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

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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. 😊

My CB parcels are also out for delivery with Relay today, I hope they're as quick as their name suggests 🏃‍♀️

Re-posting from the Christmas bargains thread ... Theres up to 60% off a selection of products at All Beauty today - including a lot of Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour stuff - EH hand cream from £5, lip protector £13.50, and a Perricone MD vitC cleanser for £10 . Also a couple of 10ml fragrances from Shay & Blue and Sentiers for £5 & £6
https://allbeauty.com/collections/up-to-55-off-beauty?sort_by=price-ascending

@SummerLimes I kept reading that as 'duck in hand, sanitiser at the ready' and I was like, where's she getting the duck from? I need more sleep!

It was my dodgy grammar, thankfully this thread isn’t on AIBU.

Ducks scare me a bit,

Rm have started to do that for me as well but they all do it. Evri, amazon. So hoping rm are the easiest to claim from if one goes missing. Been lucky so far. Touch wood ❤️🤩

This has just been happening to me as well so much so over last few weeks that I googled about it. Porch with unlocked door, minimal extra effort and they just dump it by the door in full view of anyone walking past. Rarely used to happen then it happened 3 times in a row.

That and the fact it felt unsafe 😳😬
I just thought im not coming here again. I have spidey senses. 🤣

My last liberty beauty drop box (delivered by Yodel) was left outside my front door, and they didn’t ring the bell, even though I was home.
Unfortunately as I live on a main road in inner London there is a lot of foot traffic past my door and it was in plain sight, so unsurprisingly half the contents was missing when I realised it was out there.

Liberty customer services were actually very good about it and sent out another straight away with a different courier.

I’m very lucky on my street generally if a neighbour sees a parcel left out in open view they’ll move it behind a bike shed/ recycling bin or take it in and send a WhatsApp to say they have it. Nothing stolen so far but I know neighbours have had things stolen in the past which is why they’re all so vigilant.

My CB edit has finally shipped. Woohoo!

I missed the code for the cult beauty edits , was going to get the medik8 one but didn’t bother as the code was pulled. I only wanted the medik8 so will pick one up during Black Friday. Didn’t want to needlessly add to my stash that I have reduced recently with the help of DD shopping from it .
DD was staying this weekend with her boyfriend and they took me to Bluewater to shop the beauty stores and for lunch. It could only happen to me that halfway through said expensive lunch I had a funny turn and went all dizzy and had to go outside for a bit as it was hot in the restaurant. Didn’t feel like eating after plus food was cold by then. Couldn’t face Sephora and Boots was manic so only ended up really looking in John Lewis as it’s much calmer shopping experience. Managed to find a discontinued Valentino perfume I had been after with a big discount and the assistant gave me a perfume mini and some samples so the day wasn’t a total bust but not the shop till you drop day that was planned. I feel some online shopping will have to be done to make up for it.

If my husband ever comments about the amount of brown boxes 📦 containing beauty that arrives I will mention the boxes that contain Land Rover parts or stuff for his fish pond etc . He has four Land Rover’s in various states of repair so there’s regular boxes 😂.

Same here. The Perfume one I didn't use the code but paid with credit and voucher has been dispatched, but the others I ordered with the code are still processing.

I ordered with the code for the cb edits and mine has just shipped (standard delivery) so I’m sure the ones waiting will have theirs shipped soon.

My CB edits with code have also just shipped (standard delivery).

My CB edits have been 'upgraded' to next day delivery and are arriving today!

Mine is at home - I have the pic of hubby answering the door and holding it - unfortunately I'm in the office but it will be a nice thing to go back to on a Monday

My CB edits have arrived (with code!). I ordered
New Discoveries
Luminous Skin
Forever Love
Gift of Colour

The surprise stand out one was New Discoveries! It has a large body lotion and Byoma mask and the Necessaire shower gel smells beautiful! It would make a great gift for an teenage girl for the money (well, with the code!).

The colours in the Gift of Colour are not as "out there" as I thought they might be and will use them all I think. The only thing I am not sure about is the Mac lip liner from Forever Loved so that will go on Vinted (I am fair and a chestnut lip liner would do nothing for me!).

All in all, really happy!

I am getting annoyed at space nk running late with my birthday code ( when some people have already had gifts - so why not me - don’t really get this )
Problem is I have vouchers that expire on the 22nd . Have been keeping them for the birthday gift transaction, I will be so mad if the voucher runs out before I get my birthday code ( and also if the gift has run out by then which is a distinct possibility 😖)

I chased Space NK for my October birthday code (I am deluxe member) and they have replied today saying they are experiencing delays "due to recent improvements to our warehouse systems". Goodness knows they need to improve their warehouse systems (I have been waiting 9 days for an online delivery!) but not sure how it impacts the birthday gift and no ETA either...

My CB edits have arrived too. Very pleased with them. The scents box is super cute 🥰

My CB edits are still processing but I dont mind. Going to London on wednesday and wont be back for a week so I hope they dont ship it before the weekend

The second CB order has arrived. The first much bigger order is with RM somewhere in the country. I think the boxes are lovely. Very sweet. They have stuck the sides down with round stickers which do rip the box if you try to peel them off so they are best spit down the crease. Everything is present and correct too. Gold star for a change CB.

@Beautyfox - you can often get stickers like that off without damaging the packaging by blowing a hairdryer at them.

Great tip, Thanks. I will give that a go when the second order arrives.

I was worried but apparently my edits (ordered with the discount code) are now with Evri. That's not as reassuring as it might be as it seems that they've lost a Vinted parcel I sent and another that's on its way to be but fingers crossed.

Looking forward to my new products as I'm trying to sort out what to wear to son's wedding in January and have just depressed myself reading a thread about Mother of the Groom outfits.

It's a rhetorical question, but surely a 'nice frock' from Phase 8/Coast/Karen Millen with a court shoe and so on isn't compulsory? Quite fancied something striking from Sahara and trying to work a Claudia-style boot in... Still, at least my skin will look AMAZING!!!