🎄 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

Where can I see a full list of glossybox contents? I can only see four things .

Beauty Detective has more OK spoilers.

@Addictedtobeauty It is a rolling subscription, so you can sign up for a minimum one month, if you sign up today you will get August so would essentially be two months, other option is to sign up tomorrow.

The Boots recycle scheme is really easy to use @Makehaysunshine . As Ova says, download the Boots Recycle app and upload pictures of the things you want to recycle. Every five items are worth £5 of points when you bring them in your the recycle bin in store. You get a voucher to redeem the points when you spend £10, Sample sachets count as five sachets is one item. Most things are single items count as one item. I was daunted before I did it, now it’s second nature. I have an old make up bag that sits in the bathroom for empties and have tried to train everyone to put their stuff in there. It mostly works. The app will approve or reject items usually in a day or two. It’s easier than it sounds!

@Makehaysunshine there are unboxings on You Tube.

@MakehaysunshineThere are two YouTube videos ( Miss Boux and Eltoria) but not sure I have seen a proper contents list.
I preferred the Miss Boux unboxing and she swatched most of the makeup and details sizes etc

Thanks, that so helpful. I have hundreds of empty jars and bottles. I see J Lewis also has a scheme .

Thank you!

Hi, just be careful with GB subscription- I had a dreadful time trying to cancel and I don’t think they would have let me escape if I hadn’t paid with PP so they didn’t have my cc details.

Basically, I signed up for a one month box, but they defaulted me to a rolling subscription. It was extremely stressful and I have been boycotting them ever since, (not that they will have noticed 😹)

Glossybox full content list is on Beauty Detective.

Check your spam folder, mine went there.

https://beauty-detective.com/ok-beauty-box-advent-calendar-2025/

The spoilers on the email were very tempting. Having seen the whole list I'm less convinced. For me it's now between OK, LF and Sephora. Sephora is obviously a much higher price point so I'm leaning towards one of the first two.

Thank you. I did. It wasn't there.

The Lookfantastic contents are links are on their site now, ordering is available from tomorrow.
No details on any subscriber discounts unless I have missed them.

It costs £13.50 to sign up for a month for a £15 discount off the advent .I don’t think it’s worth the hassle if it’s difficult to cancel. I don’t want their box for this month particularly. I do think the contents of the calendar look great.

Hi,
Clinique at Boots have a good GWP with two purchases, one to be foundation. Would make a good present for someone or a useful addition to a DIY advent calendar.

I didn’t mind signing up last year as the boxes were a Christmas present for DD. She’s enjoyed them all year so it’s been fine. I wouldn’t want them for myself though.

Agree with PP, be very wary as they purposely make it look like it’s a one off “one month” as if it will automatically stop . It’s actually a rolling subscription that intends to charge you £13.99 a month. I had presumed it was a one off and when I saw the second £13.99 was due it was too late to cancel , which is presumably their plan.
Then to actually cancel it is almost impossible to find any information on their site / FAQ/ customer service section on how to do this ! It was beyond frustrating

Having said that , I do like their advent ! It’s surprisingly good given the boxes are not to my taste . I’ll use the influencer code. Swithering between OK and GB now for my second box

Argh! I'm trying to get my head straight with tomorrow being Sept 1st and pin down my definite choices. The email inbox is buzzing with reminders, so I've just fonw back to look at the LF Fragrance full list. I was so totally sold on this and now all I'm seeing is a load of samples, two candles and a Jo Malone Fragrance I'm not even that fond of.

Need to make yet another list

@RainbowZebraWarrior I was baffled by the love for the LF Fragrance, I don't see the appeal! Better to realise now than after you order though. I am also less impressed with LF (beauty) than when the contents were leaked recently. A cooling off period really does make a difference.

The good news is that from "spring" 2026, anyone signing up for a subscription online will have to be able to cancel it online. I say "spring" because the government hasn't said the exact date yet. No good for this year as it only applies to new subscriptions, but will be for next year.

I think Glossybox is definitely the best of the more budget calendars this year. I’ve never been interested in it before as I always thought that it was more aimed at teens, but it’s some interesting products this year that I wouldn’t mind trying. I totally shouldn’t buy another calendar though 🙈

I’m also now less convinced by LF fragrance. I was being swayed entirely by the full size Jo Malone and I don’t even know what it smells like! I think I will hang fire on this one and hope Space NK release their fragrance contents soon.

I have sprayed myself a few times over the last few days with the JM sea salt. It’s ok, but I can’t really smell it much on my skin - which is really weird!

I am now on the fence re: LF fragrance…

Meanwhile, I got a couple of good deal/reduced items for my DIY a/c from allbeauty.com - I always forget to look on there, but they have some good reductions at times, (and this was one of them!)

I have been watching unboxings and then looking to see if I can buy items that I fancy reduced. I haven’t had any luck so far with eBay, (not on Vinted), but have found a few reduced items on various beauty websites.

For example: I found a mini Centrella cleansing oil reduced at allbeauty.com, scored the Gisou lip oil from Harrods for £4.40, (after spending my surprise £10 reward points), and have ordered the mini Tir Tir lip tint from Boots after I saw it online, (maybe in the Beauty Bay a/c).

Re: Boots

Hats off to the wonderful lady in Boots who tracked down the Tir Tir online and arranged for free delivery to my local Boots chemist, despite my only spending £7. It took her ages to sort out due to the vagaries of the website - fantastic customer service!