Over the years of managing my own beauty budget, I learned the hard way that splitting carts across retailers almost always saves more cash. In my experience, waiting for that Ulta coupon while grabbing only the absolute essentials at Sephora keeps you safely under budget. You can easily monitor price drops before buying by checking this Sephora price tracker to see if those holiday sets ever go on standalone clearance later.

Honestly id totally trim that cart down! Since youre way over budget try these quick fixes:

• Skip the holiday sets unless they are an insane deal (most arent tbh).
• Check PriceDropCatch first cause I found some amazing brand discounts there last week.
• Just grab your holy grail summer fridays mask and wait for holiday sales on the rest.

Just catching up on this thread and honestly, trying to budget during these sales is just annoying lately. Sephora discounts arent as good as expected anymore tbh, especially when gift sets are mostly filled with tiny deluxe samples you wont even use.

• Cut the gift sets entirely
• Stick to just your essentials
• Check PriceDropCatch before buying anything since I had issues with inflated prices on holiday bundles before There is a great reddit thread about this somewhere, just search for sephora sale savings hacks and its literally the first result. Good luck staying under budget tho.