🎄 2025 Style and Beauty Advent Calendar Discussion ***SPOILERS*** THREAD 9

[BakeOffRewatch]

New thread! Will this be the last thread? I think it will last two weeks and we’ll finish on a round number 10. Though Black Friday deals may mean we burn through this and 10 onto 11 and 12!

I’ve started getting Black Friday early access emails for 25% etc.

Can you imagine? Bankrupt by Vogue 🤣

And I definitely will be doing a no spend as long as possible next year. I’d like to do the whole year, bar replacing things like shampoo. I need nothing.

That would be a great episode. Very dramatic 🤣

Shall I try and de influence you all on Vogue?

Please take in the spirit intended I know some of you really want it and that's fine really😂😘

Products that are in so many beauty boxes/gwp - you all surely must own them already.

Charlotte Tilbury wand - Daahlings please, Charlotte is almost chucking these around the streets for free at this point.

Champo serum - this and other hair gain products are going to be the new lash serum very soon. Not very Vogue is it?

Votary Face Oil - Liberty will absolutely send one of these your way in a beauty edit soon. If BBC mystery bags don't get to you first.

Nuxe dry oil - Have Next or M&S ever done an edit that doesn't contain this? I think not!

Verden Sleep Mist - See also future Liberty edit coming your way.

SOJ Beija Flor body cream - I know it's a larger size but do I really need to say more? Do I?

Sam McKnight balm - not heard great things about the scent on this. Absolutely will show up in an edit or five.

Inflated cost items

BoJ and Biodance products - you could get these on incredibly good offers via any korean site especially during a discount week. You all already know this.

Just no!

Isamaya fancy gua sha - Of course you'll use it religiously every night. We definitely believe you on that...

Discotheque perfume - I know scent is subjective but I got this in the CB stocking and to be blunt I thought it smelt of nightclub urinals.

2 x fancy hair clips - You already have 10 claw clips don't you? I know I do, and how many of you already have the french pin from the SNK calendar or edit earlier in the year?

Digital Vogue subscription - You'll definitely read this. Totally. Probably nightly whilst using that fancy gua sha.

Moschino Key chain - You'll sell this on Vinted. Someone will haggle you down to a fiver then claim it's fake. Vinted will side with them, you'll lose the paltry fiver and get your account banned.

The good and not so bad
Necklace
Bracelet
Beanie
Sleepmask - could easily be in the above category but I like a sleep mask so I'll give it a narrow pass.
Candle
La Mer cream x 2
CM Finishing spray
LM Primer
Surrat eyeshadow
Ilia Multi stick
Vieve Mascara (with the caveat this is a new product but could easily see it as a beauty edit darling of 2026)
Lisa Eldridge eyeliner - narrowly escapes the first category because it's LE but it is just eyeliner.

I love this! Especially the Discotheque perfume review 😂

I think next year we should all buy each other calendars. If anyone bought me one of the luxe calendars I’d be absolutely delighted. I don’t know why I’m so critical of them.

@BakeOffRewatch Absolutely. Despite everything I said if someone showed up on 1st of Dec with the Vogue calendar as a gift for me I'd be over the bloody moon. 😂

I buy the Ouai 946ml refill bags for shampoo and conditioner. I do like Charlotte Mensah that we received in Liberty beauty drop but this convenience is great. Wish they’d do refills of shower gels too.

I think a low/no buy thread is asking for failure and then binging … I’d be keen for a full size purchase thread? Things that people want to buy in their own right full size. Probably a much slower thread, anti offer and minis. I’d love to know what people like buying because they actually love it and rate it and not because it was a good deal or the right price to top up for free delivery.

I have cracked and bought Sephora (the cheaper one) with a 25% discount. I’ll use about half of it, and there’s probably stuff in there that will be more useful than I expect.

I like the idea of a full size purchase thread.

You forgot the candle smells of tomato so maybe needs to be category one 😂😂

I analyse the contents and work out what I would keep and sell and what wouldn’t sell ( bag charm and gua sha….looking at you both) and then decide if it’s worth it.

I have had a stressful year with work and normally buy a gift for myself with my bonus (not due until January and we know the advents will be gone by then) and my husband has said to buy it but still can’t quite checkout as don’t normally spend that much on myself.

I’ve just ordered the Space NK calendar - and I’m so excited!!!!! I could only justify it on the basis it was a gift from my husband rather than an advent calendar so will be opening the entire thing on December 25th!

I'd like the candle. I've been coveting a tomato one ever since smelling the extortionate but viral Loewe one in Liberty back in May.

Congrats. Opening all at once will be fun too. So many pressies!

I'm planning to use up a good amount of what I have next year and only buy something if I don't have an alt in my stash (should be rare tbh). I'd like to chat about what I'm using and liking.

I do that on the empties thread to some extent and was going to do it on the Chat thread - we do already do a lot of chatting I think. I just need to ignore the offers. It's getting easier because edits are getting more repetitive for me now I'm not a newbie.

There’s a chat thread? I do avoid the main boards so haven’t seen it.

I meant the Beauty chat, gwp etc thread we're all on. Sorry I was just using shorthand that made sense to me.

@OvaHere please do some de-influencing as a side hustle- that was brilliant 🤩

@OvaHere I love your list 🤣 you all know me now, I'm normally the enabler 😈 but the vogue one is so expensive, I can't live with the guilt of enabling fomo buying 🙈

@BakeOffRewatch I'm up for low / no buy, but I can't do too many full sizes 🤣 I get bored. Does anyone else get bored of using the same serum or moisturiser or even cleanser for a while? I get to the point where I start using more just so I can get to the next one on my list 😀

Are you de-influenced though?

You know if you buy it now that will make me a sad failure with crushed dreams of a RHOBAC side hustle. Netflix will probably fire me and I'll have to live in a dusty cardboard box in the shadow of the Hollywood Hills eating Bobbi Brown shadow sticks to survive.

No pressure. 😂

Yes. Which is why I usually have a few on the go at once, especially cleansers. I've been trying to limit this to 2 per product category recently because it got ridiculous at one point.

Not me. I like the security of a consistent routine and I don’t have a stash.

Oooh it will be lovely to open a big calendar in one go! 😊

No comment.

I don't have a stash

No way 😱 I'm like @OvaHere, I usually have a few on the go at the same time 🤣 but, some serums are good to have on the go, I like to alternate glowy hydrating ones with a more barrier building one the next day 😊 I also get a bit excited when a new edit arrives and sometimes I can't stop myself from diving in 🤣