🎄 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

Two of the big ticket items appeared in Harrods calendar last year so less exciting for me. A couple of interesting items that I might try and pick up on Vinted - but not enough to buy.

Space NK seems very serum heavy, and lots of hair products. I don’t think there are any night creams or body lotions/butters?

Thank you! And it has thing I wanted most of all!😁

I thought it looked really good and there MUST be a fragrance calendar coming because it only had two perfumes.

I have mixed feelings about it. I will have to go through each product more carefully

So 5 lip products plus a lip liner. That seems overkill to me.

seemed like a lot of lip products. No night cream? Some decent offerings alongside disappointing ones. I’m not a fan of low cost brands in a high end calendar. And some of the high cost items selected are the least appealing of the range for me. But I think my DD will love it. And there’s a fragrance one on the way too. Yay!

It was doing so well, but then there were no night cream, a load of lip products and 2 of the same, high value products from the Harrods AC last year, which I actually didn't like when I used them 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣

Ok, SpaceNK has quite few products that I actually want to try (Tatcha, Dyson and La Mer), it just seemed to have way too many lip products. Need to wait for Vogue reveal but for now Space NK is my favourite.

Agreed, The Ordinary and Inkey products devalue it somehow. Also disappointed in no night cream or body butter. No bath oil either.

There was a Dyson blow dry product and spacenk body wash in a bahamas/tropical scent

Thank you for the list.

I don't think it's for me. I'm possibly not their target market, I don't follow influencers, and I don't watch unboxings.

I'm still waiting for vogue, justmylook, h&b, and lookfantastic 🤞

Think I’m definitely going to get it but why all the hair products? Other than the oil I won’t use them so if anyone else gets it and would like to swap then I’m game 😜x

I keep forgetting about Vogue - but isn't that one usually a higher cost?

I like it. I'm not blown away but percentage wise there's a lot I would use. I've wanted to try the Tatcha Vit C, it has 2 eye creams I would use, I really like the TIMY cleansing balm. MediK8 serum is one I currently use.

I know what you mean about low cost brands included but I have fancied trying the Inkey List Ectoin serum as it seems popular.

Not really a fan of the La Mer lip plumper but overall there's not any DoD just a few meh ones.

Oh also the AB retinol serum. I like that. Would have preferred the rich cream but better than lash serum.

Any guesses for the mystery product?

@welshmum, see I actually like trying the hair products as my hair 'tends' to like the brands chosen, and I tend to spend a fortune on haircare.

I'm not sure about this one, I mean I'd use mostly everything and the shades look ok unlike with CB, but like others I'm not blown away. We were spoiled last year so maybe it's not as exciting by comparison. More of a stock up than anything particularly exciting for me, but if I got this AND the Flannels perfume, I'd probably be happy.

Just remembered the WA product. I liked that shade. The same shades of WA have being doing the rounds for too long so appreciate a different one.

Think I'm going to buy SNK.

It looks good to me so I think I’m for SNK for the second year in a row unless something comes completely out of left field. Thanks so much for that list @LightandBreezy

I still have the AB retinol and the LM volumiser feom Harrods last year and still to be opened. The other items dont appeal / dont make it worth buying. So I think I'll go with Liberty this year.

This is where I'm at. I think Liberty is probably the best value if you're a BD member and have some vouchers but there's a lot of face stuff in Liberty that doesn't really appeal.

SNK started strong for me but I don’t know how I feel now. Having had Harrods last year, the AB retinol and La Mer volumiser just “meh’d” me. Also feel a lip excess similar to others, and would rather have had another face cream in place of one of the eye creams. Interesting collection! Trying to decide if the wins are enough to purchase, also dying to know what the secret product is.

Well that’s me decided , Harrods it is !
Bit of an odd mix in Space NK low / high end and weird colours ( red lipliner , really?) They have a young teen fan base of recent, and then the OG customers like myself who are pushing 50. Do you think they couldn’t decide who to pitch to and came up with a kind of hybrid mother and daughter strategy !

I’m on holiday but following everyone’s comments. I must be the only person disappointed there aren’t any Sunday Riley products in ANY calendars!

It is, but it also tends to have some jewellery, some skincare gadgets, cashmere socks, and other things. I think they don’t even market it as a beauty calendar. Last year it was something like £350 — so, yes, definitely more expensive.