!

@OvaHere I must say it's put me off the Liberty kit, which is silly because I liked the look of most of it. GA are helping me save money? It's a dubious win but I'll take it.

I quite like a GA handwash. I’ve a body scrub I’ll try this week, curious about the dislike.

Well now my earlier grumpy comments look a little extra grumpy. I think I need some chocolate ice cream.

Did anyone get the Liberty summer scents kit? It's got the Abel Double Scoop that was in the beauty drop this week, I quite like that. And Fugazzi Purple.

https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/the-summer-scents-kit-000879633.html

I'm just shopping to keep myself sane today. I should probably get ice cream instead.

That's interesting. I bought one last month, price £27 (which I thought was good value) and it contained the same plus a 10ml body cream.

I did and really enjoyed it, it’s fabulous set imo. Found some new favourites and also had to sell a few that didn’t like. Double Scoop is full bottle worthy and smells like ice cream 🍨I buy their every scent kit though, can’t miss out on new discoveries 😄. I’m surprised it hasn’t sold out yet, it’s been released in summer 🙂

I got it! Really good for the price - it was stil available last week in store.

@DidILeaveTheGasOn yes! It’s a good kit, fugazzi is very strong, I’m not keen on it. Vaiaya is absolutely lovely. I really liked the molecules- very zingy, the double scoop was a bit like a butterscotch biscuit, I quite liked it. Really love the Della Musa, but this is one of the option scents, so you’re not guaranteed to get it.

Oh wow, I was lucky then! I do think it's old stock - all ranges that were limited edition, or are being revamped (I can see the lip gloss on the website now with new packaging). Maybe they'll just keep reducing it until it's all shifted?

Ah fantastic, thank you guys. With 10% off and BD credit I got a wee bargain and enough points to get a £20 voucher when they do those.
Re: Fugazzi Purple, please let me know if you aren’t keen and would like to trade or sell it. I love it.

Yeah, it looks like it's been reduced twice since I bought. It was good value and I got a full size shower mousse and a scarf as free gifts as well so overall, a great buy. I'll not buy another one for a few weeks until I know they've changed their stock.

I had a GA face scrub which I liked

I quite like the GA face wash i have at the minute. It's much better than the Tatcha I also have on the go.