The first order is where an abstract registration becomes a real thing. It is also where most new consultants make the one mistake that is genuinely expensive: buying far more than they need, because it feels like starting properly.

Before you order

Two checks are worth thirty seconds:

Are you seeing consultant prices? Log in first, then browse. If prices look identical to what a visitor sees, you are either not logged in or the account is not fully set up. Resolve that before ordering, not after.

Do you know what you are actually buying? Not the product names - the reason. Replacing something you have run out of is a reason. "It was in the new campaign" is not.

What to put in it

The best first order is boring:

  • Things you already buy. Shampoo, cleanser, hand cream, laundry products. You were going to spend this money anyway, and now it costs less
  • One product you are curious about, ideally from the category you intend to specialise in
  • Nothing you cannot describe. If you could not explain why you bought it, you will not be able to explain it to anyone else either

And what to leave out:

  • Stock. Do not buy things to have on hand for hypothetical customers. This is the single most common way new consultants lose money, and the products usually go out of catalogue before they are sold
  • Bulk quantities of anything untested. One of a new product, not three
  • Items bought to hit a number. If there is a threshold you are close to, adding something you need is sensible; adding something you do not is not

Placing it

The process itself is ordinary online shopping, and Faberlic's own site is where it happens - your account, the catalogue, a basket, a delivery choice and a payment step. The details of delivery options and payment methods vary by country and change over time, so the ordering pages themselves are the reliable source rather than any written summary.

What is worth doing while you go through it: pay attention. Within a few weeks someone is going to ask you how ordering works, and answering from memory beats sending them a link and hoping.

Checking the order

When it arrives:

  • Check the contents against the confirmation before anything else
  • Keep the packaging until you have checked
  • Note the campaign the items came from, since products rotate roughly every three weeks and a repeat purchase may not be available later
  • Actually use the things - an unopened box teaches you nothing

The part people skip

Write two or three honest sentences about each product once you have used it for a week. What it was like. Whether it did what you expected. What kind of person it would suit.

This is the raw material for everything you will say later, and it cannot be reconstructed from memory in a month. Consultants who do this sound like people with opinions; consultants who do not sound like catalogues.

About the discount

Your personal discount is applied to what you order for yourself, which is why ordering things you genuinely use is the most reliable way the arrangement pays for itself - regardless of whether you ever build anything larger. The exact structure of the discount and any conditions attached to it are set out by Faberlic and worth reading in the original rather than in summary.

After the first one

The rhythm most people settle into is one order per catalogue cycle, containing mostly repeats and one new thing. That is enough to stay current with the range without accumulating a cupboard of unused product.

If you want the wider picture of how the discount works and what a realistic first few months look like, the business section covers both.