🎄 2025 Style and Beauty Advent Calendar Discussion ***SPOILERS*** THREAD 4

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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

Thread 3: https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5396898-2025-style-and-beauty-advent-calendar-discussion-spoilers-thread-3

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/5389635-beauty-chat-freebiesgifts-with-purchaseoffers-thread-four

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

I'm the same, I always want something when I can't have it 🤣 I do it all the time with clothes and shoes. I have my eye on them for weeks, then as soon as they sell out in my size, I then desperately want it 🙄

@JoRaRaRa - FOMO is real 😹😹😹

SpaceNK did a post about an hour ago saying sign up for early access tomorrow - so many people just commented already signed up, but what time tomorrow, so they've deleted the post!
no idea what their teams are playing at.

Yes very real 🤣

Looked at the Selfridges set this morning, left it. Then kept thinking about it at work thinking i could ive some to my partner towards xmas if some are too masculine for me. Ohwell saved me 90 quid🤣

Do we think it's going to be a bun fight tomorrow? Harrods Fragrance #2 😂

Supposedly on Royal Mail but the tracking number they gave me isnt showing anything for me which is giving me anxiety

Based on a the minimal quantities stores are getting, and comments on social, it seems it's one of the most sought after this year. I'll try to get it as worked out there was £260 worth of stuff I'd buy anyway throughout 2026 due to needing refills/restock so everything else was a bonus, but I've told myself if I miss out, that I can spend the money on either another Lego set or a new work suit for a new onsite job instead, and then get the individual items when I need them on a 20% off weekend.

I hope it’s not a scramble for Space NK. It was very popular last year but I recall there were plenty, and they even had some more available after going ‘out of stock’ for a few weeks.

Great! I've finally made a decision to buy SNK after a month of dithering and now it sounds like it might be a nightmare. 😫

Spacenk usually have masses of stock . Last year it took weeks to sell out so fingers crossed we will all get one . I do think the website might crash through tomorrow. I think Spacenk may have attended the same marketing course as Harrods😂 I know there was all that upset last year with those who preordered getting their advents after those who bought weeks later when the advent went live

haha that was me - I pre-ordered as soon as it was released and it took weeks to arrive! So I told myself I wouldn't order as soon as it was released this year but I have major FOMO so will be online refreshing tomorrow!

Thanks for the selfridges tip, have managed to purchase the fragrance box now last thing I bloody need really but there are a few in there I like and I reckon I can get back 2/3 of the cost selling any I don't.

Right that's it I'm definitely not getting the HN frag cal now!

Also just got the Selfridges Fragrance set. I dont know why but im happy to splash £90, but that £5.95 delivery fee nearly put me off🤣 I need to put my bank card away now!!

I got the £10 for a year unlocked thing- pays for itself after a couple of purchases - of course they use the psychological trick of making you feel like 'well I've paid my £10 so I'd better get my moneysworth and keep buying from them' but I do like Selfridges and it's not a bad deal so fine by me.

I’m relieved the fragrance wardrobe sold out before I could get one, but also slightly disappointed as it wasn’t the same old selection

I'm convinced that's why it kept saying sold out then being available. People going to buy it then being whaaaaat you want me to pay postage on top???? No idea why it's off-putting but it is. An extra fiver or so shouldn't make a difference if you're impulse spending £90 anyway but it always does.

@IDontHateRainbows Oh i should of done that really for the sake of £4. I would spend more if i had that mind, so guess im saving in the long run🤣

@OvaHere Oh totally! I think im used to spending over the threshold i dont usually pay for it🙈

Oh no, I hope it's not going to be a mad scramble tomorrow morning 🙈 any idea of what time they'll go on sale? I don't sleep much, but you can guarantee tomorrow is the day that I sleep in 😕 and how soon after ordering are they usually sent out?

No idea. The few edits I've stalked previously from SNK always seem to appear mid morning but that doesn't mean much. It could go live at 7am?

Last year was a mess with deliveries with some people waiting ages and others getting them really quickly.

Oh, sounds like we're all going to have so much fun 🤣

It sounds like I’m going to be the only one not trying to get SNK! 😆

I think SNK usually go live with things around 8am, so ill be up checking ready to go. I think it may be sold out by Wed eve.

I will have too if it doesn’t turn up this week but it’ll likely be a nightmare without an order number.

Mine said monday or tuesday but the tracking shows it's not been despatched yet, or not received by the courier or something. I may have to invest in a parcel box so that I don't have to worry about being in, or it being left behind the gate (fine in good weather, not in rain)