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.

Spacenk have £20 off for every £100 spent and it includes the advent calendar making it £175 instead of £215.

Annoying that this happens when I paid full price but perhaps it's not selling so well this year.

Why is Space NK a good choice over others for those who have gone for it? Lots of trial sizes it seems. Are the full size products really good? I haven’t tried any of them.

The code you need is Explore for this

Yeah I saw the offer for SpaceNk too and came to tell everyone.
Annoyingly this is the one year I don’t want it as too many repeats for me. This offer is only for one day and it seems to be in stock at the moment
I am hoping this is boding well for the other advents maybe there will be loads of offers this year

No idea what Cult Beauty are playing at, but the calendar is still in stock. Use the BAC site link to get there:

beautyadventcalendar.net/cult-beauty-advent-calendar-2022/

I tried it - the code unfortunately doesn’t apply to the calendar.

@BrokeAsABone agree the JL calendar is great - easily as good if not better than a number of the £200+ ones.

Just bought it (luckily it's payday today) with indulge points got it down to £170 and with free next day delivery too so not long to wait to receive it! It's a pretty good deal

Gatineau are doing a good 12 days of christmas calendar including 3 full sizes - listed at £49 but with discount code its £39 and free delivery.

Some of the full sizes are £40 alone.

I’m hyming and haing over the space nk, trying to be sure there is 770 value in it and struggling to find it for example why on earth they put 20mls of JVN dry air cream rather than the travel size at 30ml which only costs £9 as it is etc? Can’t work out if I’m better getting it or trying to pick up the items I would like from eBay

Yes me too

I'm not tempted by space nk, even with the discount.

The only things that interest me are the ultraviolet and the body wash, and these don't come to anywhere near £175. Think I'm better off waiting for a gwp.

John Lewis is a better calendar for that money I think

JL is definitely better value for money and I've sold off enough of mine on ebay to make my money back, keeping the things I really wanted or which won't sell for myself. Will try the same with Space NK's.... i'm treating the whole thing as a bit of a game to see if I can get my money back and a nice stash of freebies!

Tempted also by the Liberty one but it's a bit ££££

I reckon they may start discounting them later in the year is COL means less people can afford them

I love Gatineau. Do you have the code to hand? That would make it brilliant value.

@Metabigot do you mean you where able to sell things on eBay to make up the price you paid while still keeping some items? That sounds amazing but I’d be too much of a novice to try that. Out of interest which space nk items would you be planning to put on eBay? X

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Yes, this is my little hobby! Took me about 3 days to sell enough of JL even factoring in ebay fees and postage.

I sold all the big ticket items have a few of the smaller ones left.

From space Nk I will list all the full sizes, probably get about half RRP, charlotte tilbury paulas choice hourglass sturm Sunday Riley etc should sell well but I honestly won't know til I list them which is all part of thr fun.

Any I can't shift I'll keep and its not so costly that I can't afford to take a chance.

Do you have any recommendations as to what is good, from the stuff in their AC?

SpaceNK has £40 off their advent calendar today!

@Metabigot thank you so much for the code!

I love the Defi Lift range. It feels quite luxurious and my face looks more defined I think when I use it. Happy to see the neck gel in the calendar- I'm at the age where that's one of my problem areas!!

Yeah, I bought it full price and I was happy with that. A bit cross that they have discounted so heavily before December.

i do like the calendar
Nice brands with fun things to try. I haven't had a space nk AC since they became a paying item instead of a gwp so rhey are new to me.

I dont mind having a few smaller sized of luxury products as well as some full sizes as long as they are the ones I want.

My JL calendar has arrived, luckily no breakages in mine. Interested hearing about selling some items on eBay as I won't use the Olaplex so might see if I can sell it.

The calendar is lovely, can't wait for December now!

How do you know nothing is broken? Mine is still unopened in the box until December.

@MidnightConstellation I get my DP to check each draw when it arrives then I put it away until December.

Ah! Clever!

So no idea if they are the right products but know there's at least one in every drawer

@MidnightConstellation @PanicAtTheBigTesco I checked as some people have found breakages in one of the drawers. I didn't think of asking DH to check, good idea - but to be honest there was no way I was even going to try resisting a little peak anyway! It's now back in its cardboard sleeve and safely put away until December 😊