offer

Well, that's a catchy title.

It's a really good deal though. 750 Advantage Card points is £7.50 worth of free money (well, that's how I see it anyway), and you can get it by buying three things from any of the following ranges:

• Benefit
• Biotherm
• Chanel
• Clarins
• Clinique
  
• Dior
• Elizabeth Arden
• Estee Lauder
• Lancome
• Origins
• YSL

I really like that this offer runs across several brands - often I'm hard pushed to find 3 things I don't already have need within the one line.

The offer runs until Christmas Eve on Boots.com.

Well, I tried to alliterate as much of that title as possible, and mostly failed.

If you're in and around South West London much, you might be interested in some excellent Christmas offers from UR Beautiful, the surburban outpost of the Urban Retreat spa, which is located in Kingston-upon-Thames. Over the festive period they are offering a number of packages from £35 (1 hour 30m) to £150 (4 hours).

For £35, you could have a eyebrow shape, blow dry, and express manicure, or at the top of the scale, £150 will get you a facial, lash application, blow dry, and luxury manicure and pedicure. And each package comes with a 150ml Urban Retreat body shimmer to take away too.

The UR Beautiful spa is my local favourite; I've reviewed it in the past and would recommend it to anyone; at these prices, a visit is looking like a certainty in the very near future!

More details of all the packages can be found at the UR Beautiful website.

Space NK give us an offer that should make all the British beauty lovers feel better about not getting any Friends and Family sales on our side of the pond.

Using the code "FF201", you can get 20% off every product online. The offer runs from Thursday, 19th November, to 11.59pm on Saturday, 21st November. Maybe I can afford that Clarisonic after all....

Here's nails inc's "Victoria" polish as worn on my short nails. It's a very very deep red, though it just about manages not to look brown when worn. A true red-black. This is three coats.

Glamour magazine are giving away Victoria with their December issue along with 3 other shades - Tate (bright red), South Molton Street (neutral pink) and Piccadilly Circus (hot pink). You can see the shades at the nails inc website.

Glamour costs £2, so even if you don't read the magazine this is an £8.50 saving on the RRP of these shades. Worth buying a couple! All shades are boxed, so you could also give them as gifts if you're not a particular fan of the colours.

You're probably going to read a lot about this over the next few weeks, as it's a fantastic deal.  As of Saturday 17th July, Illamasqua is offering 25% off the price of an item for every item of unused, unwanted makeup you bring to the counter.  So if you bring two old bits of slap, you get 25% off any two new bits of slap, etc.  Lovely.

The old slap in question can be any brand, and in any condition - smashed, used up, or just generally unloved.  Sounds like a great deal to us!  Find the deal on between 17th - 31st July at Illamasqua's UK counters: Selfridges, London, Birmingham Bullring and Trafford Centre; Fenwick Newcastle; BT2 Grafton Street Dublin; and Debenhams Glasgow, Belfast and Cardiff.

What will you be trading in?  I've got a few old and broken MAC longwear lipsticks I was planning to turn into new MAC lipsticks - but now might be turning them into Illamasqua blushers instead!

Wahanda have diversified their Mobdeal offerings outside of the cut-price treatments category.  Today, they're offering a Thalgo skincare set for £21.50, a saving of 56% on the £48.95 RRP.  The set includes a night cream, eye contour cream, and face mask.

We've long loved Wahanda for their fabulous treatment offers which make spa visits less of a rare treat and more affordable for all.  With a brand as exclusive and well known as Thalgo for their first product deal, hopefully this marks the beginning of luxe products becoming more accessible too!

What makes this deal even more attractive is that it's not as geographically constrained as the existing treatment-based mobdeals - so those of you who weren't previously able to take advantage can now grab some bargains for yourselves.  If you'd like to grab a Thalgo skincare set, you can grab the deal today only at Wahanda.com.

On June 15th, Liz Earle will be celebrating their fifteenth anniversary by "going back to their roots" and selling their iconic Cleanse and Polish product at the price at which it originally launched.  You'll make a saving of £3.50, as the original launch price was £9.50 - and today's retail price is £13.

The offer is available for one day only, the 15th June, via the Liz Earle website, so if you're a fan of Cleanse and Polish, mark this one in your diary and stock up!

A message sent out today from The Makeup Artist Boutique;

From today 4th May until 11th May we will be running May Madness!

During May Madness all products will be subject to 10% discount. If you are a member of the Industry Discount program this will mean a total of 30% off.

On to the other news; Hush and Grandma Lip Tars are now back in stock and the new shade Memento will be available for pre-order from 20th May for delivery in the first week of June.

A portion of the sale price from sales of Memento will be donated to Breast Cancer Care so not only will you have a cute new color you will also be doing your bit for women around the country.

Visit The Makeup Artist Boutique today to pick up your bargains!

We will be trialling bareMinerals Original Foundation from Bare Escentuals over the next couple of weeks, and will bring you a review once we've given it a thorough road test.
In the meantime, we thought you might like to know that you can currently have your shade matched at your local Bare Escentuals counter as part of their "ReThink Your Foundation" promotion, and receive a free 10 day sample and miniature brush to take home. (All the better to chip in with your thoughts when we do our review.)
For more details and to find the counter nearest you, visit the Bare Escentuals site.

Last week we reported that the Makeup Artist Boutique would be stocking OCC products, making them the first place in the UK to do so.  Their pre-order period begins today - orders are expected to begin shipping on March 23rd.

Find the full list of Lip Tars available here. A little birdie tells me that 4 brand new shades will be added over the weekend as OCC launch them!

If you decide to indulge, remember to use your 10% discount code- enter "OCCLBR" at checkout.

Here's some fabulous news for those of you who are lusting over Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetic's Lip Tars, and were unable to get hold of one at IMATS this year.

We've received word that the Makeup Artist Boutique, who currently stock Yaby Cosmetics in the UK, have plans to bring OCC makeup to our shores mid March. Prices are set to be £8.99 for Lip Tars, £6.99 for lip balms, and £7.49 for Loose Color Concentrates/Glitters/Pure Pigments. Pricing on nail colours and airbrush products are to be confirmed at a later date.

The Makeup Artist Boutique also tell us that they'll be starting a special deal around two weeks before the shipment of OCC goodies come in which will bag you 10% off all OCC pre-orders, using the code they have given us for you lovely people: use "OCCLBR" at checkout.

There are a number of beauty competitions and offers floating around on the web at the moment, so we thought we'd sum them up for you.

Firstly, our own competition is running for just over another week, and includes two prizes of lovely beauty things. Open to all, UK based or not, find out more here, and get your entries in by 27th February.

Secondly, SpaceNK are running two promotions of note: firstly, the chance to win an entire collection from both NARS and Oribe - well worth entering, and open til March 2nd. Additionally, they're running an insider only beauty evening in-store; you can purchase a ticket for £10 up until 23rd February, which'll grant you access to the event on the evening of the 24th February. You'll scoop a goodie bag as well as hints, tips, and tricks from SpaceNK artists. Find your nearest store to buy your ticket.

BeautyBay.com are running a Facebook competition; you could win your favourite beauty product just by talking about a product you absolutely can't live without. Only two days left to enter this, so comment quickly!

BrandAlley are having a Pop Beauty and Pixi sale; prices from £2.50 (plus p&p). You'll need to join up to take advantage though, and postage is often slow - most things are posted after the sale ends, which for this is on the 21st February.

MAC Cosmetics are offering free shipping til Sunday: use code SHIPFEB at the checkout.

If you know of any other competitions or offers going on... share the love in the comments!

Ah, those folk at Cherry Culture seem to know exactly when I tell myself that I don't need any more product and must save up a bit of cash. A discount code good for 20% off anything on the site has emerged for Valentine's Day. Use code 'JT4V' between February 3rd and 8th.

Shipping from Cherry Culture is reasonable and fast, and they have some lovely brands that are hard to find here, like NYX (try a lipstick - they're amazing).

I must not buy a Beauty Blender, I must not buy a Beauty Blender.....

Wahanda describe themselves as a "health, beauty and wellness ecosystem". Their site contains listings of heath centres, spas and salons nationwide, as well as information on individual treatments, therapies and classes. Founded by veterans of LastMinute.com and Yahoo!, they're a growing source of information and deals in the health and beauty area.

Recently, they've started offering Mob Deals - whereby a particular treatment is offered at a heavily discounted price, provided that enough people sign up to it. The sign up numbers are small; usually between 15 - 25, and the discounts are pretty significant, making this a good one to watch day-to-day. For example, today's Mob Deal is a Bespoke Facial at Dove Spa Mayfair (within Virgin Active fitness centre). Usually priced at a reasonable £31, Wahanda are offering it for just £10 today, assuming 25 people sign up. The only downside is that for the moment, the deals are all centred in and around London.

If you'd like to put this on your interest list, you can find the latest deal on Wahanda's website - I think I'll be checking back every day in the hope of securing a cut-price treat!