Beauty Advent Calendars 2023 Part D- waiting till December?

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Or will you start opening in November?

Either way, it's not long now......time to make your choice (s).

Continuing the thread.

"This is a thread to discuss the buying of beauty calendars and not the opening of them. There may be general discussion about contents of a calendar but please do not share information about what is behind a specific door you've opened. Thank you"

Edited by MNHQ at OP's request

@LaBrujaPiruja I'm so sorry. What a rubbish experience xx

The bullet has been bitten!
I've bought the JL one
I wasn't going to this year, I've had Liberty every year but there are too many repeats.

I think that the Flannels women's fragrance cracker has sold out, but the men's appears to now be in stock on the website if anyone still wants it

Very odd that they cancelled orders and now have it in stock

I don't suppose that you want to pay postage again @Puravida23 (but you might want to complain!).

I so nearly waited until the Flannels fragrance calendar was due to arrive in the stores today, but panicked when my local branch told me that most of the stock had already been allocated for presales. Im really glad I bought it last weekend!

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Fell off the thread .. great to see all the updates and THANK YOU to the poster who said about the pick your own quality street in JL, strawberry and orange creams for me too 😂

Have ordered degusta after sneaking a peek at this year and being way more impressed than last year. Still no beauty calendar tho and think I won't get now. I do want the Liberty jewellery one if it's reduced ...

Bit the bullet and ordered 15 tea towels from ulster weavers. What the fuck am I going to do with them all 😂 I can’t gift tea towels can I 😂😂

Elle AC now £99

https://www.hearstmagazines.co.uk/elle-magazine-subscription-jfs?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_9Tfl7q6ggMVxdLtCh232w1qEAAYASAAEgKgLvD_BwE

I don’t want it anymore, I just want a full refund

@Giftwithpurchase I would like to order the Degusta box for DS but they won't ship to my location. Would you be able to let me know the rough dimensions so I can see what it will be to use the mail forwarder. Many thanks in advance if you can

Mmmnnn,,,,I watched the Flannels advent calendar/cracker unboxing with RLB and now think I might want it. I could give the makeup to my daughter as part of her stocking and keep the rest. The perfume is a full bottle and reading reviews, sounds lovely. I might wait to see if there are any reductions but because it's not actually a calendar, there might not be any, as it would make a great present.

@MidnightMeltdown . Thanks for letting me know . I am so annoyed with Flannels. Incredibly I still want the thing so have paid again . Only one this time I have ditched DHs so have paid postage 3 times now🤯 for my crackers. I am still not convinced I will get it but I will be writing a long letter of complaint either way

Haven't bought anything as of now. Looking out for something.

Holland & Barrett is £5 off if anyone wanted that one

Hope that you get it this time @Puravida23!

Someone is trying to sell the JL calendar for £325 on EBay! Can’t see this selling fast when you can order the same calendar from John Lewis for £175!

@Isabelle70 I’ve just measured the box it comes in which is a tight fit to the calendar and you would need to keep it in that to post on . It’s 61cm x 25 cm x 48cm .

The Flannels £170 one looks great, but RLV had a broken item which is not great. Probably not surprising given their packaging is so hit and miss. I'd be gutted if that happened. My fragrance crackers seem to be ok but the men's one wasn't as well packed.

I had sworn not to get any Acs this year. Still have loads from last year but the OK one looks good and I would use most of it. What are the chances it will be reduced do you think?

I have the OK one which I am opening this month. I am pretty impressed with it for the money. Code 10OK still works to knock £10 off the price (it is 10 OK not 100k as I first tried!)

I am absolutely loving this thread and really excited for the advent openings after a bit of a lack lustre start in September and wondering if I'd even bother this year. They just felt a bit meh after years of Space NK, Liberty and Harrods.

So, for myself I have Space NK - was lucky to get it on the last day it was available and with the free gift. I'm going to Lapland in December so loved the Northern lights theme and the contents seemed to stick with me the most, haven't had a Space NK for years. I also have a cross stitch one and a Neideregger marzipan one which I wanted last year but it sold out! Feel a bit guilty having 3 so may hide the non beauty from my husband, although he's getting a red wine one from me (which I am planning on helping with).

I just bought my sister the Liberty one today, she loves purple and we do exchange calendars (I got OK this year) which I use for Javent. I can't tell you how excited I am for her to open it, she is going to be thrilled and her birthday is 1st Dec so makes it extra special for both of us!

Starting to feel a bit festive with all of these tucked under the bed....

I buy my DH the very big Neideregger marzipan calendar every year; he loves it.

@Piccalino3 yeah, I actually think that this year has been great for advent calendars. Space nk and Selfridges in particular knocked it out the park. These are the best offerings that I've seen from them.

Space nk, Selfridges and Look Fantastic were all very slow to sell out last year, and it's clear that they've learned something from this and significantly upped their game.

I think that some people are just losing enthusiasm because of beauty box overload. People expect more and more each year, and things that would have flown of the shelves a couple of years ago are now struggling. It's such a cut throat, saturated market and we all have cupboards full of stuff!

I know it's not beauty, but Laduree have a very beautiful advent calendar, I saw it in person and it's gorgeous. Not sure about the contents and probably not worth the cost but I'd still love to have it!

https://www.laduree.co.uk/-festive-wreath-advent-calendar.html?gclid=CjwKCAiAxreqBhAxEiwAfGfndBfvPMsBRsw7M2DMEzCPSC1KzttwfLrVIvLgOikY27yHi0nZkHFpxoCpvEQAvDBwE

I do think that F&M and JL made a mistake in hiking the price this year, although I expect that JL did it because they knew that their customers would be waiting for a discount.