Clinique Myer Gift with Purchase

Offer available 5 August until 18 August 2012, or while stock last at MYER.

 Not the highest value gift, but the colours are nice. And the bag is pretty.

Estee Lauder David Jones Gift with Purchase

David Jones is running an Estee Lauder Gift with Purchase for purchases above $75.

Based on selecting the most expensive (i.e. resilence lift) range from each option and estimating the value
the make up palette to be worth approximately $40 based on the price of similar palettes available on strawberrynet, I have valued the gift set, based on stawberrynet prices, to be $150.

Assuming you buy foundation and eyeliner, totaling $108, you receive a total of $227.06 in items.
It is of course possible to spend closer to $75, but it all depends on what items are useful to you.

You can find the official Estee Lauder prices, which will be the same as the David Jones prices,
at www.esteelauder.com.au.

My detailed calculations are below:

Clinique Gift Time - gift with purchase of $80 or more

Clinique online is doing a gift with purchase offer, valued at $138.

I have done an equilivalent strawberry net price calculation. The gift is worth approximately $84.80 based on strawberrynet prices and excluding the value of the gift bag. My detailed calculations are below.

My go to purchase from Clinique is foundation, so I've included the total saving after taking into account the premium paid on a foundation and the cheapest item required to reach $80 (liquid eyeliner).

So a total spend of $82 gets you $141.80 of products,  based on the cheapest online price (strawberrynet) available, representing a saving of $59.80.

Of course, if you don't want eyeliner, other things in the $30-$40 price range include take the day off make up remover, lip colours, mascara, dramatically different moisturiser, antiblemish solutions clearing moisturiser, and the cityblock sunscreens. Most of these items cost approximately $10 more in the Australian stores than they do online at Strawberrynet.





All in all, not a bad deal. Arguably not the best value gift with purchase they have ever done, because without the serums it's not as "valuable". But I like that almost all of the items in that pack would be useful to most people. No matter what your routine is, cleanser, moisturiser, blush, lipbalm (chubby stick) and mascara will most likely be in there somewhere.

As much as I love eyeshadows and lipsticks, after the number of gift packs I've bought, I have a lifetime supply. Although you have never have too many shades of colour to choose from, I couldn't wear every colour on a daily basis, so most of them will never get used up. And though I love the concept of magical serums, I don't really use it much. But this pack is very much back to the basics.

If you are in need of replenishing your moisturisers and so on for the winter it's a pretty good gift pack. Better get it before it runs out!

PS: There is also postage costs of $10 if your purchase is under $100. But you also get 2 additional samples from buying from the online store.  If you pick the youth surge 7ml night cream ($78 for 50 ml on Strawberrynet) and the 5 ml all about eyes sample ($41 for 15 ml on Strawberrynet), the additional samples alone are worth $20.