Beauty advent calendars 2024 #3

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Have we made our decision(s)?

Thread 1 - https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/styleandd_beauty/5108657-beauty-advent-calendars-2024

Thread 2 - https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/styleandd_beauty/5156541-beauty-advent-calendars-2024-2

Checking in! I’ve ordered H&B for me and Paxton and Whitfield for the household. Still trying to choose one for DD - she likes Rituals but even their cheapest one is twice the price of the H&B. I may get it for her but a cheaper one with lots of bath stuff would be great!

I think the Jo Loves calendar looks lovely. I would definitely have considered it but I've still got quite a bit of Jo Loves and Jo Malone left over from the last couple of years.

Just place marking the new thread.

I’ve got H & B, and a tea one I got cheap in the sales last year. I’m thinking it would be nice to have an old-fashioned calendar with pictures as well.

Sounds lovely…although I wish you’d have said it’s horrible and I wouldn’t really like it 😁 more enabling 🤣

I’ve just had a browse on Amazon. I know it’s not beauty-related, but who could resist 24 Taylor Swift tree ornaments?!?

I've got LF, might get Boots No7, still considering Lib but probably wait for their sale...

I’m still in a tizzy. After deciding on Space NK because the Harrods issues gave me a wobble, I then decided to take a chance on Harrods. I was waiting on DH for his contribution as part of my Christmas present, then Harrods went out of stock. I was a little sore but didn’t put his dinner over his head 😅
So you’d think that the obvious choice would be to get Space NK now, but something is holding me back. I keep looking at the JL one, it has some similar products that I want and is cheaper.
I suspect I will either miss the boat with all my dithering, or I’ll end up buying a few and struggling to use everything up!

@MidnightMeltdown I only wish I could say I’d been that good. I’ve several of this years kits from Liberty…plus lots of other bits! It should be embarrassing, but it’s just nice to know that really I’m an overachiever in something 😀

I’ve gone for space nk, I wasn’t impressed with the liberty offering which was a bit annoying as I have so much BD credit built up but I haven’t been tempted by one of their calendars for a few years now so not surprising.

I have H&B. I was very tempted by Liberty but wasn't willing to pay the brexit tax. Nothing else is appealing, although I still have to check out stylevena.

I'm thinking I'll just go for a couple of the lego Christmas sets instead and extend my Christmas village.

Apologies if Ive missed this on the previous thread, but does anyone know when the HN fragrance calendar launches ?

I’ve gone for Space NK for me and LF to share with my tween daughters. The problem with ordering this early though is the temptation to open - we go away at half term and I’d love to take the ultra violette and super goop but then it spoils the point of the advent calendar!

Thanks for the new thread. I bought Liberty yesterday after dithering between them all. I can barely remember what’s in any of them, I have looked at so many!

My SpaceNK got shipped yesterday, hoping it comes today but not holding my breath.

I've also got the flannels beauty cracker but it's not an advent calendar.

Just found out I have £40 of boots points that expire soon but annoyingly you can use them towards a product it has to be an outright purchase, otherwise I'd have gone for the boots 12 days of luxury beauty.

There's about 4 items I won't use in the Space NK. I'll get my daughter to check it and replace them with items I've saved from the recent Liberty edit and GWP, which includes 3 perfumes. If there's room in door 25 she can add some of the Liberty items too. I'll sell the items she takes out. It'll also mean I won't touch the AC til December.
Last year I had Liberty which had a very disappointing day 25 - the AB cream, so I got her to switch that too.
It looks like my Space NK AC is arriving tomorrow when we're out, so I'm going to change the delivery date to Monday.

Third year running I’ve bought Space NK
picked it up yesterday

I watched an unboxing and wrote down the numbers of the drawers with the contents I want her to switch out. Now it's in its way, I'm going to avoid any more Space NK unboxings and content lists and try to forget what's inside.

I’ve bought the H & B which has already been delivered. Realised I have gone a bit mad this year as have also ordered the Degusta food one for us to share , a pretty picture only one from Artfile for the kitchen which I bought in the sale last year and an Escape Room one that I also bought in the sale early this year . On top of that my husband mentioned he liked the idea of small aftershave testers to take on holiday, so all year I’ve been applying for free testers on Facebook links and now have enough to fill one of my old H & B calendars for him .

Anyone looking at boots and the difference between the two?

Which two? I looked at a few on Boots and ordered the £99 limited edition one (24 days) I'm not investigating what's in them too much as I love some surprises

I need a male one and a female one (late teens, early 20s) tempted by the lush one for the teenage boy.

Mine shipped yesterday too and I’ve just had the text from Royal Mail saying it’s being delivered this morning so you might be in luck!

Aw, I'd love a proper retro picture calendar! When I was growing up in the 80s, my two siblings and I used to get one picture calendar to share and take turns opening. I have really fond memories of that...the glitter and the excitement.
How times have changed!

I'm going to go for the OK beauty calendar as it's more reasonably priced.

I like the look of Benefit for my 20 year old DD as she loves makeup and has a very simple skincare routine, but considering the sizes I think it's massively overpriced, does anyone think it'll be discounted?

When I ordered space nk the dispatch date was to be 17 September and everyday now it’s changed further and further away to it’s now saying 27 September! My niece is going back to oz next week and I had hoped to have it to take some bits from it to give to her for a Christmas present and then I planned to get bits from eBay to refill the drawers and put it away but it’s looking like that plan isn’t going to happen now x