£18 Boots No.7 cosmetics for £4.50

£18 Boots No.7 cosmetics for £4.50
Combine money off vouchers with 3for2 deal

Get by: Sun 7 Oct 2012

How: This is a fiddly, but delicious little bit of extreme MoneySaving for all those updating their make-up and skincare for winter. The trick is that you ‘stack’ multiple promotions to get potentially huge discounts on skincare and make-up.

This is how you grab it…

1. First you have to spend £5 in-store to get the voucher. This can be on anything, so ideally use it for something you need.

2. Once done, you'll get two vouchers, one for £5-off No.7 skincare and one for £3-off No.7; make-up.

3. Then use the vouchers in conjunction with the current 3for2 offer on most No.7 products. You must buy at least one skincare item and one make-up item. As make-up's much cheaper than skincare, picking two make-up items and one skincare will maximise the 3for2 saving.

For example: One pack of £7 facial wipes (for skincare), plus two £5.50 nail varnishes (for make-up), without promotions, comes to £18. However, the 3for2 will remove the price of one nail varnish. Then use your vouchers to take £5 off the wipes and £3 off the remaining varnish. This will take your grand total to £4.50.

4. Bump up the £4.50 spend to £5 with something cheap (preferably something you need), and you'll get two more No.7 vouchers!

The detail: The offer excludes gift sets, electrical beauty, beauty services, gifts marked with the green Christmas stickers and reduced-price items. Also, only one voucher can be redeemed per item.

Of course, you don't have to get face wipes and 2x nail polishes, that's just the cheapest we've seen. To ensure the saving is big stick to the one skincare, two make-up items rule; and ensure the cheapest item isn't far cheaper than the next dearest. It's best to get the things you are missing out of your make-up kit rather than items you don't need just because it's the cheapest option.

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