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

[OvaHere]

Welcome back all.

We rattled through the last thread and with Black Friday round the corner this one will go fast too. I hope we haven't all spent up on advents... 😂

Thank you as always to our regulars for you contributions and if you've been reading and thinking of joining come and say hello. 😊

Oh that sounds interesting, I love CB sets! Can you please tell me how I join the group?

I’ve just realised that in the description of the ultimate box, the La Mer is listed as the moisturiser whereas the product picture shows the cleanser.

This is not the first time JL have made listing mistakes- they need to do better!

Im tempted to try the Sarah Creal concealer but want to get the shade right or another expensive mistake. Im also tempted to try the Lisa Eldridge one but may buy direct and ask for a shade match so I can return if wrong.

I wish that prequel set had been available before i bought both fullsizes although will have got via an offer or rewards as hate paying full price. 🤣

I like the prequel gleanser better than the oil atm as not wearing make up due to my perioral dermatitis. Its looking better thanks to people advising on here about the antibiotics cream, rozex. Taking awhile but I need to be patient. Its 10 days since I started using it and its really starting to improve. It says 2 to 3 weeks at the very least.
Its so itchy especially after putting the cream on so its hard not to touch it. Which ofcourse slows the healing process.

Im going to avoid all fragrance going forward as I know it was a trigger already for my sensitive rosacea skin and meno just added to it. It says everywhere its likely to come back once youve had it so have to e extra careful. 🥰

I'm really tempted by the Ultimate box - especially as I have a £100 voucher from Quidco burning a hole.. I didn't realise about the La Mer mistake I just read the description so thank you for pointing it out! I think I'll still go for it as keen to try the AB face oil...

@trying29 Please can you send me the details for joining the WhatsApp? Thank you! 🙏

Advice please! I am trying the Sunday Riley CEO Afterglow (freebie mini) in place of my usual Lumene Vit C serum.

It suggests using it as a primer for makeup but surely Vit C products go on before SPF and thus not directly under makeup? How do folks on here use it?

The JL Ultimate box looks really good but I have so much stuff that I'm going to give it a miss this year. I'd love the try the la mer cleanser, but it would probably be 2029 before I got to it 🙈

I’m quite tempted by the JL Buyer’s favourites. Am I going to play that game with myself where I price up the elements of it that I want before ‘reluctantly’ agreeing that it does make more sense financially to buy the whole thing?
I’m only really interested in the Oribe hair spray, the pistachio perfume and the L’occitane body cream. Okay let’s go price them up…

Ok Beauty Christmas Edit
https://www.okbeautybox.co.uk/products/ok-christmas-beauty-box?

Not for me but I thought I'd share it with you all 🥰

The body cream is tiny though @DidILeaveTheGasOn - 20ml.

I like Afterglow but I find it pills badly even with sunscreen so it's one I use on no make up days when I'm housebound.

It's a shame because it is a lovely cream but I mostly find it impractical.

Thanks @OvaHere I'm home today and something is definitely pilling (I put SPF Nivea on over it which I haven't used for a while so it might be that!)

It probably will be that. It doesn't really play nice with anything in my experience. I've never actually bought the cream outright but it's one of those that's in a lot of edits and gwps so I somehow end up with them.

Maybe I will put it on at night going forward, which seems a bit weird for a Vit C product! I have a couple free from myJL events.

I've also been influenced by the Sarah Creal undereye 🤭

Yup, me too. Although I needed a new tube of erborian so I was already going to be on SNK today. I've never found anything that helps my under eyes without just making them look worse so am very hopeful x

Thanks @SheilaFentiman, I hadn’t spotted that.
Might be able to resist due to being utterly fleeced by my children when out shopping this morning.

I would have bought the JL ultimate box in a heartbeat if it contained 125ml of the soft cream - come on JL you need to proof read!!!

I have noticed in the SpaceNK terms and conditions there is quite a long list of brand specific GWP with codes only sent to specific customers. I never get these for some reason 🤷‍♀️

Anyone got any good ideas of how to trigger there algorithm to offer me these?
I am just under the limit for NDULGE deluxe tier, so wonder if I have been making too frequent purchases this year so they assume I don’t need incentives?

Thanks for the Wonderskin intel! Im very tempted by the new colour and think Im going to get it!

I’m also in the market for some kind of little spatula or scoop for creams that come in a jar! It all gets stuck in my nails unless I have a short one that’s broken, so I had the bright idea of a tool instead!

Thank god it’s payday on Wednesday!

Another one with the Sarah Creal concealer on the way here.

if anyone needs something small to make up their SNK basket, I can definitely recommend the Touchland sand sanitisers that someone mentioned on here a while back. I bought one a while ago and it's great - evaporates instantly, doesn't leave my hands sticky and smells lovely. They're £10 so I bought two more as part of my basket today.

I've had a few of these. You are not guaranteed to get them though. I'm still a bit salty about the time I bought a Tatcha product to get the eye brightening cream and they substituted it with Sunday Riley Autocorrect because they ran out. As per their T&Cs they can do that.