Grab Yourself a Beauty Bargain Part II (cheapsmells.com)

Member Name: debbi256

Product:	cheapsmells.com
Date:	22/09/09 (41 review reads)
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Advantages: Heavily discounted Beauty and Fragrance products, fast and efficient service.

Disadvantages: Delivery whilst cheap for one item could soon mount up if you order a few things.

Because of the name of the website, I always wrongly assumed that cheapsmells.com just sold perfumes but when I was doing a search for some Tigi After Party serum this website popped up, and I soon discovered that it sells so much more than just fragrance, it sells almost any beauty, skincare and haircare product that you could think of and with heavily discounted prices at that!

I was extremely pleased to see that they were selling all their Tigi products at half the RRP, an offer which is still on now!

The website is simply layed out with a white background and the logo in green and pink thus making it very easy on the eye and also extremely easy to navigate too. Across the top are icons such as Delivery, FAQ, Account, Basket, Contact etc so any info you need can easily be accessed by clicking on one of them, no need to look all over the site trying to find the delivery charges, everything is all there in front of you, it has obviously been well designed to make the shopping experience easy and not frustrating. I like this because one of the first things I like to do is check out the delivery charges before I start to browse, there's no point adding loads of stuff to your basket only to find out that they are going to charge silly money to delivery your bargain products!

At the side is a search box where you can either just enter the words if you know what you are looking for, or if you aren't too sure then you can narrow down your search by choosing the Gender, the Price, the categories and the Brands. Under this is your basket, so you can keep an eye on everything because on sites like these where bargains are a plenty, everything soon mounts up! Then under this is New Arrivals, Special Offers, Award Winners and Best Sellers, again everything neatly and uniformally layed out.

The delivery charges are fairly reasonable. If you are just buying one item then the delivery charge is only 95p or £1.95 for giftsets, but if you are ordering a few items it's 95p per item, so as you can see it can soon easily mount up. I ordered 4 items and the delivery came to £3.80, so it's not the cheapest in that respect, but you've got to weigh up how much you are saving over-all and on the products themselves, it usually works out alot cheaper even with the delivery charge added on because of the huge savings to start off with.

Across the top under the 'Help' icons are the different categories such as Perfume, Aftershave, Skincare, Haircare, Cosmetics, Bath & Body and Giftsets. When you click on one of these it brings up sub categories which are organised into the different brand names and then under that organised the different items such as Lips, Eyes etc.

They have some unbelieveable bargains, this week it's the Tigi products, I assume they'll have another deal just as good next week! I also got an Elizabeth Arden 8 hour Lip Protectant for £7.95 as opposed to the £17 RRP!

I placed my order on the 16th and received my goods on the 20th, so all in all not bad service really, and if I had of wanted them sooner I could have chosen to pay extra for next day delivery.

This site and the one I reviewed yesterday are the first two sites I check out when wanting to treat myself to some beauty bargains, I check out both sites and work out which one is going to work out the cheapest. This site is also listed in Quidco's Merchants too, and by linking through I got £2 cashback.

Highly Recommended!

Summary: Definitely one of my first stops for discounted beauty, skincare and haircare products.