Note: Picture-heavy post

Kiehl’s. Possibly the store with the best service I’ve ever had the pleasure of encountering. The staff are always friendly and eager to help, knowledgeable in giving you the skin consultations and recommending suitable products for your skin type. Never pushy in sales. Best of all, ample samples for you to bring home and try before buying.

I had the pleasure of attending the Kiehl’s Beauty Blogger Event at MYER Melbourne CBD last evening. Yes, even the cold and rain couldn’t stop me. Dedication, yo! 😀

The objective of the event was to for the brand to meet with the beauty bloggers of Melbourne, and more importantly, to announce the price drop in a lot of their products effective May 9. Thanks to worldwide success and growth, Kiehl’s is now able to lower their prices, and to give back to their customers.

I was really excited to find out that my favourite Kiehl’s product, the Midnight Recovery Concentrate (review coming!) has dropped in price from $95 to $59! Let’s say if you were to purchase the serum from my favourite US online store, Kissandmakeupny.com, it’s priced at US$42. Including the hefty US$18 shipping fee, it comes up to US$60. Even if you were to buy other items and break down the shipping fee per item, it’s still not much cheaper. This is just an example of one of the products dropped in price. I think this is a brilliant move of Kiehl’s to allow customers to buy locally instead of getting it from the US. Plus if you get it from MYER, you get MYEROne points. I’m just sayin’.

Not every single Kiehl’s product prices have dropped though, but they’re slowly getting there. The ones which are now cheaper than before are the cleansers, scrubs, most moisturisers, serums (all serums are now less than $60), lip care (the uber popular Lip Balm #1 is now $12), the whitening range (Ultimate White), eye care, facial masks and blemish treatments. The rest remain at their original prices.

I had a skin consultation with the lovely Emma, who introduced me to the Yerba Mate skincare range (for oily/combination skin) and also the Acai serum. Thanks to the event, I was able to score some Yerba Mate samples, a bottle of the Acai Serum, Creme de Corps body moisturiser and a lipbalm.

Of course, the evening went even better catching up with the beauty bloggers. When we are together, the things we talk about … not very safe for work, methinks :P.   Lots of laughs, lots of food (you cannot call yourself a Melbourne beauty blogger if you don’t like food. There I’ve said it). Just my kind of evening 🙂

Violet, Celina, Amy, Akisa

Jacie, Stef, Jess

Camwhoring with Ling

Jess giving a shoutout from Mr Bones, the Kiehl’s mascot

I wanted to give him a grope, but he’s all bones! (ouch!)

You don’t want to know what they were talking about 😛

Many thanks to Elise Garland Public Relations for organising the event.

Click to find out more about Kiehl’s Australia on their Facebook page.