Beauty Advent Calendars 2023 - Spreadsheets & SPOILERS

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Thread to discuss and compare 2023 Beauty Advent contents. Started because Liberty has already published their contents.

Sephora
Could be tempted

Tempting @MavisMcMinty !

The money’s still yours (although yes you have to spend it in Liberty so it’s really theirs) - it’s the best beauty box subscription I know of!

Sephora looks like a cheaper version of Cult beauty
Lots in there but what’s with all the niacinamide items

I quite like Sephora, but it's a significant price hike on last year, and in that price range, I think it prefer Space NK and Selfridges.

Will consider it though, esp. if there's a deal.

Rituals link for anyone interested. I think the 2022 one you have has better contents than this years @Dee1224 😀beautyadventcalendar.net/rituals-advent-calendar-2023/

Glossybox still in the lead for me, especially for the price!

Thanks @itsnothingoriginal - so pretty - wish I had kept my village boxes!

My first impression of Sephora is it's one of the best I've seen this year actually. Funny how we're all looking for different things. I can't even put my finger on what's appealing tbh, although a full size candle at last! (Even if it is Neom 😬)

Joining. I’m having advent angst as I clearly must have an advent calendar but none of them are grabbing me.
Im hoping for inspiration and guidance here

I do like the Sephora ac as I'd use everything in it which would be a first ever!

I'm regretting my LF purchase
Sephora looks so good

It does look tempting, and there’s always a possibility they won’t want to do that credit/text/bank verification thing that simply doesn’t work here.

Just saw that the Sephora one won't ship to Ireland

I think I could be tempted by the Sephora one as few items in keen on

@Itsanewme - where did you see that? It said free shipping to Ireland on the link above bit I had my suspicions given the perfumes in it.

It's a banner above the pic of the calendar
It says
Due to shipping restrictions, this product is not available in Ireland.
I had seen the deliver to Ireland and got excited for a minute too

@Itsanewme - how on earth did I miss that?

I was on my phone so presumably my aging eyes.

I think it only popped up after a few mins

So not me then.

At least I hadn't it all in the spreadsheet and then discovered it. That happened last year with NAP as the contents were on the BAC site before the NAP site.

That's lucky so re the spreadsheet.
I didn't buy LF last year got the rituals one instead and wasn't too
impressed .
So hopefully this year will be more successful

I had CB last year and did enjoy it. So far, LF has the best like to meh ratio, although I quite like the miin Korean one. I need to add that to the spreadsheet. I would like to see the Boots premium one though before deciding.

A wait list is open for Holland&Barrett if anyone is keen to buy this year:
https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/info/beauty-advent

I'm not really tempted by Sephora, either. Also experiencing advent calendar angst, because I really want one but feel quite meh about all of them so far.

Are we waiting for any biggies? Just JL?

@CeeCeeDeeBee LiB have announced brands but still waiting on contents. Also waiting on Boots, and Flannels had a good one last year. Other than that maybe Debenhams/House of Fraser/Elle? Maybe? Not sure if they'll all do one this year.

I had an email about the Debenhams Advent you can see a photo of contents but no details but looks fairly uninspiring