🎄 2025 Style and Beauty Advent Calendar Discussion ***SPOILERS*** THREAD 8

[BakeOffRewatch]

New thread!

I’ve just ordered the Boots skincare with the 20% off. I’ve had my eye on that one for a while and I think it’s a really good deal at £56.

Will probably open it all at once when it arrives rather than keeping it for advent.

That Boots skincare a/c is such good value. I would definitely have bought it if I hadn’t already got so much stuff. (I’m not convinced I won’t still crack, but I have a lot of skincare to get through.)

I am surprised it’s still around.

I’m also surprised that GB, LF and the Boots Premium are still available. Ditto Liberty- I could have waited and used another £20 of my BD money!

I would definitely be tempted by GB if it went below the £75 I can get it for, (as they are still counting me as a subscriber for some reason!)

What are people stalking in the event of any good BF bargains?

Liberty claim theirs is ‘selling fast’ - I wonder if this is true, or just a tactic to try to shift the last few (thousand 😹) before BF.

I am stalking Fenwick and John Lewis. I also have a feeling Harvey Nichols could go down in price around then if it doesn’t sell out as I see the 20% code expires around the 21st. Trying to convince myself I am only looking for a friend though! 😆

Fenwicks and Jo Loves are still on my wishlist @IlovePond . I'm fairly confident that neither of them will be reduced enough to find their way in to my grubby mitts though.

I think it could be legitimate, as they just properly launched their Christmas range and floor. Think a couple of days ago with an event so can imagine it’s starting to sell more. We’ve got to remember it’s just us who are on this in August 😅

John Lewis is the main one I'm interested in but like @keepincool it would have to be a good reduction. I've reached a level of product fatigue and need to keep reminding myself of all the many things I have stuffed in the BACs I have put away.

That’s true @BakeOffRewatch I only bought Liberty in early October, but it seems like ages ago and lots of people had bought it much earlier.

I still can’t believe I bought the Rituals wreath in September!

If I do buy another in any BF reductions, I would definitely put it away for 2026. Still pondering doing that with Rituals - their stuff seems to last forever, so Xmas 26 would be fine.

I keep looking at the Rituals wreath. I also like the look of all the sparkly stuff in the Kiko advent calendar, but I've already bought the eyeshadow that's in it and I've bought the LE sparkly lip glosses, plus a dior one and 2 dior eyeshadow palettes, I've also only just opened a sparkly highlighter that I bought last year, so I really don't need anymore sparkles 🤣
I keep looking at the next premium one too, but I have enough face stuff now, so unless it's reduced by 50% I don't think I'll buy it.

Ooh, I’d forgotten about those lovely sparkly LE lipglosses as they came up in conversation whilst I was away. I would like one, but must resist!

I fear I could still be tempted by a good reduction in the men’s calendar. But I can’t afford another one!

Im fighting off buying another as bought at full price 🤪

I'm longingly looking at the Selfridges calendar 😆 Any chance it might be discounted soon?

Also, I am looking for a WOW hair products set for my daughter. Has anyone seen any good discounts on WOW?

TCB have paid me £7 cashback on the Liberty calendar - it was a total bargain then 😹

TCB are offering 3% c/b on the LF calendar and 6% on the Sephora Collection a/c.

Possibly of no use to anyone by now but between the CB x Fenty box, a couple of bits from Milk and others, and the CB fragrance discovery freebies, I've just made up an advent calendar for my daughter for about £60 (made up the qualifying spend with some other gifts). She's nearly 14 so there's lots in the other boxes she can't/won't use but she's a massive fan of floral fragrances. I have of course had a spritz of some of them in the name of testing and there are some lovely ones!

Ohh how did you get the CB fragrance discovery freebies? I'm having trouble with the CB freebies at the moment, as for example it says that you can get a CT mascara with any CT eye products, but when I add the CT eye products to my basket it doesn't add the free GWP 🤷‍♀️ I'm clearly doing something wrong

That's a relief because so far I've only skooshed two and hated both! The Vyrao Ludatrix is weird, I definitely smell the latex note. And the Discotheque Call For A Good Time smells like my granny in 1995 (I think it's the jasmine and ylang ylang in there, like Anais Anais).

@XelaM It was a GWP but I think you might have missed it, I can't see it on there now. I can't get the CT mascara to add either, might be worth emailing them as that looks like their mistake.

It was free with an £80 spend in the app on anything, and it was just added automatically to my basket when I reached the threshold. Lovely chance for dd to play around with some scents. Ordered yesterday and arrived today, now having to air the house as she'll smell it as soon as she walks in after school 🤣

ahh maybe it's over now, glad I didn't dither then. Work procrastination paying off!

Hopefully there are others in there you like! I'm not sure what I sprayed, I just grabbed a couple that were easy to get at.

If you haven't ordered from Ohmycream yet WELCOMEOMC20 gets you 20% of their advent

Has anyone gone for the stylekorean advent calendar? I had a look this morning and decided I would consider it if it was still in stock by time I got home from work.

Disappointed in these - pretty much the same fragrances as March in the women's box but with one less (no Mugler), and the armani being half the size 🤷🏻‍♀️

Believe it or not its nearly 3 months since Addy Cal season started back in August with liberty boxes released on 20th, and harrods fragrance not long after!
I'm all shopped out with them now although I'm open to being tempted if they are discounted for BF.