🎄 2025 Style and Beauty Advent Calendar Discussion ***SPOILERS*** THREAD 10

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Final one before the opening threads. Who is starting the opening threads and for which ones? Please share the links below. There’ll be Waifs and Strays one, DIY, and possibly Harrods, Space NK, Liberty?

On 1st December, the opening threads start, I’ll ask MN to update this post with links.

If you’re looking to continue the chat beyond BACs there is the Beauty chat thread here by @OvaHere : https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5444855-beauty-chat-freebiesgifts-with-purchaseoffers-thread-six
and the perfumistas thread here by @IDontHateRainbows : https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5443053-scent-of-the-day-part-six-what-will-the-friendly-perfumistas-spray-next
Both threads are quite spendy, be warned!

Waifs and strays opening thread
thank you @AprilLady

Liberty opening thread www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5452449-liberty-beauty-advent-calendar-2025-opening-thread thank you @IlovePond

Empties and beauty hoarders rehabilitation thread www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5441152-cant-stop-buying-hoarding-beauty-treats-youre-in-good-company-here thank you @Experiment627

[New links added by MNHQ at OP's request]

I picked up a Sainsbury’s £80 skincare BAC for £20 on Nectar today. There were 3 left in my local big store . Not looked at it yet as I’ve left it in the car to bring in when DH has gone to bed!

Ha! I picked pne up yesterday for £25. I was well chuffed at thay price but its a megabargain at £20. Well done!

Not sure whether this has already been mentioned but the Lumene advent is £50 on their website atm and if you sign up for emails then you get a code for 20% off. Just got it for jadvent for £40. Thought was pretty good value.

That’s a great price, thank you. I succumbed and will put it away for later in the year.

I had a look at it but it’s full of minuscule items of things I wouldn’t really use.

Im actually finding the degusta advent the most exciting!

I bought it for my brother and he seems to be really enjoying it

I bought Lumene for £58 last year and had it for Jadvent and loved it. I'd never used any of their products before and I've liked all the ones I've used from this. Still have some left though, so while tempted to get this year's, purely because it's such a good price, I won't!

I missed it and got the Harvey Nichols one instead - I'm opening a door every two days but so far the first couple of fragrances have been terrible. The D.S. & DURGA Debaser was very peppery and meh, and todays effort was Creed Aventus. Forgive me for thinking that a big hot pink calendar might contain perfumes aimed at women - this is an aftershave and smells specifically like an aftershave that just crawled out of the 1980s. Why? Why? Such a disappointment.

It smells really nice on my husband, but I agree, it should've been a women's perfume. I don't mind them putting in a men's fragrant as well, but it shouldn't be just that alone. If I remember rightly though, the next few drawers are good 😍

@Baninarama i think that’s how a lot of the fragrance advents are nowadays Harrods had a few masculine leaning fragrances too.. I think the most feminine leaning was probably SpaceNk. Nice if you have someone to share it with though and I guess it’s the whole appeal to everyone market . I love Debaser though and my DS loves Aventus so I was really happy with the first two days of Harvey Nicks. And there are some great fragrances in there so hopefully the next few days will be more to your liking

Had another email about Vogue’s Advent. Still some left & theyre trying to sell at full price? Surely if anyone wanted it they’d have bought it before now at full price?

I’ve cracked and bought the Lumene AC at £40 with the new customer code. I use their products so the small sizes will be for trips etc. Not exciting but there are a few bits I particularly want.

Thank you! I also succumbed. I only had the M&S AC this year and I like Lumene. Will put it away for next year.

I also succumbed to the Lumene calendar…. Whether I’ll have the willpower to put it away for next year is yet to be seen!

but that is a really good idea….

I’m going to save the JL for January or February. I don’t want too many on the go this month. I also have the Rituals one, again for a different month.

I ended up with Harrods BAC, SNK BAC and HN BAC (which I condensed into Harrods & SNK to replace the DoDs), and I have SNK & HN FAC which I have condensed into one after DS took what he wanted and I sold off some.
I’ve got JL & Rituals for the new year (and tons of edits!)…I think I’m still behind you though 😁😇

I’m thinking of getting something for January - maybe some edits, I don’t fancy Lumene (already have 2 serums from there) but £40 is a great buy.
@Thelifeofawife john Lewis for Jan/feb sounds perfect.

I've gone with Lumene too with the new customer discount at £40. Also got a serum and day cream set for my mum for £20.

Someone please tell me why the HN fragrance calendar is in my basket? I KNOW I don’t like niche perfumes 99% of the time!

Nope, you have more 25 day ones so you technically have more than me 😍🎉 I keep looking at the ones that are left and have to really tell myself not to buy anymore 🙈🤣 we need to see a photo of your advent tree 😍

Buy it , you never know you might find your forever fragrance. I'm away in January so I'm opening mine every other day in December and loving it . I had it last year , was going to get Harrods but missed out .

OMG, there was me thinking that I wasn’t that bad because you had more 🙈😅
I keep forgetting that I also have the Aldi one, though I don’t plan to use as advent, I’m going to just open all at once (when I remember where I put it!)

Sadly, I don’t have my ACs set up yet. I am very behind and still haven’t put my tree up or anything. I’m planning to get festive over the weekend. So at the moment I just have Harrods & SNK sat in my bedroom.

Interestingly, the days I’ve opened of Harrods up to now, I have left the products in the drawers until I feel ready to use, yet SNK stuff was taken out immediately and used each day (that said, a couple of the days have had some items I specifically put in from the HN BAC)

Spotted the JL candle 12 day calendar is down to £72 now. Did anyone get this one? Tempted and wonder if the scents were good

I wonder if they are soy candles or if they emit toxic smoke as many do, and cause breathing issues. Anyone know?

I've tried the mascara and glowlighter from Harrods, but that's it so far. I've put them back in the AC for now as I've no where to put them 🙈🤣 Everything from my Frankensteined SNK calendar is still in there apart from the Byoma body wash that I popped in today's drawer. I ran out of body wash yesterday, I do have a small molten brown but I'm glad I was able to use the byoma instead.

I only decorated on Tuesday. I still have to put the lights in the windows though and do the windowsill decoration. We have a big windowsill, so I do a winter village on it. I'm not very good at wrapping them up though, so we have casualties every year and my village keeps getting smaller 🤣

Make sure you post a photo of your AC tower 😍 we need to see it. Though I guess it resembles the AC wall that someone posted (was it selfridges) 🤣🤣