• Quick and easy changes you can make today to have more money in your pocket.
• It is NOT about depriving yourself and making depressing cut backs.
• It IS about making sure you're not wasting money, enjoying what you have, and looking for ways to have more fun!
• Be sure to check your email for the bonus surprise freebie!
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If you are as obsessed with makeup as I am, you’ve probably shopped at Ulta. And you might be shopping with them a lot. In-store couponing at Ulta is somewhat limited – if you’re a rewards member you’ll be able to collect points and you’ll sometimes have in store coupons. But if you shop online you’ll be able to score much better deals a lot more often.

Loyalty Program
As with most stores, your first move is to join the rewards program. If you sign up for an online account they will automatically give you rewards.
Sales and Buy More Save More
On Ulta.com, in the website menu, you’ll find a tab labeled “Sales and Coupons”. (At least when I’m writing this. Websites make changes sometimes, so it might be labeled slightly differently.)

They typically have 4 options at the top – ‘Buy More Save More’, ‘Gifts With Purchase’, ‘Sale’, and ‘Coupon’. On the initial page of ‘Buy More Save More’ and ‘Gifts With Purchase’ you’ll find a list of current promos with dates. This will be helpful if you’re trying to time things, or figure out if you have a few days to think about your purchase. Sales will just be a listing of sale items. Coupon will be whatever coupons are currently available.
Throughout most of the year, your best deal will come from finding a ‘Buy More Save More’ or a ‘Sale’ item that comes with a free gift, especially if you like products across the whole brand, or like trying out new products for free. When you can find something on sale and get a bonus, you’ve usually got a pretty good deal, especially for prestige brands.
Using Coupons and Apps

But wait, that’s not all. Add your items to your cart *without* being signed into your account. Use Honey to see if there’s a better coupon than what you found in the coupon tab. Also check your emails from Ulta. Sometimes they send out amazing coupon codes, but they’re often good for very short windows of time.
And after you’ve figured out the best sale/coupon combo, if you go to your Ibotta app and actually complete the transaction through them, you’ll be able to get cash back. That’s why I add things to a cart when I’m not signed in, so that I’m sure I’ll get my Ibotta bonus. I go through the app, sign in to my Ulta account, add the items to my cart, enter the coupon code that Honey gave me, and complete the transaction. I’ve seen Ibotta cash back as high as 8%, which is basically another coupon for 8% off.

However, at the holidays, sometimes discounts get really good. Ulta tends to set their free shipping requirement very low, or sometimes they’ll just offer free shipping on every purchase. They’ll also have coupons that you can use over and over for each transaction. When those coupons work for sale items, you can run a separate transaction for each item you want. So that means choose a sale item, apply a coupon, order through Ibotta, and have it shipped free. Rinse and repeat for everything you want.
So once again, I’m presenting a scenario where you can stack your discounts and deals to get really massive savings. When the stars align it’s reasonable to get 60-80% off on really nice, new, top quality makeup, skin care, and hair care. Which is amazing. Getting prestige makeup for drugstore prices, or drugstore makeup nearly for free is about as great as couponing gets!
• Quick and easy changes you can make today to have more money in your pocket.
• It is NOT about depriving yourself and making depressing cut backs.
• It IS about making sure you're not wasting money, enjoying what you have, and looking for ways to have more fun!
• Be sure to check your email for the bonus surprise freebie!