If your mom tried to teach you anything, its to revolve your make-up purchases around the "bonus time" season at Clinique (or some other department store make-up counter).
Heaven forbid you buy new concealer when they're not offering a "free" gift! You'd be cheating yourself out of a whole bag of goodies. Of course, after weeks of stretching your concealer to last until Bonus Time, you have to buy an extra lip gloss, mascara, and face lotion to receive the free gift, which coincidentally contains a lip gloss, mascara, and face lotion.
Common free gifts:
"Exclusive Tote" (with any $75 beauty purchase)
'Happy' Sample
Random shade of lipstick for a different skin tone
Fold up brush with small mirror inside the handle that you can't see your whole face in.
Cute cosmetic bag! (of course)
Heaven forbid you buy new concealer when they're not offering a "free" gift! You'd be cheating yourself out of a whole bag of goodies. Of course, after weeks of stretching your concealer to last until Bonus Time, you have to buy an extra lip gloss, mascara, and face lotion to receive the free gift, which coincidentally contains a lip gloss, mascara, and face lotion.Common free gifts:
"Exclusive Tote" (with any $75 beauty purchase)
'Happy' Sample
Random shade of lipstick for a different skin tone
Fold up brush with small mirror inside the handle that you can't see your whole face in.
Cute cosmetic bag! (of course)
And could that cute cosmetic bag be any better to put tampons in so they don't break open and gather dust and lint at the bottom of your purse (ME True Hollywood Story)? We have a whole drawer of Bonus Time bags at our house that we keep stashed with tampons.
Grandmas and Bonus Time - Has anyone ever received a bag of make-up from your Grandma full of old free gift crap from the 1960s to early 1990s? I have, and I used it...all.
Grandmas and Bonus Time - Has anyone ever received a bag of make-up from your Grandma full of old free gift crap from the 1960s to early 1990s? I have, and I used it...all.
The best is when Grandma tries to pass down that lipstick or blush that does match her skin tone but doesn't realize you have the exact same skin color/genes. (great for multi-racial families!)
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3 comments:
I read the first sentence and it's true. Whenever my sister and I mentioned we needed some Clinique Foundation or Powder my mom would always respond one way: "Let's check the paper to see who's having Bonus Time!" If Dilliards Or Foley's (back in the day)were not having Bonus Time. We just to wait.
I was wondering when this one was going to come up - I LOVE bonus time.
This is incredibly true! My grandmother is always trying to pass on to me some hideous fuchsia lipstick my way....and it always seems to come in that tale-tale sage green case!
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