Two of my favourite beauty gift bag events in one week? I feel like it is my birthday and Christmas both at the same time (or something!).
Barneys New York Love Yourself event started on Wednesday and ends today so there's still time to make a list and swag a goody bag either in store or at barneys.com
All of the bounty pictured above comes packed in a camo toiletries bag and is free when you spend $200.00 (pre tax) or more in their beauty department.
Things to Know about the Love Yourself Event.
As with the SpaceNK event don't go crazy and purchase things that you don't need merely to get the free gift bag. There will be another Love yourself bag available in March so if you don't need to shop right now hang on in there for that one. (Having said that Barneys have lots of things that would be perfect for holiday gifts so you could get a head start on your holiday shopping and keep the bag for yourself...)
Barneys have a good selection of men's grooming brands and offer a choice of male or female gift bags - both are good, so compare and contrast the bags rather than automatically opting for the female one. As a rule the male bag usually has fewer products but more of them are full sized or deluxe.
During this event various brands offer step up gifts when you spend a certain amount within that brand. Some of these gifts are very good and you can stack the gifts from different brands into one order. Do ask about step up gifts when you shop or check them out online.
The toiletry bags that come with this promotion are always very well made and stylish, they are great for organising things as well as travel.
The Gift.
This GWP contains twenty three samples and two full sized products. While the Space NK GWP tends to focus on skincare the Barneys gift is more varied. This one contains one full sized and ten sample skincare items, five haircare products, three perfume samples, four lip colours, one of which is full sized, along with a mini shower gel and a small tube of toothpaste.
Skincare.
I'm excited to get more Vitamin C skincare in the form of a full sized Vitabird C12 Face Brightener, a powdered Vitamin C that you mix into your usual serum or cream, there are a few other companies who have recently released this type of product so I'm interested to test this out.
I'm happy to have a ByTerry Liftessence Day Cream sample as I received the nighttime version of this in the Space NK gift and look forward to trying them in tandem.
I'm curious about the Malin+Goetz Eye Cream, I'm generally not big on their facial products but who knows maybe I will enjoy this.
One thing that I always love about these Barneys bags are the inclusion of some very high end product samples such as the ones here from La Mer, Sisley and 3Lab. These are always fun to try for free although I'm always worried I will fall in love with one or more of them! Finally there's a sample of Rodin Olio Lusso which is fabulous, in fact it is one of my favourite facial oils.
Haircare.
The haircare items are all generously sized. I'm especially keen to try out the Shu Uemera Cleansing Oil Shampoo which smells lovely and sounds intriguing.
Although I have a lot of masks, and texurising/salt sprays I don't mind to get more free as it means I don't ever have to buy these items!
Make Up.
I'm pleased to have another Hourglass Girl Lip Stylo in the shade 'Peacemaker' (this along with Mila Moursi Cellular Renewal Cream is the only duplicate product from the Space NK bag) and I will use the mini Nars velvet Lip Glide.
The full sized Lipstick Queen Eden Lipstick and mini Givenchy Noir Revelateur are both colours I won't use so I will give these away.
Perfume.
I'm always happy to get perfume vials to try out! There are three in this bag, I always look forward to the Byredo ones which, although they don't last on my skin, are unusual and intriguing.
Bodycare.
Molton Brown Body Washes feel very luxurious and leave the bathroom delightfully perfumed. I'm saving this Eucalyptus one, which smells warm and comforting, for the cooler weather.
Finally, I love these mini tubes of Marvis Toothpaste, not only are they handy for trips they are kind of fancy for a toothpaste!
What I Bought and Step Up Gifts.
The bulk of my purchases at Barneys Love Youself are usually things from Kiehl's that Mr C&C likes to use. This time I made sure that he was restocked with their Facial Fuel Face Wash and Facial Fuel Face Treatment SPF15. Another favourite of his is the Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream and I picked up a big pot of this for him to slather on throughout the winter. He also needed a new eye cream so I bought him some Powerful Strength Line Reducing Eye Brightening Cream as he already uses and loves the serum in this range.
I always purchase a tube of Chantecaille Just Skin Tinted Moisturiser for myself at this event, a tube lasts me just about six months so I'm always in need of one when it is on. This year I also bought a Chantecaille Anti Fatigue Corrector Pen, I am just about to run out of my current illuminating pen. This brightening formula, delivered in a click brush format, is basically a version of Touch Eclat but it also works as a treatment, containing peptides to rejuvenate the delicate skin around the eye this also helps smooth the under eye area.
This year Kiehl's weren't offering a step up gift but their S/A gave me some deluxe samples of Midnight Recovery Botanical Cleansing Oil, Powerful line Reducing Concentrate, Super Multi Corrective Cream and Turmeric and Cranberry Energizing Radiance Mask.
Chantecaille's step up gift was a green clutch style bag with samples of Rose de Mai Cream, Rice and Geranium Foaming Cleanser and Bio Lifting Mask. These are lovely products and while they may not look particularly impressive they have a value of $52.00!
I'm very happy with all my purchases and gifts, but I'm not done yet! I'm waiting for a Cult Beauty delivery and then I think that that will be my beauty purchases complete for the rest of the year - I've certainly enough samples to last for quite some time as well as a cabinet brimming with full sized ones.
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