Beauty Bargains!

Wrap up your Christmas shopping for less on December 1st when over 120 stores and venues in Covent Garden’s Seven Dials and St Martin’s Courtyard will be offering 20% off especially for this exclusive festive shopping evening.

From 5 til 9pm, shoppers of discerning taste will have the opportunity to purchase original gifts for friends, family and loved ones with 20% off throughout Seven Dials’ seven streets of independent boutiques, heritage brands, vintage stores and indulgent beauty and grooming salons, as well as nearby St Martin’s Courtyard – a beautiful open air shopping destination boasting a unique mix of stylish fashion, beauty and lifestyle boutiques and flagships. Cafés, restaurants and bars from both areas are also involved should you need a break from shopping or a relaxing drink and bite to eat.

Beauty and cosmetics stores involved include Benefit, Bare Escentuals, Kiehl’s, Shu Uemura, Neal’s Yard Remedies,  Miller Harris, Screenface and Organic Pharmacy to name a few.

There will be also be a host of in-store activities including DJs, live music, makeovers, gifts with purchase, complimentary food and drinks PLUS*:

• Pop-Up Bar serving complimentary drinks in St Martin’s Courtyard to those bearing the 20% off ‘Seven Dials and St Martin’s Courtyard Shopping Voucher’.

• Free, luxury gift wrap service by Urban Angels at 71 Monmouth Street for the first 100 customers to bring an item purchased at the Shopping Evening to the value of £10 or more after 5pm) along with a valid receipt and voucher.

• 100 shoppers will be also selected at random and presented with a golden ticket entitling them to reach inside the ‘lucky dip’, which will be overflowing with gifts priced from £5 to £150 from stores within Seven Dials and St Martin’s Courtyard.

• A free meal to the value of £25 for the first 25 people to arrive with a voucher at Gourmet Mexican restaurant Cantina Laredo from 6pm.

• A festive performance from local collective, Actor’s Rechoired in both Seven Dials and St Martin’s Courtyard throughout the evening.

• Terrence Higgins Trust volunteers will be holding a collection as part of their Stand Up Stand Out Campaign to mark World AIDS Day (1st December). All donations will help Terrence Higgins Trust to continue supporting people living with, or at risk of, HIV and poor sexual health.

Participating stores and details of in-store activities will be released prior to the event on Sevendials.co.uk; Stmartinscourtyard.co.uk; Twitter @7dialsWC2 & @smccoventgarden, and Facebook facebook.com/sevendials & facebook.com/StMartinsCourtyard.

The Seven Dials and St Martin’s Courtyard 20% Christmas Shopping Evening takes place on Thursday 1st December 2011 from 5-9pm. To qualify for 20% discount, shoppers need a ‘Seven Dials and St Martin’s Courtyard Shopping Voucher’, which they can download for free at Sevendials.co.uk along with a list of participating stores and venues.

Happy shopping!

K x