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^/ 👈

Do we know if there only one advent from Next this year?

I've seen the £150 BD post, but in the past they have had a couple of different price points (plus a men's BAC)

What a truly fab thread thankyou. Couldn't look at anything today, phones now banned at my school! Even staff.
The LF is usually great Value, but might go for the Hearst one.
No one buys me anything for Xmas, so will treat myself,

Thank you for this new thread. I heard there was a lot of Harrods FAC stock in the stores today. Customers were able to buy all day. Fingers crossed but I am hoping for another restock in the next few days. My friend ordered a JL fragrance and she just got an email that it will be at her pick up point tomorrow. I am hoping there is a restock on the 21st as I loved the fragrances and hoping I can buy the Frederic Malle and Killian from her.

Boots luxe is not so popular here but I think it’s a banger 😍 one of the few calendars to include full size shampoo and conditioner 😂 it has lots of full sizes and nice mix of makeup, skin care, hair care and body care 😊 I’ve ordered mine first thing in the morning 🎁

Thanks for reminder, I'd mistakenly put Thursday in my calendar!!

Is Wednesday only for early access or is it for everyone

I’m not sure about CB now, I was going to go for the signature one but it appears that Selfridges is the better one of the two for me, which is annoying considering it’s currently OOS 🙈 I don’t know whether to hold out for it.

Other than that, I’ve decided I will go for SNK again, mainly for the La Mer & Medik8, but lots of other things in it that I want/will use.
I will also get LF, once I sell a few bits I don’t want and use my bit of account credit, it’ll cost me less than £60

In reality, given that I’ve already got Harrods on the way, and I’m still working my way through a mountain of products from the past year, I shouldn’t be buying anymore calendars 🙈😬

I feel like I've come full circle with ChatGPT.
Turns out the bots are getting their info from ...... here 😀.

In my latest AI convo, most of the sources in the reply are these Mumsnet BAC threads 😂😂

Confirmation bias then. 😂

Tempted by LF BAC again, was happy with it last year. Also tempted by the glossy box one 🤔

Where does everyone sell the bits they don’t want?

Hahahaha @IDontKnowWhatYouMean that's brilliant

Ebay. I want to try vinted but am not sure about their customer service

I also had the Boots skincare one last year and really liked it - it was excellent value, great if you're buying at the lower end of the price spectrum. I am holding back a little bit as last year there was some offer on a few weeks in and I got it for £56. I don't think it'll sell out too quickly but..

Torn between the Elle one and Harrods. Usually, I’m Low End with LF but it’s not really appealing this year. I quite fancied the Revolve one with the foreo device but that’s sold out.

What’s drawing me to the Harrods one are all the eye products and it has less crappy make up I probably wouldn’t use. Seems more inclined towards targeting ageing, which I like.

I was! Thanks for posting this. I'll watch out for it. Currently hovering about buying the Boots skincare which is a solid win for me, but I can accommodate a Jadvent..

My email said early access tomorrow. Not sure when they send the link for that though as not bought a CB one before 🤷‍♀️

Chat has now become an enabler and is encouraging me to buy Elle alongside Liberty and the JL FAC. Has that been reduced in previous years or should I buy now with the £10 discount?

Oops. Forgot to say thank you for the new thread @IlovePond 💜

Sorry to hear you had a bad day @Thelifeofawife 💐

Thanks for the new thread. Good wishes to all who need them right now.

I’ve cracked and bought Elle advent. It has been reduced in previous years but i do think it is exceptionally good this year and I decided I would rather have it now than risk hanging around waiting for it to be reduced and miss out if it sold out
The only other one i am debating is Spacenk but hopefully I will have time to think about it for a few days before this is released

That was my dilemma too but I decided I only really wanted the AB eye cream from Harrods so I went with Elle and will look out for the eye cream on Vinted / eBay. I may regret that though if I can’t get one!

I also think the RéVive is good stuff and the Bio Effect EGF serum is calling me. And there are a couple of skin tightening things I quite fancy. Eyes and neck/decolletage.

But with Elle you get a year’s sub to the mag. Now, if that was the print version I’d be all over it. I love a magazine/book you can hold.

I can’t get both! By the time I decide they’ll no doubt both be sold out. Argh.

Liberty in stock if anyone still fancies it

Thank you @IlovePond

Rituals early access on the app now!

Amused by the make up one that has barely any make up in it. 😂

I think their make up line is new so I get they don't have a load of products yet but maybe wait until you do!