Where can you find cosmetics? How I use expensive cosmetics for free

The prices for luxury cosmetics scare me. One part of me understands that good products cannot be cheap, but the other screams: “Five thousand for a tiny tube, are you out of your mind?”

Ekaterina Orlova

donates empty cans to Lash

In addition, for this money you can get a pig in a poke, because in the store it is difficult to understand what the foundation will look like in daylight. And it’s even more impossible to predict how a new sulfate-free shampoo will act.

I’ll tell you how I solved the problem with expensive cosmetics and what to do to get them for free or almost free.

Search for promotions

Many cosmetics stores hold promotions: for example, the online store of the La Roche Posay brand gives free skin care kits if you fill out a form on the website. Along with the kit, they offer a free visit to a dermatologist, but this promotion is not valid in all cities. In order not to miss it, you need to follow the updates on the site or subscribe to the newsletter.

Nivea has an Expert Club: you need to fill out a form on the website and they will send you a free sample. If you leave a review on social networks and review sites, your chance of getting a new product is higher.

Follow promotions of your favorite brands on websites, subscribe to their pages on social networks and newsletters - this way you will definitely be able to get something, if not for free, then at a big discount.

Don't be shy to ask for samples

Samples are given out in almost all cosmetics stores, including online stores. There are especially many of them during holidays and sales. For example, on Black Friday, Rive Gauche not only gave away samples, but also free face masks.

You can ask for samples from sellers and brand representatives. If you are interested in a product, but it is not yet clear how it will work with your skin, do not hesitate to explain this to your consultant. For example, like this:

“I really like this foundation, it looks good on my hand, but, unfortunately, this is not enough. I would like to check its shade in daylight and understand whether the product will fit well on my skin, and for this it needs to be prepared - at least moisturized. I don’t have the opportunity to do this in the store, but I also can’t blindly buy a product for 5 thousand. You would help me out a lot if you shared a sample.”

If the consultant really has a sample, he will not refuse. Be polite, smile, and success is guaranteed.

Bonus tip. It often happens that the consultant has run out of samples, but he is ready to give you some of the product with him, but there is nowhere to go. In such a case, carry a small jar-tablet with a volume of 5-10 ml in your bag and, if the consultant does not have a suitable container, ask to pour it there. Such jars are sold at Fix Price as part of travel kits; they cost around 100 rubles.

Trade in empty cosmetic bottles in exchange for new ones

Don't rush to throw away empty cosmetics jars - they may still come in handy. Some stores hold special promotions where you can return a certain number of empty bottles in exchange for new cosmetics.

Meet client days and hours

Many cosmetics stores have customer days and hours when some products can be purchased at a good discount.

Rive Gauche publishes a schedule of client days on its website. There you can find out when there will be promotions for a particular brand, how much you can save, and also the dates when you can easily get a customer gold card, which gives permanent discounts on almost the entire range of the store.

“Ile de Beaute” also has happy days; you can follow their schedule on the store’s website. There you can easily familiarize yourself with the program and sign up in advance for a free consultation with a specialist who will apply express makeup, talk about caring for your skin type and will not leave you without a gift. Discounts included.

Is it possible to get cosmetics for free without having your own blog on YouTube or Instagram? There are at least ten ways to receive products for testing or as a gift, and today I will tell you about them.

How it all started

Like many girls, while on maternity leave I began to limit myself in purchasing cosmetics, and there were three reasons for this:

1. While at home, I did not feel the need to apply a large amount of products (I only used mascara, pencil, eye shadow, and concealer).
2. I didn't have any spare money for cosmetic products.
3. Product consumption was lower than inventory levels, and expiration dates were gradually expiring.

At the same time, cosmetics remained my hobby, and the desire to try new things did not disappear.

I began to look for an opportunity to get the desired products for free, and for four years now I have been sent products for testing or as a gift from brands such as L'Oreal, MAC, Urban Decay, Vichy, Biotherm and many others. I got the opportunity not only to use shadows and creams at a cost higher than what I can safely afford for the family budget, but not even to buy household goods and textiles.

If you are interested in how to get free cosmetics or something else, I suggest you read my review-instructions.

Cosmetics for reviews

Register on the website Otzovik, Airekommend, Kosmetista or ReviewsPro, collect your review database and receive products as a gift for reviews. Of course, company managers won’t immediately ask you to test eye shadows and shampoos.

Your account should become interesting, gain views and positive responses from readers. Difficult?

No, it’s much easier than starting an Instagram page and spending money on its promotion. According to users of review sites, they were given products for free testing a couple of months after registering on the site.

I received this opportunity a year after registering on irecommend, but because I simply did not know about such bonuses for authors.

What should I do?

When you realize that you are ready to cooperate, write a letter to managers of cosmetic brands.

Hello! My name is Anna Ivanova, I am a blogger on the Otzovik website (link to page). I would like to offer you mutually beneficial cooperation on a barter basis: in exchange for the products provided, I will write an honest review with beautiful photographs and videos (optional). Sincerely.

How to find a manager?

You can write through the feedback form on the online store’s page or find its email on VKontakte or Facebook. As a rule, bloggers’ letters are answered (with polite refusal or agreement).

Discuss all the little things in advance, be honest with yourself and the reader, do not agree to take what you initially do not like.

Offers from companies

Fans of new products should follow the pages of major brands on Instagram or other social networks. From time to time, large companies organize competitions where you are required to indicate your skin type, wishes for the product and any page where you post photos, for example, on VKontakte.

Managers select lucky ones and send them new products in exchange for a short review.

Also useful in this regard is the website makeup\ru, where in the competitions section you can apply to participate in any testing of a new product or a hit from a cosmetic company.

Free Sample Sites

There are many freebie resources, and their goal is to spread information about cosmetics or other products. For example, they give a small sample of the cream, and if the buyer likes the product, he will buy the full-size version.

Such sites include:

• cosmobrand;
• probenick;
• probnicki;
• lookup;
• proberry and others.

Their idea is simple: you select products from the list, and they send it to you for free (shipping is paid by the user).

But, in my experience, you have to wait for cosmetics, fish for them, search for them, which ultimately takes a lot of time.

Blogger competitions

In order to increase the audience on Instagram or YouTube, bloggers hold competitions (Giveaways) where they give away cosmetics or other useful things.

All you need to do is subscribe to the blog and follow a few simple steps:

Winning a competition is not difficult if you follow a few rules:

• take part in giveaways from bloggers with a small audience - there is less competition;
• be active on his blog;
• write as many comments as possible under the competition posts.

It is unlikely that this method will suit many people, but if you have a lot of free time, why not?

Gifts with purchase

Most major online stores reward purchases with gifts.

To find such stores, enter the treasured phrases in a search engine:

• promotional code for a gift;
• gift for purchase;
• birthday gift for order.

Generous in this regard Yves Rocher, Dr Pierre Ricaud, Korean and mineral cosmetics stores.

For example, in the winter of 2018, I ordered cream from Pierre Rico and received perfume, lipstick and jewelry as a gift.

Of course, I get the most products for the review site, but other ways help fill my makeup bag. Do you receive cosmetics for free for testing?

Today I want to talk about such a burning topic as receiving cosmetics for review. We have already discussed whether this is good or bad, but this time we would like to discuss how exactly to get this cosmetics.

All new bloggers (and not only) want to get at least something for review. Not because it is free, but because it means that your work is appreciated, that you have achieved some success. But look at the situation soberly: if you were a representative of a company, would you send your products to a blogger who started a blog just yesterday? Naturally, if you have few views and subscribers, waiting for a flood of cooperation offers is not entirely reasonable. It takes some time for people to want to work with you. cook in this entire blogging environment, to find your own style and your readers, to be able to offer truly high-quality work.

But if you have been blogging for a long time, you have readers, your content is varied and useful, but you still have no offers for cooperation? The fact is that there are a lot of bloggers now, and representatives of the company with which you would like to collaborate simply do not know about your existence. Therefore they need help. Can write to the representative by email, politely explaining who you are and what you can do. It is quite possible that you will be able to convince the person that you are exactly the person they need.

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Another way to attract the attention of representatives is write a review about their products. For a brand to notice your post, you can tag the brand in a picture on Instagram or post a link in the brand’s official VKontakte group. Some brands even have special topics for bloggers those wishing to test products:

Personally, I have never written to brand representatives directly. I like the second method better, when I write about a particular product and let the brand know that here I am, here is my blog, this is how I work. If I write and write and a brand ignores me, maybe I just don’t fit into their concept, or they need bloggers with a lot of views and subscribers.

Not the most effective, but also a way - participation in companies on https://toprussianbloggers.ru/campaign/ First you need to register on the site, and then look at what offers there are, and if you are interested in something, propose your candidacy. The downside is that there are very few brands there, mostly not the most famous, and most of the offers are aimed at bloggers from Moscow.

These are my tips. Honestly, I sometimes envy other girls when they manage to get a collaboration with a brand that I would like to work with, but they are not interested in me. I don’t get upset about this for a long time, because if this happens, it means I just need to work even harder. If I were a PR agent, I wouldn’t send myself anything at all) So I’m very grateful to those who still risked collaborating with me)

Receiving perfume or cosmetic samples along with a purchase will probably please any girl. After all, these can be interesting new products that are always interesting to test. Or perhaps you will like the product, and another favorite will appear in your cosmetic bag.

Samples are produced and distributed by many cosmetic and perfume manufacturers. They need this in order to familiarize consumers with their products and interest potential buyers. And you don't have to make a purchase to receive samples. There are sites where you can order promotional products completely free of charge, without even spending a penny on delivery.

And since there is such an opportunity, why not inspire yourself with something interesting and new from the world of cosmetics or fragrances? Usually, to get free samples, you need to follow some simple steps. So, you may need:

• send a request by e-mail or fill out a ready-made form on the website, after which the manufacturer or store will send a trial sample of the product by mail;
• fill out a form or take a survey to receive a sample;
• take part in testing, that is, having tried the provided products in use, write a review about it on a certain site;
• subscribe to the newsletter or join the club.

Also, many companies hold competitions in which product samples are the prizes, but not everyone will receive gifts. By the way, promotional products are distributed mainly in the USA and Europe. And at the same time, sending samples to Russia is not always possible. And Russian companies conduct such advertising campaigns less often. But if you try, you can find interesting and affordable offers for samples of perfumes and cosmetics on various specialized sites. So, let's try to get the following tools for review.

YSL Eau de Parfum Sampler

Product name: An oriental floral fragrance for women, Belle d'Opium from Yves Saint Laurent.

Conditions for receiving: You must fill out a form.

Receiving scheme: We enter our data in Latin into a special ready-made form, namely, last name, first name, patronymic, full postal address, email and check the box next to agreement with the terms of the user agreement. Click the "Confirm" button and wait for the sample to be delivered by mail.

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Sebamed skin care sample

Product name: Sebamed brand products for sensitive or easily irritated skin. These are mild products with a pH of 5.5. Here you can choose a product for adults or children.

Conditions for receiving: You need to take a short survey and fill out a form.

Receiving scheme: Check the boxes next to the answers in the survey and enter your contact information. All data must be written in Latin.

Link to the site where you can get a free sample: http://sebamed.nl/nl/probeer-sebamed

Trial set of Leorex cosmetics

Product name: Leorex brand products. Its action is based on nanophysics. When applying Leorex masks, a crystal lattice of nanoparticles is formed on the skin, which tightens the skin and smoothes out wrinkles.

The trial kit includes two Leorex masks, as well as special Leorex moisturizers: Up-Lifting Moisturizer and Up-Lifting Serum.

Conditions for receiving: you need to provide your contact information.

Receiving scheme: We fill out a ready-made form on the website, indicating the data in Russian. Enter the captcha.

NOC cosmetics cream samples

Product name: NOC cosmetics skin care products. Here you can select one or several tools at once:

• eye cream;
• anti-wrinkle cream;
• face cream;
• hand cream;
• foot cream

Conditions for receiving:

Receiving scheme: fill out the table on the website with Latin characters; You will need to indicate your last name, first name, patronymic, address, email.

Link to the site where you can get a free sample: http://www.noc-cosmetics.net/contact-us/sample-request/

Organic brand product Miessence Organics

Product name: Miessence Organics products. Here you can choose sunflower shower gel, lemon myrtle shampoo for normal to oily hair, or Desert Flower shampoo for normal to dry hair.

Conditions for receiving: enter contact information.

Receiving scheme: fill out the form, indicating your first name, patronymic, last name, postal address, email. In the drop-down window, select the product you want to order. Then you will need to confirm your email.

Rexaline cream sample

Product name:

Conditions for receiving: Enter contact information and join the club to receive future newsletters.

Receiving scheme: fill out the form on the website, select Russia in the list of countries, click on the “Join the club” button.

Link to the site where you can get a free sample: http://www.id-beauty.net/inscription-club-prive.php

Product name: various beauty products for testing.

Conditions for receiving: registering on the site, filling out a form, writing reviews about tested products.

Receipt scheme: register on the website, fill out a form, receive samples by mail regularly and write reviews.

Handmade soap sample

Product name:

Conditions for receiving: filling out the form on the website.

Receiving scheme: We fill out the form in Latin, wait for the appearance: “Thank you for providing your information to the Laruh Spa salon. Your Laruh soap should arrive within 2 to 3 weeks.”

Product name: various Olay products.

Conditions for receiving: registration on the website and joining the Olay club.

Receiving scheme: fill out the form, register and get access to special offers, lotteries and gifts.

Link to the site where you can get a free sample: https://www.olay.ru/Pages/SecureJoinClubOlay_RU.aspx

Product name: oriental spicy eau de toilette for men Hugo Boss Red.

Conditions for receiving: Fill out the form.

Receiving scheme: fill out the form on the website, entering contact information in Latin.

Link to the site where you can get a free sample: https://esc.cocomore.com/zesnc/esampling/fragrance_hugo_red_gl_spl1301/registration/register/en_GB

If you wish, you can independently find interesting offers for ordering free samples of various cosmetics. To do this, enter free sample in a search engine or use the services of specialized sites.

Evgenia Sazonova

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November 2, 2017

Do you want to receive cosmetics and perfumes for free, but don’t know how to do it? Nothing is impossible! Many stores are happy to send samples of their products to customers. Today the site will tell you how to find free samples and testers on the Internet.

1. Online stores

We know of several online stores that add free samples to orders. Moreover, some sites include a gift with absolutely every order. Here's an up-to-date list of stores where you can get free samples.

	Free samples sent with every order while supplies last.	Get
	3 free samples can be chosen with each order
	Samples are provided using a promotional code. Get the code here:
	Free samples (3 pcs.) can be received as a gift when ordering over 4,000 rubles.
	Sometimes you can get samples for literally pennies from a special promotion page. You can select samples with discounts here:	Choose
	You can choose three free samples with each order.	Choose
	The larger the order, the more gifts. When purchasing up to 1000 rubles. one gift is given, from 1000 to 3000 rubles. - 2 gifts, and from 3000 rubles. - 3 gifts!
	For each order, the online store includes a gift in the form of a test tube or atomizer.	Get
	The store sometimes sends samples only to registered users.	Get
	Samples and other gifts are issued using a promotional code. The codes can be taken from here:

2. VKontakte communities

On the most popular social network among Russian-speaking users, you can find absolutely everything. It’s not surprising that there are pages and groups where cosmetics lovers and lovers share information about free samples.

Sample

You should look for samples and testers in the “Giveaways” section; Now, however, the forum is a little empty, but we hope that this will not last long. Please note: to see all offers, you must register on the forum. Guests don't see the most interesting things.

Oh this sweet word “freebie”... Many people don’t like it, but do you know at least one person who doesn’t like this phenomenon? The creators of the site probably unraveled the secret desires of many ordinary people and opened a forum where everyone can exchange information about free samples, test products and much more.

The forum has several main sections: “Clothing”, “Oh, I’ll give it” (competitions are organized by the forum members themselves), “Samples and probes”, “Discs”. Like many other sites, you need to create an account on Freebies: otherwise you risk missing out on the hottest offers.

Moreover, a blog does not necessarily need to be maintained on a separate website: it is enough to be an active user and have more than 300 subscribers on Facebook, VKontakte, Instagram or another social network. Those who meet this requirement, are ready to write reviews of the products received and can place a portal banner on the main page of their blog will be able to receive new samples as a gift!

Finally, you can find out about free samples and samples on the simple and stylish website Ilovefreebies .

Like other portals, advertisements about testers and samples are published here, which can be received by mail. The main advantage of the site is its convenient design and catalog, with the help of which finding the right gift becomes much easier. For example, if you want to order perfume or cosmetics, just click on the “Beauty and Health” section - now you can enjoy the abundance of offers! By the way, the aggregator collects shares not only from the Runet, but also from foreign sites, so the choice of freebies is truly great.

We tried very hard to make our review as useful and comprehensive as possible. Did it work? It's not for us to judge. There is such a gigantic number of sites on the Internet that it is completely impossible to cover everything. Therefore, dear readers, we ask you: if you suddenly know other ways to get free perfume samples or samples of good cosmetics, share your secret knowledge in the comments! And in order not to miss news about promotions and sales in the best online stores, subscribe to our page on Facebook or VKontakte.