Great Makeup Coupons

Makeup is incredibly expensive. You could practically buy a new pair of designer shoes for the cost of a single tube of lipstick and coordinating bottle of nail polish. With makeup coupons, you can still look like a million bucks without breaking the bank.

Where to Find Makeup Coupons

Many makeup manufacturers use their website to connect with their customers and share special discounts. Loreal Paris has lots of coupons, rebates and other goodies available for download from their website. Join their rewards club to earn a coupon for a free hair color product for every five qualifying products that you buy. Find even more discounts on their Facebook page or by signing up for free mobile alerts when new makeup discounts are posted.

Covergirl does not currently post coupons on their website, but they do have some interesting tools that can help you track down makeup discounts. The Coupon Alert section will tell you when to expect CoverGirl makeup coupons in the Sunday newspaper. You can also join their text club by texting “breezy” to 24475. CoverGirl text club members receive exclusive makeup tips, freebies and discounts.

Many of the other major makeup manufacturers use Facebook and Twitter to announce new product lines and offer their fans the chance to try them for free or at a discount. Sometimes they ask fans to share their best makeup tips or name their favorite shade in exchange for contest entries to win freebies. If you are not subscribed, you never see the announcement.

Coupons.Com is one of the biggest sources for coupons online. They have local coupons, printable coupons, coupon codes to use with online purchases and even their own savings card. They have a tool bar that you can install, similar to the Yahoo! or Google tool bar you may already be familiar with. The coupon bar helps you find the best savings online. Coupons.Com regularly has coupons for makeup available for download.

If you have ever clipped coupons the old fashioned way, then you are probably already familiar with Red Plum. For decades shoppers have been clipping their coupons from Red Plum’s inserts in the Sunday edition of their local newspaper. Now you can find them online at RedPlum.Com.

Just this week RedPlum.Com featured a $1 off coupon good for any Rimmel product and a $2.00 off coupon good for any one Garnier Herbashine hair color. Red Plum also has an incredible series of money-saving articles dedicated just to makeup and other beauty products.

How to Use Makeup Coupons

Most makeup discounts only save you $1 to $2 on a single product. With discounts this small, you may wonder where the savings went when they take their makeup to the register. However, with a few tricks you can make these seemingly small discounts pay off in a big way.

The money saving feats of the Krazy Coupon Lady have been well documented on TLC’s Extreme Couponing series. Now she shares her best couponing tricks with shoppers on her own blog. She frequently sniffs out coupons for makeup along with instructions for how to use them. In one blog post she shows shoppers how to score Rimmel nail polish for $0.19 per bottle.

In another blog she showed shoppers how to get Almay iColor eyeshadow, liner and mascara for only $0.99 each. The Krazy Coupon Lady keeps a mailing list to make finding the discounts even easier. She does the hard part and you just have to follow along with her to save. She even wrote a book, entitled Pick Another Checkout Lane Honey, that shows complete beginners the ins and outs of couponing like a pro.

Other Coupons for Beauty Products

The savings do not stop at makeup coupons. You can save on almost every beauty product under the sun if you know where to look for coupons and how to use them. The rich scents of designer fragrances can be yours for imposter prices. You can pamper yourself with salon-brand shampoos and conditioners for as little as the store-brand products.

You can get deep discounts on expensive skin care products by Neutrogena and ProActiv. Some beauty products you can even get for free if you know how to combine coupons with sales and rewards programs from major chain retailers.