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!!)

WRT to lash serum, I seem to recall that it contains peptides and that those are good for brows as well. If I had one (Harrods BAC) do you think I could use it on my rather weedy eyebrows instead? I've had problems with dry eyes so will avoid it on my lashes.

Apologies if I've missed something - I have a cold and I'm curled up in bed feeling a bit befuddled!

I don’t think they can fulfil the orders with the large discounts. I ordered on 7th October for £64 but they kept pushing back the shipping date and I lost all hope of getting it. I’ve cancelled and ordered Look Fantastic instead.

This explains the delay with the vogue BAC.

The a/c I bought has been sent back today. Please keep everything crossed for me that I get a swift and trouble free refund!

Ahhh makes sense! I was trying to get the price lowered for past few days on tiktok and today the calendar had disappeared 😂
I ended up ordering it through Look Fantastic using the beauty advent £10 code and some credit! Will see if it arrives!

Thanks for this. Off to check what was suppose to be in drawer 8.

At last a company that is transparent with communication and has offered a solution that is logical and ultimately slightly beneficial to the consumer! Now I'm intrigued as to what your mystery box 8 will be!

I’ve got H&B and Sephora for me, keeping an eye out for a code to get Rituals for DD, who loves their stuff. Anyone seen one?

I’m sure ASOS had 20% off recently? Not sure if still active sorry

If you buy if from Sephora, Then @MaryBD ’s site code BEAUTYDETECTIVESPH takes it from £99 down to £84.15.

A little update for @IlovePond
my advent that I am dissembling for my daughter arrived two days ago . I’ve just picked it up from my mums house . I got no extra charge for shipping taxes etc . Just what I paid for it . And it is beautiful ( for me and hopefully for her as I hoped) I get some lovely bits of Korean skin care . Then I get to spend a ridiculous amount of time and money on stationary but I am thrilled .

That one didn’t work for me,alas!

It doesn’t work in the app so make sure you check the web version.

Just been browsing on Vinted for the first time in ages, I’m usually on there searching for a certain calendar to report.
Wow, Vinted is flooded with perfumes. Oh my word. A lot of the same ones crop up repeatedly, a lot of Latte Di Cherry. I’d really like to know, out of genuine buyers rather than scalpers having to break the calendar down to sell it, which fragrances are most likely to be kept and which are most likely to be sold.

Ive been living on Vinted this week reporting scalpers and have also bought some fragrances from genuine sellers. Wanted another BDK Impadia and made a mistake on the Fragrance du Bois. I hated it on the card but I sprayed it again on skin. I loved the dry down so after initially selling it, I now bought 2 back on Vinted😂🙄
Still thinking about a Delina Exclusive. I really prefer the normal one.

If anyone wants any of these fragrances buy it now. I dont think a lot of genuine buyers got their hands on the advents and Vinteds absolutely flooded bringing the price down. Scalpers are forced to break them up and it seems some of them really want to get rid of it.

What was in door 8 @beautyfox?

Decent customer service from Vogue! We love a pre-emptive solution!

On a side note I've discovered Kilian's Voulez-vous coucher avec moi recently and omg it's amazing 🤩 can someone recommend somewhere I can get a discounted bottle?

I can’t find anywhere that lists by door number.

30% off the Kiko calendar with code FPAH20WW https://www.kikocosmetics.com/en-gb/p/twist-n-twinkle-holiday-advent-calendar-55385/

I watched an unboxing and think it’s the Charlotte Mensah hair oil

Unfortunately it was the web version, but thanks.

For anyone looking for a glossy box AC offer

Thank you for the update @SunnyPinkMoose - I am really glad it worked out with no extra charges!

Do you have a picture?

Thanks

Has anyone got a code for L'Occitane or Jurlique?

Code TREAT gives 15% off the Classic L’Occitane BAC at LookFantastic.

Try WELCOME15 at Jurlique.