Beauty advent 22 part 2 (massive spoilers)

[Zeeza]

I don't know the etiquette of starting a runover of someone else's thread. I hope this is OK.

Reminder advent22 gives a hand-wash and handcream free gift on space nk.

I bought it, but now I have alight regret. I should have held out to see what harrods had.

The CEO cream wasn't 5oz as had been trailed on many calendar sites, but 0.5oz, 15ml. 5oz would have been a ridiculous size so that makes sense.

Thanks for the new thread @Zeeza

Thanks for the new thread.

Spreadsheet is now updated for John Lewis and Net a Porter, and I’ve been through and updated some of the rest. As expected, John Lewis comes out really well, and top 2 for me personally are Liberty and John Lewis.

Where do you sell those products you don’t use?

@EasterIssland I have used both Vinted and eBay, and prefer eBay, so now only use that. I wait for their reduced fee offers to make it more worthwhile.

Thanks I’ve heard about vinted. I might give it a try for selling some of my beauty box things from Liberty

@AprilLady JL is currently top for me too - I’m trying to just buy one this year …

If the cult beauty one launches on 3rd October as rumoured, do they dispatch immediately?

Just trying to work out where to have delivery as I'm at a different address from 3-22 Oct.

Still between Harvey Nichols and harrods for me but I have a weakness for anything French and Decleor at £120 looks good, lots of tiny sizes though.

Tempted by penhaligons as it's a shop I'd like to try a lot from, but I'm not keen on tiny candles...

Following with great anticipation!!

Soooo impressed by the spreadsheet breakdown!

@EasterIssland I find makeup sells better on eBay than Vinted like @AprilLady says wait for the 80% off final value fees offer which they do every few weeks. It will sell on Vinted but for less as ppl want a bargain.

@AprilLady loving the spreadsheet - JL for me I think!

I've just updated my spreadsheet to add Liberty, CB and JL and it has not helped at all! They are pretty much all even in terms of how many products I really like in each and the value of those in comparison to the whole calendar.

The only big difference between the 3 is that CB has a lot more products I'm not bothered about BUT that's likely because there is 37 products in it compared to 27/30 in the other two.

Really have no idea which I'm going to go for...

My friend told me when she buys a perfume and asks she usually gets a decent whack of samples. You could try that instead?

Anyone know when M&S normally comes out?

Tempted by Oliver Bonas and Debenhams...

M and S came out Oct 28 last year. I think they go a bit later, like boots, as they are more mainstream and not obsessed over by folks like us with spreadsheets.

Don't they realise that spreadsheets and talking about them are half the fun?

Thank you for foi g a new thread I've been looking for it!
I got Selfridges which was delivered yesterday, I only paid half though as had vouchers already
Still need my January one. Will get my mum the M&S once it's out (we swap)
Not sure what to go for

Feel Unique have one coming soon for £139 value £700, has anyone seen the details?

Hi everyone, I’m probably just going to stick with M&S this year. I don’t actually need anything though. This will probably change next month when I get FOMO 😁

I havent seen any deets about FU except it is due in September. But release dates sometimes change. I wonder if last year's poor sales will male them do something good this year.

I had a FU a couple of years ago and it was decent so I'm hoping it could be an option

Excuse me for asking but do you all actually use up everything in the calendars? Even ignoring the items I know I won’t use I don’t seem to go through things like face creams and serums fast enough to use them all in a year! Am I just not applying enough? Or do you try them then bin them? How long do you try them for?

I had Feel Unique last year and really liked it, I got it on offer for £80 and would say it was definitely worth that too me.

Iirc there were some others on the main thread who had it and liked it too.

@DorotheaDiamond I would say I still have about 25% of last year’s Space NK left. I’ve used everything at least once though.

Just tried to buy Selfridges and it says out of stock 😭 Was I too slow? Will there be more?!

I use everything or pass them on. It all gets used. Full size serums and creams last 2 or 3 months. Spf lasts a month. I go through body cream and bath oils like you wouldn't believe. I am more picky on make up and hair, but teenage daughter etc use most I don't want.

@User19876 I only had an alert to say they went on sale last week, think it was Thursday and mine came Saturday so I'd be shocked if that's it , demand can't be that high