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

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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 anyone recommend a nice fragrance calendar please!

Harvey nicks - and it currently has 30% off 🎉🎄🎅

https://www.harveynichols.com/harvey-nichols/harvey-nichols-12-days-of-fragrance-advent-calendar-2025-42957-232486/ Harvey Nichols calendar 30% off at checkout. Well reviewed on the fragrance thread

Sorry bit late to this but I love the tomato Loewe candle and bought one half price on vinted! Worth it at that price

Thankyou, have ordered the HN fragrance calendar 😊

You sound just like me! I end up using more than I need of a product so I can move onto the next one too! 😳

There are a very few things I like in the Vogue calendar, so fortunately it’s not tempting me. 😹😹😹 @OvaHere -great list and I agree with you about that Discoteque perfume - it’s absolutely vile!

I really am not a niche perfume person - I need to just accept that and embrace my deep love for A&F Fierce men’s cologne and FS Arizona Bloom! (I will not ever be joining the bun-fight that is the struggle for the Harrods fragrance calendar 😹)

Tbf, I love my H&B a/c gua sha from years back and do actually use it twice a day, but I do not need more!

I watched MissBoux unboxing the StyleKorean calendar tonight. I was excited to spot the same sparkly clear lip gloss I had picked up in Seoul on a whim in Olive Young for peanuts and I also have the blackberry serum thingy, (acquired for £1 when I jumped on the Korean ‘stuff in a suitcase’ from a thread months back!) It’s an interesting calendar, but I would have liked more makeup and door 24 makes last year’s SpaceNK final door look wonderful by comparison!

I am still sneakily yearning after the GB a/c but am resisting! Meanwhile, any temptation I may have been feeling towards M&S has been removed because, rather hilariously, they have ended my discount and it’s back to costing £60 for me.

I get bored of using up products that I don’t particularly like but can’t justify binning. I am currently wading through an Elf moisturiser that has lasted months with no end in site! Ditto an Aldi night cream. Both are spectacular products for the price, but I am sooo fed up of them. I have far too many moisturisers in the queue, but I just can’t get through these!

Meanwhile, I have finished my Shiseido eye cream and was a bit miffed it got used up so quickly.

like @Addictedtobeauty i too have been looking at vogue but that was some great de-enabling @OvaHere 🤣…can you have a word with my sister ? 😜

I get bored of products I don’t like too but use them up quickly as say body moisturisers or shower creams if I want them gone. I can’t ever bring myself to chuck them.
Its fair to say, I have soft knees 😁
I should add, I definitely do have a stash. Maybe even The Stash of all Stashes. It’s embarrassing and overdue a donation of older unloved items.

I use up cheap face moisturisers I don’t like on my body. I usually can’t bring myself to do that with expensive ones, so for those I use them up on my upper chest, neck and shoulders after my shower, as I can justify that as an extension of my face 😆

I need to do a stash inventory in an attempt to stop me buying more stuff. I must have at least six full size toners, probably more, and I know from the empties thread that using one up takes me months, so definitely don’t need any more for a long time!

I love the vogue deinfluincing! O think when I bought it in 2023 they guaranteed it wouldn't be reduced. Which made me feel a hell of a lot better, because the most expensive advent calendar I'd bought before that had been m and s chocolate instead of Cadbury s 99p classic 🤣

@AddictedtobeautyThere may only be 49 available now 😉

I am another who doesn’t throw away products but am fortunate to have two online beauty friends and we often send things to each to use that we don’t get along with.
If they don’t want the items then I will use as body cream, body wash, exfoliate feet, elbows etc.

Ahem

which proves the Vogue stock level is inaccurate as I can still add 50 to my basket.

Vogue was originally in my top choices, but, I bought the jewellery off vinted for £120 and the hair claw and pin for £10. The fragrance I already got a 10ml in an edit... cult beauty maybe? I may have ordered so much I cant be sure... lol. The rest isn't worth £225 to me personally although I would have liked to have tried the champo.

My late night de-influencing clearly failed. 😂

Oh well. You win some etc.

Has JL reduced yet? Surely they must be thinking about reducing it.

I wish all BAC reviews were like this 🤣

Email from Latest in Beauty. Save up to 38% on their advents. Starts on Monday.

For those still considering Parfums de Marly they are offering 2 x 10ml perfumes and a choice of a shower gel/candle with any purchase over £250 from the email I received this morning.

I have an almost full bottle of the Champo growth serum sat in my bathroom cabinet making me feel.guilty. id be happy to send it to.you if you want? Just private message me and we can sort

That’s a great deal.

Tempting but I've decided I'm not going to buy the advent. I have Valaya from Harrods advent and plenty of Delina 10 mls to keep me going for some time.

JL with a good discount is the only thing I'm considering now unless something else comes into play very unexpectedly.

@OvaHere I think I am done for this year and have no advents left on my maybe list.
Not sure if CB will actually ship as should have dispatched yesterday but didn’t so maybe it was a glitch that it was showing as in stock.

I will keep my eye out for CEW in case it gets reduced, I know it did last year but couldn’t see when.

I have had a spendy morning as bought both Vogue and PDM, I know they are both emotional buys but I am looking forward to both of them the most out of my purchases.

@MrsBnow12 Fingers crossed for CB.

I've actually just been to look at JL again and I'm not sure why it's been such a fixation for me. I'm not sure I do want it after all. I think sometimes I just hyper focus on one or two desirable products and blot out the 20 odd items I'll be meh about.

I fell out with Vinted a bit too which is slowing my roll. I've been taking a break from it until the new year and DH is on the mend from his surgery. Without the outlet of selling on the meh stuff it fast becomes too overwhelming to have piles of stuff I don't want to keep.