After a few bad online shopping from House of Fraser, I decided to give them one more chance to redeem themselves after all, they did issue me a voucher as a gesture of goodwill.
I love Laura Mercier cosmetics – their primer is definitely a HG product for me along with the brow kit and some of their beautiful makeup brushes. I am getting married in 6 weeks time (eeek) and am having my makeup done by a good friend who is a freelance makeup artist who trained with Laura Mercier and is still an ambassador of their products.
As I browsed HoF’s site, I spotted the Laura’s Secrets Flawless Lip set (as below) which was priced at £39.00, (not a bad priced considering 3 of the items add up to £48.00 individually) and just knew I had to have it! I logged onto one of my favourite blogs, Beaut and was reliably informed by a few fellow readers that HoF were in fact starting a two day event that evening which would include a 10% discount on cosmetics – happy days I thought!
I logged back onto HoF later than evening and was delighted to discover that the above set had been reduced to £17.55, less than half price! Spurred on by this and my sheer curiosity, I decided to see what other bargains were to be had and to make a long story short I end up buying the 3 sets below for a total of £58.95 with free delivery:
Set 1: Laura Mercier Celebration Face Palette (£18.90)
I’m delighted to say that my order from HoF arrived hassle free this time!
I will blog about each set individually as I use them but for now, I’m just staring at their prettiness!!
Aisling
June 3, 2011 at 4:56 pm
Welcome to the blogging world! Looking forward to following your posts…
YourBeauty
June 3, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Those sets look wonderful, very wearable. The prices were also very good for the value, cant wait for your future posts x
Anonymous
June 3, 2011 at 9:13 pm
They look fabulous! The Flawless Lips set especially. Really looking forward to reading your reviews. Blog looks great! :)CherrySue x
Emz
June 3, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Thanks for the comments ladies – hoping to try out at least one set this weekend. So chuffed with my bargains 🙂
cornflakegirl
June 5, 2011 at 3:27 pm
Brilliant bargains there. I've never tried Laura Mercier products (I really must rectify this).
Gigi
June 6, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Delighted to see another Laura Mercier fan! I've had a few purchases from House of Fraser for LM sets too – colour wardrobe and a set of kohl eye liners. It's mad how they sell them off. Great for us as you'd never see them reduced in BTs.
Emz
June 6, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Cornfllakegirl – rectify immediately Gigi – couldn't believe they were on sale, will be keeping a closer eye for other such bargains from now on! Definitely wouldn't find deals like that in BT.