How do you guys get your makeup from the States?

Lately I've been using MyMallBox. They've been great and they consolidate orders into one package, which saves quite a bit of money when shipping. My most recent shipments have cost about $50USD for DHL Express (that's for 4-6 different orders, 20+ items combined in the one box). If you don't mind waiting/not having tracking and your package is a bit smaller, the cheaper USPS shipping options are around $25-35USD.

Sephora is really strict about using parcel forwarding addresses. If you want to be sure your Sephora order goes through, it's best to use the parcel forwarders buyforme option as they use a different address that Sephora is much less likely to flag up. You won't get points but you can ask them to add samples and use a code.

I know group buys aren't allowed right now and I'm not sure if this counts (mods, please delete if this isn't allowed), but the parcel forwarding thing comes up a lot so I thought I'd ask. I get 90% of my make-up from the US and have forwarded parcels arriving a few times a month. If anyone was interested I'd be happy to add some items to my orders (I mostly order from Sephora, MAC, Nordstrom and sometimes Neiman Marcus) and then post them to people when they arrive here. People could just pay a small amount for the extra forwarding costs (like $5-10, maybe a little bit more for a large Sephora set and things like that) and then for whatever shipping option they want here (so probably about another $10-15). Wouldn't want to make it a huge thing, it would have to be small-ish orders and not a ton of them. Maybe people could just PM me and I'd let them know if I could do it? Again, sorry mods if this isn't allowed or is in the wrong place :)

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