Beauty advent calendars....

[Piccolino2]

For those interested there's already some info coming out on this years beauty advent calendars... plenty of time for us all to debate and neurose about it all:

www.reallyree.com/?s=Advent%202018

I've been putting £5 away a week since last Christmas for this so I can purchase guilt free and as I organise the whole of Christmas for everyone then I think I should get a treat to look forward to. Personally I think I like the look of Harrods this time.

What do you all think?

Oops. I just ordered the liberty one.... just so tempted and know I would be gutted when it does sell out.
Baby due in 3 weeks so this will be my special treat to myself. I think I'll tell husband not to buy me a Christmas present. !!

I’ve ordered the liberty one and look fantastic, and will get m&s too as I’ve had that the last few years and liked it

Husband is getting haribo 😄

I'm jealous :)

I thought liberty looked brilliant this year but was sensible and restrained myself (bills to pay, promises to keep).

I'll have to read about it here.

My DH bought me the liberty one. I think he got fed up with me going on.

I am SO excited - this is a really big treat for me. I have no idea how I will wait until December!!!

Well if money was no object I would have bought (more than) one of the Decleor ones on QVC. Fantastic value but cannot afford it!

@littlepooch you should really enjoy that, I thought it looked wonderful this year

I'm literally laughing out loud at costacoffee! I thought I was bad with my 2 last year (No7 for November and Look Fantastic for December)

Do you open all 3 each morning in December?

I only have the Charlotte Tilbury one this year, which is only a 12 day one. I think I'll go for the M&S one too

I'm waiting for the Liberty to be delivered. I do wish that they were using DPD rather than DHL. DPD gives one hour delivery slots. I have to collect my daughter soon and it could arrive anytime today. I really hope it doesn't come in the ten minutes when I'm out. I also think that Liberty should give free delivery with such a large spend.

yes, 3 each morning

oh dear I got the Liberty one and the Net a porter one (bought the net a porter one first and then crumbled with the Liberty one). I have read somewhere that the Fenwicks one is really good value. (I'm done though)

I want to get my teen girls one each - any ideas? (3 girls aged 13,15,18) - not too expensive (as I've spent all of my money on myself).

Ooh love a beauty advent calendar, 💕

Had M&S and John Lewis before, but things are looking to take a positive financial turn just before Xmas, what would be a good slight upgrade? Tia X

Do Benefit do one? Xx

www.aldi.co.uk/luxury-advent-calendar/p/087469259634700

A dupe for Jo Malone!

@bumblebee39 I'd say decleor or look fantastic/latest in beauty or glossy box is popular.

Dh has ordered me the Liberty one bless him, it arrived on Monday after me asking him Sunday night if I should get the Jo loves one as not interested in the others even though it's £250.

I keep going back to look at it but really don't think I can make it worth the money, especially as I just want to smell it all. Not sure what to do! May check if 4160 Tuesdays are doing one as love them.

The Elle one is on offer at the minute according to my emails. £80 instead of over a hundred. Im very tempted...

Some good bits in the Elle one. I've made myself go through & assign what I'd individually be willing to pay for each item & some are no value to me at all so this way it never makes the calendar worth it anymore! There's only so much stuff I can gift to friends. Keep telling myself to be strong!

Buckee, that’s me and liberty’s. Been buying for 3 years. This year is exact repeat of the last 3 years. Item for item, it doesn’t worth it for me. I’ll pass.

I’ve had the Liberty one for the last 2 years and am not even tempted this year
I had the beauty offer a few weeks ago where you spent £150 and had products worth almost £400 free and I have to say that was a better offer for me
It’s also interesting in that the Liberty calendar has sold out within a couple of days previous years but is still available this year

I’ve looked at Jo Loves and concluded that it’s better to actually just buy the perfume/candles from full price range
The perfumes in the calendar are 2ml size and I queried this with JL customer service yesterday. They told me they expect each 2ml to last for 3 uses. So not really a lot

The Jo Loves includes a voucher for a full size perfume.

There's a taster set from JL that works out better value than the calendar. I'd much prefer a 50ml voucher for less money.

May be tempted by ESPA....

@Fishandthechips where do you get the ELLE calendar for £80? I need to buy one as a gift but can only see it listed for full price.

@Piccolino2 Try signing up to the Elle newsletter/marketing thing on their website. The offer is in an email through them and you click the link and it shows you the discounted price. It doesnt have a offer end date, just says limited time so hopefully they are still sending emails out.

@buckeejit can't warrant spending more than £70/£80 really.

Though do want the selfridges one! Xx