🎄 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 received my Revolution a/c today. I bought it as part of my stash that I give to a small local charity to raffle. It’s much smaller than previous years although same number of products. Still, I suppose a fair few of the boxes could be physically smaller given the general size of their contents.

Aww gawd, looks like a travel size of the dreaded Colour Wow Dreamcoat will be in the SNK calendar! I never use it and have at least three full sizes of the stuff in my stash 🙊 Fingers crossed it gets better or I’m out this year! They’re just not doing it for me this year so far, at least I’ve got the Harrods Fragrance Calendar coming 😍

Noooooooooooooo 😱

It’s the new Elasticiser.

How do you know that @Welshmumto3boys ?

I haven’t seen any spoilers for SNK, anywhere

It's on their Instagram. I like the colour wow dreamcoat and nearly finished the bottle I'm on. Looking forward to seeing everything else tomorrow 😁

I don't dislike it but I've ended up with 2 full size and 3 minis in the last 12 months.

As @Doubleraspberry says it's the new Elasticizer, which I also like but there's a limit to how many I want in my life. 😂

Last year it was the extra strength Dream Coat FULL SIZE!

Is this shrinkflation?

What was the value? X

🤣 I've just looked at it. Never heard of it before. It's sold out. May be more in Sept . 🤣♥️

Oh just looked at this company. ♥️♥️
Going to research 🤣

@Doglover73 The Martha Brook stationery one sold out on pre order. They then had a few left and you had a chance if you were on the wait list. I thought I'd missed out but bought it as soon as the email came through. They did say they might have some in September l, i guess if peo0le cancel orders etc. Dd is 9 and she had the accesorize advent last year which she enjoyed but her younger sister has borrowed (knicked) most of it. This year she asked for a stationery calendar so I was determined to try.

Papier do an advent calendar too so might be worth looking so see if there is a waitlist for it.

Hello! Marking my place on this years thread after getting obsessed last year. Harrods for me again so far (excited for dispatch!), contemplating another but none of the others are doing it for me at all so far 😓Hoping SNK or JL could be a second - also Hannah Martin is curating another OK Beauty Box calendar so I’m keen to see the contents of this.

FYI - this will be £99 this year (£85 with priority list + a free gift if you preorder), worth over £600 with 30 products - 19 full size. Mini Laura Mercier powder so far…

https://www.okbeautybox.co.uk/pages/priority-list-advent-2025?utm_source=socialmedia&utmmedium=linktree&utmcampaign=adventlghmsocials&fbclid=PAQ0xDSwMQX1NleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp0BqDIpwvCHkRBjvVn0Z7fa5O-lww3rIYoPJqHvKEOULYSKSBHv-h-ZwGqWaemmCRzX-EHxhg3A07b-ypMw

There is a Papier waiting list. I got an email the other day as I had it last year. I’d say the contents were not as exciting as the box, sadly.

Curious about the Ok! advent. Might be an option for teen DD. The pics include a few blurred spoilers. Looks like an Aromatherapy Associates Bath oil and a mini NUXE oil. Not sure about the rest?

I’m not sure if the middle cream is a 7ml BB Face Base? Some of the others look familiar but could be multiple different items so don’t want to guess.

I will eat my hat if there’s no Rodial seen as they seem obsessed with it in lots of their beauty boxes (multiple different items sometimes), plus there seems to be a Rodial product in the majority of calendars these days for some reason…

And Avant, I'm sure OK always contain an Avant product

I think I’ve missed the post that says what time for the Space NK reveal ? I am waiting impatiently and worrying Harrods sells out before I can make my final decision!

7 pm tonight.

My hair loves elasticizer and dreamcoat so they wont be DODs for me, but would have preferred a full size in SNK. Hopefully if thats one of the travel sizes, they will have even better full size products.

I really like Dreamcoat. However it’s not a decider for me on a calendar I would like some decent skincare products

I’ve got a message from Royal Mail about a delivery from a company name I don’t recognise, I’m hoping it’s from Harrods.

does anyone get the fragrance shop calendar? My son would love it, but is it mixed male/female? No good if it is.

It is mixed yes

Surely he could be tempted to share it with you or another lady?

How exciting. I didn't think the earliest despatch would be until the 20th, and that ot would be staggered