🎄 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

They're back up on BD as just few product reveals. Maybe an embargoed press release went out but a few didn't realise they weren't meant to reveal all of it. There's still full reveal videos up on YT for now.

Ooh, weird! Yeah, sounds like maybe somebody dropped the ball somewhere. I'll have a poke about on YT

Ahh, I just assumed they cannot be bothered filing out customs declarations, but suppose then it would affect all of their products not just perfumes.
Hopefully it will not come to airlines banning perfumes of their flights 🙈🙈

Here you go, this was listed on beauty detective earlier on, made a list on my notes to help me decide🙈
the last few bits are missing as they were of no interest to me are destined for a charity shop, cannot even remember what they are.

The White Company
Seychelles Votive Candle 75g
£12

Sol de Janeiro
Cheirosa 62 Perfume Mist 90ml
£24

Medik8
Hydr8 B5 Intense 30ml
£59

Color Wow
Shampoo and Conditioner 75ml each
£22

ICONIC London
Prep Set Blur Setting Spray 120ml
£27

Mac
Macximal Matte Honeylove, Clear Lipglass, Lip Pencil Spice
£67

Rodial
Dragon's Blood Hyaluronic Mask 50ml
£55

REN
Clean Skincare Radiance Brightening Dark Circle Eye Cream 15ml
£49

ESPA
Overnight Hydration Therapy 55ml
£39

Elemis
Pro-Collagen Rose Marine Cream 15ml
£37

Aveda
Botanical Repair Strengthening Leave-In Treatment 100ml
£36

Avant
Skincare Glycolic Acid Rejuvenating Face Exfoliator 60ml
£92

Spectrum Collections
4 Piece Metallic Brush Set 4pcs
£24

The Nue Co.
Magnesium Ease 60ml
£20

Peter Thomas Roth
Anti-ageing Cleansing Gel 30ml
£10

LANEIGE
Hydro UV Defence EX SPF 50 Travel Size 20ml
£13

Glow Hub
Buff Blush Glo Up Colour Stick 5g in Poppin
£12

L'Occitane
Shea Butter Hand Cream Travel Size 30ml
£10

Wella Professionals
Ultimate Smooth Mask 30ml
£8

Also it does not make sense that some of the companies would post and some wont, yet they are using the same couriers 🤦🏻‍♀️

@HolaLolla Thanks! I'll add my "meh" to the chorus. Another one to cross off the list
Interesting that REN is still appearing in calendars (well this one at least) given their imminent demise.

Email from Liberty. Pre order ends at 23.59 pm tonight.

I can't believe how rubbish LF is this year as last year it was fab!

I find this annoying. I don't mind end of lines in beauty boxes so much but with an AC I want products I could buy again if I liked them.

Does anyone know if Latest in Beauty is doing a calendar this year? I can’t find anything about it anywhere.

I have now had the email from DPD to say they have my Harrods fragrance calendar. 😃

I have decided to ask DH for the Harrods beauty calendar for my birthday in October. It seems to have lots of things I would like to try and I have quite a few serums in my stash but am running lower on moisturisers, which Harrods has a lot of. I also don’t need lots of lip glosses as I use things like that infrequently, and I have plenty of hair products. Plus I have the AB serum unused from last year and have only used a little of the La Mer gloss, both of which are the wow items in Space NK. I think I have made the right choice, but am now thinking ‘what if JL is amazing?!’

Get JL too - yes I know I'm an enabler 😂

😂

I preordered my Harrods calendar but haven’t received anything from DPD yet

Was that the fragrance calendar?

Still nothing for my Harrods Fragrance calendar🤪 Arggh, hopefully tomorrow 🫠

Marking my spot!

I had Space NK last year and LF the year before, can’t wait to choose this year!

I agree @Thelifeofawife - that’s certainly been my experience with my little plastic one. I think the metal ones would work much better!

Still nothing for my Harrods fragrance or beauty but liberty is on the way 👏🙌

LF main calendar is definitely not for me. Revolution in anything is the kiss of death for me🙀 I had LF one year and it was brilliant, (and £45 on BF), but I’ve not been tempted since.

I am not at all impressed by the revealed items in the LF fragrance calendar.

I am still tempted to go mad and buy Liberty, (even though I really shouldn’t- it’s a ludicrous amount of money!)

Does anyone know when it sold out last year?

Thanks

I’m wondering if LF will get wound up as a brand/platform - they used to be great but CB does much better deals and seems like they’re both owned by the HUT group but LF has been under invested in so why wouldn’t they merge them?

Actually - if this image is an accurate representation of the LF fragrance calendar, it might be the one for me, (despite the candles!)

I have £5 LF credit too, (every little helps 😹)

Its the beauty one - fingers crossed it’ll be here tomorrow 😧

Ah hopefully you will hear soon. I ordered the fragrance one and that has been dispatched, but I persuaded DH to order the beauty one for me today and told him he can put it away for my birthday. 😃

I’ve not heard anything about my Harrods Beauty Calendar either - seems to be just the Fragrance ones that have had updates so far (unless I’ve missed any posts!)