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. 😊

This seems to the list of exclusions, Dyson, GHD, Shark, Rhode, Sephora Favourites and the advent.

Last night I tried the 4ml sample of Medik8 Liquid Peptides Advanced MP from the Cult Beauty Forever Love edit and have seen immediate results this morning.
There was a full size bottle in the Luminous Skin edit which is now sold out and Im kicking myself for not getting it!
I probably love beauty products as much for the descriptions, packaging and overall experience as I do for how they actually work but this is a standout product. Very impressed!
I think the lesson I'm taking away is just to buy all the CB edits when I can 😀

Good spotting. That’s actually not a lot of exclusions. Let’s go basket adding. 🙈 I must show restraint. My SNK basket is already loaded waiting for the gwp.

@LoveLabradorsmy absolute favourite lip liner is glossier (in the shade ‘bit’ which is the perfect pink mauve on my lips). The texture is good and lasts well. I think the ilia lip sketch has been spoken about on this thread before and seemed popular, which I’ve ordered to try. I also really like the Charlotte Tilbury pillow talk lip liner. I find the lipstick really drying but the liner is nice.

They often come back into stock so might be worth adding to your favourites so they notify you. I’m looking forward to trying this. I have sooo much open atm that I need to be ruthless and bin things that are meh and use up the others before I open anything new.

However, this morning I opened the Sisley neck cream that I purchased back in the summer and I must say first impressions are impressive. It’s feels much tighter immediately so I’m looking forward to seeing how longer term use impacts my saggy neck.

Just tried not working now. Probably a good thing for me 🤣

Re the Sephora sale. I'm sure last year CB did a rival sale, might have been up to 30% for Gold members. So worth building a wishlist in both to see where the best discounts are.

Make up by Mario, if you've been wanting to try anything, only gets discounted in this main sale. Regular discount codes never seem to work on it. Sephora sell Dior too so it looks like that will be part of the sale.

the fairy has the new CB GWP :)

Oh great, ill be ordering😁

Just about to order Cult Beauty BAC with the GWP. CBAFF isn’t working for me. I don’t think there are any other codes for the AC are there?

Thanks @Beautyfox , I've added my email for notifications, fingers crossed.

Can you please send me the details to join again please? I didn’t note it down before and there’s no chance of me finding it again on here 🤦‍♀️

Recieved my LE Spinel lipstick yesterday. It’s interesting in that it looks fairly blah in the tube and not at all metallic or pearly, I would have passed right over it if I’d seen it in a shop and wondered why it was in a special holiday collection. Tried it on it and the metallic sheen became apparent straightaway. What also became apparent is that it’s not really my shade, sadly, too much of a brownish undertone for me - however I was wearing it with a completely bare face so will trying again with some foundation and a lighter hand next time and hope for a better effect.

For those who were ruminating over the Sarah Creal Lip Grip Peptide Primer I tried that as well with the LE yesterday and with Ruby Woo this morning. I’m not sure if it extends the life of the lipstick but it certainly works as a very comfortable base. I remember Ova said the LE gave a very textured lip - not if you put this on first it doesn’t. Ruby Woo I virtually never wear because it’s such a faff to put on without it looking wonky and because it’s so incredibly drying, it just felt like a normal lipstick with the primer on.

@trying29 please could I have the Fairy’s details too? Thanks

Ooh @Talisin Off to have a look at that, Sarah Creal could be my new favourite brand at this rate. Still not quite over the under eye product!

I gave my lips a break from Blistex and there was no change really so I am concluding that it’s not the Blistex that’s the problem. Which is a huge relief TBH.

I have resumed my Blistex habit!

So now I have a billion open lip balms all of which I tried and which are not better than my beloved Blistex.

21st century problems…!!

Thanks for the review of the lip primer. I think I'm going to get that next time there's a 20% off.

Edit to add - try the lipstick again with other make up. I don't think bare face will have done it justice, however I agree it does have a brownish/neutral type undertone. It's less pink than I expected from the photo.

unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work for the advent calendar

I added the edits and didnt work. Presume pulled. X

I think I should warn everyone as we all tend to buy the same stuff etc so no doubt some of you will have it in your stash. I've had what seems like an allergic reaction to the myblend revitalising eye cream. I started using it a few days ago and yesterday a huge sore appeared under my right eye, then last night one came up under my left eye. I've woken up with a few more today. They are really painful, I do have sensitive eyes, but I've only ever had this reaction once before and that was to dove cleansing wipes when I was about 12.

Thanks @JoRaRaRa

I've had a lovely morning but I have to agree with you, it just didn't feel as special as last year. The Beach Club in the summer was much better in terms of freebies.

I was there for opening - one improvement, they had opened the game before the store opened so people could get their prize, that was a pain last year - so went straight to Clarins. They checked my foundation and we changed the shade for winter. One of the products I wanted was OOS, but I still got the GWP as I would have spent enough.

As I couldn't pay until 11, I went for a wander. It wasn't busy. The consultant on YSL asked if I wanted to try their foundation. So I did 😆 I ended up buying it (gorgeous packaging) and a lipstick so spent a lot more than anticipated. The consultant had been at Sephoria so we were having a chat about that and the fact that the store wasn't busy. He was lovely!

In the meanwhile, the Clarins consultant had been to the stockroom and found the product she didn't have on display.

I was lucky to go through the till at exactly 11 so was 2nd in the queue for samples. I agree with JoRa that they were small and more limited in choice. I got 2 fragrances because they were the best things on offer.

Sample wise, I had 5 from the Carnival, a GWP at Clarins and a brush, fragrance and 3 facial samples from YSL.
Overall, it was nice but not 'special'.

Please can someone send me the details for the fairy on Vinted. Thanks.

I tried LE Spinel in SpaceNK today. It looked absolutely awful on me so glad I didn’t order it blind. I also tried the Sarah Creal concealer. I think I could wear either 3.25 or 4. I walked away with both on my face to look at later. I will probably order it online now. I like the consistency and a little goes a long way. I use The Minimalist as a concealer at the moment but handy perhaps to have a proper heavy duty concealer.

Delurking to ask if the fairy is back on vinted or now selling elsewhere? I’d really like a Cult Beauty GWP! 😊

Also influenced by the Sarah Creal conversations and picked one of the undereye correctors up in SpaceNK today. I’ll report back! Along with a Glossier cloud paint plush blush in billow which is a lavender shade. Apparently good for summer colouring which I am, but I need another blush like a hole in the head 🤣

Fairy has a WhatsApp group you can join and they post what they have available. They announced today they should have the new gwp tomorrow