Make up at Car Boot Sales

vickyb242

Hi Guys,

Looking for advice from any professional Car Boot-ers out there.

Does Make-up sell well at Car boot sales, if so what kind e;g lipstick, blusher, mascara etc ??

Thanks
V

pink-cadillac

My sister did a carboot on sunday and loads of people were interested in the make-up she was selling! I think she sold everything but mascara and eyeliner, and what she did sell had been used/tested a bit. She only asked for 50p-£1 per item, but it's better than nothing. I think she managed to sell it all too.
xox

victoriav

I speak as a regular buyer, not a seller, I recently bought a huge make up set called 'sunkissed' it was the size of a boxed LP set, and that same shape box, for when you are tanned from holiday, there were 4 nail polish, 4 blusher, 4 blusher brushes, 4 eyeliner pencil, 2 mascara, a pencil sharpener which does small and large, 8 or more eyeshadow, 2 lip gloss tube, 2 lip gloss wand type, 2 lipsticks, eyeshadow sponge applicators small and large, lip pencils large ones 2 of, a palette of lip glosses 8, within a mirrored compact, 2 compact single large lipglosses, 2 cream blusher, it was a lovely set, just one sellotape seal opened, but as new. Would have made a lovely gift, alas I kept it for myself, it was a bargain, at £3.50!! I usually buy nail varnish at 10p-50p a bottle as well. As long as the make up is new/as new/good condition it will sell., oh and cheaply priced otherwise you will be going back home with it all.....before you set up, check out what the others are selling, this way you can recognise the dealers who are on their stalls, who come to yours try to buy it for buttons then sell it on their own stalls, much higher price, I observe things like this. Hope this helps.

lucy*locket

I always look out for make up & toiletries at boot sales, they have to be new/like new/little used, and I've never paid more than £1 for an item. I've picked up some bargains over the years, Clinique/Clarins/Estee Lauder etc, perfumes(did pay a little more for those, usually around £3), body lotions that I woud normally use any way eg Nivea, Johnsons for 50p each.

You need to be realistic about what to charge, people don't expect to pay much at boot saels, you may make more selling them on Ebay.

VALM

When we did a car boot on Easter Monday I sold quite a few items of cosmetics. I put most of them in a 10p box - these items consisted of old Body Shop Ananya items (I found them at my FIL's when we were clearing his house - they had not been opened so may have been ok so thought 10p was ok to pay for someone to try them out!), sample sizes of LE products and base coats I had opened and used. The only cosmetics that I charged more for were a bottle of OPI lacquer and China Glaze lacquer but we are only talking about £1.50-£2.00 each. x