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^/ 👈

Apparently the box is re-useable (not that I need to store any more empty advents, I could probably start a museum) - but if it’s a nice size for foodie treats it could be a bit of an investment for future years?

I was going to buy the fortnum and Mason feasting calendar. But I added up the value and it was approx something like £40 more to buy the advent vs individually - though some of the sizes in the calendar don't exist to purchase, so worked cost out per grams/ml etc.

Decided to just make a DIY one with bits I know i will love.

The Degusta box is only £40, worth 60, apparently, so maybe a better option, and less effort. Not tried it yet but some people on MN recommended it

ETA actually 34 with first time buyer discount

What do people think the tipping point is for buying what you want from a BAC on vinted/ebay vs just buying the calendar? £150
worth of a
£275 BAC? I’m trying to do my calculations for the space nk one!

More and more of these posts are about the financial spin of the calendars, what can I keep what can I sell , how much can I sell it for , where can I sell it . For me it’s distracting from the enjoyment of a calendar, I choose a calendar based on what I like and will use , it’s as simple as that . It’s starting to feel like an online car boot sale .

In my beauty maths and because I’m a very good girl I only buy a BAC if the products I want to try or know I already love at least cover the cost of BAC at the full retail cost. This means all the other stuff that I’m not soo bothered about are a bonus and I’m happily try and often end up loving.

No, I definitely wouldn't buy a calendar if I only wanted £150 worth of it. For me to buy it, I have to want at least the cost of the advent calendar. Selling on vinted is hard work now, stuff doesn't fly off the shelves like it did last year and the offers for stuff are ridiculously low. There's spacenk stuff on vinted, have a look and see if you can pick up the things you're wanting.

Think I will do that instead! I just keep thinking “oh but for only £100 more I’ll get all this extra stuff” but it doesn’t matter if I won’t actually use/don’t want most of it!

Yeah, you could spend that money on stuff you do want. Hopefully you can get what you want on vinted for half the £150 worth 🤞🏻

My rule is 50% of the items or value of the total advent, in certain instances I will reduce to 30% if I know I will end up paying a premium for the items I want.
I sell the majority of my left over items on the not for profit FB groups so I get my items at the proportionate value. I do also consider the items I know won’t sell and then factor this into whether I will buy it or not.

I am a lurker on this thread since last year. I’m here primarily for the beauty chat, and to hear others thoughts on the best products/calendars (I’ve gone for Elle and Liberty this year, and the opinions here certainly contributed to my decision making so thank you to you all ❤️) but I also enjoy hearing the financial spin. The calendars are an investment and the financial aspect definitely helps with decision making as it impacts the perceived value.

I had a bobbi brown one that was in a free gift, that one was ok. Thankfully the Laura Mercier one was a set of two mini eyeshadows, so not horrifically expensive. But I also find they’re not very pigmented.

That’s probably because some of them are very expensive, and if people don’t want half the products it’s not worth it unless they sell some of them. It’s different if you’re paying say, less than £100, for a bunch of stuff you might not be bothered by, but when you’re talking £300+, the cost is a big factor for many. And rather than waste products you don’t want, it throws them away, it’s better to sell them (for the seller and the environment).

I'll keep and try everything in my calendars but that's because I don't have a huge stash of products and I haven't tried many of the things in the calendars yet. I think most people on the thread do have a huge stash of products already or have tried things and know they're not for them. No calendar is going to be 100% perfect for you so I don't mind people discussing the things they will sell on. Better that someone else gets a bargain than it's wasted I think.

Agreed. Even if just buying only one it's hard to find an advent where you would use everything, so working out whether the overall cost to you is worth being stuck with lash serum and surplus eyelash curlers is a factor.

There's quite a few this year that have tempted me but I've walked away from just because I don't want to be left with with loads of extra stuff to deal with for the sake of 2 or 3 'star' items (looking at you Glossybox).

I'm doing an advent for DS so quite a bit of the hair, body and skincare stuff is going in his DIY one.

It looks like the "£300" Skin Cycles DNA Repair Cream will be included in the LiB Advent (from an email, I can't find much more online). I tried it last night and it felt a bit sticky for a while, but my skin feels soft this morning.

I wonder how much the repair cream will go for on Vinted? 🤔

(...I'm joking @hattie43 )

I feel similar, selling on vinted isn’t as easy as it was, so I’m only buying things that I really want, hence blt decided yet !

Extra points CB today.

On the topic of expiring products, what is a reasonable resolution? Asking as my very luxe calendar last year had a product with an expiry of Feb 2026. I have mailed customer service since, but a replacement doesn’t seem to be an option.

Feeling sad about it as my calendar shine fades away when early checking is needed!

@hattie43 I bought a 7 cosmetics calendar for about £30 because I’m happy at that price to just be surprised by the every day door. But I would feel pretty gutted to spend 5-10x that and not love most of it!

The coupons are for new TIlTok users or new TikTok shop users so its not a discount on Glossybox but a generic code that some people randomly get. People getting it for £65 are getting a huge bargain. From memory there are a few boxes worth that as standalones and I think its the best by far of the £100ish calendars of Look Fantastic, Next, M&S etc

AI is telling me JL FAC is available for pre order for members tomorrow so im really hoping that's right and the shop assistant had just got it wrong. The Selfridges box sounds amazing.

If i like more than about 1/3 of the contents I will buy and sell the rest. I'm an established ebay pro seller tho so I know what I'm doing and have a good rep/ many followers which helps shift stuff.

Thanks for posting this!! It looks really tempting for some reason and I’d nearly convinced myself to buy. Almost like a “you must eat this snack” every day 😂

I’ll stick with just getting the Christmas bits I actually want in store!

Still here still no advent. Any word on selfridges fragrance?

I had one person on eBay once sending me an offer of £70 on a £200 item, then asked if I’d move it to Vinted as it was better for her cost wise…of course I will, CF. 🙄 I just ignore offers rather than decline, can’t be bothered with people who want a £20 item for £7.50.

Yes more frustrating for the cheeky lowballer to be ignored.it has seeped on to ebay now you get people offering cheeky prices which was never so much the case previously.