🎄 2025 Style and Beauty Advent Calendar Discussion ***SPOILERS*** THREAD 7

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New thread!

Yes, I'll pm you so I don't spoil it for anyone.

I find the little boxes really useful for packaging when sending perfumes or anything fragile.

I use my old boxes for storing Christmas decorations, but there’s a limit to how many you need. In my case 4. So my 2 (3) advent a year habit has led to a surplus. I’ve an addiction.

@BlueLimes Based on how many I’ve purchased this year, I think it’s safe to say I now have an addiction too

@Thelifeofawife we’ll be so fragrant and glowing

Thank you 😊

Looks like BT have a second, cheaper calendar if anyone in Ireland or NI is interested.

www.brownthomas.com/beauty/beauty-gifts/advent-calendars/festive-advent-calendar/187697724.html?cgid=beauty-advent-calendars#start=1

Annoyingly, my fenwick BAC has been stuck in a dpd depot all weekend. It seems dpd don't deliver at weekends? Fenwick have said they'll refund the £8 delivery fee but its more that I can't be sure of being in when it arrives now..if it arrives.

Also had problems with evri not delivering too.

Thanks @owlpassport - I think I'd use any half of that one so maybe it's worth it. I guess Harrods won't come back!

@IDontHateRainbows My local shop said that Evri have been taken over and have a load of new agency staff and that they have had loads of problems with deliveries.
A parcel of mine went missing but thankfully I was refunded and so was the Vinted seller.
Strangely, I’ve noticed recently that eBay & Vinted keep defaulting to Evri as delivery method, in fact I have to keep asking sellers to change it to another option, and they say that all are available but it’s only showing Evri as an option when I try to buy things

I know Yodel and Inpost merged, I didn't know Evri had been taken over too. Loads of problems with yodel/ in post as the merger didn't go to plan and vinted removed it as an option. They are all a bit shit at the moment to be honest, fed up with them.

There are some in Knightsbridge and the Hbeauty stores (as of this weekend).

I’ve just bought the Liberty BAC and now so excited to get it 🙌 noticed I had a £10 Liberty voucher plus could get cash back so that pushed me over the edge!

I posted an item with Yodel weeks ago and it still hasn’t been delivered.

I have noticed that Vinted seem to mainly use Evri now. Our local Tesco is getting rid of their Evri parcel service next month for some reason.

I hate taking stuff from my liberty calendar but from this years experience selling after Xmas. Can't recall exactly when but definitely wasn't January I struggled to sell stuff. So I am selling now up to Xmas when there's a demand. ♥️

I’ll ask DH to extract !

I ordered the HN fragrance on Saturday but got an email today that it's refunded as out of stock. Not happy.

I sold 2 makeup products out of the Harrods calendar. They don't go for much now as vinted has been flooded with them. But it's better then them just sitting in a drawer gathering dust. I bought similar products that I actually wanted from other calendars to replace them with.

I missed a dpd delivery and had a choice online to redeliver or take to local post office so I collected from post office if that's easier ♥️

I'd go back to them and ask them why it's still showing as in stock online 🤷🏻‍♀️

i can’t seem to stop buying things - I have a few things from the Liberty calendar, I can put in the drawers.
it’s just the blusters, lipstick maybe the eyeshadow. not sure about the CR hair stuff. Excited for the rest though!

If anyone wanted the ASOS calendar, RANDOM just took 25% off for me.

Not sure if it's a different discount for everyone, but worth a go.

I quite like eyeshadow sticks, they're really quick to use and it's in taupe so really easy to wear. I've not had a bobbi brown one though so I'm looking forward to using it. I tend to wear taupe like colours for work so I think for me it'll be good.
They had the rodial blush drops in last year's AC and I only used them once, my face looked so greasy 😐 so I sold that along with the lipstick.
I think it's weird that they've put so much hair stuff in when they have the hair and body calendar. I will use it all though apart from the scrub which I'll gift to my sister. I think an hair oil would have been nice and more versatile then the hair milk.

Agree - or a hand cream. I am an old lady though 🤣
I don’t think Taupe will suit me, I expect my DD would use it though. At least no red nail polish.
The really question is do I need another advent, I’ve 2 now !

Which 2 do you have? I'm an enabler so not the best person to ask if you don't want to spend 🤣