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

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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. 😊

The Face the Future winter radiance edit is down to £100. Not that exciting but some decent stuff in there at that price. Some people got an email a few weeks ago offering it at this price (I didn't) but its the price on the website now.

Code HIRONSCB for 25% off top 25 products picked by Caroline Hirons for Cult Beauty. See her insta for a list but I spotted a couple of Thank You Farmer SPFs and a Patrick Ta blush duo in She’s Giving plus fugazzi vanilla haze which I think someone on here likes

Can someone remind me if I can use advantage card points for part purchase in store or does that also have to be all points or all money?

Boots website still thinks I am a bot or something although the app is ok. So I feel like I should spend my points and then sort it out in case something goes wrong in a reset. I have about £48 worth.

I find Diptyque to be overrated. Candles from Santa Maria Novella have a superstrong throw, even when not lit

I don’t think you can use Boots points to part purchase online or in store, unless they’ve changed the policy recently.

Sadly not. All points or all
money. It’s rather annoying and I’m sure it would make more business sense for us to get money off larger purchases.

Thanks @Beautyfox and @user593 that is most annoying!! Maybe I can get a couple of 10ml fragrances with my points and the current discount (beauty23)

I love the Fugazzi vanilla haze, every time I wear it DS thinks I’m wearing FDB sirene.
Speaking of which, I finally bit the bullet and bought the sirene privee from the Brown Thomas BAC. I have spent so much recently on things that I think are “okay” yet held off splurging on something I really wanted, daft really.

I went for English Rose. I do like Bob but I kept drifting back to this one. If I like the texture then I’ll explore the other shades.
I used the discount and had £5 in credit. I still have my £20 BAC voucher but annoyingly it can’t be used with a discount code.

”Rimmed” heather shimmer made me giggle 😅

I need to go back to my recent purchases and have a good sort out, as I’ve got Dior & YSL lip products and eyeshadows that I’ve not even opened and am at risk of duplicating shades

Tatcha sent a code via email for 25% off sitewide DEWY26 includes advent and xmas gifts.

Assuming it will work for anyone.

Do Liberty do Black Friday offers on Fragrance? I really love the Fugazzi Purple and the Liberty bottle of it is gorgeous. I don’t know if I should splurge or wait.

That’s not too bad going I suppose! Thanks for letting me know!

I have managed to spend £44 of the £48 of advantage points on a lippie and two eyeliners (Mac/clinique) as I wanted to buy special stuff for my hard earned points not just “nice body lotion”

My physical advantage card and my digital one have two different numbers (you have to verify points spend with the last 3 digits, so I learnt this!). Is this true for everyone?? Maybe it’s why I am having an issue with the website??

Anyway, Boots cheekily make it look like you have to pay for delivery but you don’t if you select free delivery and your basket is spenny enough.

Forgot to say that they were all under the BEAUTY23 code too

I spent £152 of mine on a shark hairdryer last week. Various discounts plus student discount. Was originally saving for a Dyson but read reviews that the shark was better. It’s so dinky and light and halved drying time. My card numbers were the same from my wallet.

Well I was going to go for the Elemis QVC offer but the website is being stupid! I copied my Bluelight discount code but then realised I’d not gone through cashback so I did that, then it kept saying I’d already redeemed by Bluelight discount even though I’d clearly not checked out my basket! I tried to load another discount code but it must have been the same one as it was saying the same thing 🙄

i’ve been having exactly the same problem. I’ve sent a message to blc to ask if they can give me a new code or otherwise sort it out. Will report back.

Does anyone know roughly how far in advance space nk send the email for birthday, like if birthday 15 Nov shouldn’t already have gotten the email? Just don’t want to have missed it as last year by the time I did mines the choice of free full size product was down to only 1 thing being available that I didn’t use x

My birthday is 7th October @Twinsandsome and my email came 1st October. I think they send them out at the start of the month en masse rather than near your birthday.

All, if you subscribe for the Sarah Creal newsletter, you get a code for 15% off your first order.

@Twinsandsome my birthday is 16th and I got my code Monday. I ordered straight away as the last 2 years I’ve waited a week or so and by then they were out of stock.

@Advententhusiast thank you, I will have a look at the Santa Maria ones

Annoyingly, you can't get both the free pouch with 3 products and the 15% off. Boo!

Im the same. Ill spend nearly £100 on beauty boxes that are ok, 2 john lewis, but then the westman lip balm i was umming and aching about at 25% off from cult and I had £15 voucher so was £17. 🙄
I dont get it 🤣
I need to bu more individual things I really want to try and it says will suit me/my skin rather than buy the bigger stuff that the majority will likely sit in my wardrobe untouched. 🤣

@Twinsandsome
Id message them re birthday code. I know we are not far into Nov yet but they get requested quickly and the good stuff gets taken off so left with the cheaper bits. They told me can take few days but then I never received one so had to ring again x