🎄 2025 Style and Beauty Advent Calendar Discussion ***SPOILERS*** THREAD 3

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Annual Style and Beauty Advent Calendar discussion thread. First AC reveal this year was 23rd June. First luxury reveal was 2nd July.

Thread 1: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5360770-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion

Thread 2: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5388836-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion-spoilers-thread-2

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

Cult Beauty - partial reveal so far beautyadventcalendar.net/cult-beauty-advent-calendar-2025/
£265 Fortnum & Mason - full reveal www.fortnumandmason.com/2025-fortnums-beauty-advent-calendar
£250 Fenwick - full reveal beautyadventcalendar.net/fenwick-advent-calendar-2025/
Flannels - only a cracker so far beautyadventcalendar.net/flannels-beauty-cracker-2025/
£250 Harrods - full reveal www.harrods.com/en-gb/p/harrods-of-london-the-harrods-beauty-advent-calendar-2025-000000000007826118
£250 Harvey Nichols - full reveal www.harveynichols.com/harvey-nichols/harvey-nichols-beauty-advent-calendar-2025-42956-232485/
John Lewis - later in the year probably October
£275 Liberty - full reveal https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/pre-order-liberty-beauty-advent-calendar-2025-000839831.html
£250 Selfridges - full reveal cloud.mail.selfridges.com/beautyadventcalendar25
£260 Space NK - full reveal beautyadventcalendar.net/space-nk-advent-calendar-2025/
Vogue - later in year probably September issue, £350 last year

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

Does anybody know what K Beauty advent calendars we are expecting? Hoping to spot a reasonable priced one for my teenage DD.

If you can get your cupboard/drawer shut without anything falling out you have room for more. 😁
At least that’s what I tell myself.

My Elemis Aldi dupe cleanser ran out today and it struck me that it's been fine, lasted months and cost about £4. Uncomfortable thought as I survey my stash! It isn't at nice as the lovely balm cleansers I have though, just easier to remember to do as it doesn't require keeping on top of muslin cloth washing!

I’m loving my Aldi dupes @Doubleraspberry and they seem to last forever!

I’m currently using the Lacura eye cream daily and the Hsomething night cream.

I have also just started using the VB eye pencil dupe - it’s lovely.

However, it only has about 50mm of product, then plastic and doesn’t wind up/down.

Unless I am missing something, it doesn’t seem good value for money and a lot of plastic for little reward 🙀

I've used my VB dupe eye pencils for ages and they're still going but they are less good than the original for definite. A tenth of the price though! I'm also keen on the Drunk Elephant dupe moisturiser which I slather on.

With my little gang of experts here, can I get some advice? I've developed quite quickly a large brown area on the side of my nose. It's a sun spot I think. I've got pale skin that marks easily. It's massively prominent. I'm so lax with skin care in general despite being on these threads - is it only tretinoin that might address this? I can't go about with a giant brown mark on my nose!

@Doubleraspberry - I didn’t know about ELF either, until another poster on a different thread mentioned it in response to me posting about a deal.

I’m not on TikTok/Insta/X/FB, etc. so unless it’s all over the mainstream news, (or mentioned on MN 😹), I miss these things.

It was a very poor decision on ELF’s part and has put me off buying from them again. (A shame as their moisturiser is both excellent and cheap!)

I wonder if it will affect them as badly as what’s going on with Huda Beauty. (Now that one really did shock me…)

That’s so weird @Doubleraspberry - same thing has just happened to me - I think the sun got through my protection one day a couple of months ago!

If it’s any consolation, I think mine has started to fade 🤞🤞🤞

In the meantime I am slathering on the SPF.

I also really really like the Aldi DE dupes. I have stopped using mine temporarily as it doesn’t have SPF, but it’s ready to go again later in the year.

I was looking forwards to the Boots premium AC having seen the sneak peeks but I’m a bit disappointed. The rest doesn’t thrill me at all so another one off my list. The only one I’m definite about so far is Sephora.

Sephora! https://beauty-detective.com/sephora-uk-advent-calendar-2025/ beauty-detective.com/sephora-uk-advent-calendar-2025/]]]]

Arrrrhhhhhhh!!!

I also love an Aldi’s dupe. Have recently bought their Estée Lauder night cream dupe for about £4.50.

OK and M&S need to hurry up. Latest in Beauty usually does an AC too.

I knew a Neom candle would turn up somewhere!

I bought this too. It’s fine, but I really dislike the scent.

Sephora isn’t bad, but I don’t like the fact that there are 2 sponges and 2 candles. Also several boring products like bum bum creams and Laura Mercier powder.

Relieved to find that I’m not particularly tempted by Boots

Oh I'm tempted by Sephora, I really want another calendar and none of the other luxury beauty (except the Liberty I got with BD credit) have appealed at all. I think I need to have a sniff of JM Wood, Sage and Sea Salt and then decide if I'm getting LF fragrance or this Sephora.

My Harrods fragrance has arrived now after DPD sent an email last night! I managed to type my own name wrong plus the name of my street when I was rushing to order so hopefully reassurance to others still waiting.

Trying to resist the urge to open it. I did have a look through Liberty and have annoyed myself by loving one of the perfumes. I can't decide if it's OK to buy it on Vinted to leave my advent intact for December or if that is just my beauty addiction insanity speaking!

I haven’t started it yet but thought I would give it a go for £4.50 as I am running low on night creams. Have you tried the serum too?

Oh the sephora one looks so good, but I put it into chatgpt and asked it to categorise and sub-categorise it.

Skincare (Face)
Cleansers
Elemis Pro-Collagen Green Fig Cleansing Balm – 20g (£14.50)
Topicals Bar – Faded Brightening and Cleansing Bar Duo

Masks
Spacemasks Orange & Grapefruit Scented Mask
AUGUSTINUS BADER The Eye Patches – Single Sachet (£19.00)
RODIAL Bee Venom Hydrogel Facial Mask – 32g (£20.00)
RODIAL Dragon’s Blood Hyaluronic Jelly Face Mask – Single Use (£18.00)

Serums / Treatments
Medik8 Crystal Retinal Ceramide Eye 3 – 15ml Full Size (£42.00)
Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Hue Drops – 40ml Full Size (£32.00)
TOWER 28 SOS Daily Rescue Facial Spray – 30ml Travel Size

Moisturisers
LANEIGE Water Bank Cream Moisturizer – 20ml
TATCHA The Dewy Cream – 15ml (£26.00)

Other
GROWN ALCHEMIST Polishing Exfoliator – 75ml Full Size (£46.00)

Bodycare
HELLO KLEAN Press Reset Anti-Dryness Body Wash – 80ml (£10.00)
L’OCCITANE Almond Supple Skin Oil – 100ml Full Size (£40.00)
Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Bum Bum Cream – 240ml
SEPHORA COLLECTION Hydrating Cica Cream Express Repair Care – 75ml

Haircare
AMIKA Perk Up – Talc-Free Dry Shampoo – 64ml (£13.00)
Color Wow and Chris Appleton Money Travel Masque – 50ml (£12.50)
K18 BIOMIMETIC HAIRSCIENCE Astrolift Reparative Volume Spray – 118ml Full Size (£44.00)

Makeup
Face
Merit Beauty Flush Balm Cream Blush – Cheeky Full Size (£26.00)
RARE BEAUTY Soft Pinch Liquid Blush – Full Size (£24.00)
CLOMANA BEAUTY Marshmallow Sponge Shape 2 – Full Size (£25.00)
Beauty Sponge
HUDA BEAUTY Easy Bake Setting Spray – 30ml (£15.00)

Eyes
Tarte Tartelette Palette
REFY Lash Sculpt – Full Size (£20.00)
Uklash Eyelash Serum – Full Size (£38.00)
ILIA Limitless Lash Mascara
KEVYN AUCOIN In Perspective Eyeliner Pencil – Full Size (£32.00)

Lips
SEPHORA COLLECTION Cream Lip Stain Matte Liquid Lipstick – Cherry Moon Full Size (£13.99)
MAC Lustreglass Lipstick – Full Size (£25.00)
Summer Fridays Lip Butter Balm – Sweet Mint Full Size (£23.00)
Gisou Honey Infused Lip Oil – 8ml Glazed Plum Full Size (£24.00)

Fragrance
KAYALI Fleur Majesty Rose Royale | 31 Eau de Parfum – 10ml Travel Size (£28.00)
Sol de Janeiro Rio Radiance Perfume Mist
MALIN+GOETZ Dark Rum Perfume Oil – 7ml (£34.00)
Commodity Juice Expressive – Deluxe Size
+Perfume Sample

Home
Neom Perfect Night’s Sleep Scented Candle – 185g Full Size (£30.40)
Malin + Goetz Candle

Other / Miscellaneous
FUGAZZI Sample

Really wish yepoda would hurry up, because I want a second calendar and it’s either that or Sephora

There's a lot in Sephora. I quite like it but I certainly don't need all that stuff. Need some time to think on it.

They also appear to have added a lot of single use masks to bump up the full size product count

@JoRaRaRa There's a full size Drunk Elephant product in the photo I can't see listed in the BD contents list.

There's definitely a few things I'd like from the sephora AC but not enough to buy it. Looks like it's definitely Harrods for me for my premium calendar 😍

Thankfully I am not tempted by Sephora as there is a lot I wouldn’t use