Yes, I know, I’ve been doing a lot of themed articles lately! At the same time, I really like it, and it allows me to share all the great deals I have up my sleeve right now. So, here I am back with a special beauty deals article, which I hope will give you some interesting leads in the field.
I have compiled a good number of beauty deals in this article that I also update regularly, which therefore includes recent news (for example, this article contains deals updated in 2021!). And so that new additions are visible quickly, I add them at the beginning of the article, so you can easily identify them.
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My product tests with Trust Beauty
Trustbeauty is a community platform combining profiles, reviews, and recommendations from women and influencers around beauty and wellness themes. I have been registered on this platform (formerly Mon Vanity Idéal) myself for several years, and I find the concept truly great.
The really great thing about this site is that it also offers many tests of beauty, makeup, and wellness products to its community. The principle is simple: you sign up as a “tester” and apply for tests based on your desires and preferences.
Obviously, these tests are completely free, and we receive the product in full size for testing, which we can then keep, of course. After the test phase, we must post a sincere review of the product on the site and also a photo of the product if possible. For each product, the site selects a relevant and diverse panel according to the actions and specificities of the product.
Below, I show you in photos some products that I had the opportunity to test with Trustbeauty for different brands (and you can find my reviews on these products on the Trustbeauty site):
- Naturaloé: a brand that has been offering food supplements and Cosmebio-certified cosmetics since 2002, based on organic Aloe Vera and 100% natural origin.
- MyMaquillage: this makeup and cosmetics platform offers affordable, organic, vegan, and 100% cruelty-free makeup.
- Cattier: this brand, which has existed since 1968, is a pioneer in organic and natural cosmetics.
- Algologie: this brand has its laboratories and our factory facing the Bréhat Archipelago in Brittany and offers products with algae, minerals, vegetable oils, and seawater.
- Saeve: this brand of natural and healthy cosmetics offers products based on organic birch sap elixir & organic chaga.
- le Moulin de mon Père: this brand specializes in organic virgin vegetable oils in the heart of Provence.
- Héliabrine: this brand was created in 1976 in Monaco, and I tested their rebalancing cream with organic sweet clover and blue daisy, as well as their AHA satin body cream (fruit active ingredients).
- Natorigin: a high-tolerance brand that offers natural makeup for sensitive or allergic skin.
- Marilou bio: a small French company of organic products with ecological and human values.
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Weleda Bioty Tour
This event organized by Weleda in many French cities until next December 2nd is truly a very, very good deal! Indeed, participants in these girl-only pampering evenings will be able to discover the brand’s different products and test relaxing massages with Weleda treatments for free.
Also on the program for these beauty aperitifs: an organic buffet, makeup, nail, and hair bars.
To be among the lucky ones, you just need to register on the dedicated website.
Dates:
- Thursday, October 9 in Montpellier
- Wednesday, October 15 in Toulouse
- Friday, October 17 in Bordeaux
- Friday, November 7 in Reims
- Friday, November 14 at Espace Weleda in Paris
- Friday, November 21 in Mulhouse
- Tuesday, December 2 in Paris with a private wellness concert by Joyce Jonathan
The Deal: for the evening of November 14 in Paris, the brand’s ambassador, Joyce Jonathan, will even perform a private live concert.
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The Make Up Vans with Urban Decay, Sephora, My Little Paris, and Uber
This weekend, to celebrate the launch of their new Perversion mascara, Urban Decay is offering Parisians a unique beauty experience aboard Make Up Vans.
This Friday, October 24, and Saturday, October 25, experience a luxurious start to your night: order your Uber chauffeur for free and hop in with 3 of your friends in one of the 20 Make Up Vans circulating in the capital from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
A professional makeup artist will welcome you on board and apply your makeup during the ride with the dark Urban Decay look.
Your private driver can choose to drop you off at your own party or at one of the 4 secret destinations unearthed by My Little Paris (your choice of a grizzly-style bar, a curiosity cabinet, or the bar where Sartre and De Beauvoir used to meet).
Once ready, the driver will give you a bag containing a voucher to pick up a mini-Perversion mascara at a Sephora store and emergency tights from the Gambettes Box collection.
To book, simply download the Uber app and enter the code Make Up Van in the promotion tab. Select the Make Up Van option at the bottom right of the app and order your Make Up Van for free.
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Cherche beauté, a beauty shop at low prices
It’s not often, but here is a deal I haven’t tested but was whispered to me by one of my readers…
Brand-name makeup, skincare creams, Clarins and Roc sun care, this shop offers products at discounted prices (for example, Essie polishes as well as L’Oreal and Gemey mascaras are €6). To be discovered, therefore, to see if this deal is really worth it…
Cherche beauté 119 rue du cherche midi - 75006 Paris
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Le Manuel Militant des Coquettes: to steal ideas from the pros
Le Manuel Militant des Coquettes (The Militant Coquettes’ Manual) is a beauty-guide from a new collection branded Made In Sephora, the house brand signed by Sephora.
Imagined as a truly quirky beauty manual, this anti-fuss manifesto advocates not suffering to be beautiful and campaigns for daily good humor in the bathroom.
This playground is a real little laboratory where the brand’s team tests and deciphers the desires and “real” needs of today’s girls to give us tips to acquire professional know-how.
The Manual is structured around 7 flagship sections: the Anonymous Heroines’ Club, stealing time, the Curiosity Lab, rogue techniques, stealing ideas from the pros, twisting your bathroom, not to mention “and what about the men in all this?”.
Manuel Militant des Coquettes 192 pages - 20,000 copies Price: €14.95
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Lafayette Conseil launches Product Testing
With an average of more than 40,000 visits per day in its network pharmacies, Pharmacie Lafayette also offers an online “deals” service.
On the program: test major brand products for free and give your opinion (up to 4 Product Testing campaigns per month).
To participate, nothing could be simpler: just submit your application on this site, and if it meets the selection criteria, you will become a Tester Member and receive the products to test directly at your home.
The products come from both major brands offering their new releases and more confidential brands that wish to become better known. Once the products are tested, you will be invited to give your opinion via an online questionnaire.
Calling all enthusiasts, at least five sessions will be launched by the end of the year, so don’t hesitate to sign up!
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Best Cosmetics Guide 2015-2016
Published this month, this new 2015-2016 edition features over 8,000 evaluated products from 555 brands and remains a reference for choosing your cosmetics without making a mistake.
The guide is intended for everyone concerned about using healthy, safe, effective, and pleasant cosmetics that will respect their skin, health… and wallet!
This book offers a selection of the best products based on objective criteria: formula interest and effectiveness, skin tolerance, pleasure of use, compliance of labeling with regulations, price/quality ratio, precautionary principle (toxic or polluting potential).
The little plus: a ranking established by a jury of independent experts.
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Happy Girls Evenings
The Happy Days Studio transforms once a month on a Thursday into a bubble of relaxation for women to offer them an evening dedicated to wellness in its entirety.
To be honest with you, when I went to discover the concept, I had put myself in the position of the reluctant girl, who wants to see but without immersion in the atmosphere, in “I’m just an observer” mode. And finally, much to my own surprise and for my greatest pleasure, I loosened up as the evening went on, and here below is the photo that summarizes my state when I left: “fully energized for the week”.
So how did I end up there? At the beginning of the evening, I was hesitant. I finally agreed to play along by having a small cider cocktail from Sassy (well, I don’t need to introduce them anymore, I already talked about them on the blog). I then let myself be tempted by a little divination session (very interesting), which I followed up with a makeup and hair break, and I found myself without even realizing it in front of the photographer’s lens, even though after the Nana experience I told myself “never again!”.
The photos speak for themselves, I think, I was good, relaxed, I felt beautiful, I laughed, and I left feeling light even though my mood was black as coal when I arrived. This is also due to the undeniable talent of Ilan Sabban, particularly gifted at putting you at ease in front of the lens and brilliant at capturing the best of you.
I can tell you that I was the first to be surprised by the result, and when I look at the photos from the shoot, it makes me smile again.
So there, I don’t know about others, but you could say the Happy Girls magic worked on me and that I took a real moment for myself with lots of happiness. An outing to do with girlfriends, therefore, or all alone to boost your morale and treat yourself to a moment just for you.
Next dates:
- Thursday, April 7
- Thursday, May 19
- Thursday, June 16
Happy Days Studio
1 & 1bis rue Lemercier 75017 Paris
Happy Girls Evening: €119 all-inclusive (makeover, photo shoot session, fortune-telling tarot session or wine tasting class, champagne and appetizers) otherwise the evening entrance alone costs €20 + possibility of taking à la carte activities
The deal for my readers (by mentioning you came from me):
- entrance at €15 instead of €20
- a Love prophecy tarot game offered with the purchase of a clairvoyance consultation with Sabine Sikarcioglu
- a 20 x 30 cm paper print offered with the purchase of the photo workshop
By reservation at 06 68 12 95 65 / contact@happydaysstudio.com
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The Digital Beauty Award by Aufeminin
If you follow me on instagram, you must have seen that I am a Beauty of the Year ambassador for the 1st Digital Beauty Award. Concretely, that means I received lots (really lots) of products to test at home to then give my opinion on them.
The deal: if you also want to receive one of these pretty Beauty gift sets (perhaps more for next year’s award, because for the 2016 edition, I think it’s wrapped up since the awards ceremony will take place on May 28th), you can submit your application here to become a #BeautyOfTheYear tester.
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The back-to-school beauty deal with Vichy
The Vichy brand has decided to make back-to-school rhyme with gifts by offering a nice iPad pouch for the purchase of a facial treatment and a complexion product within the Vichy range (Teint Ideal, Dermablend, Liftactiv Flexilift Teint, Lumineuse).
This nice felt iPad pouch comes in three colors: yellow, pink, and green and has been available in pharmacies and parapharmacies since September.
Vichy CONTEST:
Vichy is offering 5 pouches to my readers. The pouch also contains an Aqua Thermal Serum as well as a Teint Idéal Light Foundation (shade 15 ivory or 35 sand).
To participate, just leave a comment below this article telling me what your beauty deals of the moment are.
A lucky draw among the answers to this question will designate the 5 winners of the prizes. Good luck to everyone!
Rules:
– Contest limited to Metropolitan France
– +1 chance if you are a fan of the blog’s facebook page; +1 chance if you follow the blog’s twitter page; +1 chance if you follow the blog’s hellocoton page + 1 chance if you follow the blog’s Instagram page + 1 chance for each article share (don’t forget to leave your pseudonyms in your comment if you want to benefit from extra chance(s))
– 1 entry per IP address
– contest start date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 – deadline for participation: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 and results the next day on the blog in an edit of this article
EDIT of October 30, 2014:
Following the lucky draw, I announce that the 5 winners of the Vichy prize are Paola, Chartrain Sophie, Leeley, Audrey Schmitz, and Carole Herbin.
Congratulations to you, I will contact you by email soon so you can give me your contact details.
Thank you all for your numerous participations!
