🎄 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

I clicked- it’s a lot of minis!

And lash serum 🙀🙀🙀🙀

At least one looks to have a fair bit of K beauty. The other a full size DE peptide cream which I do like. Promising.

Cult Beauty is a no. Which I'm sort of relieved about.

Well booooo re cult beauty - there are only two products I really want there (medik8 and bader lash). Two mists??

if it was £200 I’d probably buy it.

that denona palette would be of use for world book day dress up or something, otherwise…

I am liking the skincare one so far as is a contender depending on all of it.
Cult beauty is a no for me as well, so many products have been in edits this year

@MrsBnow12 that's always the issue with CB. Their edits are better than the AC.

Just noticed that Boots have a variety of a/cs available now:

https://www.boots.com/christmas/advent-calendars?

I wonder if they will do 3-4-2 on them at some point as they did last year.

Some of the children’s ones have 10% off.

Its full of too many minis and like you only two products appeal so going to give it a miss this year. Just wishing Space NK hurry up and reveal their calendar now.

Cult beauty is a no from me, mostly because the shades of everything seem just so random, and unflattering for many.

For those wanting to know the Kilian perfume, it appears to be Kilian Smoking Hot which is a tobacco based perfume.

Agree - maybe they all think they’re going ti end up selling a lot with linked discounts and that’s why they’re adjusting the offfer.

CB did great edits around Halloween time last year

Me I’m over 5 😂but I have under 5yo maybe my tastes are skewed by the people I hang out with 😅

Same actually. Just Space NK, JLP and Sephora I'm interested to see now but I think the only serious contenders so far are Liberty and possibly Harrods.

I'm not too sure on Cult beauty now. They did say it would have more of a focus on makeup but I don't see that. I appreciate it's difficult with makeup to suit everyone but the shades they've included won't work for me. In terms of skincare I still prefer Liberty. I feel much better about Selfridges now although I still think last year was better at least in terms of makeup.

If Glossybox can include a full sized Natasha Denona palette and another palette(i think another poster mentioned this) then a quad from Morphe (in the Selfridges calendar) is a bit lacking as is the one in Cult beauty in terms of a makeup offering. I appreciate the skincare items are likely much more pricey in the Cult advent. There is a lot of competition in calendars between £100-200 and I think we will see more raising their game.

Cult beauty is disappointing. The PTA blush is terrible colour for me, the eyeshadow pallete seriously.... There's a few things I like but not enough to make it worth £250. I'd try the k18 mask £70!, the Paula's choice, and the Medik8 which is the stand out for me. This Gisou lip is a nice too. Everything else is at most nice to have but not excited. Liberty or Selfridges are probably stand out but Elle is looking like a definite for value and content.

There was one in H&B last year. I was sceptical but I really like it.

The Morphe palette makes me a bit more interested in Selfridges. Poor reasoning because it's only a £16 palette but I have one of them in different shades and the formula is very nice. I almost bought the pinky one that's in the calendar at the same time but decided to make do with one.

Yes, the skincare one looks good based on that clip.

Yes, the skincare one looks good based on that clip.

Oooh Elle does indeed look very good

That’s a 50% price rise. I didn’t mind paying £99.
My 25 yr ds has decided he’s going to uni after all and got his first choice. In the middle of the countryside and no transport. So now he’s googling intensive driving courses. This might be an expensive few months for me. Sigh.

The £99 Boots calendar didn't tempt me, the contents were too small for my preference. Yes £150 is a big jump, but it looks like they've upped their game. A 50ml DE cream is about £50 and that's just one of the items.

Oh wow ok just signed up to the Boots wait list. www.boots.com/beauty/luxury-beauty-skincare/waitinglist They seem very generous on full sizes. I am very anti mini/deluxe/travel size. Christmas treat+stocking up for the year is my aim. Might get both £220 is less than the other luxury beauty advent calendars.

Same here. Then they really lost me with Elasticizer.

No mention of that one on the Irish site. I hope they do it in Ireland again as it looks good based on what has been revealed. And presumably no makeup.