Beauty advent calendars thread 8 for spoilers, offers and stock updates 🎅❄️🤶☃️🎄⛄️🌲✨

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Welcome to Thread 8 🥳

A huge thank you to @OvaHere, @JoRaRaRa and @Thelifeofawife, @solocat

for the previous threads, and to everyone who has been sharing spoilers, information. links, bargains, discount codes and enabling each other over the first 7 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.

🎁 Available Now:
Boots:
www.boots.com/christmas/advent-calendars/advent-calendar-waiting-list
Luxe £150
beauty-detective.com/boots-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/
Fragrance £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). Now on 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 but appears to be completely sold out:
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. Withdrawn due to problems with the ingredients list. When/if it will return is unknown:
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. On sale 1/9:
https://beauty-detective.com/selfridges-beauty-advent-calendar-2026/

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/

Elle £197 or £187 if you joined the waitlist or with MissBoux’s code available on her unboxing video:

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

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. The calendar is either out of stock or withdrawn. It MAY reappear 21/9, (its original release date):

https://beauty-detective.com/john-lewis-fragrance-advent-calendar-2026/

Space NK £275 - available now in-store and online:

https://www.spacenk.com/uk/gifts/beauty-advent-calendars/beauty-advent-calendar-MUK200063764.html

Oh My Cream £195 with 20% off for new customers with code: WELCOME20:

https://ohmycream.co.uk//products/advent-calendar-lrnce-oh-my-cream?

YESSTYLE: $164.99 5% off with code: PAULAYES

Early access: 29/9 3am GMT
General access: 6/10 3am GMT

https://beautycalendar.com/yesstyle-advent-calendar-2026/

Sephora UK

Sephora Favourites: £235 available for pre order:

https://www.sephora.co.uk/p/sephora-favorites-advent-calendar?

Next £150 available now:
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/

Holland Barrett: £60 - available now:

https://www.hollandandbarrett.com/shop/product/beauty-advent-calendar-6101407249?

Diptyque: £420 - available now:

uk.diptyqueparis.com/en-uk/products/advent-calendar-25-scented-treasures-xm26advent?

Jo Malone: £375 - available now;

https://www.jomalone.co.uk/product/26322/107822/gift-sets/christmas-kist-advent-calendar?

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, and many more as they're announced:
👉 ^https://beauty-detective.com/category/beauty-advent-calendars^/ 👈

I don't know if any of you have used the perfume sample websites, I often cannot find a store to smell a new perfume I think I would like so I order a small sample from these places, I always had a good experience.
One of them have come up with advent calendars and I was excited untill I saw the price, they want 230 pounds (introductory price) for 24 samples, 2 ml each. 😲 They have cheaper ones with designer fragrances, but I cannot believe what a poor value this is, unless I'm wromg.

is that Drunk Elephant? The only BAC I've seen that contains Drunk Elephant this year I think

I've succumbed to the Oh My Cream AC, with 20% off - I really like the bag 😍

You can get 20% off with WELCOME20, or get the Kimono goody bag with BAG26, unfortunately you can't get both.

There are a few travel sizes and filler products, but I don't mind that. I think i will use everything

https://beauty-detective.com/oh-my-cream-advent-calendar-2026/

@MrsBnow12 oh a drunk elephant appearance 👀

I didnt even notice the de 🤣
I need to pay more attention. Or maybe its a good thing. 🤔🤣
I have a de eye baume I wasnt going to bother trying but may try as just looked it up and says good for sensitive eyes and helps calm and soothe. 🤔🤩

Edited to add. Do we know if we are due a space nk offer/ discount? I want to order more prequel 🤩

Reposting my post I put on the wrong thread!

Did anyone get the K beauty advent calendar from Pure Seoul this morning? It sold out in like 2 minutes. I managed to bag one, which surprised me as I never usually manage to get anything when it's popular
. It

was £149 and worth over £500. I wasn't going to get anything as I have really bad cystic acne and everything breaks me out, and it is so sore.
I tried Augustinus Bader the 'rich cream' as a 'treat' on Monday night post my bath as l'd heard some good things about it, woke up with a spot in the corner of my lip on the skin side but it was so big underneath it had infiltrated my lip and I literally looked like I'd had half of my lip over done with filler on Tuesday morning when I woke up. I had to ask my boss if I could work from home and her response to the photo was 'fuck me do you need a&e?'
anyway! A friend went to Korea and I got given some lovely skin care for not killing her plants and I haven't broken out once! So I went for it!
General sale is at 10am, is anyone else going to go for it ?
that really is it now. I've got that one and the Diptyque one which is a birthday gift but is such poor value for money
the candles are diddly. I'll use it to see what
smells I like most and maybe buy bigger ones if I like them.

Lol, Ive been going back and forth for over a week now wether I should just get it for the 2 items I really want vs Vinted that goes for about 85/90 pounds for those 2 items. There is some other stuff that I wouldnt mind having/trying at the same time.

The question for me is, do I want to go through all the work of selling it off very slowly (since my temp Vinted ban) and end up with a few more items for roughly a 100 pounds total spend in the end, or do I just go for the easy route.

I dont want to be stuck with products I dont use. The Vinted ban has stiffled my Avent enthusiasm as its difficult to shift it otherwise.

For anyone interested in this one...

I have a wonderful opportunity for you to buy a share in a nice beach front holiday home

😂

sorry about long link the full
description of the FTF winter radiance edit is avalible . I’m going to give this a miss as I’ve ordered the Mintd box which works better for me .

I would be interested to know if anyone has tried the AB eye lash serum ? Im
using the Revitalash at the mo

www.facethefuture.co.uk/products/the-winter-radiance-edit?utm_source=RakutenAdvertising&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=3903209:adstrong+css&utm_content=15&ranMID=46088&ranEAID=3903209&ranSiteID=ilf_7Ea8IDc-pqoNNzT1zZqvEBHc.43BNw

Sorry wrong thread 🤦🏻‍♀️

Wish they hadn't got rid of the laugh reaction @Advententhusiast 😁

Last night I was doing a bit of TK Maxx doomscrolling, as one does when one is expecting a stupid amount of skincare in the next few months (eye-rolling at myself here!) and I saw quite a few Patyka products. I just noticed there's a Patyka product in the Oh My Cream advent. Has anyone used their products before?

Search results for Patyka at TK Maxx:

https://www.tkmaxx.com/uk/en/search?st=patyka&sort=&facets=&page=0

Yes, it was useless considering the price. AB is usually a draw but not this one.

So my burning question here is ‘ does the carrot absolutely have to be french ‘ 🧐

@Advententhusiast this is exactly my problem 😂. @OvaHere you are absolutely spot on- I should, and probably will, start pricing out on eBay for the few bits I actually want- and then I know I’ll throw that hard work to the wind and buy the entire calendar because ‘it’s a bargain’ 😂😂😂😳😬

I was in H Beauty in Edinburgh yesterday and tried out a few of the perfumes from the FAC as I am considering buying it on Ebay from one of the resellers. I had it in my shopping basket, interrupted by urgent phone call from alarm people because 90 year old FiL had set off his alert bracelet, dealt with that and it had sold out.

I liked enough of them that it would have been a good buy and chatting to the lovely young man (which makes me sounds about a hundred!) in the perfume department he was horrified by my tale of woe, told me to hang on dashed off and came back looking regretful - he thought he'd seen one in the stock room but sadly not... I was impressed that he tried because CS is often lacking these days. And I know that also makes me sound about a hundred.

PS - The Born To Stand Out Golden Milk smelled so rank I had to get some micellar water from the Charlotte Tilbury counter to get it off my wrist! Apparently it's very Marmite - does anyone here like it? If I do buy it that one will be straight on Vinted!

I’m currently trying the exfoliator. I say trying I’ve had it open about a month and I really avoid using it. The colour is horrendous which makes quite a mess and it’s not the greatest exfoliator either (it’s ok if I’m being fair). I also have the face wash and cleansing oil but I’ve not got around to trying them. I picked them up in the oh my cream sales so I didn’t pay a lot for all 3 products so I thought I would give them ago. My current verdict based on only using one product is I wonder if they are an ingredients over experience brand? They use great ingredients but I need the experience to be a little more refined.

Actually believe it or not even though the first couple of minutes are genuinely horrible (a bit like newborn vom) it really is lovely when it dries down. The question is whether you can get through yhe first few minutes of mingingness!!

@SunnyPinkMoose 😂😂😂Dead, absolutely dead

That's the thing. If you recoil, nauseous, from the smell of it on your own skin it's hard to get past. Might try it again but not sure...

@Beautyfox Sounds a bit mixed/terrible. Might give them and their upcycled organic French carrots a miss...

I wonder if it’s organic French carrot that makes that horrendous orange/red colour in the exfoliator? It does feel a bit like applying baby food come to think of it. I have ordered the OMC BAC 😂.

My mum used AB lash serum and it shrunk her previously flourishing lashes. (She’d been using uk lash previously and has since gone back to it)

ETA: I also had a AB one and gave up on it, but I maybe didn’t give it long enough to be fair. Uk lash doesn’t work for me either, even though it works a treat for my mum. So I’m wondering if it really is a case of different strokes for different folks?

i read all this a bit too quickly and thought you were saying that dried down baby vom also smells nice. Think I need to take less caffeine in.

I also had an AB one. apologies

(I am older than 5, honest)

could you not sell on ebay? Vinted is on the way out with the stupid selling restrictions. Particualry around beauty products.