Hello lovelies! So today's blog is dedicated solely to Sephora shopping. Anyone who shops at Sephora knows about their Beauty Insider rewards program - or at least I hope you do! Basically for every dollar you spend you earn a point that can be accumulated until the end of time (they never expire) and they can be applied towards the current items in their "rewards" lineup and also entitles you to a birthday gift, access to seasonal promotions and free beauty classes. Once you've spent $350 in a calendar year you are bumped up to VIB (Very Important Beauty Insider) status - which gets you all of the Beauty Insider benefits, first dibs on new products, private VIB-Only shopping events, seasonal VIB-Only gifts and advance access to regular Sephora sales. Spend $1,000 in a calendar year and you are honored with the elite VIB Rouge status :) This gets you all Insider and VIB benefits (except that the birthday gift is a little better than the Insider gift) plus free shipping on ALL online orders, unlimited access to the Beauty Studio, exclusive access to Rouge-Only events and gifts. Your points can be redeemed in increments of 100 and 500 points - the 100 point items are usually pretty decent sample sizes, and the 500 point items are more of a box set where you get a few sample size items from one featured brand. All in all - it's a pretty amazing program!
Now, for the free stuff.......so Sephora does a pretty good job in my opinion of offering a range of items to choose from. What does make a difference is whether you are in a "Sephora Inside JC Penny" or a regular Sephora. I find that the regular Sephora's have more items to offer in the rewards display - but I'm not complaining :) They do change periodically so if you don't see anything that tickles your fancy at checkout, wait a week or so (or check online) and see if new items have been introduced. I have to say that because I buy a wide range of products at Sephora (skincare, self-tanning, and of course makeup) I do accumulate points quickly so I like to use my points as much as I can - I earned them anyways! In the photo above I included a nice little display of all the rewards I have cashed in on over the last few months and have loved all of them. To the point that I went and purchased a few of the fuller sized products because I used them up so quick. Obviously that's what Sephora gets out of it - you try the teenie tiny sample - fall in love with it, and go pay $40 for the full sized product. But I will say that the rewards system has enticed me to try thing I normally never would have tried for the same reason. Some of which have been ride-or-die, how did I ever live without them kind of products.
So if you've never shopped at Sephora, or you have and didn't think the Insider program was worth it, hopefully this article as given you a little nudge to change your mind because if you're a beauty addict and/or you enjoy free samples then the Sephora Insider program is for YOU!
Leave me a comment down below on any of the reward samples you've picked up recently at Sephora and are absolutely LOVING!!!
Until next time my lovelies - make today better than yesterday!!!!
xoxo
Steph
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