Beauty advent calendars 2024 #5

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Continued advent calendar discussions. Please share thoughts, purchases and if you see any discounts!

Latest in beauty have a new box called British beauty week the essentials and BBW10 gives 10% and free delivery. I couldn't resist. I really need to stop now because I've ended up with a h&b calendar, an elizabeth arden haul and I ordered a charity box. I literally will end up with over 100 products and no-one needs that amount

That Latest in Beauty box looks really good!

I had the same thing. At first it was meant to be delivered sun or Mon but royal mail hadn't received it. Just arrived now.

Thanks for that tip I’ve just ordered that for my daughter for Christmas

Looks like candles count towards the fragrance purchase, which I was considering, but actually I don't think the GWP is particularly good so I won't bother.

Can I ask for some fragrance advice please?

I'm debating getting the SpaceNK fragrance calendar as I feel I would like to get a bit more in to perfumes. However, I'm not familiar with any of the scents.

I like citrus scents. Rose and other florals so long as they are not too sweet. I don't like anything too heavy or overly masculine.

Would the SpaceNK be good for me?

There's a good selection in there including a Rose diptque and a jo loves one which is slightly citrussy. Also a vanillary one. There will however be some you may not like AZ that's just the nature of a big selection box like this, it's trying to cover all bases.

If you're firm on what you like/ don't like and not up for giving new things a go I'd say maybe it's not for you.

@IlovePond the overnight oil might he a dupe for Khiels

Agree with that, apart form A La Rose Diptique - fresh rose, Jo Loves - citrus, Byredo Bal d'Afrique (citrus woody but sooo smooth, my favorite perfume ever), Lazy Sunday - clean & fresh, Glossier You - woody skin scent to me, Juilette has a gun Juliette - shampoo fresh.

I didn't buy Space NK as I have good few and have tried all, but I nearly regret not getting it and going for Harrods. Harrods is intense, my son loves most of the perfumes and I like few but the Space NK does softer fragrances that I gravitate towards more.

I think with any perfume advent calendars if you go in with attitude of
I hope to find 1 are 2 that I love
I hope to find 3 or 4 that I like
I love to share the rest with family and friends

It's just so individual in my opinion, you not going to find 10 that you love in 12 advent. It's not like beauty advent where you can hope to use nearly all

Thanks @Branster - it’s very nice-going to see if I can find some as it’s only a small bott!

Thank you @MiaN @IDontHateRainbows

Decisions, decisions now.

I think I've been lucky, but in several years I'd buying fragrance advent calendars I've only come across one fragrance that I really hate, and that was the really expensive Oud from Harrods two years ago. Or maybe I haven't got a very refined nose! 😆

That would ideal. Love them all except for a really expensive one I would begrudge paying for😁

Oh I lied to you! It's not bal D'Afrique, that is in Space Nk it's Mojave Ghost, also lovely my second favourite Byredo

@Growlybear83 maybe you are just more open minded

There are florals and citrus in the Jo Malone Xmas selection - small bottles but you could see what you liked from it?

https://www.jomalone.co.uk/product/26322/127350/gift-sets/twelve-days-of-cologne?size=12_x_3.8ml

That looks nice. I have liked most of the Jo Malones I've tried.

Advice please. Has anyone used the bar code for the foreo products from the voucher in the look fantastic ac? I have just tried to use the code for their masks and didn't work. Don't want an expensive gadget. Do you know what the criteria is? Thank you!

Look Good, Feel Better

£50 beauty box, great cause and a nice selection

This is how my asos calendar was delivered. Inside the calendar box was smashed. I haven't looked inside to see if anything was open or missing. Just going to return it as it was a gift for DS gf

@mum2three48 that is awful!! Mine is due to be delivered tomorrow and hope it doesn’t also arrive like that!

@mum2three48 Mine also arrived with the outer box falling to bits. Luckily the calendar itself seems OK in my case. Asos seem to have made a really bad job of the packaging for this.

@mum2three48 - that’s awful. Please contact ASOS CS before you put it into the post as they may try telling you it’s unreturnable. (You don’t want to send it back, only to find they won’t refund you.)

Two influencers online unboxed ASOS calendars that showed evidence of probable /possible tampering at packing stage, (and some people commenting on the YouTube pages reported similar problems).

Whether deliberate or otherwise, something is definitely going wrong in their packing department.

Please let us know how you get on.

I think it was someone on here who was looking for the Aldi self heat eye masks. They had some in the Aldi I just visited. I was looking for bananas, (which they didn’t have, btw🙀), but came out with more dupes, including the caviar cream.

I must stop buying this stuff now as I could have bought an advent calendar with what I have spent in Aldi this week!