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Bobbi Brown Cosmetics Friends & Family 20% Off Sale Extended!

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 | General, Makeup, Sales, Skincare, Stores | Comments Off

Good news!  The Bobbi Brown Cosmetics Friends & Family sale I posted about has just been extended for 1 more day!  (I know – Why extend it for just one day when you could extend it for a week?)

The Bobbi Brown Friends & Family code BFF08A is now good until midnight ET on December 4, 2008.

It’s good for 20% off any online order of Bobbi Brown products, with free shipping and free samples.

Tags: Bobbi Brown, codes, Discount, extended, free shipping, Free Stuff, sale

More Friends & Family Sales: Bobbi Brown Cosmetics 20% Off with Free Shipping

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008 | Free Stuff, Makeup, Sales, Skincare, Stores | 2 Comments

I am please to report that Ms. Bobbi Brown has relented, and she is following the trend among beauty retailers and having a (brief) first-ever Friends & Family sale at Bobbi Brown Cosmetics!

Bobbi Brown Cosmetics Friends & Family Code: BFF08A

Discount:  20% off any order + free shipping + free samples

When:  December 2 & 3, 2008  [Extended to December 4]

This may be a good time to try one (or two) of the Bobbi Brown makeup palettes, such as the Limited Edition Mauve Palette or Lip & Eye Palette.

Happy Shopping from Meilily!

[Thanks to the ladies at emakemeup.com for posting]

Tags: Bobbi Brown, codes, cosmetics, Discount, free shipping, Friends and Family Sale, lipstick, Makeup, palette, sale, samples

Cyber Monday Beauty Discounts: Tarte Cosmetics

Monday, December 1st, 2008 | Free Stuff, Makeup, Sales, Stores | Comments Off

Happy Cyber Monday!

There are a lot of one-day only sales going on today, including 50% off select beauty products on the Tarte Cosmetics website, with free shipping over $25, and a free gift with purchase (a Tarte Pandora’s Box set). Also, Tarte is offering free samples for December online orders.

Code: cybermonday  (expires 12.2.2008)

Meilily says: Save Beautifully!

Tags: Beauty, codes, Discount, free shipping, gift with purchase, sale, tarte

Limited Time Only: Invitation Codes to Member-Only Online Designer Sales with Bonus Credits!

Friday, November 28th, 2008 | General, Lingerie, Sales, Skincare, Stores | 1 Comment

The latest development in online shopping is member-only websites selling designer products at large discounts. These member-only shopping sites, such as Gilt.com and Hautelook.com, notify their members of the online sales on a per-designer basis, but there’s a catch: each online sale only lasts for a limited time before “closing.”

These member-only sites work largely on the basis of generating urgency and feelings of exclusivity, and certain products sell out quite quickly. Unfortunately, sites such as HauteLook.com often do not ship products until well after the end of the sales period, so shoppers may have to give up some shipping speed in exchange for prices that are usually 50-70% off retail.

Here are some limited time only invitation codes provided by InStyle Magazine:
- Hautelook.com code: “instyle” (membership plus $20 off first purchase) until December 1, 2008.
- Gilt Groupe invite: go to http://www.gilt.com/whatsnow (membership plus $10 off first order) until November 31, 2008.

[While these offers have ended, you can still use this Gilt Groupe invitation link from Meilily to join Gilt and start shopping designer sales!)

So, in the name of research, I used these invitation codes from the November 2008 issue of InStyle magazine and signed up › Continue reading

Tags: codes, exclusive, Gilt Groupe, HauteLook, Ideeli, InStyle, membership-only, Sales, Stila

Teachers and Students Get 15% off J.Crew!

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 | General, Sales, Stores | 1 Comment

Know any fashionable teachers or students out there? Well, J.Crew is offering all teachers and college students a 15% discount off of any in-store purchase. This is a great ongoing, but little-known, discount for teachers (with a valid school ID) and students (with a valid student ID).

J.Crew currently does not seem to limit the use of the discount, except to purchases in-store with proper ID, so it is a great discount to combine with a J.Crew sale.

[I tried using the 15% student discount on top of a storewide 20% off sale, and it worked quite easily!]

Meilily says:  Save Beautifully!

Tags: Discount, J.Crew, sale, student, teacher

Special Sale at Bliss!

Sunday, November 16th, 2008 | Fragrance, Lingerie, Makeup, Sales, Skincare, Stores | 3 Comments

Meilily Sale Alert: Bliss

Just wanted to let you know about a very special Bliss sale going on at blissworld.com:

The Bliss Employee Sale is going on right now for a limited time, and there have been a bunch of really nice, high-end cosmetics, skincare, and general beauty products on sale at huge discounts (up to 70% off).  Products have been selling out rather quickly during this sale, but there have been great deals on products ranging from Laura Mercier and Sue Devitt makeup to MBT shoes and Wolford lingerie.  Recently, Bliss even added more products to their Employee Sale online.

This is a great time to buy high-end products you normally covet but cannot afford.  [Just remember, the Bliss return policy does not seem to allow returns on sale items.]

(Courtesy of the lovely ladies at Emakemeup.com)

Tags: Bliss, Laura Mercier, Lingerie, Makeup, MBT, sale, Sales, Skincare, Sue Devitt, Wolford

Get Discounts for Recycling Empty Tarte Cosmetics Packaging!

Friday, November 7th, 2008 | General, Makeup, Sales, Stores | 3 Comments

Meilily Deal Tip: Tarte Customer Recycling Incentive Discount

Recycling + Shopping Discounts = Good!

Tarte Cosmetics has begun offering their customers incentives to recycle their empty Tarte product packaging.  Tarte’s customer recycling incentive program offers various discounts off of future purchases when customers send back their empty bottles, tubes, or tins of Tarte products.

Currently the Tarte recycling incentive applies only to returns of packaging from certain products, but that is understandable as only certain material is recyclable.  Though the recycling discounts are currently limited to future purchases from Tarte of a similar product type, the discounts will definitely help motivate me to send in my tube of Tarte Smooth Operator SPF 20 Foundation once it is empty.  Since Smooth Operator is one of my favorite foundations (in Incognito), and since I already plan on repurchasing more of it, the Tarte recycling discount is like the cherry on the cupcake.  I just have to remember to do it!

How the Tarte Recycling Incentive Program Works: › Continue reading

Tags: cosmetics, Discount, Makeup, recycle, recycle program, reuse, tarte

20% Friends & Family Discount at Sephora & Beauty.com

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 | Fragrance, Makeup, Sales, Skincare, Stores | Comments Off

Friends & Family Sale Notice - Sephora & Beauty.com

Meilily would like to alert you to some really great annual sales at these beauty retailers:

Sephora.com 20% off Friends & Family Sale:  November 6-10, 2008

Sephora.com code:  FF2008

Beauty.com 20% off Friends & Family Sale:  November 5-7, 2008

Beauty.com discount is only available via email clickthru, and does not apply to NARS or Kooba.

[From the lovely ladies at Emakemeup.com]

Tags: Beauty.com, Discount, Friends and Family Sale, Sephora

Shopping Strategy and Photos: Nordstrom Estee Lauder Gift with Purchase

Friday, October 31st, 2008 | Free Stuff, Makeup, Photos, Skincare, Stores | 1 Comment

Meilily's Nordstrom Estee Lauder Gift with Purchase '08

I have never really been tempted by Estee Lauder skincare or cosmetics, but the current Nordstrom Estee Lauder gift with purchase offer really made me pay attention.  Also, a study, recently mentioned in Allure magazine, wherein Estee Lauder’s Advanced Night Repair Serum Concentrate was shown to help prevent UV damage caught my attention too.

So, in the name of scientific investigation I went to Nordstrom and picked up the current Estee Lauder gift with purchase. Read on for shopping strategies and product photos.  › Continue reading

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Amazing Estee Lauder Gift at Nordstrom

Thursday, October 30th, 2008 | Fragrance, Free Stuff, Makeup, Sales, Stores | 2 Comments

Last Days!  Nordstrom Estee Lauder Gift with Purchase

If you are considering purchasing or trying anything from Estee Lauder anytime in the near future, this looks like a great time to buy.

Between October 15, 2008 and November 2, 2008, Nordstrom is offering a really nice and customizable gift with purchase package that includes 7 skincare and beauty items along with a multicolor cosmetic bag. It is truly a “package,” because it contains several non-filler gift items that you can pick and choose from yourself.  This current offer is one of the best gift with purchase packages I have seen from Estee Lauder, and the minimum purchase of $39.50 is pretty manageable.  › Continue reading

Tags: Beauty, Estee Lauder, gift with purchase, Nordstrom

Free Fragrance Samples: Nordstrom & Allure

Monday, October 27th, 2008 | Fragrance, Free Stuff, Stores | 2 Comments

Allure November 2008 issue

The latest issue of Allure, the November 2008 issue featuring Eva Longoria, is a veritable minefield of fragrance samples, ranging from Calvin Klein’s Secret Obsession to Paris Hilton’s new Fairy Dust. One of the best things about this issue of Allure, though, is the Beauty 101 guide to perfumes.

The Beauty 101 section in Allure usually features how-to cards with lists of recommended products on the back, but in this issue, the cards instead feature special fragrance offers from Nordstrom!  Allure teamed up with Nordstrom to bring us these fragrance offers for Nordstrom’s Fragrance Festival event.  Many of the tear-out cards are essentially vouchers for free perfume samples, redeemable at Nordstrom’s fragrance counters. [Warning, not all counters carry all the fragrances.] › Continue reading

Tags: Allure, Fragrance, Free Stuff, Nordstroms, samples, scent

$12.90 Jeans at A&F !

Friday, October 24th, 2008 | Sales, Stores | Comments Off

12.90 Abercrombie & Fitch Jeans

Abercrombie and Fitch (A&F) clothing gets a bum rap a lot of the time as clothing for mainstream zombies, but they actually have high quality fabrics, wearable designs, and a certain relaxed attitude toward partial nudity in advertising.  (I’m willing to overlook that last part.)

One of the best things about shopping at A&F is that their clothing occasionally goes on sale, at nice discounts at that.  Unfortunately A&F is also one of those high inventory turnaround stores where you may have to buy an item at full price if you really like it and want it in a particular size.  (I made the mistake once of passing over a cute coduroy A&F jacket while waiting for a sale, and ended up having to scour eBay for one in my size, only to discover the wide world of eBay Abercrombie knockoffs.)

Where was I?  Oh, yes.  $12.90 jeans! › Continue reading

Tags: Abercrombie & Fitch, deals, jeans, sale, shopping