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. 😊

Really impressed with the CB GWP goody bag (no idea what I was meant to get as I didn't order a BAC - I ordered the Dyson airwrap as it was discounted). My GWP goody bag was packed with all kids of lovely things.

Same here, cleansing balm which is a shame as it would have been a good tester before getting lbty edit. Weird packaging for a cleanser as well.

Would anyone be up for sharing their evening skincare routine now the weather has changed? My under eyes are especially thirsty. I might go through my stash tomorrow for something richer.
I’m also not being as consistent with the evening routine as I have been, so a little motivation would help!

Sneaking in just before your glass slippers fall off your birthday princess feet & your carriage reverts to a pumpkin (and let’s not even think about what your cats would do to the mice footmen….) to wish you a very happy birthday @DidILeaveTheGasOn 💜🍾🥳

I appear to have purchased the You Beauty advent today. Chat told me it was a good idea. It’s encouraging me to buy Boots Luxe too, but for now I just picked up a couple of bits I actually needed and got the little GWP (thank you @SheilaFentiman). Meanwhile TikTok is offering me 20% off the CB night edit plus another £10 off any spend over £50 with CB, so I could get the edit plus 20g Elemis fig cleansing balm for £43 incl postage. Heck, why am I waiting?? (Hmmm. 2 night time edits in stash. Not a good reason to delay, right?)

I bought that set about 18 months ago, although mine has Lucia rather than Gia. Mostly summer fragrances and need topping up during the day but I like them.

Now I want the Murad 😭

Medik8 Total Moisture Daily Cleanser
Laniege Cream Skin
Sunday Riley Tidal
Decree Treat Tincture
Medik8 Crystal Retinol Ceramide Eye 6
Sulwhasoo Overnight Vitalizing Mask

I recently rejigged things to ramp up moisture. I’m using Tatcha Brightening Eye Cream during the day, and at some point I’ll probably bring in MZ Skin The Rich Cream.

I’m early 40s with dry/normal skin, prone to the occasional spot.

I’m using a mix of stuff I already had plus some stuff from advents/ recent edits.

In the evening:

Tropic renewing butter for first cleanse
estee Lauder perfect clean for second cleanse
tropic youth potion serum
tropic eye lift
true botanicals renew oil
tropic skin dream moisturiser

once I’ve finished youth potion and skin dream, I will be switching out for allies of skin eye cream, medik8 advanced peptides serum and the skin cycles exo cream (from the men’s LiB grooming box)

Boots x Kerastase edit
https://www.boots.com/boots-x-kerastase-beauty-icons-gift-set-10399452

Here’s Mary’s summary so far - agree it’s not that long - maybe more by Black Friday?

beauty-detective.com/best-beauty-christmas-crackers-stocking-2026/

Not a collaboration I saw coming 😀

www.boots.com/william-morris-at-home-x-hello-kitty-hand-and-lip-set-10384205

Not only do I slightly want it for the wash bag (in a kind of tongue in cheek ironic way) but this would be the absolute perfect gift for my oldest friend (53) who lives abroad and I only see every few years. I may have to buy two.

Apparently there’s a market for everything.

Yes it does. Their mistake. If you hover over it it does show the cleansing balm. They really do need to check their listing's are correct before going live. Not just space nk, theres been issues with other retailers as well.
I nearly bought some off one of the selling groups on fb but looked into it and realised it was the balm. I ended up with 2 gwp in the end when double points was on. 🤣

I think the Murad Resurgence Retinal ReSculpt overnight cream was in an edit, but I can't remember which one.

There's a tote bag too! I really need to resist buying both, but they're so cute https://www.boots.com/william-morris-at-home-x-hello-kitty-tote-bag-10384210 and I can always use hand cream...

Still available: the CB overnight edit. Some of the 20/25% off codes appear to be working on it too. I may have bought a third one last night as I really like everything in it!

That Hello Kitty set is irresistible! How sweet!

Thank you guys for the evening routine breakdowns. I'm going to have a rejig I think.

The Murad is also in the Regimes set.

Ooh - which codes work?

Ahh, the one reviewed in the Guardian was the overnight cream, the edit ones are the overnight treatment.

I've definitely had the cream version from an edit. I'm sure both will have the same results though, you would just need to add another moisturising layer on top of the treatment?

The overnight cream is included in the Vogue BAC (but that's not where I got it from)

I should have arranged myself a code for commission on the Hello Kitty :)

It was but I can’t remember which either! I think it’s in the regimes one posted the other day

I love that Hello Kitty collaboration - but I am an absolute sucker for HK merch, (and we had better not talk about Pokemon 😹).

It was the bargainous Debenhams summer icons set for £35 (with discount). Sadly sold out now.

https://beauty-detective.com/debenhams-the-summer-icons-edit-2026/

I’ve just noticed you receive one of two items listed in this set which has really put me off as I’d like one but not the other! Feels a bit cheeky.