Recent Lancome Purchases (and freebies!)

When I walked into Moore's department store at home in Northern Ireland and was immediately faced with a 10% off everything beauty (including brands like Estee Lauder, Clinique, Clarins and Lancome) I obviously couldn't resist.

10% off beauty event at Moore's Coleraine.

I spent a while excitedly looking at anything and everything. As you can see above, there was a 10% discount on Estee Lauder doublewear foundation, but I've recently re-bought Rimmel Wake Me Up so had to reign myself in and resist!

I began talking to the lovely girl at the Lancome counter and she told me that in the event, a two-pack of Lancome's Hypnose mascaras were being sold for £28.50. Seeing as they're usually £22.00 each she had me right there. She also mentioned that it was the world's number 1 mascara, which I couldn't believe I had never tried, so the offer was too good to resist. I've always been a big fan of Givenchy's Phenomen'eyes mascara so this was a bit of a change.

After talking to the Lancome sales assistant for a while, I told her about some of my work as beauty editor for The Courier, and after I bought the mascara she gave me a free sample cleanser and lipstick to try out!







































The cleanser is Lancome's Gelatee Confort cleansing milk for dry skin, and whilst my skin is definitely more oily than dry I decided to use it to remove my eyemakeup last night, as I can sometimes get a few dry patches underneath my eyes. I applied it with a cotton pad and just gently swept it over my eye area and it felt really soft and delicate and removed my mascara and eyeshadow really well.

The little mini lipstick was Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge in Shade 6, and was a beautiful moisturising rose coloured lipstick, It's absolutely great quality and exactly the kind of colour I generally wear on my lips for daytime, so I was really pleased to have gotten it for free! As with all Lancome products it smells lovely too, which is probably quite odd to say about a lipstick but it's true!

I will do a proper review of the mascara within the next few days as I don't really feel as if I've had enough time to properly use it, but I will add a picture of my makeup using my two new Lancome products within the next hour.

Has anyone else tried this mascara? What did you think of it?