Liberty Beauty Advent Calendar Opening Thread Part Two

[IlovePond]

Hi,

Welcome to Part Two, (or Day 18 onwards…)

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.

Happy birthday 🎉🎉 @Allisnotlost1 @spoeke

I love that @Pinkwineandpinksofa I’d say that’s a win!

I like the lip balm, very shocked at the price - who pays that much for lip balm?! 😱

I bought the lip balm 20+ years ago but it probably would have been less than £30 then! I can’t believe how much beauty products have gone up; I used to have a collection of Chanel lipsticks and they were only around £21 - it looks like they’ve doubled in price! I used to spend lots of my disposable income on beauty and fashion pre DC.

Thank you for birthday wishes, and a happy birthday to you too @spoeke !

I’ve used the La Mer throughout the day and agree it does need a few swipes to get a full coverage. It’s slightly tingly too but I like that.
I’m resisting opening 23 until I wake up…

I love Vilhelm (I’ve got a couple of full size bottles). Not sure on this one yet but will see how it settles.

i can definitely smell the fizz. Think I’ll wear it Christmas Day!

I really like the smell of this one.

Disappointed to have another fragrance though, and given the current price tally, I think a full size might have been appropriate!

Morning all. Today’s perfume is one I swapped out before December. Having already sprayed myself with this perfume in Liberty pre-purchase, I knew it wasn’t for me. I smelt as if I had poured half a can of lager over myself, (which was not what I was aiming for!)

It’s particularly disappointing for me as I really like Dear Polly from the same brand and the packaging is beautiful.

Oh I loved the dear polly, I would have really enjoyed a decent size of that.

Woke up super early this morning and hot footed it downstairs nearly as excitedly as I did on the first day this morning - then did chuckle to myself when I opened the drawer and it was a perfume!!! However I do love this brand and the perfume from them is something I generally look forward to in the calendar - like ilovepond Dear Polly is my favourite too. I wasn't sure when I first sprayed this one but it has settled down really nicely so is definitely a keeper!!! Two more drawers ............!

I loved getting a Vilhelm perfume today. I think it would have been ridiculous to have expected the full 50 ml size which costs £145! I like having several good sized travel scents as we have had in this AC rather than 1 or 2 full sizes which we may not like.

@Housewife2010 I should have been clearer. When I said full size, I meant the smallest size they sell on liberty directly, which is 20ml for £88. I don't think that would have been at all ridiculous seeing the gap we are trying to close on advertised price vs contents so far.

Re: Yesterday’s lip balm which I can’t use but stupidly unwrapped. I woke up this morning with the ‘bright’ idea of using it on my cracked heels. Better than it going in the bin, I suppose🙀

What a stunning bottle! I like it - can’t decide if it’ll be this or Zephirine on Christmas Day for me. Both feel very festive.

I went perfume shopping (the irony) for a gift yesterday and lots of brands now do a 10ml as a retail size (or even 8ml for liberty). So this didn’t feel ungenerous to me, quite the opposite.

I’m happy with another perfume but don’t drink alcohol at all so the description of the scent isn’t appealing, and now that’s all I can smell after a first spray. I’ve only just sprayed it though so will see what it’s like in a while.

Another one for my DD! Lovely bottle and packaging, I have the ones from the last few years but I don't love them as I do two of the others; I have to ADORE a perfume to wear it and two (can't remember the names, the square bottle and the dark blue boxed one, not Bibbi) I do which is rare to find so Im really pleased:
She texted me yesterday asking whats happened, shes just realised there have been no daily photos of the joys of the BAC /: it hasn't inspired that this year:
I know what one of the drawers will be but excited to see whats in the other, I really hope its a skin care treat:
I was hoping for an eye cream and a moisturiser (that little tub is long gone):
I gave my husband the argan oil for his dry hair and used a bit to show him how: Later I saw myself in a mirror and thought wow, my hair! So I've taken it back haha: Need to find some more for him

@AnnieFrancais - I’m laughing at the very idea of my DH using hair oil - he’s still confused by the small bottle of shampoo I gave him from earlier in the calendar because it’s not Radox 2 in 1 🙈

Does anyone remember the year we got three amazing things in one drawer? I remember product being the full sized exfolikate by Kate Somerville

Thanks for the birthday love 🥰

I am very happy with today’s drawer. I LOVE the DS & Durga one (and have worn it every day since opening that drawer) and this is another winner for me. The other perfumes (bar Granado which I swapped and the Bibbi which I love) I’m still on the fence about, might pop one of them in my mum’s stocking.

I do agree that overall I was hoping for a few more full sized products (obviously not on the perfume front, though there the 7.5ml size felt slightly disappointing). But overall I’m still very happy and have had a great experience with CS when things went a bit wrong for some drawers.

My current list. There are a number of items that Liberty don’t sell in the size we have but some of them are available on other sites (e.g Bibbi travel size), so I took the prices from there on the day. Today I split the cost of the 3x10ml travel set by 3.

£843.25

Cleanser (Dr David Jack, £14)
Toner (Sisley, £57)
Serum (Emma Lewisham, £85)
Treatment lotion (Paula’s Choice, £42)
Exfoliator (Dermalogica, £18)
Eye masks (Skin Cycles, £60)
Moisturiser (MZ Skin, £33)
Lip balm (La Mer, £65)
Body oil (Mirror Water £27)
Night balm (Verdejo, £30)
Sheer lipstick (Trish McEvoy, £22)
Brown eyeliner (Lisa Eldridge, £24)
Travel mascara (Jones Road, £9)
Lip/ cheek shimmer colour (Trinny London, £26)
Treatment shampoo (Naturaltech, £9.50)
Conditioner (Charlotte Mensah, £16)
Deep conditioner (Philip Kingsley, £21)
Hair argan oil (Maria Mila, £16)
Hair finishing cream (Larry King, £12)
Perfumes x 7 (£45/33/42/22.50/41.25/£0/£45)
Liberty print bag £28

Forgot to say - the shampoo and conditioner drawers were the biggest let down for me. It would’ve been nice to have a matching shampoo and conditioner in one drawer and then maybe something else in another… like a candle?

Mine too; he won’t even use conditioner and uses shower gel to wash his face 😂

I would think the candle is still to come, that's usually a dead cert. We are missing a few of the usual big brands still, I'll be happy if one of those crops up tomorrow.

I agree we should have had a matching shampoo and conditioner set.

I’d hate a candle though - I don’t use them so they’d be totally wasted on me and they are not beauty!

@redluckycat 😹 mine too!

£9 for that poor excuse for a mascara is such a joke! 😅