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24 Sephora Savings Hacks


Sephora Storefront

Sephora is a wonderful place for all beauty lovers with their amazing selection of luxe makeup and skincare. But what is a person to do with those crazy prices?

 

Sephora Indoor

 

This is where we come in with some unexpected advice from employees and shopping experts:

1. Free samples

You can get free samples of foundation, powders, lip care, and perfumes without even buying anything from the store! Ulta doesn’t do this.

 

Ulta Coupons:

  • $3.50 OFF $15 Order
  • Free Shipping for Orders Over $50
  • 20% OFF Your First Purchase

 

You can get three free samples per visit and try even the most expensive products free before committing to buying them. Those small sizes are great for traveling.

 

Sephora Beauty On The Fly

 

2. Free samples with online orders

When you order online, you get 2 free samples per purchase. You can even start your shopping at Beauty Offers Page, where you will pick items of your choice and will get them with $25 per order minimum.

3. Free makeovers

This makeover session is just 15 min, but it’s still a makeover and it’s free. You can try some products without buying and get smoky eye, contour, and great lips at no cost to you.

 

Sephora Coloriq

 

4. Sephora Value sets

Sephora value sets are bundles of popular products that can save you up to 80% off their value that you would pay if bought separately. Why buy them all one by one if you can save so much and enjoy a collection of your own?

Sets are usually made from one brand, like Tarte, Urban Decay, or Bare Minerals, so you won’t have to deal with multiple combinations.

You can buy the sets in-store or online. One good example that we have recently tried is Too Faced Dream Queen Limited Edition Value Set for $58, which would cost a whopping $357 separately.

 

Sephora Too Faced

 

5. Newsletters

Yes, we know that you don’t want to get any extra marketing emails, but trust us – Sephora newsletters are worthy of your trouble. They are choke-full of great discounts, coupons, and upcoming sales information.

 

Sephora Poutsicle

 

6. Discounted gift cards

Raise and similar websites sell discounted gift cards that can bring you up to 10% savings right of the top. Truth be told, no matter how good this sounds, JC Penney gift cards go for 15% off sometimes, and you can use this JC Penney card for Sephora too, so choose your savings wisely.

 

JCPenney Coupons:

  • 30% OFF Select Orders
  • Free Shipping on Orders Over $99
  • 80% OFF Clearance Items

 

Sephora Credit Program 15OFF

 

7. Free birthday gifts

All Beauty Insiders get free birthday gifts and beauty classes. It’s free to sign up for this program and you get to collect points for every dollar spent online and in-store. Gifts are great and don’t repeat from year to year.

 

Sephora Pat Mcgrath Labs

 

8. Cash back sites

You should shop through cash back sites like Ibotta and get 2.5% cash back on beauty purchases. Sephora is not always available on Ibotta, but it comes and goes, so check it out before shopping.

 

Sephora Beauty Lipsticks

 

9. Collect points

Don’t hurry to spend your points as soon as you accumulate a decent amount, make the amount big, because they don’t expire (unless you are not active at Sephora for 18 months).

You will get the first reward for 100, but think bout 250 or 500! This is when we can talk about Clinique Moisture that Matters Kit and similar huge gifts.

 

Sephora Laura Mercier

 

10. When should you get your insider points gifts?

Unlike many other stores, Sephora will let you redeem your points and get a free gift without making a purchase as long as you do that in-store, not online, so you can do it any time.

 

Sephora Cosmetics

 

11. Do the heaviest shopping in January

There are two reasons for that – you will be able to take advantage of best after holidays sales and will become a VIB member or even an uber-exclusive VIB Rouge and will enjoy perks those memberships bring all year round. You have to spend $350 for the first one and $1,000 for Rouge tier.

 

Sephora Dior

 

12. What is Sephora Flash?

This is Sephora’s version of Amazon Prime, which all VIB Rouge members get for free and others for $15 per year. With this deal you will get unlimited free 2-day shipping all year long. Otherwise, 3-day shipping costs $5.95 or is free with $50+ purchase.

 

Sephora La Mer

 

13. Return policy

As long as you have a receipt, you can return gently used products for store credit any time. Stay classy and make sure you have at least ½ of package left.

 

Sephora Dr.Jart+

 

14. Annual sales

Biggest Sephora sales happen in May and November. Both sales are week-long and really reward Beauty Insiders with favorable prices. May will feature 10-15% off many items and November will see things go for as much as 20% off.

 

Sephora 15 OFF Discount

 

Black Friday at Sephora is not the greatest time investment of your time simply because you will see the same deals remain all the way through Christmas.

15. Sephora Weekly Wow deals

This is not known to everyone, so listen up – every week Sephora offers a couple of products with great discount on Thursday and the discounts last until the product stocks last, so no time to waste.

 

Sephora Estee Lauder

 

16. Makeup palettes savings

You can save a lot of money by buying makeup palettes instead of individual colors.

 

Sephora Anastasia Palette

 

17. Don’t buy travel size

This is your worst investment and especially when you can get many travel size samples for free. Why would you pay $15 for that?

18. Are there any travel size investment exceptions?

There are some small items that cost less per ounce than regular size. For example, Tarte BB Tinted Treatment 12-Hour Primer costs $37 for full size, which is 1 fl oz and only $14 per travel size of 0.5 fl oz. This is 22% savings.

19. Always calculate price per ounce

You should always focus on price per ounce, but especially at expensive retailers like Sephora. By doing your math and choosing a bigger container you can save quite a bit of money:

  • Philosophy Purity Made Simple, 8 oz. – $24 ($3/oz.)
  • Philosophy Purity Made Simple, 16 oz. – $36 ($2.25/oz.)
  • Philosophy Purity Made Simple, 24 oz. – $44 ($1.83/oz.)

 

Sephora Herbivore

 

20. Stay away from perfumes at Sephora

The only smart way to buy perfume at Sephora is from perfume sampler pack, where you will get 10-12 travel size perfumes and best of all – you’ll get a coupon for one of those perfumes, full size, for free.

The sampler costs $75 and the coupon is good for up to $100 perfume.

 

Sephora Fragrance

 

Sephora Coupons:

  • Free Skincare Trial Size with $25 Purchase
  • 80% OFF with Latest Beauty Deals
  • Free Shipping on $50+ Order

 

21. Get free shipping for all out of stock items

If there is an item that is not stocked at your local store or is out stock, you can get it shipped to your house for free.

22. Sephora employee discount

Sephora employees get 40% off Sephora brands and 20% off everything else. Those discounts are worth considering a career there just to save this much. The only limitation is $500 per month spending for employees.

 

Sephora Kilian

 

23. Where else can you find Sephora makeup?

You can find the same brands that Sephora sells at discount stores like TJ Maxx and save a lot of money.

 

TJ Maxx Coupons:

  • 50% OFF Everyday Styles
  • Free Shipping on Orders Over $89
  • 75% OFF Clearance Items