🎄 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've ordered the Sephora calendar. I wanted it last year and then ordered John Lewis instead. This time I decided to go for it.

Haven't seen one yet but I'm almost certain there will be.

Just seen another SNK advent unboxing, seems the secret product is a Refy Brow Sculpt. I will get use out of that, so thats a bonus!

LIB I haven't seen anything, I get their emails and advent landed last year 28/08 so if there's going to be one it's likely soon. But it's changed a lot in the last year.

I can honestly say I've never needed a brow sculpt. Maybe if my brows were a bit more more.

Next Advent calendar content reveal 🎉🎅🎄🌟 https://beauty-detective.com/next-beauty-advent-calendars-2025/?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwMdrcJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp8yVOp6bLe2VeeYHXFiAt5UVLs3lCSD_22OaZ6AcQeqn7DmaV1v2LhgY-QdO_aem_M6YdZJDLug-hsa9AmqB_Dw

Interesting. Seems like the £95 one has the full size Neals Yard cream that was attracting me to the Fenwick AC.

I think @RainbowZebraWarrior was interested in that cream too (sorry if I've got my posters mixed up here)

Actually I think BD has them mixed up. Looking on Next it's the Navy one that is the expensive one not the other way around. Damn I was thinking £95 was a bargain for the one with the NY cream.

I guess we'll have to wait until next confirm. The budget one looks better though I think. It includes the Murad retinol eye cream which retails at £89 👀 I may have to buy it just for that and also the lovely box that I have fallen so in love with 🤣 there's a lot of products in there though that I've tried before and not too fussed about having again.

I received Liberty today and it’s a gorgeous calendar, as usual from them, and has a really luxurious feel to everything in it. Without giving too much away they have also chosen well for Christmas Day.

Ah yes, the picture has come up now. I see what you mean. The navy box is the expensive one. Oh damn it!

I've just bought harrods and ruled out liberty a while ago, but I feel the need to go watch an unboxing now, just to be nosey 🤣
The box is really lovely. I hope they don't change it for next year when I have all my beauty drop credit 🤑

I was actually excited for a minute. 😀

Me too, I'm gutted now after the initial excitement 🤣 it was a right bargain at £95 🤣

Well that’s a shame. I was thinking Next would be a possibility but neither of those appeal.

Not impressed by Next!

Both of the Next ones are a no from me.
Am hoping Elle and OK do their full content with sizes etc today and then just waiting on Vogue in the higher end range.
Also waiting for Stylekorean and Stylevanna to see if I get a Korean Beauty one.

Nothing has screamed buy me yet and I would gutted if I didn’t manage to get it.

Wow, yes it was me. Well remembered. I see BD has updated to reflect the correct pricing.

Hope there's more from Next as I liked the lovely box from the teaser photo the other day.

The NEXT ones are a definite no from me.

The only ones I am remotely tempted by are still Liberty and the LF fragrance calendar.

Have Harrods confirmed that the fragrance calendar will be available in store on 1/9?

Just realised that the navy box is the one from the Next teaser on their socials.

They have not confirmed it publicly but people on various Facebook groups have confirmed they will be available in store from 10am, they have said where to queue Harrods’ in London and will be operating a ticket system and one fragrance calendar per person.
I am also waiting in LF fragrance as interested in a few items from the spoiler and others (candles) will go into the gift pile.

It sounds as though Harrods have learnt their lesson from last year’s mayhem. I’m still relieved that I won’t have to face going there!

I feel much the same as you, @MrsBnow12and there isn’t a 25 day calendar that I’m really excited about. I’ve ordered Liberty, partly because of the BD discount and to use my BD vouchers but I’m still not sure which I want from my husband for my birthday/ xmas present. At the moment Fortnum and Mason is my favourite but there are still a few things that I won’t use, like makeup
and cleansers, and I think there is a scrunchie. I’m waiting to see what’s in the French Pharmacy and Jarrolds, and vogue, although Vogue hasn’t appealed to me for the last two years. I think I’ve been spoiled over the last two or three years .

Notino did a K-beauty one last year too. They won't be out until October though and they wouldn't confirm if they are doing a K-beauty one again.

Thanks @MrsBnow12 - odd decision to release it on a Monday.

I will be at work, so temptation averted, (although, tbf, I am sure I would loathe most of the perfumes in the Harrods calendar due to my extremely unsophisticated taste in fragrance😹 - it’s just the idea of it I like!)

Harrods have released the calendars on 1 September for the last three years. The first year it was great because it was a weekday, and I think the chaos last year was made much worse by the 1st falling on a Sunday.

My Harrods beauty AC arrived this morning! I’ve not opened yet due to work, excited to check it out.
Luckily for me, I have a rubbish memory so by December I will mostly have forgotten what is in which drawer 😅