🎄 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

@ThreeTescoBags My pet hate in anything is Avant, only ever see it in advents or edits and nothing I have ever tried would I pay a tenth of the price let alone RRP.

I love The Rich Cream but it does seem to be a very marmite product. Although I wasn't impressed on the first try of it but by the end of the bottle I was was desperate for more.

Hated their body cream though. It's like Sudocrem.

I really like the Augustinus Bader serum. It’s lovely and light, sinks in nicely and doesn’t smell! I’d welcome more of that!

I really rate all the Avant products I've had from various boxes etc but, you're right, the prices are hilarious, I'd never pay anything like what they're charging. You have to wonder who is keeping them in business

Oh I really like the rich cream, it's perfect for winter. But that must be annoying if you don't, almost all of the premium calendars include an AB product.

Oh I might give it a try then 😊

That’s awful @JoRaRaRa - I have only had Olaplex in GWP/a/c but I think I will throw away the unopened one I still have in the cupboard. I knew about the problems ‘in the past’ but I thought they had been fixed🙀

Yes, that one…I think it’s the smell for me.

It was from the 2022 JL BAC, so it may have been before sorting the problems out, but I always tell people to get rid, it's not worth the risk. Hopefully it will get back to the thickness it used to be soon 🤞

I really love olaplex, the shampoos and conditioner (4 and 5) are the only ones that I’ve found to make my post menopause hair back to normal and it was only desperation that I tried it (advent calendar item) because of the news reports, I don’t use the treatment but teen DDs get through it. You’ll be able to sell on Vinted @IlovePond

I really want another reveal today!

Is it just me or does this video give a couple of extra CB items? I feel like the others stopped at the Sisley mask. This one has U Beauty and Dr Levy (minis) also.

Can't get video to work. It's from a paid partner called anniearrif

Thank you for the helpful links at the start.
not really impressed with any so far I like a decent amount of skincare products. Last year I went for the JL previously Liberty. I quite like the Fenwick one so far but hoping for better.

Me too - why are they taking so long?! 🤣🤣

I managed to screenshot it 😊

@JoRaRaRa well done. That must have taken some fast reflexes. 😄

🤣🤣

@JoRaRaRa 🤞

If I find it in the ‘hoard’ @WhiskyandWater 🙀I might give that a go. It’s the no3 of memory serves.

I've never used any of Dr Levy or U Beauty products, do people rate them? That Dr Levy Eye concentrate is worth £99, so it must be good?
I'm happy to see that the more recent reveals from CB have been skincare. I would've preferred a different AB product, but I wouldn't say no to trying the lash and brow serum 🤣

Also, I noticed in the video that she took the Sisley, U Beauty and Dr Levy products out of the same drawer 🥳

I did wonder the other day if there was going to be more in the drawer than just the Sisley mini. They do tend to bundle smaller products.

Never tried Dr Levy or U Beauty. Seems U Beauty in particular is in a few calendars this year in the 15ml size.

@Lemonademoney I checked with Liberty Customer Services, and they aren't doing a jewellery calendar this year :(

I recently tried the Dr Levy stem cell serum. No idea if it did anything as only a mini but it was very nice to use, lovely texture.

Re Murad, I don’t like their green retinol line but rate the purple hydration ones, particularly the night cream, and the AHA/BHA cleanser is my favourite ever exfoliator.

I have a pet theory that Avant and Flanerie are the same products, packaged differently and at different price points. I used a night cream from each brand in succession and they seemed so similar that I looked up the ingredient list and they were almost identical. They also had the same street address in the UK and both say ‘made in Italy for [brand name].

I should probably get a life and find better things to do with my time than sleuth around on the internet trying to identify skincare products 😂

@CorneliaStreet see also this brand. I swear this is Avant in a different font and those eye patches look identical to Avant ones I've had in a beauty box.

https://beauty-detective.com/symbiosis-skincare-advent-calendar-2025/

Oh no that’s exactly the kind of info I love, thank you @CorneliaStreet