🎄 2025 Style and Beauty Advent Calendar Discussion ***SPOILERS*** THREAD 2

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Link to thread 3 added by MNHQ - www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5396898-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion-spoilers-thread-3

Annual Style and Beauty Advent Calendar discussion thread. First AC reveal this year was 23rd June. First luxury reveal was 2nd July. Thread 1 here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5360770-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion

The regulars on the thread mainly discuss luxury BAC and this dies down by September when everyone has purchased and forgotten the contents. Then it goes into discussion on what’s selling out, what hasn’t and what deals and discounts to be had on ACs in the lead up to December. Then in December we move onto AC opening threads!

There’s a separate thread for GWP, discounts and other deals here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5338957-beauty-chat-freebiesgifts-with-purchaseoffers-thread-three

A thread for the Liberty Beauty Drop here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5253698-liberty-beauty-drop-spoiler-from-the-despatch-date-part-9

MN has a great Christmas board for deals and early gift buying here: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/christmas

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LUXURY MULTI-BRAND
Brown Thomas
Cult Beauty Classic Curation and UK-Only Limited Curation with more fragrances https://www.cultbeauty.co.uk/c/advent-calendar/ 3rd September
F&M £265 https://www.fortnumandmason.com/2025-fortnums-beauty-advent-calendar Pricing by category post here https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5360770-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion?reply=146293148
Fenwick £250 https://www.fenwick.co.uk/blogs/daily-muse/beauty-advent-calendar
Flannels
Harrods £250, £99 www.harrods.com/en-gb/c/beauty-advent-calendar pricing by category post here https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5360770-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion?reply=146296157
Harvey Nichols £250 https://www.harveynichols.com/stories/beauty/harvey-nichols-beauty-advent-calendar/ 4th September
John Lewis
Liberty £275 https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/pre-order-liberty-beauty-advent-calendar-2025-R641279006.html_ pricing by category post here https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5360770-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion?reply=145402406_
Selfridges £250 https://cloud.mail.selfridges.com/beautyadventcalendar25
Space NK £260 https://www.spacenk.com/uk/gifts/beauty-advent-calendars/beauty-advent-calendar-MUK200055896.html
Vogue https://shop.vogue.co.uk/pages/british-vogue-festive-calendar-2025

HIGH STREET
Anthropologie
ASOS
Beauty Bay
The Body Shop https://www.thebodyshop.com/collections/beauty-advent-calendars
Boots
Elle
French Pharmacy
Glossybox
Holland & Barrett https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/info/beauty-advent
Jarrolds
LIB Latest In Beauty x Stylist
Lush £125, £179, £205, https://www.lush.com/uk/en/c/christmas-advent-calendars
L’Occitane
LookFantastic £105 https://www.lookfantastic.com/c/waitlist/advent
M&S
Next
Revolution Beauty £50 https://www.revolutionbeauty.com/uk/en/gifts/advent-calendars/revolution-beauty-makeup-advent-calendar-2025/1868648.html
Sephora https://www.sephora.co.uk/c/beauty-advent-calendar-waitlist
Ted Baker
The White Company

BUDGET
Aldi
Sainsbury’s

SINGLE BRAND BEAUTY
Arran £85 https://arran.com/products/advent-calendar
Charlotte Tilbury
Elemis https://uk.elemis.com/advent-calendar-2025-sign-up
e.l.f.
Gruum
Jo Malone
Liz Earle
Lumene
Neom https://neomwellbeing.com/pages/neom-wellbeing-advent-calendar-sign-up-page
Shisheido https://www.shiseido.co.uk/gb/en/newsletter-advent-calendar.html

BATH & BODY
Ciaté
Cowshed
Rituals

JEWELLERY
Oliver Bonas
Liberty
Accessorize

FOOD
Bonne Maman jam
Degusta
Paxton and Whitfield cheese
Fortnum & Mason Tea and Biscuits

MEN’S
Liberty

FRAGRANCE
Acqua Di Parma
Diptyque
Fragrance Shop
Harrods fragrance
Harvey Nichols fragrance
L’Artisan Parfumier
Jo Loves https://www.joloves.com/pages/advent-calendar
Jo Malone
Penhaligons
Perfume Shop
Sniph
Space NK fragrance

K-BEAUTY
Stylevana
Yesstyle
Stylekorean

Also eyeing up the Anthropologie one … it does look beautiful and I also have a £20 off new customer voucher which could cause me to make an Impulse Purchase Decision. 😁

I managed to get the Lumene one last year in a sale and justified it by saying it was for this year but the magpie in me wants all the pretty things …

I’m drowning in Sex Appeal 😅 (the blush) I ended up with a few last year, I was giving them away. I do like NARS blush but this shade isn’t right for me.

Theres so many AC’s I had forgotten about Fenwicks when I was narrowing down my choices yesterday. Now I’ve seen the full reveal I’m pretty much sold, it’s tough though without knowing what Space NK & JL have to offer, as I’ve already purchased the Harrods one

I think I will leave it too (well until at least LF have released their contents). If I buy it now, I won't be able to buy the LF 🤔 I might spend the £20 off voucher today to ensure I resist all temptation 🤣

I hadn’t noticed that! I’m really glad you spotted it and I’ll cross Fenwick off my list again 😆

Fenwicks looks a lot better than last year and if they offer a gwp again, I could be swayed.

I like the look of Fenwicks and now dithering about Anthropologie as I have the £20 voucher to spend which would make it a bargain (thank you to whoever it was that posted about that!). Still haven’t ruled out Liberty and eagerly awaiting Cult, SNK and JL. How many advent calendars is too many?? Asking for a friend…

Yes, it's going to be a great buy if they do a GWP goody bag like last year. Gosh, I love a GWP goody bag more than life itself. Sways me every time!

They have offered a good winter gwp that you can add to the calendar for the last 2 years, so fingers crossed! 😃 Think it was late October/early November last year

I bought it as I love the design - I'm a big Anthropologie fan - and I also love the sound of all the fragrances and the holiday candle. (I'm a candle obsessive) There's nothing I wouldn't use and there are also a couple of products which sound really good which seem to be sold out elsewhere, such as Beauty Works 10 in 1 Miracle Spray.

Overall, getting it for £78 was the deal clincher.

Regards the Fenwick one and GWP … do they end to include the calendar in any qualifying spend? And what is the minimum spend generally?

I could very, very easily be persuaded to spend on that if all boxes were ticked. As a pp said, a GWP makes me very happy 😁 maybe more than an actual calendar!

I got the gwp with the 2023 calendar and I think that year you had to spend over £160. I think last year you had to spend a little more but it was less than the value of the advent, and was automatically added when you ordered the calendar. I didn’t go for it last year as the calendar didn’t tempt me at all.

I can see this pushing me into having 2 expensive calendars. October release is too late to make a decision between this and SpaceNK. If I want SNK I will have to buy it when it comes out, probably in September. Way too many decisions. I'm still on the fence with CB too.

I signed up to Anthropologie but I didn't get the voucher. I don't know if I'm fussed or not, I think the £20 may have swayed me to get it, but I don't know if I'd really want it

Yes, last year's minimum spend for the GWP was £180 and it was added automatically to the AC order. I've just refreshed my memory by watching an unboxing on YouTube. There were about 10/12 products in the GWP goody bag.

Launch date for the 3 LF calendars is 1st Sep. Can't remember if we had this information before? I'm quite excited about their fragrance one too.

All my plans about showing restraint this year are crumbling daily.

It pushed me into buying a second calendar in 2023! It was a really good gwp so I had no regrets 😃

I received mine nearly a week after signing up so maybe yours is on its way 🤞🤞

Same. Was thinking of signing up again using my DH's phone number but not sure I can be bothered now, especially seeing as I've done it once already and didn't get the voucher.

Got my eye on Liberty but waiting to see what JL is going to be like.

I can get two at a push, have loved JL and Liberty in the past but really like Fenwicks this year as well. Only a few things I'd be giving away (nars and trinny - colours don't suit me).

The wait list for spacenk has opened and there's a competition for getting people to sign up. Cheekily adding my link here:
https://www.spacenk.com/uk/brands/s/space-nk/beauty-advent-calendar-MUK200051212.html?referralCode=645enri&refSource=copy

I didn't get my Anthropologie £20 voucher until about a week after signing up. I'd kinda accepted that I'd maybe signed up too late or something and forgot about it. So if you're still waiting, it might turn up soon 🤞

How many are you planning on getting this year?
I can't wait for the LF reveals too and seeing the ad this morning with those beautiful red boxes 😍 has made me decide that I'm definitely not going to use my money on the Anthropologie one. I need to be patient.

Oh I may still get the voucher then. Although I probably won't get the calendar, but it could be handy for a birthday or Christmas gift

My good intention is to get one 'biggie' and the LF beauty one. If you add in the Harrods fragrance and the Shiseido one hidden in my wardrobe from last year then me being good is still 4. 😂

Worst case scenario is the above plus Fenwick and possibly LF fragrance/SNK fragrance and maybe even Cult Beauty.

I probably should move to a desert island until December 1st.

I also plan on the LF and a biggie….although both Nexts were good last year. I opted for the luxury one..can’t remember the price. Loved it and the box was stunning.

So you could potentially end up with 7 or 8? 🤣 I feel like this thread gives us permission to buy more 😈