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. 😊

I have the Murad not tried it yet, but now wondering if should get another while the code works.
I've had quite a spending week, the SNK samples enabled a few orders so maybe I should hold off and its not my birthday month so no excuse

Has anyone bought anything from regimes.uk? Is it reliable? The winter edit on there looks pretty good.

I bought both the aventurine and the LE ruby. I don't normally wear dark lipsticks but if you can't get away with them at Christmas, when can you? I haven't tried either of them yet though as I've been pimping my Harrods bac. So far they are in there along with the Dior glazed violet lipstick, most of the recent Liberty scent kit and a few other things I've already forgotten.

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Hotel Chocolate XMAS2026 gets you 20% off a £40 spend until 13th Nov

I was in selfridges yesterday and they have a new skincare box - longevity skincare - £80. I think it's new anyway as hadn't seen it before, could be wrong.

SELFRIDGES - The Longevity Skincare Kit Worth £261 | Selfridges.com

I decided to buy the kerastase x boots edit. I've been wanting to try out the serum for a while and I bought the hello kitty makeup bag set. I really need to stop spending 🙈

I somehow got one for £10 on Vinted. Very lucky really. I was very cautious though about checking it hadn’t been used!

I really like that Hello Kitty makeup bag set and I think it’s a bargain considering how lovely the design is. However, I’ve acquired so many bags over the past year from edits. I’m not sure if I should try to sell some on Vinted. I’ve got some that I really treasure and others are just meh but taking up space nonetheless.
Okay good, so we’re buying it then, you know this was a really good chat. Thanks guys

Love this! Happy belated birthday btw. A birthday Boxing Day treat!

Im eyeing up the tote bag even though I have far too many already. I love William Morris and Hello Kitty though so I'm not sure how long I'll hold out. This is going to be like last year and the Cath Kidston x Miffy collection where I ended up buying everything, isn't it 🙈

Has anyone tried Elemis Morning Matrix? I had a mini of the Night Matrix and hated it. Are they different? As far as I can tell the Morning Matrix is a gel like texture so might be lighter and more pleasant.

15% off at skin rocks for 24h with code SKINRULES

I’ve gone for the Regimes set. I got £11 off on TikTok, still a bit more expensive than the CB edit with discount, but I have 2 of them already 😅 plus I want to try the Medik8 cream.

I love the WMxHK collaboration at Boots, I’ll be buying both! May also buy a set for DSis for Christmas.

@OvaHere No help but I actually liked the overnight matrix, so I’d be interested to know what the morning one is like

Ooh the beauty essentials bag looks nice

beauty-detective.com/sephora-uk-beauty-essentials-set-2026/

Saw these today in store !
I grabbed the stripy one and the black one to put away for Christmas.
the black one is only £35!
Beware the red one is cute , but tiny. They’ve made it look the same size there

Regimes winter renewal is £49.99 on TikTok if you happen to worship the right echelons of the algorithm / be online in the right 2.5 minute window etc (can you tell I’m not a fan of TikTok). Fabulous edit though, nefarious marketing notwithstanding.
Am rather grumpy, it’s my son’s birthday and he’s ill, and he’s never ill. Not even been able to do a cursory candle blow out. It’s not fair at all, poor mite.

I love this. And also never in a million years did I see it coming 😂

It feels like everyone’s gone a bit feral / post apocalyptic. I get paid in a week, please can everyone wait for me?

Weirdly I couldn’t find the regimes box on TikTok last night. Only the double skin and hair offer. Now have 4 of the CB night edit so I do need to step back.

Same, but I found it this evening. I don’t need anything, I’m swamped already, but I did like the last Regimes box (only used 2 things from it so far 🙈😅).

I finished a bottle of hyaluronic acid & a bottle of vitamin c this morning so need to decide what to replace them with from my stash. I was slightly happy to see a couple of empties considering how many products I have on standby!

@DidILeaveTheGasOn Happy birthday to your DS. Such a shame he’s not well, I hope he’s on the mend soon so you can do the birthday candles 😌

@DidILeaveTheGasOn aw poor boy , how old is he today ? Hoping he is better later.

On here looking for codes to buy more Sephora favourites pouches , the code on BD isn’t working and I want another of the black one . The merit balm is worth 25 alone and the bag is 35. Maybe they are just exempt from codes

Victoria Beckham has 20% off this weekend

The Sephora Favorites sets are normally exempt from codes in the UK, they were also excluded from the recent sale

Edit: The merit balm are also produced in a smaller size so I doubt this is a full size one