Beauty advent calendar chat and spoilers Thread 6 🎄🌲🤶🎅❄️🎁☃️⛄️✨🍭🍬

[IlovePond]

Welcome to Thread 6 🥳

A huge thank you to @OvaHere, @JoRaRaRa and @Thelifeofawife
for the previous threads, and to everyone who had been sharing spoilers, information. links, bargains, discount codes and enabling each other over the first 5 threads. ❤️

As agreed, we're taking it in turns to start each new thread this year. If this thread starts getting close to the reply limit, please post to let everyone know you're happy to start the next one so we can avoid duplicate threads.

🎅 A few festive housekeeping notes;
🎁 This thread contains spoilers.
🎄 Please be kind and respectful to one another.
💸 No judging anyone for their purchasing choices (or how many calendars they buy... we're all enablers here! 😂).
🎀 Feel free to share spoilers, offers, discount codes, GWPs, delivery updates and stock alerts.

Disclaimer/Pathetic excuse from Pond!

Apologies in advance for any mistakes or broken links, which are down to me and not the previous authors!

Thread 5 is almost full so I have done this very quickly, mostly just adding to the good work that has gone before!

🎁 Available Now:

Boots launch 01/09 for waitlist then 2/09 for general sale
www.boots.com/christmas/advent-calendars/advent-calendar-waiting-list
Luxe £150
beauty-detective.com/boots-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/
Scent £90
beauty-detective.com/boots-12-days-of-scent-advent-calendar-2026/
Skin £70
beauty-detective.com/boots-24-days-of-skin-advent-calendar-2026/

Liberty – £285 (Beauty Drop members receive £25 off). Full contents revealed. Beauty Drop member pre order has closed and those advents are being dispatched. The advent will go on general sale soon (BD members still qualify for the discount during the general sale)
www.libertylondon.com/uk/features/beauty/beauty-advent-calendar#
Unboxing
P. Louise – £250. Available to pre-order with payment instalments available.
^https://plouise.co.uk/collections/wonderful-world-of-p-louise-advent-calendar/products/what-glows-around-2026-advent-calendar^

John Lewis – £250. Available on pre-sale via the app for MyJL members.
^https://beauty-detective.com/john-lewis-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/^

Harrods Beauty Advent Calendar – £270. Now on sale online and in-store
^https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/p/harrods-of-london-the-harrods-beauty-advent-calendar-2026-000000000000284475^

Harrods 12 Days of Hair & Body – £99. Now on sale online and in-store
^https://www.harrods.com/en-gb/p/harrods-of-london-the-harrods-12-days-of-hair-and-body-advent-calendar-2026-000000000000284465^

Harrods Fragrance Advent Calendar – £225. Pre-sale sold out. Went on sale in-store 1/9.
^https://beauty-detective.com/harrods-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026/^

Vogue Festive Calendar – £355. Available to pre-order
^https://shop.vogue.co.uk/products/vogue-festive-calendar-2026^

Fortnum & Mason Beauty Advent Calendar - £275. Available now
^https://www.fortnumandmason.com/fortnums-beauty-advent-calendar-2026^

Fenwick 25 day beauty advent calendar - £250. Available now
https://fenwick.co.uk/products/fenwick-fenwick-beauty-25-day-advent-calendar-2026

Anthropologie 24 Day Beauty Advent Calendar – £98. Available now
^https://www.anthropologie.com/en-gb/shop/24-days-of-beauty-advent-calendar5^

The Fragrance Shop - Available for pre-order £120 members, £150 non-members
Women's Advent Calendar
^https://www.thefragranceshop.co.uk/the-fragrance-shop/the-fragrance-shop/gift-box-advent/p/76306^
Men's Advent Calendar ^https://www.thefragranceshop.co.uk/the-fragrance-shop/the-fragrance-shop/gift-box-advent/p/76307^

Selfridges
Beauty & Fragrance £250. Went on sale 1/9, but appears to be ‘sold out’ at present.

^https://beauty-detective.com/selfridges-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/^

Elle £197 or £187 if you joined the waitlist
^https://beauty-detective.com/elle-advent-calendar-2026/^

LookFantastic Beauty. Available for pre-order:

https://www.lookfantastic.com/p/beauty-box/the-beauty-advent-calendar-worth-over-665/17691363/

LookFantastic Fragrance. Available for pre-order:

https://www.lookfantastic.com/p/beauty-box/the-fragrance-advent-calendar-worth-over-530/17691405/

Glossybox. £90 or £75 for subscribers. Code: KAREN5 may give £5 off the £90. Available now:

https://www.glossybox.co.uk/p/beauty-box/glossybox-2026-advent-calendar-worth-over-645/17691528/

OK Beauty Box advent/Hannah Martin. Available now £109:

https://www.okbeautybox.co.uk/products/the-ok-beauty-box-advent-calendar?srsltid=AfmBOoppTH5x1vrf3PT8oCWpKiUj111T5PdA8IBPKCjA9SYOpugUFCBJ

⏳ Coming Soon / Waitlists
Cult Beauty £245 - £20 gift voucher back when buying at launch 03/09 early access.
^https://www.cultbeauty.co.uk/c/advent-calendar/^

Harvey Nichols
Due to the recent takeover, it’s unclear if these a/cs are still going ahead for 2026. Details TBC.
Beauty:
^https://www.harveynichols.com/harvey-nichols/harvey-nichols-beauty-advent-calendar-2026-75896-258491/^

Fragrance:
^https://www.harveynichols.com/harvey-nichols/harvey-nichols-12-days-of-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026-75906-258490/^

John Lewis Fragrance £99 - appeared briefly for sale 1/9 online but this seems to have been a glitch.
^https://beauty-detective.com/john-lewis-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026/^

Space NK £275
^https://www.spacenk.com/uk/gifts/beauty-advent-calendars/beauty-advent-calendar-MUK200063764.html^
Unboxing video

Sephora UK
Spoilers:
^https://beauty-detective.com/sephora-uk-advent-calendar-2026/^
Waitlist: ^https://www.sephora.co.uk/c/beauty-advent-calendar-waitlist^

Fragrance - current thinking is that this will cost £225 and launch around 30/9-1/10
^https://beauty-detective.com/selfridges-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026/^

Next £150 launching 3/9:

^https://beauty-detective.com/next-beauty-advent-calendar-2026^/

Debenhams £120
^https://www.debenhams.com/pages/beauty-advent-calendar^

PURESEOUL £140 (first year they are doing an advent)
beauty-detective.com/pureseoul-advent-calendar-2026/

Jo Malone Waitlist:

www.jomalone.co.uk/advent-calendar-signup?

Jo Loves Waitlist:

https://www.joloves.com/pages/a-jo-loves-advent-calendar?

💄 More Calendars & Spoilers
Rather than making the opening post a mile long, here's a brilliant roundup of lots more advent calendars and the latest spoilers, including Charlotte Tilbury, Elemis, Lancôme, Tatcha, NEOM, Neal's Yard Remedies, Holland & Barrett, YesStyle and many more as they're announced.
👉 ^https://beauty-detective.com/category/beauty-advent-calendars^/ 👈

I will be selling the hair mask and eye cream when mine arrives!

Harrods BAC - I'll be selling the perfume, lipsticks, and some other makeup once mine arrives (next week apparently 😐). Definitely prefer things to go to a mumsnetter where possible 😁 And buy from too!

Happy to share my Vinted username with anyone - though it's very similar to my one here too.

Edit: page 14?! These threads move so fast now things are actually launching. It's almost a full time job trying to keep up 😆

Has anyone found any discount codes for the LF one. I hate paying full price (im addicted to the christmas bargain threads!)

Yes I'm in cult beauty processing purgatory too. Even the 5 x perfume samples they have not despatched
Used cbaff on.both

Wondering if now I've been flagged as a cbaff abuser.

I'd be very interested in your Vinted when you list your Harrods AC. I'm looking for some of the perfumes & make up. Thank you.

Ok so I missed all the lovely CB kerfuffle/bargain this am but that's fine.

But only just had time to check having decided I want the JLP and I see it's sold out on pre-order (I imagine you all knew this but I had to jump through some hoops to find out) so I can just buy it tomorrow. Huh. No time given.

Oh well if I can't get it then I will get Harrods. Or Liberty. so all is not lost haha.

Any idea when Oh my Cream may be announced? I’ve ordered F&M and I’m debating on a second, and OMC is the only one left in the running before I go off piste and buy Vogue (looking between my fingers as I click ‘add to cart’). Super tempted by Rituals but it seems very expensive for the contents. Do they go on sale?

Rituals usually goes on sale, yes.

I've had the dispatch email for CB so have both that and Harrods (ordered the day it opened for pre-order) arriving tomorrow. Good job I'd already planned to work from home and will have the house to myself!

Still no voucher from CB though, even though they've sent it again. I'm going to try live chat in the morning - no idea what's going wrong as I get all their other emails.

With regards to selling stuff - is it actually worth it? I'm assuming most make up need to be sold for about £5 (although there are some very optimistic listings on there) so you'd have to sell quite a bit to make any real money.

I'm quite lazy and not sure I can be bothered with the hassle if I'm only going to make £30 or so. But then I will end up lipsticks I'll never wear if I don't sell them. If only I had a DD to give them to! DS is thoroughly uninterested...

It's a great question! It is to me - but I probably buy more than I sell on Vinted 😅So if I can sell a few things and have some credit available, that's great for me.

With advent calendars, some things I don't want in calendars I have, others I do want from calendars I don't have - so it feels like effectively trading.

And in general, I like Vinted for cheaper ways of trying, or replacing things. I've bought a few tops and dresses this year that have replaced exact ones I've damaged or worn out - I'm very grateful to the people that did list the items, even if old/basic/not worth a lot, as it meant I could get another one of a loved item (in generally great condition!).

So I'll also list what I can, when i have time - in case it is what someone else wants/needs, and I get a little cash, and a declutter at the same time.

I’m another one who is interested in buying bits from HBAC, CB and SNK so please do message me Vinted user names if you’re selling!

And in turn, I’ll be selling various bits from liberty, JL fac and Elle (probably) over there, so equally please let me know if you want my details!

It's a delicate equation of RRP + brand + popularity. Some stuff can be worth quite a bit (RRP) but not be very in demand so you won't get a lot for it. Other cheaper items might be highly desirable so still fetch a decent price.

Last year the AB rich eye cream from the Liberty calendar was selling for £30-50. I was lucky and managed to get one for about £30. It was a newly released item last year so whether it will hold it's value the same I don't know. Generally AB stuff does though as it's well liked and very expensive.

The mascara from one of the BACs last year is about £70 new (Chantecaille I think) I had to pay around £25 to get one of those

Something like the full size Hourglass blush that's in Harrods this year I would expect to sell for £15 -20 depending on how many are listed.

Obviously there's a saturation point. Selling items as soon as the BACs land command a better price compared to when there's loads of them up for sale January onwards.

I went back over my BAC list again and have (thankfully) decided against Selfridges. It does have a lot of stuff I want to try or want to replace but not enough to make it exciting for me, especially at the price point it is. Similar with JL.
So I’m going to go for SNK, because this does have the La Mer cream which I like and it’s got the Medik8 PDRN that I want to try, plus various other bits I want that are less spendy but soon add up. I’m trying to remember whether the Votary renewal serum is one I have buried in my stash already from last year.

I really want to know what else is in Sephora, and whether HN are going to still release one as I loved theirs last year.

Regarding CB BAC, both of my orders state dispatched on the app, but I haven’t received emails to say so. I have had my £20 voucher emails though. I can’t believe I ended up ordering 2, I will regret that given I’m already struggling for space!

Not impressed with the Stylevana advent unfortunately. Only a couple of things I’d want and the rest I’ve used before and don’t like or I’m not interested in. I don’t understand the point of putting a bb cream in an advent that can be either one of two shades.. it’s very unlikely to be a good shade match for most people 🤷🏻‍♀️

Boots FRAGRANCE calender in stock
https://www.boots.com/boots-12-days-of-scent-advent-calendar-10396834

The boots 12 days of fragrance is £90 but you can get £5 back in points w the code FESTIVETREAT.

Have SNK confirmed a release date yet?
This is the one I want to buy but seeing other advent calendars selling out I’m starting to sweat now! I also noticed on the SNK website notifications to buy would be staged, those that were the first to sign up to the waitlist would get first dips. I only signed up a few days ago.
First year following this thread and there should be a disclaimer about the stress when they go on sale 🤣😳

@BookShark has your CB actually been dispatched? I also had the email saying mine has been shipped but when I've tracked it, it's not been passed to cult beauty. I thought I'd be getting the HFAC and Cult Beauty today too.

Yes, it's with Royal Mail and apparently "in transit" as of 4:23 this morning. No estimated delivery time though, but then Royal Mail are pretty rubbish in my experience.

And thanks for the Vinted advice, maybe I'll give it a go rather than wasting things. My stash of things I'll use is massive as it is, I don't need to add more things that I won't use! Eyelash curlers anyone?!

@JoRaRaRa you'll be relieved to know I woke up this morning in a more decisive mood, stopped pissing around and bought Harrods BAC. 😂

I still don't think it's their best offering ever but I was probably going to end up spending a fair bit on Vinted for the bits and pieces I do want. Now I've committed you just know they're going to do that discount they did last year. 🙄

I’ve bitten the bullet and bought the Boots scent one for Dd, still peeved re LF though 🙄.
Loving the Penhaligon one but there doesn’t seem to be an actual list of sizes etc on their website just a photo.
Will wait and try for Selfridges fragrance.
Elemis have confirmed no 12 day one so will definitely get their big one as use a lot of their products but will wait a bit to see if any offers.
Would be good to know Sephora’s offering as well.

Early access Sculpted by Aimee is up - 12 day calendar, £90, worth £203.

MyMascara in Deep Burgundy 12ml
Our must-have high-impact mascara in a new and exclusive burgundy shade for the holidays.

Cream Luxe Highlight in Glass Glow 7g
Our buttery highlighter in a new glossy, light-gold shade for a glass-skin finish.

Bare Basics Mini 12g
A mini version of our all-in-one palette. Featuring eight versatile shades for your cheeks and eyes.

Cream & Powder Duo 3g
A must-have eyeshadow duo in mauve cream with a golden topper to add definition and shimmer.

LiquidGlo Mini 50ml
Our Niacinamide essence in an exclusive miniature size. Ideal for your on-the-go skin kit.

HydraBody Nourishing Oil 100ml
A nourishing body oil that locks in moisture and leaves skin soft and luminous. Perfect for winter.

Lip Treat in Rose 15g
An ultra-nourishing lip mask in a sheer pink shade to help hydrate and condition chapped lips.

Line & Shine in Rose 3.5 ml
Rich, rosy liner meets a high-shine gloss in this dual-ended lip essential for a glassy pink lip.

Eyeliner Duo in Brown/Nude 1.6g
A dual-ended creamy liner to define, brighten and softly enhance the eye area.

Cleansing Cloth
A reusable cleansing cloth that helps to gently remove makeup and impurities.

Fresh Faced Mini 50ml
Our fuss-free makeup remover, formulated with Vitamin E to gently nourish skin.

Hydrate & Hold Mini 50ml
A refreshing setting mist that locks makeup in place while boosting hydration

2 of my CB orders stuck on processing. They are crap. Don't care if they cancel.
Liberty mens on the other hand ordered the same time now out for delivery, and that's standard delivery too.

I just list everything I don't want and see what goes. I dynamic price regularly to make sure I'm competitive. Most sells in 30 days

I bought 2 CB too. One at full price for me and another a hour later for DD using CBAFF and my CB credit. Received codes with each. My BAC was dispatched early yesterday afternoon and is with Royal Mail. DDs BAC is still stuck in processing.

In better news, received a message from DPD that Harrods is arriving today! Exciting.