🎄 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 have a similar village that is also suffering from rural depopulation. I'm ok at wrapping but I'm a total klutz so keep dropping them.

🤣🤣 Pray for the winter villages 🙈

Harrods beauty is back in stock 🎄🍾💚

I contacted Spacenk about my fragrance calendar which has still not been dispatched but should, according to my order, be here by tomorrow. They replied and basically told me they're busy.

Ah well, so long as it's here by the 24th I will have it on time for the 12 days of Christmas.

This is really cute, I'm so tempted 😍 https://fenwick.co.uk/products/joma-jewellery-6-days-of-sparkle-advent-calendar-2025-silver-9319

@JoRaRaRa I had looked and thought that would be nice to put away for my daughter. but the £5 delivery is off putting.

This might be a daft question but how do you all know when things come back in stock? Is it just a case of checking regularly or is there a website with this info?

I made the very silly mistake of missing the Style Korean BAC. I learned about it on here and agreed to get it to share with my niece but it was gone by the time I went to buy it.

John lewis candle advent with £48 off now https://www.johnlewis.com/john-lewis-scented-candle-oils-advent-calendar/p113677352

How did you get it to £48? It's still showing as £72 for me 😕

I follow beauty detective on insta, so I usually only see the information when she posts and then come here to see if anyone has posted it. I'm not sure of where else the info is posted.

Thank you @JoRaRaRa I’ll give her a follow!

£48 off, not £48 😁

Ah OK, not such a great bargain after all 🤣

They are all travel sized candles too.

Think of the people that paid £120.

Fenwick is back in stock at £225 if anyone is regretting not getting it.

Kitsch advent is reduced and code KATELYNN25 takes a further £20.50 off making it £61.50

https://www.mykitsch.co.uk/products/holiday-advent-calendar?_pos=1&_psq=adve&_ss=e&_v=1.0

I ended up going to look at this after watching a random unboxing. The contents aren't revealed on the site but you can see them in the below video around 17 min in. (assuming it's the same as the US version)

All the items from the video are on sale on the website at the min and have a current value of £112.

I was quite tempted by this as the accessories are cute and I would use the vast majority of it. I don't really need them though so I've talked myself out it for now because it's still £60 I don't need to spend.

It might hit the mark for someone looking for a 12 day or to break up into stocking fillers.

@Thelifeofawife @JoRaRaRa tell me to mind my business but where do you put all your bits ? Your perfumes? I bought a lovely box from the range and have put ( I went crazy) all the perfumes in it . But I just have nowhere to put the two edits and one calendar stuff 😂 I’ve got to find somewhere before my mum who has a nose for my wayward behaviour comes over at Christmas !

@SunnyPinkMoose getting lovely boxes for storage is the wrong approach.
You need proper big size storage boxes (or very large sturdy drawers). Stuffed so full that nobody can figure out what is going on and it's too much of a hassle to have a look.
You are then allowed one or two pretty but small boxes for what you actually use on a regular basis daily or weekly. I emphasise 'small'!
So to the outside world it looks like you've got your shit together basically.

Honestly, I've yet to find a place for my ac and edit contents 🙈 currently, I'm just storing them in their boxes and hoping that some kind elves come and sort it for me. In reality, I'm thinking, I've got some shelves which all have a box on them which only take up just over half the shelf width, if I can find some boxes that take the full width, I can make better use of the shelves 😊

I bought some acrylic storage from Amazon Haul and that has helped me to tidy stuff and to see what needs using up. I also have lot of skincare in various beauty bags in cupboards but I do know/remember what’s in them and bring it out when something else is finished.

I’ve mentioned before the cute plastic boxes you can get in Primark. Mine are fixed, but some are foldable for when not in use.

I have far too much moisturiser atm - lots of the ‘good stuff’ but also went a bit bonkers in Aldi months back and have industrial quantities of their dupes to get through. The never-ending night cream finally emptied this week and I swear I did a little victory dance round the bedroom. (Now, if only the ELF day moisturiser would finish too, but sadly there’s no end in sight!)

Meanwhile I get through loads of eye creams and EL eye serum and their anti wrinkle serum 🤷‍♀️

Re: Haul - for things like the acrylic storage pots, they come from the same sellers as on Amazon proper, just cheaper.

I'm currently on a never ending serum. I keep looking at it saying not a lot left now but it's still going strong. I think someone is refilling it overnight.

This is my approach. If anyone pulled back the rack of long, heavy coats in my wardrobe and investigated what to the naked eye look like shoe boxes, they'd faint with horror. 😂

I have a couple of nice perspex storage units in the bathroom that things mysteriously rotate into from nowhere.

It’s weird, isn’t it @OchonAgusOchonOh - meanwhile the stuff you really like is gone in the blink of an eye 😹

I'm keep saying I'm going to start using them on my ample body as well as my face. I did that with a serum I hated recently and got rid of it fairly quickly. Unfortunately I keep forgetting with the current one.