My company does the consumer magazine for a major health and beauty store in the UK*. For their picture spreads and product reviews, they get given many products to be featured in the magazine. Four times a year, they throw all this blag on a big meeting table, and sell it to the employees at knock-down prices.
Today, my friends, was that day.
The production department girls are apparently the queens of this experience, as shown to me when I was rushed along to queue outside the boardroom door a little while ago. We were first in the queue.
It is important to note that the editorial department of this particualr title have to sift through the products before they go on sale, to pull out empty bottles and the like - and they, of course, cream off the best of the lot before even announcing the sale.
That said...
I got some great stuff. The paper controller for the company is the self-proclaimed ultimate queen of these sales, and she managed to bag a whole lot of great stuff that I didn't even see on the table - she's that quick.
I got the following:
Big purple flower-emblazoned toiletry bag
Veet Bladeless Razor kit (incl gel and 'razor')
Almay Truly Lasting Colour Lipcolour and Gloss set in Truly Brown Sugar
FCUK eye laquer in Chromalin
Store name* Fresh! Frightfully Fruity Flower Gel-ly
Britney Spears Curious Perfumed Shimmer Stick
Charles Worthington Results Shine On Blow-Dry Spray
Charles Worthington Results Stay Smooth Frizz Taming Serum
Looking at the store* website, I've pretty much worked out that the sum total of buying all this in store would come to about £50.
I spent £8.
Yes, I'm bragging.
*I don't really know the rules when it comes to this, but if you really wanted to find out which company it is (not that interesting, really) you wouldn't have to dig too deep.
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