🎄 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

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I signed up last year when I bought the advent. I bought it 16/09 and last years was £99 full price so it's gone up.

They definitely offered the discount for signing up to the beauty box but I can't remember if all options were available. I have a feeling it might have been a minimum term (maybe 3 months) but could be totally wrong about that.

I took out a 12 month which I've recently cancelled but it will run until October so I'm hopeful the calendar will be out by then and I can still use the discount.

My Harrods’ payment is showing now on my bank account, although still In process on Harrods website.

@OvaHere thanks. Annoyingly it only gave the option to do 1 month or 12 months! I'm not sure I want or need a 12 month subscription. I hate blind boxes, I like to know what I'm getting. I would be fine with the box they are currently showing, so would sign up for the 1 month, especially if I could get the calendar discount

Fenwick is like an institution here in Newcastle. I was brought up going to see Fenwicks Christmas window as a nipper and it's still a major thing now, 50 years on. I used to love the fact that they sold designer clothes but also had a 'pocket money' section back in the day before Primark and Shein of cheaper clothing and it was my first port of call when I was a teen. We don't have Harrods, Selfridges or Harvey Nicks here, so the beauty counters and food hall were always magical to me.

Their AC is top of my list this year.

To be totally honest if the discount on the AC is only around £10 for signing up I'd just pay the full price.

Some of the boxes have been okay and I've had a few products I've liked but a lot have ended up being passed on or put on Vinted. The entire July box went on Vinted.

If my sub ran out before the calendar now I would just buy it full price. You do get the odd perk for being a subscriber but a box per month is just too much. The quarterly Liberty box is the best frequency.

Check the T&Cs because the 1 month I believe is a rolling subscription and it has to be cancelled by a certain date.

Whilst on the subject of subscriptions for discount. Anyone thinking of signing up to Glossybox to get their advent discount be wary. At least with LF you can just cancel via your account. With GB you have to speak to a chatbot then a CS advisor and it can be a total pain. Glossybox monthly box is not great imo, at least not for someone my age. They occasionally have decent edits but the box is not worth it.

Again on the subject of the Lookfantastic calendar, based on the comments on last years Beauty Detective site it looks like a few spoilers came out on 16/08 then the full reveal on 25/08. I wonder if it will be earlier this year?

I agree @OvaHere some of the LF boxes this last year there hasn’t been a single thing that wasn’t junk. In 12 months possibly 3 of the boxes were worth having.

Ok I will skip the subscription. I have recently signed up for the liberty beauty drop, looking forward to getting that box

I genuinely look forward to the Liberty box so I'm sure you will enjoy that one. It's the only one I'm keeping.

Oooh another reason to get the Liberty AC is that the box is very sellable – I have got £19 for one on eBay before where others sell for maybe £5. So that cuts the outlay a bit.

@RainbowZebraWarrior That’s lovely! And definitely even more reason to get their AC, supporting a local brand.
My childhood was spent visiting Lewis’ at Christmas, I loved it

Oh my Harrods money appears to have come out of my account now too.

@OvaHere - completely agree on GB sub. I meant to sign up for one box only, but it defaulted to an annual. I tried to cancel on the day of purchase when I realised what had happened.

They ignored me for weeks.

The only reason I finally escaped was I had paid for the one box with PP so they couldn’t charge me for any more, (although they kept trying for quite a long time 🙀)

BTW: All this talk of a/cs put me in the mood to assemble this year’s DIY one for my friend, (as she liked the one I did last year for her).

I can’t believe I have put together and wrapped a Xmas advent calendar in early August.

Here’s a pic of one parcel, (sorry it’s not at the beach on a deckchair😹)

This is so cute 😍

Just checked and mine has too now - phew!!

This is gorgeous! Can I ask where you got the stickers from please? I did a beauty advent for my sister last year and plan to do another, if I can find numbers to pop on that would be fab! Thanks

Last year lots of youtubers that unboxed the Glossybox advent calendar had a discount code for 10% so it wasn't that far off what subscribers paid. I'd look for that instead of getting a subscription, unless you want one of course, as they aren't as straightforward as they should be to get out of.

Having had Degustabox for the past 5 years, I'm going to be skipping it this time as the quality has really deteriorated, IMO. Last year's was quite rubbish, with all the tiny sizes. I wish they'd follow the beauty calendars and advertise the contents!

Is anyone considering the Elle advent calendar? I'm thinking of maybe getting it alongside the Harrods one (depending on what the Look Fantastic one is like). I'm going to do my spreadsheet review today, but I think it's good value and contains a lot of skincare products 😊

I like the Elle one but probably not. I'm hoping I will really like SpaceNK and Lookafantastic and those will be my two. I'm pinning a lot on 2 calendars that have had no reveals as yet. 😂

Oh I thought they did advertise the contents (at some point) I signed up to get the £6 off yesterday and screenshotted the box which I'm assuming had some 'spoilers' showing underneath the sign up. It didn't look like last year's stuff AFAIK.

@RainbowZebraWarrior TBH, I can't remember if they've done spoilers in previous years but I've definitely not known about full contents until I receive the actual calendar. The stuff in that spoiler actually looks quite good!

I really like Elle this year and have considered it. They didn't do one last year but in previous years they have consistently reduced the price of it at some point . They did a strange subscription thing in 2023 where you got the advent free when you subscribed for the magazine the subscription price being basically the price of an advent which was a bit weird. This year they have front loaded a discount so it may be more popular and may sell out before any more discounts. But I think I may put this in my gamble pile and if it reduces to around £100 get it