Beauty Advent Calendars Thread 13 - lucky for us, unlucky for Ryan the Bot

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Welcome to Thread 13 and happy unboxing to all who sail (sale??) in her as we swap tips, tricks, frustrations and joys of the BAC/FAC journey.

Not too long until Black Friday discounts so keep your fingers crossed and some room on your credit card

Key link for all the calendars via the very lovely MaryBD of the calendars https://beauty-detective.com/category/beauty-advent-calendars/

Though lots of ACs are out of stock already, so beware (and extra double beware of anything Selfridges Fragrance related!!)

After, united after the advent season

Space NK are offering double points on their advent, if you are a Deluxe member it equates to £50 back in points.

Must be struggling to shift it - hmm I can't imagine why.

They are trying hard to get people to buy the SNK calendar this year. They are still offering 15% off for first orders and now the £25 vouchers on top. I am guessing it isn’t selling as well as they had hoped

Good morning fiends 🎃 👻

Notino’s Korean BAC is on offer, down from £166 to £132.80 with code Halloween
This is the one I really wanted to buy for the box so don’t let me buy it! The contents look nice too admittedly… come on woman, be strong.

https://www.notino.co.uk/notino-advent/calendar-2026-korean-beauty-gems-advent-calendar-limited-edition/p-16363351

Notino House of Korean Beauty is also on offer, down from £208 to £166.40 with code Halloween

https://www.notino.co.uk/notino-advent/calendar-2026-the-house-of-korean-beauty-advent-calendar-limited-edition/p-16363352

and for those of you that were mildly tempted by my bizarre Shiseido BAC code on the weekend, well… here is the BAC at £139.20 with code Halloween

https://www.notino.co.uk/shiseido/advent-calendar-2026-advent-calendar/p-16407766

Yeah well that's what happens when you fill it with crap you can't shift and charge £275. And don't even get me started on the so called deluxe one - although if they discount that to at least 50% after advent I'd look at it.

I must admit I succumbed to the Spacenk when they offered me 15% offer plus the app offer of £20 on £100 spend . I actually think it is definitely worth it at £225 or below . Its got some solid items in there it's just not very exciting. I usually sell all the items I don't want on vinted/eBay and there is very few I will sell with Spacenk as they are all pretty useful like cleansers , body lotions, a couple of serums, eye masks, neutral make up etc

Id only be interested in this one if the price goes down to 175 or something. Plus I'm now completely stocked up on Augustinus Bader the Rich cream with the CB edits. Its a boring advent and Id only pay 200 max for the luxe one.

They should never have abonded the Fragrance advent and spread their normal advent thin and push out this "luxe" one. When that one came out it was like, Oooh so thats where some of the good stuff went.

Yes, I mourn the SNK Frag calendar - one of the highlights of the beauty world year for me.

Not interested even with double points and my 15% off. Still thinking about fortnums and Fenwick. I think id prefer a discount rather than the GWP.

I totally agree - they have been greedy this year, pricing it higher than Harrods but not offering anything very exciting. I still don’t get why they have put in 2 mascaras and 2 liquid blushes but no eyeshadow or lipstick. As for the AB £92 body cream…who would actually buy that at full price?! Plus they had already included a body cream and body oil so would have done better to have put in an eye cream as that is another thing missing. Just seems little thought has been put into it.

Me too. Its such a disappointment that I dont even want to look at their other advents any more. If they are disappointed that it didnt sell well its not about it being a fragrance advent. Its the selection. Do better next time.

It happened with Bijenkorf last year. They sat on their advent for ages, it was heavily discounted. This year they absolutely knocked it out of the park for just 140 pounds and even had an exclusive new fragrance with Fugazzi in it. Its the best one this year by far

And the luxury one is a joke. Surely no one would pay over £400 for that! 🥺

Thank you! I've ordered the first one, so now you don't have to! 😂

I paid for delivery as ordered in a rush, so paid for delivery 😭

My F&M will be delivered today. Might have to hide this thread now to stop me getting tempted by anything else! Although I do love the chat and really enjoy all the justifications we come up with!

Just had a really unpleasantly headed email from Liberty warning me to ‘avoid a December of disappointment’ by ordering their dreadful a/c.

I find the tone really inappropriate and a bit unsettling.

I feel like emailing CS and saying that a ‘December of disappointment’ for me would have been inevitable if I had bought their a/c only to find leaky, partly empty and expired products, combined with cheap tat like a £3 body cream, (looking at you, Darling lotion).

The sooner I spend my ridiculous amount of BD credit and delete my account, the better!

Does anyone know if Harrods still has the BAC in store?
I held off ordering online and getting FOMO now.
I’m planning to head into the Knightsbridge Harrods store tomorrow.

I don’t think they have any @annxie but you might be able to find out if you call CS.

@annxie - I got curious so rang Harrods just now. A very helpful and polite person confirmed what I thought - all sold out in Knightsbridge, unfortunately.

i am so angry. A friend managed to get a SFAC and was happy to share some of the fragrance. She bought it in the first drop and selfridges shows its left the building, dpd hasn't received the parcel and now selfridges says no claims for after 10 days of despatch email. What does that even mean!! How can we not ask for the calendar or money back if its been 10 days?
She was away so we thought we would wait once she gets back. And now it seems like we may not get the parcel or our money back. Has anyone dealt with this before

I am yes!! Would love to buy from you, if you pm me we can arrange? I’m away on holiday so a bit intermittent!

goodness that is horrible!

Don't forget to check Drawer 2 and screw the lid on tightly.

Whoever is reporting SFAC on ebay (me including), it helped to get down the prices by another 10£ in one day🤣 now base is 289£ for a full calendar. Saw a group bragging that as a reseller you should make at least 100£ per item so in your faces!!!!

Thats outrageous! What on earth has happened with Selfridges?

@PositiveVibesnSmellsOnlyIve only been reporting the SFAC on Vinted and didnt realise you couldn’t sell them on EBay?