🎄 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

I was intending to get Space NK this year, but actually might get the two Boots ones for less? Plus points as well. Need to do a proper comparison!

Me too. I've got £43 in points. I've been saving it for an edit but it's not been quite enough for anything I've fancied. If I could put it towards the Boots Premium I would probably get that one.

Boots website is so basic. It’s so annoying that you can’t part pay with points.

It really is.

Now in thinking though, do I use my boots points (£77) to buy stuff I really want and have a DIY advent calendar? ETA and put money too, I don't think £77 will cover 24 days!

I did this last year and didn't enjoy it as much.

I do have the vogue 23 box which is a stunner though.

Speaking of which, where is the vogue reveal!?

Oooh I just don't know how I feel about Sephora. It's jam packed and certainly has products I would use, but doesn't excite me as much as I thought it would.
SDJ and Neom candle have been in 3 years in a row I believe. Amekia dry shampoo again.. I'd like to try the Kayali, mac,Huda and K18. I love the Ilia mascara, Tatcha (but its teeny) and L'occitane. The rest, meh for me 🤦‍♀️

Sephora has too many cream blushes for me, but then a lot do this year. Interested to see glossbox but the dripfeed is a bit wearing now. M&S looking expensive in comparison although the box is nice. Also want to know about Holland and Barret. Agree that the Boots calanders are good....

I'm ontersted in seeing Latest in Beauty and M&s now, but for me I think Liverty and Glossybox are the winners. Now to stop myself looking at jewelry advent calendars 👀

Arghh these threads keep introducing variables

I'm going to wait and see what the M&S has this year, though it has gone up a lot. I usually buy Xmas stocking PJ's to get the minimum spend, but even so...

Am v tempted by Anthropologie - it looks so pretty.

I've bought H&B previously for the DDs, and Degustabox when DD1 was in a house share in 2nd year. Am on the waitlist for the H&B reveal.

This year I'm also tempted by the F&M tea and biscuits Advent Calendar for D1 & bf as they are tea maniacs, but it is £100. That or the gorgeous looking Yorkshire soaps one.

I just looked at the contents on the Random Lifestyle vlog and it confirms that it isn’t for me.
Harrods was definitely the best mix of products for me this year, so feel happy I made the right choice.

Are you any closer to which calendar you are going to go for?

Not really. Lol

Truthfully I shouldn't buy any but I still want one to make Dec more fun. I'm leaning CB at the moment as the points I have plus the gift card technically make it £200 which is quite a bit less than SNK at £260.

The other two contenders are Harrods (just to enjoy some tiny unaffordable creams) and Fenwick if it combines with the autumn GWP. The latter would mean passing up on all the others because it doesn't go on sale until October and the other 3 may well be sold out by then.

The BD site has removed the Sephora full spoilers so I guess that's another one that wasn't supposed to be leaked.

Ah, if Fenwicks have a good gwp I could easily be swayed! 😆

If anyone fancies a DIY fragrance calendar, there’s some interesting stuff on the TKMAXX site at the moment.

For example: Juliette has a Gun, Escentric Molecules, Gucci Bloom, MCM and Acqua di Parma, to name just a few:

www.tkmaxx.com/uk/en/women/beauty/womens-fragrance+perfume

I have just got the Sephora email, the price is £225 and full contents are listed there.

https://www.sephora.co.uk/p/sephora-favorites-advent-calendar

Just got this too. It's gone up in price more than I thought. £199 last year.

It does state you will get 500 points which equate to £25 off, not sure if they did that last year.
I am on the fence and will go through everything and mark as keep, sell and maybe and see how it stacks up.

I like the look of the boots skincare one.

I like the Boots skincare one too.

I’ve forgotten, has Next announced any calendars yet?

I bet after all our discussions & research about BACs we'll probably end up being wowed by the M&S BAC even forgiving the Elasticizer in it 😂

I like all the discussion, I like all the confusion too, forget which ones which, go on a vibe on what’s available when the time comes around and don’t remember what’s in it.

I've gone for it and ordered the Harrods beauty one, along with a really cute Christmas bear cup 😍🎄🎅🐻🌟 That probably means an awesome calendar will be released tomorrow 🤣

Congrats on making a decision.

Meanwhile, me still trying to choose.

Yes, they've announced a really Christmassy one, I hope the contents are good and I can justify buying it 🤣
https://beauty-detective.com/next-beauty-advent-calendars-2025/

(image from Next's instagram page)

It's the most difficult decision of the year (and I've had a kitchen extension done where I spent nearly £300 on green paint samples) 🤣🤣

I'm looking forward to trying those teeny tiny little but stupidly expensive potions and lotions 🤣

Is there a Latest in Beauty calendar this year? I’ve looked but can’t find anything about it. I got it last year and it was really good.