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

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New thread!

Probably under pressure to get them all out due to the lengthy delays and making mistakes. Not great CS though. Glad you do like them. Despite everything they are nice boxes.

I’ve bought an Aldi Vitamin C serum for £3.99 today: last of the big spenders.

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Yes, it definitely works with mixing and matching the fragrances. I think what sold it to me are that the 2 perfumes in it are both each worth more than the cracker costs. Anything for a bargain 🤣

I hope you found some great buys in the shops today.

I also wore the pink LE gloss and had the same reaction 🤣 it is really nice though once it's set. I've worn the Kensington plum one today for pumpkin picking, I like how if you just put one layer on it can be subtle 🥰

Yeah, you've just convinced me that I need it 😍🤣 the 30ml delina comes in the PDM countdown. But the Harrods has the 30ml Valaya, so I feel I have to also get the Valaya hair perfume 💁🏻‍♀️

I best check my husband's flannels fragrance box. I'm giving it to him for his birthday 😊

For anyone who has the SpaceNk scent cracker and Flannels fragrance box, today I layered the Phlur Father figure, let it dry then sprayed the kilian apple brandy over 😍 omg! I'm in love! 🤣

Also, I'm gutted, my liberty glam kit was left on my doorstep and it was gone by the time I got home. I received an email this morning saying it had been delayed, went pumpkin picking and halloween crazy golfing so had no signal, so I didn't realise they'd emailed to say they were in fact delivering today, otherwise I would've changed it. I'm so upset 😭😭 we've been having issues recently with people following delivery drivers and nicking parcels. I've contacted liberty but I'm not sure what they can do about it. If it's anything like what happened with my evri parcel, by the time they'd finished their investigation, the boots I'd ordered were out of stock 😔

Do we think that all the beauty counters will have been sent a consignment of goodies to fill these empty bags with at some point? Surely they can't think that this is a Great Deal given what last years GWP contained?

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Oh that's awful @JoRaRaRa was it Amazon? My Liberty parcels come via Amazon and it makes me nervous as they leave stuff outside the front door sometimes they don't even knock. All the other delivery companies seem to at least hide them behind a bin or at the back of the house.

Hope you get it sorted because it's a lovely bag.

I seriously can’t get my head around it as they have always had such good gwp’s in the past and it is meant to be their beauty week. They would probably sell out of their advent quickly if they offered decent freebies but that no one is going to be tempted by an empty make up bag! 😐

Oh no, that is awful. 😞 I am not surprised you are upset. I hope you get it sorted.

Yeah it was amazon. I was so excited for it! I'm finding the same that even when I'm in, they don't knock so I don't know it's arrived until I check the tracking, get a notification or go out. It's driving me mad!

This just keeps making me laugh every time it's mentioned 🤣🤣 i must go see these amazing bags 🤣

🤞 I hope so, and before it all sells out 😭

Oh no! ☹️. I’m sure you will find Liberty CS much better than Evri when it comes to replacing a stolen parcel. I’m sure they will sort out a replacement for you.

I think it would be a bit rude if you didn’t get the Valaya hair perfume 😆😆

Hello, joining the new thread again. Still looking for my 2nd BAC with Boots skincare one my top choice so far but keeping an eye out for deals. I was in Boots today and this offer on The Ordinary set might work for anyone after skincare

I hope so 😔 I wish delivery companies would just be better, it's such a hassle trying to sort it.

Yes, me too 💁🏻‍♀️🤣

The m and s bags aren't very exciting bags, they look too crinkly!

https://www.marksandspencer.com/the-bath-and-body-bag/p/hbp60761026#intid=pid_pg1pip48g2r2c2%7Cprodflag_New%7Cprodflag_plp_ts_QP_67

Allbeauty have an extra 15% off advent calendars with the code FLASH15, this includes the Rituals wreath that I know people on here liked (making it £65.40), the lumene, cath kidson, clarins are also included 🎄🎅✨ There's also other beauty buys on there that the code works with.

https://www.allbeauty.com/search/

I agree, they look awful! I do like all the products in the hair one though, no Olaplex 🙌🎊🎉

I didn't really look at them when I posted

I think the products are great for the price, not that I need anything else, it's the bag 🤣

That Rituals deal is great, I’m very tempted for that price.
I went to York outlet today and the Rituals store had a rectangle AC box for over £80. I nearly got it but decided to mull it over.
Incidentally, I purchased a couple of other bits from there but was offered no free gift. Whenever I’ve been to the Cheshire Oaks one I’ve always been offered something.

Also, it’s safe to say the shopaholic is back. I spent a fortune today 🙈😅

It does look a nice AC, I saw it in sephora and it's a lot bigger than the marketing photos makes it look.

I've never been to Cheshire oaks, is it better than York outlet? Or is it the same shops? You should've gone to Fenwick in York and got a photo with the infamous empty gwp bag 🤣 that's my plan for next weekend 🤣

I know, I was so tempted to go to Fenwicks! 😅 But we set off a little later than planned and as it was our first visit there I didn’t want to divert as I’m not familiar with the area.
We are going to go back at some point though as I want to go into the town centre, I just didn’t want to put DH through too much in one day 🤣

Cheshire Oaks is good and has some shops that York doesn’t, the main one I get drawn to is Mulberry, so it’s better that this shop wasn’t at York outlet (though I believe there is one somewhere in York).
There’s lots in York that CO doesn’t have, so it was a nice change, and has the bonus of being indoors (only downside to that is it’s not dog friendly like CO)

Sorry to hear about your parcel @JoRaRaRa 🥰
I had an expensive parcel delivered once whilst at work, they uploaded a photo of nowhere I recognised, they’d left it by the side of a house 4 doors down from mine. Eventually found it, but I was so stressed and angry. I also bought a bracelet one time that FedEx left on my front wall!
Liberty have been quite good at replacing items, so fingers crossed.
Companies must lose so much money to delivery theft, apart from the delivery companies themselves as they seem to wash their hands of it. 😡 Surely it must add to the increase in prices that retailers charge, along with shoplifting which we all end up paying for.

Not sure if this is the right place so apologies if not but here goes…
I’m looking for a recommendation for my 12 almost 13 year old daughter… preferably with a mix of skincare (uses Byoma etc) hair (uses colour wow and Phillip Kingsley) makeup and fragrance (the usual sol de Janeiro!)
Would like to keep cost at £100-£150 if possible… Do you wise well informed ladies have any suggestions? Thankyou!