Liberty Beauty Advent Calendar 2025 Opening Thread

[IlovePond]

Hi, if you have the Liberty Beauty Advent Calendar or are just interested in what’s inside, then please feel free to join in by posting your thoughts on each day’s contents.

If you have swapped out any doors, you can either skip a day here or just tell us what you have swapped in and why!

As is ‘usual’ on these threads, please try to avoid revealing each day’s contents before 7am UK time.

I like them all too!

I'm thrilled with all the perfumes , whilst I didn't study the contents in detail I did know it was fragrance heavy this year .

Mirror water looks nice, I might end up using as a bath oil but will give it a whirl as body oil first.

Decanted my sisley toner today - it sprays lovely and light.

I tried a drop of the mirror water on my hands today. It’s left them lovely and soft. I think the trick/difficulty will be applying a small enough amount!

A dropper would have been very helpful.

Im not sure I'm going to try and pour the oil into the lid again as that didnt work out very well for me the first time!

It needs a better delivery system - definitely a case of form over function!

I love the Mirror Water oil and will definitely buy a big bottle at some point. It's a lovely texture and smells gorgeous.

Have sent you a PM as would be interested in this swap.

Good morning! Am I allowed to spoil yet?! I love (one of) today’s! I know this is the cheaper stuff, but I’ve never tried a Lisa Eldridge pencil and I love it!!

Happy day!

I don’t even wear eye liner usually but I’m happy with today’s. I’m going to give it a go - I’m glad it’s not black! Glad that it’s a double drawer too. The eye liner is worth £24 and the Jones Road mascara is travel size so worth just under a third of the full size RRP of £28.

I’ve noticed that the beauty discount isn’t on the site now so the perfume and serum etc that had a discount at the start of December are now all full price again; that may have happened a while back, I’ve only just checked. I based my tally on the full prices as the items were full price everywhere else anyway.

How can I use the eyeliner without looking like I have 90s/00s eyes? Any tips please

My smaller of the new things seems a bit claggy - anyone one else. Is claggy even a word?

Oh this is a great drawer for me! I wear eyeliner every day and was just running out so this eye pencil is ideal. Also love a new mascara!

If you go on the Lisa Eldridge website it shows you how to blend it so it can be used as an eyeshadow too. I’m going to try this when I get up and shall report back! Planning on trying the body oil after my shower too. I love all these new things! (Apart from the curry shampoo… 🤢)

Yes! Long time lurker on this thread loving reading everyone else's thoughts but never brave enough to post my own!

My Jones Road mascara is dried out and lumpy. So much so im going to contact customer services as this was one of the products I was really looking forward to it in the advent.

Batch LP2 for me.

My drawer is missing the mascara - I only got the eye pencil 😥Just reported to customer services, not having high hopes based on the recent experience from some others on this thread

I am batch LP2 also - have contacted customer services. Wouldn't have bothered if I was super happy overall, but feel like I've only had one or two big hitters so far.

I think I’ll be trying the mascara today then!

I also need to use the shampoo instead of saving it for travel because I don’t want curry smelling hair when I’m away!

I used the body oil last night, I used it on damp skin but will try it on wet skin next time to make it easier to spread - I have dry skin that drinks up product. It felt and smelt lovely though!

I’ve just tried my mascara and mine is absolutely fine. I love it! Mine is LM2

What does LM2 / LP2 mean?

The batch number.

I’m very happy with this drawer. I’ll 100% use the eyeliner, it’s a great colour and seems lovely and blendable. I’ll probably look very 90s but that’s because I am very 90s

My mascara has LM2 stamped on the box, so hopefully it’s okay. I don’t normally stray from Lancôme for mascara but I’m happy enough to give this one a whirl.

Oh, and I thought the Ex Nihilo perfume was pretty decent once the initial sugary-ness wore off. It reminded me a bit of Chloe then. Probably a bit too girly for me to invest in a full bottle but I’ll happily use it up.

Ha yes it does have a slightly cumin-y smell doesn’t it? I confess I actually opened and used the shampoo ages ago as I’d run out and I wanted try it before buying something new. I really liked it and my salon uses Davines so I asked my hairdresser who said it would be a good match so now I’m stocked up. The smell doesn’t last at all and the conditioner doesn’t smell the same. Plus I have a hundred AC/BD perfumes to drown out any shampoo smell anyway!

I sold the mascara when I got the calendar but I'm happy with the eye pencil. I gave it a quick try and it's very similar to the Victoria Beckham one but doesn't come with a blending tip, which is a shame.

My Jones Road batch number LM2 mascara is also dried out and lumpy. How disappointing.

Just had a pamper morning! Tried out the Mirror Water, my skin is lovely and smooth and silky now but I’d have preferred it if it was slightly scented. On the plus side it won’t clash with any perfumes.

I tried today’s eyeliner and it looks great on. My current one is a black liquid eyeliner (I’m a 90’s girl!) and this softens the look and went on smoothly. I had a bit of bother trying to blend it though so gave up trying to do that.

My mascara seems fine? Slightly claggy and thick and not as liquidy as others I’ve used but it went on really well and I liked the brush shape.

I also have the Ex perfume on which I love, and used the toner, the serum and the MZ moisturiser.

I am a walking liberty advent calendar today! Going to try the eye patches tonight as well 🥰