🎄 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 totally agree I would rather have fewer products but more full size. I’ve got so many small items that I never seem to use up

I checked my calendar after watching this…I’m the same as you, two cleansers would be fine, but not two toners. My calendar is all present and correct, although a little annoying I had to check.

I ordered the Harrods hair and body one today as I realised I had £20 of points, so I thought why not! 😁

Absolutely. Tiny product sizes I can get any day of the week free from the beauty counters at the big department stores.

I'm holding out for Fenwick if they do the GWP again.

My Anthropologie AC is out for delivery which I'm rather excited about. Can't believe it's September on Monday. The BAC season is in full swing!

Save up to half price on selected Boots AC's.

The Lynx and Nivea Men both have big reductions but most are just a few pounds off.

www.boots.com/christmas/advent-calendars

Hi, if you sign up to the Boots a/c waitlist, you get a code for 10% off no7 products, which stacks with the other no7 offers, (e.g. 3-4-2).

Obviously, there’s no obligation to then buy one of the calendars!

It’s a good deal if you like no7 products.

I think I’m losing the plot a bit with all the calendars! Can anyone please remind me if Space NK are doing a separate fragrance advent calendar ? And have the contents been revealed yet?

They alluded to one in the unboxing but no details have been released regarding price or contents.

Thank you! I was beginning to think I was imagining it.

I think I'm losing the plot too. I'm sure cult beauty released their contents and I rejected it. Now I can't find where I saw it.

I think SNK said at the end of their content reveal that there would be a fragrance one. I've not seen any further updates though. But again, I'm also losing the plot 😵‍💫

CB themselves have been doing a drip release weekly but we've had random 'leaked' reveals which have contradicted each other. First was the full spoilers on the BD site which was then later retracted, the other that one unboxing video on YT which had some different products than in the earlier full spoilers leak. Added to that CB are doing 2 versions, one with fragrance which is UK only.

First early access is on the 3rd so I just waiting for then to see what is actually in them.

Ah OK, I probably got the list from BD then. I've been copying and pasting into a spreadsheet to compare but couldn't work out where I'd got it from. I managed to copy and paste the look fantastic list before that was removed. I can't remember which unboxings I've watched now 🥴

Oooo how pretty / Christmassy is this 😍😍

Very pretty. I do wish they all channelled ‘Christmas’ in their packaging- it makes such a difference to how I feel about them!

Yes, me too 😁 That's another RHOBAC rule we should add 🤣

😍The Next box was beautiful last year too.

I think Next is very pretty too. Have we only seen a few products from each of their calendars so far?

@JoRaRaRa
That’s exactly why I’m put off of the likes of Cult Beauty etc…very Un-Christmassy.

Oh definitely agree with this! I find the non-Christmassy ones so off-putting. I get they're trying to be edgy or something but personally I love a bit of cheesy Christmas nostalgia-core.

We’re going to have to have different factions of RHOBAC as I like a box that isn’t obviously Christmas-y so can be re purposed and I like repeats

I love the fact that we already have splinter groups/ different fav within a totally fictional entity 😹

I wish I had bought more things for my DIY calendar when TCB were doing 20% back on LF combined with LF’s extra 10% off! I was trying to restrain myself - for once 🙀

Anthropologie has been delivered! It smelt nice when I opened the brown box. Very compact but have hidden it away!

It's so amazing and interesting how we all want different things ❤️ I only don't want repeats of the stuff I don't like, but I guess I'd be happy with repeats of stuff I love 🤣 like I'd happily have decree treat tincture every year.

😱 Do you not check it before putting it away? I have to check every drawer. In fact, I've now checked the fragrance calendar 5 times 🤣 and sprayed 2 of them, just to make sure 😉

@JoRaRaRa oh no have never checked!!!! Might go and see now......