🎄 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 know, he's spoiling my fun! 😂 He was quite resigned though when I said I'd got up specifically to buy calendars (day off today)

I almost caved with RHOBAC fomo over the LF calendars. I'm going to remain strong though. My Harrods beauty has been dispatched, I have the Harrods fragrance. I'm wanting to use the money I would've spent on a mid range calendar to buy up things I would've liked from other calendars, but that Next one is still calling me. I can't even remember what's in it, it's all about the box 🤣
I'm hoping m&s release theirs earlier this year, I've seen a few autumn clothes I'd like to buy along with the new bra and pants, but I'm waiting so I meet the minimum spend.

My husband has said he'd like the Liberty this year instead of LF. I'm not impressed as that's less for me spend on BACs 🤣 Has anyone seen anything about the Liberty men's? I saw something saying that it'll be available to buy on 3rd Sept, but nothing about the contents.

Hopefully, I'm not sure I even want the calender ? Despite my earlier protests I might still get JL . Then I could put the GB box and free gift in last year's along side the October liberty. So 2 purchased , 1 free ( almost) because subscriptions aren't real money .
If Liberty do a scent edit, I can use my drop money . I did prefer last Christmas to the summer one .

Not seen anything about Liberty Men's yet this year.

I'm number 106 in the Selfridges queue. I don't even want it. I just clicked to see all the official contents.

I love this, just queuing for research purposes 🤣

It's the British way.

Selfridges isn't as bad as initially decided it was. It's not one I want but the Refy brush looks nice and it has some nice perfumes. There's a lot of Jo Malone large sizes in calendars this year.

No, me neither, only that it goes on sale on the 3rd. I hope they release the contents today or tomorrow so I can decide if he needs it or if he's getting the LF one 🤣 I don't want to end up ordering in a panic before reviewing it properly.

The LF Grooming one won't sell out anytime soon. Grooming ones are harder to shift so you probably have plenty of time to decide.

Selfridges always do this mad selling out /restock thing . I think it sold out and was restocked at least 3 times last year. I love the Morphe eye pallette in there so hoping lots hit vinted/eBay in the near future
Meanwhile I am busy ruminating over the LF fragrance calendar having been a possible yes I become a hard no yesterday when I went through my perfume stash but now I am wavering and keep going back to.have another look at it. I can see not a lot of productive work done today .(And slightly concerned I may be like this all month with each new release)

I don’t need any more perfume but I couldn’t resist the look fantastic fragrance one. A bit of excitement for a Monday morning

The Ella & Jo mask in the OBB is lovely so I'll keep an eye out on ebay but it doesn't have stand out items like GB which makes that tempting, the ND palette and Commodity. AA oil is nice but I've got at least 2 sitting around and some mini's.

LF fragrance calendar ordered! I have decided on SNK as my main one this year so now the wait begins for that.

Selfridges is now live. I’ve decided to go for it. It’s the one that so far has ticked the most boxes for me overall. Doing my best to resist the LF fragrance, it’s a good mix but expensive if you already have or know you don’t want quite a few fragrances. And will get the JM I prefer in the Selfridges calendar.

Will everyone please stop ordering the LF fragrance calendar. You are all making it harder to resist😂

Selfridges charge postage 🤦🏻‍♀️ its my pet hate, especially on a big spend.
I was able to buy a gif card with 5% off through work money saving app so suppose that will negate the postage fee, but still unimpressed. Also clicked on a cashback link but not sure that will track because I used a gift card to pay 🤔

We managed to pick up the LF one last year when it was restocked mid Nov, he'd bought a Mancave already as LF had told me they weren't restocking it. Liberty were already out of stock. So I want to get it sorted early this year. Also, if we decide on the LF one, then I'll have more money to spend on more beauty stuff for myself, potentially another premium calendar. So it's in my interest to sort his out soon 🤣

I'm standing firm. I couldn't help but look at it again this morning, but I'm thankful I had a convo with my Mum last night about it. I was explaining how I'd originally thought she'd like a few of the offerings as some of her favourite fragrances were in there. She just thew her hands up and said "Please Rainbow, No More Perfume!" Well that's that settled then.

Is anyone heading to Harrods with their boxing gloves this morning?

Elle is avaliable to buy now if you signed up to the waitlist. I'll now spend the next few hours dithering over whether I want it.

I've ordered Sephora and Lookfantastic fragrance so far. I still want Glossybox, Spacenk and maybe ASOS so should probably call it a day.

I’ve had FOMO since Liberty took it off preorder, so I’m going to purchase on release. Plus I want the SNK, but I already have all of the Harrods 😳

Hogies BAC (£5 off with code CELEBRATE), on my maybe list... hogiesonline.co.uk/products/hogies-beauty-advent-calendar-2025?variant=55675135885692

Will that be 5 or 6 in total ? Wow you truly are a RHOBAC inspiration 👏

Me too! I've just been looking at it again this morning.

I'm probably living in cloud cuckoo land asking this, but I don't suppose it stacks with liberty's latest GWP if you spend over £200?