Liberty Advent Calendar 2023 Opening Thread

[Housewife2010]

Reveals from 7 am each morning please.
Not long to go now.....

I’d like a candle or some bath bubbles. I didn’t use my tomato candle from last year until the end of summer and it’s actually nicer than I thought. I’ve got half to use in spring

Delighted with today’s drawer, God knows I need the eye mask! I think lots of us have wanted an exfoliator too.

Loving today’s drawer. Woke up to puffy eyes because the bloody dog had me up during the night and I have a lovely fancy lunch booked with friends later so it’s now in the fridge waiting…. Have recently run out of my Elemis papaya enzyme product so looking forward to trying this brand. I may do a mask whilst I de-puff my eyes and try and look presentable for later. I’m gonna need a lot of Spanx for my dress so hopefully I will distract everyone with my lovely sparkly eyes 😂

I haven’t peeked, but something in the calendar is giving a strong scent so 🤞🏻it’s a candle….I’ve had a stressful couple of years so one of my ‘be kind to yourself’ things to do is to light a posh candle next to my bed before lights out and light it again in the morning when I have nice coffee in a proper cup and saucer and a read of the paper before getting up.

Hope everyone enjoys todays. My DH has bought me this AC for the last two years as a treat. I think I was more touched he’d actually listened to me wanging on about how lucky people were to get one and then set a calendar reminder to order one for me. I actually cried when he gave it to me.

@Netaporter thats so lovely. Mine is also a gift from my DH as a thank you for all the Christmas stuff I do, a treat a day is my gift from him.

Today’s is lovely! I’m looking forward to using them both. Woke up with a sty today though so it’s salt water instead ☹️

@Netaporter I love your candle treat. I've started setting my alarm earlier and enjoying a coffee in bed with DH each morning such a nice start to the day. Hopefully soon I will have a candle to light too!!!! 🤞🎄

@Fatlegs46 wishing you better soon. A stye is right up there with a cold sore isn’t it? @imp2007 welcome to the coffee club! I love the harrods Xmas coffee but I left it too late to get some this year and they are sold out :-(

Yep, this one is timely 😅Was going to slap it on immediately then saw it contained retinol, so will save it for an evening. I had surprisingly ace results from the 111 sheet mask from a recent BD so have high hopes.

@Netaporter 's totally right, now the calendar's mostly empty it's clear one particular drawer is exuding that lovely smell, rather than the whole box.

I have the Selfridges coffee calendar ready to go from boxing day. It was still in stock in store on Wednesday, if that's of help to anyone.

Are any of you doing Jadvent? I have a Space NK calendar lined up and am really pleased I managed to get one. Something for the dark days!

I am loving the rose scent roll-on we recently had. It's my daily go-to at present.

Can't wait to try both items from today, might have a pamper session tomorrow evening.
@Bimblesalong I have the M&S calendar for Janvent that I have never done before.
Last year was my first Liberty calendar and I think I enjoyed it more as I hadn't had a year of beauty boxes. Not sure if I should pause or cancel the BD for a while so I don't get product fatigue...

I’ll have to put the cleanser in the line of other cleansers waiting to be used. I currently use the ren cleanser that we had in the BD which I purchased more of.

I love eye patches! I’ve got some gorgeous ones on the go in the fridge so might pop these ones in my suitcase for work trips. I love having a pamper in the evening after I’ve done all of my work!

I was away for a few days so had some drawers waiting for me when I got back.

Not impressed at another hair oil.
The Zelens mask looks good and I'm looking forward to trying it.
OTO cleanser will get used eventually but I've got other exfoliating cleansers to use up first.
I quite like using eye masks so happy enough with that.

I'm finding the Dr PawPaw lip mask from a previous day quite annoying, so much effort to squeeze it out!!

Just went onto the thread for my other advent calendar and realised the Dr PawPaw is from it.. ignore me

Ooh V happy with today's!!!! Wasn't expecting another perfume and really like it!

www.libertylondon.com/uk/features/beauty/bibbi-parfum-ghost-of-tom-review.html

Also very happy - smells divine! 👏

I like this. Smells lovely but what a strange name. I want to know who Tom is and why he’s a ghost!

I love today's! Already seeking out another bottle on Vinted - I sold my Poets of Berlin, so feels justified. Very pleased.

Lovely scent. When the calendar was first launched there was no information on this brand. I'm really pleased they included it.

Love it! But who is Tom?

I’m really happy to get three fragrances in this AC. There was only one with Cult Beauty last year and I didn’t even like it 😅

I’ve just been looking at the Bibbi range on the Liberty website (£225 for 100ml seems so steep when they could just sell 50ml bottles - I feel the same about the LBTY range). The names are certainly interesting:

Ghost of Tom
Radio Child
The Other Room
Soap Club
Pistachio Game
Iris Wallpaper
Swimming Pool

I think they’re up there with Vilhelm Parfumerie for weirdness 😄

I think it goes beyond weirdness into wanky bollocks territory.

Fair 😂

But it seems to be the way the indie perfume houses differentiate themselves from the Chanels and Diors!

There were four - Bibbi, Vilhelm, LBTY & Le Labo.

I love getting perfume but I am definitely on a ban from buying perfume in 2024 as I've accumulated so much this year 😬

I’m looking forward to, oh you smell nice, what is it?

Tom’s Ghost

er ok. Backs away slowly