🎄 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

Phew snk ordered glad I can stop thinking about it and the indecision!

Wish it were more traditionally festive like the liberty box but the contents this year of liberty were not for me.

I was late for work..,too busy ordering my SNK 😃 I have my priorities sorted.
Missed the pass next day thing as I was too busy stressing about it going through with no glitches.

Selfridges Fragrance Libary is out for delivery for today. Once SNK arrives i will sell Milk, CT and Rare. Then refill the empty drawers with a few of the perfumes from Selfridges. Eek, its beginning to look alot like Christmas🎶

How much would you sell it for?

My SNK has dispatched. I thought I'd chosen the next day pass as I already have that but it says 2-4 days standard delivery. Oh well, it's not like I need it right now.

@SoloCat priorities sound in the right order to me 🤪🤣

@Caggie09 I'm selling about half the SNK box, I can't decide if to refill the drawers or put what I want into the Harrods calendar. I did try to put some extra things in the Harrods calendar yesterday from my vinted orders but quickly realised that the drawers are quite small 🤣 I'm not sure that when all my purchases arrive that it'll all fit in 😕 I might have to set about refilling SNK, oh what a shame 🎅🎁🎄

I picked the pass but I've not received a dispatch email so maybe I've paid for the pass but then not selected it 🙈🤣 would be the kinda thing I'd do especially when under pressure.

Oops, I caved in as it was still available when the clock struck 11 for my slot. I'd had an awful work morning where I discovered the last 7 working days of long hours were a waste due to some flawed info and I needed another retail hit. So SNK one coming my way after all.

I already have the limited pass. I chose that but then I faffed around and went back to basket then back to checkout and I think it's defaulted back to standard delivery and I've not noticed. Idiot. 😂

I think I've bought it then not selected it in the delivery options 🤣 fellow idiot 🤣

Sounds like you didn't really have a choice imo 🤪

I've just read the confirmation email, it seems you don't have to select next day, you will automatically get it the next day if you have the pass 😁 woohoo!!! 🎉🙌

@GimmieABreakOr3

I’m going to hang on and see if I can make a small profit but to be perfectly honest I’d be happy to recoup the £250 I spent (includes pre-order/beauty drop discount) plus postage costs.
It might sell out after pay day. It’s hard to tell though.

I am strongly resisting the lure of any further AC (esp as have just had yet another parking ticket for DS (which I need to pay as he is a penniless student!) fgs)

Will relish the Liberty one and maybe make my own from my stash with my F&M calendar. I always forget what I have put in it and it sometimes it inspires me to use things up that I have previously ignored.

Just opened this thread to find hundreds of new messages and wondered what was going on! 😂

Honestly, nobody needs to be panicking over Space NK. I’ve bought it 5 years out of the last 6, and it’s always been available for weeks. They usually re-stock it several times after it ‘sells out’ too. It wont sell out in a day.

My confirmation email says YOU CHOSE UK STANDARD DELIVERY Your order will be with you in 2-4 working days.

I think I'm still an idiot.

I reckon you're right, but we did all witness the CB LE sell out in a day so I wasn't taking the risk 🤣 plus I also want to get my bulked up harrods calendar into the loft so I can forget about the extras I've put into it. I'm gutted that the tatcha serum is a vitamin c one, I would've liked to have tried it 😕

I'm not totally convinced the Ltd ed won't come back or they just made a small number of those and a ton of the other ones.

Oh 😕 you must've got caught up in the panic 🤣

I've not received a dispatch email yet, I ordered at 9:03 so I'm not impressed. But I have looked on my account and it is marked as dispatched. I hope it arrives tomorrow before lunch so I can have a look at it properly 😁🤞

It wasn't panic exactly. I went through to checkout then thought oh I haven't added samples, went back to bag to see they weren't offering samples with the BAC so went back to checkout and the delivery method had defaulted. Doh!

Maybe it will just arrive tomorrow anyway?

Also, we're having our kitchen renovated at the moment, so we have the kitchen table, fridge, bins, all the cooking stuff in the living room and my office is full of boxes of stuff we don't need day to day, plus the suitcases as we go on holiday in a few weeks. My harrods fragrance and beauty calendars, my Lancome box, hourglass box and husband's liberty calendar box plus the trainers he's bought are all over 🙈 so my husband asked me at the weekend to please not buy anything else. Whoooopsie!!!! In my defence though, I never agreed to not buy anything 😇 oh and my new dune knee boots are in the mix too 🤣

Ah yes, you did say. Mine was a panic, similar to when I ordered the Harrods fragrance calendar. Hopefully it does turn up tomorrow 🤞😁

I bet CB made a tiny number of LE calendars so they'd sell out quickly and spur people on to get the other one.

Nooo! My Selfridges Fragrance Wardrobe has just arrived and one of the perfumes has smashed (dries van noten). Smells lovely by the way if a little overpowering as it is the whole bottle spilt
Selfridges have been amazing and are refunding me the whole box but still slightly gutted as that was one of my main perfumes I wanted it for and it does smell gorgeous

Gutted, my selfridges fragrance wardrobe was cancelled.