🎄 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 like Yepoda too - if it had a little bit of make up to go with the skincare, I think I would have bought it.

The Vogue is missing a lipstick. They have the Ilia multi stick, but it needs a proper luxury lipstick. Byredo, Hourglass or Lisa Eldridge (preferably the refillable one) would have been a great addition. The SDJ is always very teenage to me. The bag charm and claw clip cheapen it too. It needed a more chic perfume.
Cosmetopia will be ranting; she hates lifestyle products in AC's.

@AlPaccacino can I ask where you got the Pokémon card one from please and how much it was?

Thankfully, I think the Vogue offering is woeful. I am so pleased!

To answer my own question, still waiting for reveals on:

H&B
M&S
Shiseido
Molton Brown

The spoilers for H&B and M&S aren’t doing it for me, unfortunately.

Lancome are doing an a/c too according to BD, as are YESSTYLE, Lush and PLouise, (for tweens/teens, presumably)

Clarins is out today.

@IlovePond also Latest in Beauty although haven't confirmed anything. Also not sure if Cohorted are doing one this year (it is usually 12 days if they do one)
Still drumming my fingers for Spacenk fragrance too ( if they do one)
But sadly I think we have had nearly all the reveals now

https://www.johnlewis.com/pokemon-trading-card-game-advent-calendar/p113985697?tmad=c&tmcampid=7&s_share=jlappios_Y29tLmFwcGxlLlVJS2l0LmFjdGl2aXR5LkNvcHlUb1Bhc3RlYm9hcmQ=
Is it this one? Available at John Lewis.

Liberty is out for general release and they’ve announced the mens edit ) don’t think they had done previously and think someone was asking about it) https://www.libertylondon.com/uk/liberty-mens-advent-calendar-2025-000839932.html?utm_source=libertystatic&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=250902-WK31-TBD-BAC-Early-Access&S2REF=7773152254&mi_u=7a3c60712ff2da37305d172f2e84576f&mi_ecmp=250902-WK31-TBD-BAC-Early-Access

sorry about big link!

@Puravida23 Diptyque, L’artisan parfumeur, French Pharmacy, and Jarrolds still haven’t revealed their contents. And I had a Maison Margiela calendar last year which was lovely, but I’ve not seen if they are doing one again this year.

Vogue is actually tempting me as the Tilly Sveaas jewellery was already on my wishlist, so the rest is £55 after that. Covers a range of items which probably suits me better as I was after a jewellery advent too. So I may get Vogue and Flannels perfume, thats where my head is at at the moment.

Thanks @Puravida23

I can see me just sticking with my DIY calendar, (although if Liberty is still available in a few weeks, I may well crack).

Weird that SPACENK is doing nothing for me this year, when it was my favourite in 2024, (not that I bought it 😹)

Thank you 😊 I need to do a full comparison for him, but I think on first impressions, I'll be trying to steer him towards look fantastic 🤣 I did get excited, thinking that the AB was the rich cream, which I love and could swap pinch but I'm not that fussed about the cream version.

If you were planning on buying the jewellery anyway, then the rest of it is almost free 💁🏻‍♀️

Just purchased Liberty…I saw the men’s too. I love the men’s box design, very gothic.

Just SNK to decide on now.

Definitely no to the vogue for me! Phew 😮‍💨

I’ve just looked at the men’s Liberty calendar and I’m really surprised. I thought it would be full of after shave, shaving cream etc but it looks really interesting! And the box is so much nicer than the main calendar - it’s been the same design for three years now.

The men’s Liberty calendar is nice.

Just having a giggle to myself at DH’s face if I bought it for him. Water and a bit of soap is about his limit!

In the absence of anything else, I am very tempted by Liberty🙀

I’m seriously considering it as a second calendar for myself 😆

@Growlybear83 😹😹😹

Liberty still just takes me to the wait list page(?)

@Georgieporgie29 I found the pokemon card advent on both Menkind and Argos (I'm assuming it's the right one) both for £45. I'll be interested to see what Alpacaccino says but I had the bright idea of buying it with Nectar points via Argos so it's ended up free. I didn't want to dither and miss out

So Vogue doesn't look bad but the therabody just vibrates so not really a use for me but it's a nice idea and change from the normal, if it had an LED or 2.... £225 of the value is a bag charm. Which imo is big and ugly and will probably be on ebay for £20. There's no ESPA mini though! This might be the necklace, closest I can see from pic https://tillysveaas.co.uk/shop/short-silver-and-gold-lariat-necklace/ and bracelet tillysveaas.co.uk/shop/small-silver-and-gold-t-bar-clasp-on-belcher-chain-bracelet/

I see Liberty men get the Charlotte Mensah shampoo and women get the conditioner! If they have to split them, I'm happy to have the right product, but it does look a bit mean!

Ooh I got excited when I remembered Diptyque so I've just signed up to the waitlist. It's going to be £390 though!! <ponders selling a kidney or the cat>

I am reserving the right to go mad and buy Diptyque if the fragrances are right. Their discovery set is around £110 and has five 7.5mls in it (and 10% with BD) so it's great value - my last one lasted ages - but the current one has Philosykos in which is probably my least favourite and if the calendar can supply more of my favourites it might convince me...

Diptyque Eaux de Toilette Discovery Set of Five 7.5ml | Liberty

Hi,

Has anyone bought a TCB gift card and then used it to pay for the Liberty calendar? I am tempted by the cashback offer, but it’s a lot of money to risk if the gift card doesn’t work.

Thanks

I’m still excited about what might be in Diptyque, although I think it usually has too many candles for me.

im trying to stop myself buying the Liberty men’s calendar thsts in my basket 😳. I think it has more items that I would use than any other calendar this year.