🎄🎄Glossybox beauty advent calendar unboxing 2025 🎁 🎁

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Hi friends, welcome to our dedicated Glossybox advent calendar unboxing 2025!!!

Whether you’ve been a subscriber for years or you are brand new to Glossybox join us as we unbox one of the most popular beauty calendars of 2025.

Let’s stick to the usual opening thread ‘rules’ - no reveals until after 7am on the day and plenty of pictures/opinions/first impressions (good and bad!)

I won’t be online until mid morning most days as I have a crazy morning of school runs (and general panic)- so please don’t wait for me - post away & I’ll try to keep up 😂

Forgot pic again! 🙄

Took me a while to find number 9 this morning especially as it was so dark 😂
Pleased with this, looks lovely

Another good drawer IMO 👏
I use this kind of product every day but this particular one has a twist that could be a game changer. (is that comment cryptic enough not to be a spoiler?!)

Going to give this a try today.

Feel the same. I have just bought a new CT one so may save this for warmer months

Agh! I was in a hurry this morning and forgot to.open mine! Im here for the spoilers 😆

Update. I did NOT expect the smell.

Applied 45mins ago and I can still smell it 🫤

🤣 I actuality like that benzoin type of smell. It's is strong though and would put me off using it for a night out as it would likely interfere with any perfume i wore. I like the idea of the product. I use tretinoin so wear sunscreen every day so that extra protection in a setting spray really appeals.

Day 10 - Morphe Sunsetter SPF 30 setting spray. This was one of the reasons I wanted this calendar- such a genius idea. Looking forward to trying this one but I'll probably save it for the slightly warmer months

Morphe Sunsetter setting spray. Happy with this as I use setting spray.

God im going to sound stupid but what does setting spray actually DO? does it stop your makeup fading?

I want to know too. I’m a very minimal person when it comes to makeup. I see this kind of product and assume it’s for people with a lot of makeup on.

I don’t wear lots of make up in the week but a spritz of the Charlotte Tilbury setting spray just sets it all and makes it have a finished feel. Also keeps your make up on longer

I don't wear a tonne of makeup but setting spray does help to soften it all together as @Nowmum43 says .. tbh it's more the spf quality I'm interested in with this spray and I think I'll use it more bcs of that

So I bought this for my mum. Today she has discovered that box number 10 and 22 is missing. Has any one else encountered this?
I'm a bit annoyed because Glossy are only offering £5 for each box in credit (not actual refund) which given today's being worth £18 is a bit unfair. They also keep ignoring me when I ask what is in box 22. I know there's some high ticket items in it and I won't to know if box 22 is one of them!! AHH.

@Misunderstoodagainoh that’s not good at all. Definitely worth escalating and not accepting what they’re offering. There are probably unboxings on YouTube (try maybe MissBoux?) for you to establish what should be in no22.

@Misunderstoodagain That's rubbish, I had an item missing from my OK calendar and they refunded me £10 really quickly.

Today is useful but boring I'd say. I use this anyway so have a big bottle in the bathroom. A little dinky one will be good for holidays I suppose so it will be put away for now.

Ill be interested in what today's is as it was a dod for me which I took out and replaced with jecca blac glow drops. Can't for the life of me remember what I took out.

It was a mini Aveeno

Aveeno Skin Renewal Smoothing Cream 50ml.

This squarely falls into the ‘worthy but meh’ category for me. I rarely use body cream and can see this gathering dust or being donated somewhere.

@XiCi you had a good plan for this day, lol! I did that with my LF BAC last year but didn’t have the brain space to plan ahead this time round.

Super meh today as I already have one of these (maybe slightly bigger) from boots skin calendar.. I do have KP so I keep it on my bedside table and try to apply when I'm wearing short arm pjs (not often atm 🥶) ... it's ok at smoothing bumps but sadly not a patch on Paula's choice kp body lotion which is ace but £££

@XiCi wish I'd swapped this one out!

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Bit boring today! I think I will shove this in the food bank hygiene collection. I have a lot of body creams and just don't need any more.

DOD for me today. Aveeno Skin Renewal smoothing cream. Boring so into my charity stash it goes.