[unpaid/affiliate/ad] If you’re wondering which is the best beauty advent calendar for you, my top ten should help you choose. Apparently, the popularity of beauty advent calendars is on the wane but you’d never guess from the luxury offerings for 2023.
Beauty Advent Calendars, as well as being a wonderful pre-Christmas treat, are such a good way to discover new products so never be shy to buy your own – you’ll make all sorts of discoveries.
The Best Beauty Advent Calendars 2023 is a smart edit so you only head for the best from the hundreds available. I’ve added a link at the end of each product list should you wish to buy, and I’ll update regularly – many sell out very quickly, so I have a line-up of replacements should that happen (Selfridges has reportedly sold out already).
MAC Frosted Frenzy Beauty Advent Calendar 2023
Best beauty advent calendar 2023 for: the colour curious cosmetics fanatic.
MAC Frosted Frenzy Beauty Advent Calendar 2023. This is 100% for the make up lover – the white and chrome packaging make it full on Christmassy and will be on everyone’s wish list. It’s a good blend of mini and full sizes as well as some limited edition products that you won’t find anywhere else.
MAC Cosmetics is a very popular brand loved by all ages and this is a thoughtful edit that includes skin care, brushes and a mirror – everything the make up lover could possibly need.
It’s £170 with contents worth over £485. It’s the one advent I would suggest buying and splitting up to give as individual gifts – it’s not at all in the spirit of advents but worthwhile if you are on a budget and tend to give skin care or make up as presents.
Buy the MAC Frosted Frenzy Beauty Advent Calendar 2023 HERE.
- Full-Size MACStack Mascara- Mega Brush
- Full-Size Tinted Lipglass
- Powder Kiss Liquid Lipstick
- Prep + Prime Lip
- Full-Size Lipglass
- Brushstroke 24 Hour Liner
- LIMITED-EDITION Colour Excess Gel Pencil
- Full-Size Velvet Blur Lipstick
- LIMITED-EDITION Mirror
- Full-Size Retromatte Lipstick
- Eye Shadow
- Pro Longwear Paint Pot
- Mini MAC Hyper Real SkinCanvas Balm
- Full-Size Retromatte Lipstick
- Lip Pencil
- Full-Size Lipstick- Lustreglass
- Lip Pencil
- Eye Shadow
- Hyper Real Skin Canvas Serumizer
- Full-Size Lipstick- Lustreglass
- Full-Size Tinted Lipglass
- LIMITED-EDITION Colour Excess Gel Pencil
- Full-Size Powder Kiss Lipstick
- Eye Shadow
The Liberty Beauty Advent Calendar 2023
Best beauty advent calendar 2023 for: The beauty curious.
Does anyone ever get tired of the Liberty Beauty Advent Calendars? They made their mark with exciting packaging that depicts the Liberty London Store and even the empty boxes can be found on eBay ready to fill up the following year. 2022’s Liberty Beauty Advent Calendar was their fastest selling product ever in the store’s 137 year history so expect a sell-out.
Contents include niche fragrances from Vilhelm and Bibbi, a Liberty Stately Bouquet Scented Candle, premium face creams from Dr Barbara Sturm, Augustinus Bader and Paula’s Choice and the coveted Rose Inc Cream Blush. Bearing in mind that Liberty are launching their own beauty line, expect to find some surprises from that as well as an Estella Bartlet gold plated bracelet. 10/10 on variety across skin, fragrance, hair and cosmetics.
Contents listed below worth £1040.00. It’s yet to launch but I will update the moment it does. A content list is below.
Buy The Liberty Beauty Advent Calendar 2023 here.
- Liberty Stately Bouquet Scented Candle 60g
- Dr. Barbara Sturm Face Cream 20ml
- The Seated Queen Cassiopeia’s Serum Concentrate 10ml
- Sunday Riley Luna Sleeping Night Oil 15ml
- (Malin+Goetz) Rum Bar Soap 50g
- Byredo Lipstick in Solid Ground or Commuter 3g
- Charlotte Mensah Manketti Hair Oil 15ml
- Augustinus Bader The Rich Cream 15ml
- Aromatherapy Associates Deep Relax Rollerball 10ml
- Verden D’Orangerie Hand Cream 75ml
- Dr Sebagh Serum Repair 20ml
- Liberty Pocket Mirror in Elegance Print
- Bibbi Parfum Ghost of Tom Eau de Parfum 10ml
- Votary Night Star Serum 30ml
- Surratt Relevee Mascara 6ml
- Dizziak Deep Conditioner 50ml
- Larry King Haircare Spoilt for Choice Hair Oil 30ml
- OTO Cleansing Jam Exfoliator 25ml
- Zelens Instant Recharge Renewal Mask
- Paula’s Choice Skin Perfecting 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant 30ml
- Davines Oi Shampoo 90ml
- Estella Bartlett Stars So Bright Gold Plated Bracelet
- 111 Skin Celestial Black Diamond Eye Mask 6ml
- Le Labo Rose 31 Liquid Balm Perfume 9ml
- Rose Inc Cream Blush Refillable Cheek & Lip Colour in Daylily
- REN Clean Skincare Overnight Glow Dark Spot Sleeping Cream 50ml
- Vilhelm Parfumerie Poets of Berlin 10ml
- The Uniform Hairclip Duo
- PLUS a brand new launch from Liberty
The Jo Malone Beauty Advent Calendar 2023
Best Beauty Advent Calendar 2023 for: Luxury Indulgence and making an impression.
Another sell-out if past years of best beauty advent calendars are anything to go by. The first year of The Jo Malone Beauty Advent Calendar saw customers queuing around the block at the Jo Malone store.
This year, the theme is Gingerbread House with candy stripes and icing patterns and inside you’ll find a selection of fragranced products for hand and body including popular ranges such as Blackberry & Bay, English Pear & Freesia, Myrrh & Tonka and Wood Sage & Sea Salt. It’s £350. Full contents are below:
Buy The Jo Malone Beauty Advent Calendar 2023 here.
- Ginger Biscuit 9ml
- White moss & Snowdrop 9ml
- Scarlet Poppy Cologne Intense 9ml
- Wild Bluebell Body Mist 30ml
- Orange Bitters Cologne 9ml
- English Pear & Freesia 9ml
- Wood Sage & Sea Salt Hand Cream 30ml
- Cypress & Grapevine Cologne Intense 9ml
- Peony & Blush Suede cologne 9ml
- Wood Sage & Sea Salt Body & Hand Wash 50ml
- Velvet Rose & Oud Cologne Intense 9ml
- Poppy & Barley Cologne 9ml
- Grapefruit Body & Hand Wash 50ml
- Wild Bluebell Cologne 9ml
- Myrrh & Tonka cologne 9ml
- Peony & Blush Suede Body & Hand lotion 50ml
- Silverbirch & Lavender Cologne 9ml
- English Pear & Freesia Body Creme 50ml
- Nectarine Blossom & Honey Cologne 9ml
- Vitamin E Lip Conditioner 15ml
- Oud & Bergamot Cologne Intense 9ml
- Blackberry & Bay Hand Cream 30ml
- Wood Sage & Sea Salt Cologne 30ml
The Soap & Glory Beauty Advent Calendar 2023
Best beauty advent calendar for: tweens and teens keen to experiment with beauty products
Every year I get asked what a good ‘tweenager’ beauty advent calendar might be. There’s never really a specific category for teens and tweens but they don’t want to be left out of course! It’s a question of suitability I guess, but I’ve picked the Soap & Glory Beauty Advent Calendar because it’s more about fun and playfulness than any ‘serious’ beauty, featuring hair scrunchies, nail files, body washes, a lip mask and bubble bars.
The one anomaly is the Plumping Hydrating Day Lotion, but it feels innocuous. Everything is decently sized and at £46, it’s one of the more budget friendly beauty advent calendars. Best beauty advent calendar for: tweens and teens keen to experiment with beauty products. A full list of contents is below.
Buy the The Soap & Glory Beauty Advent Calendar 2023 here.
- Clean on Me Body Wash 75ml
- The Righteous Butter Body Butter 300ml
- Call of Fruity Body Wash 75ml
- Call of Fruity Body Butter 50ml
- Scrub of Your Life Body Scrub 200ml
- Magnificoco Body Butter 50ml
- Speed Plump Intensely Hydrating Day Lotion 50ml
- Magnificoco Body Scrub 50ml
- Perfect ZZZen Body Milk 75ml
- Heel Genius Foot Cream 125ml
- Hand Food Hand Cream 50ml
- Face Soap & Clarity Vitamin C Facial Wash 50ml
- The Fab Pore Pore-Refining Sheet Mask 29g
- Original Pink Fragranced Rollerball 10ml
- Soap & Glory Nail File
- Soap & Glory Massaging Face Mitt
- Soap & Glory Scrunchie
- Bright + Beautiful Biodegradable Brightening Sheet Mask 29g
- Speed Plump Super-Hydrating Miracle Moisture Hydrogel Sheet Mask 25g
- Pout About It Hydrogel Lip Mask 2.5g
- Puffy Eye Attack Under-Eye Brightening Hydrogel Patches 3g
- Soap & Glory Reusable Cleansing Pad
- Perfect ZZZen Bubble Bar 40g
- Perfect ZZZen Scented Candle 30g
SpaceNK Beauty Advent Calendar 2023.
Best beauty advent calendar for: those who aren’t easily impressed!
SpaceNK Beauty Advent Calendar 2023. The best way to describe the SpaceNK beauty advent calendar is as MASSIVE! I have a sample here and it’s huge. I found it interesting that the entire thing from top to bottom is recyclable with water based inks and aqueous varnish.
I like the variety in products – it feels like the brand has made a big effort not to be ‘samey’ and you’ll find some unusual products such as Kosas, Naturium and Bread Beauty, not to mention a 4 pan Charlotte Tilbury eyeshadow palette. It’s size and the amount of product – 33 of which 19 are full size – gives it the edge over other luxury beauty advent calendars. It’s £240 HERE and for that you get over £1000 worth of product. The contents list is below:
Buy the SpaceNK Beauty Advent Calendar 2023 HERE
- Dr. Barbara Sturm Cleanser 150ml
- Olaplex No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo 100ml
- Olaplex No. 5 Bond Maintenance Conditioner 100ml
- Charlotte Tilbury Bigger Brighter Eyes Eyeshadow Palette
- Drunk Elephant Lala RetroTM Whipped Cream 30ml
- Sunday Riley C.E.O. 15% Vitamin C Brightening Serum 15ml
- Farmacy Beauty Green Clean Makeup Removing Cleansing Balm 50ml
- 111 SKIN Rose Gold Illuminating Eye Mask x3
- Rose Inc Ultra-Black Lash Lift Serum Mascara 10.7ml
- Naturium Niacinamide Serum 12% Plus Zinc 2% 30ml
- Tula Skincare Cooling & Brightening Eye Balm 10g
- Bread Beauty Supply Hair-Oil: Everyday Gloss 30ml
- Nécessaire The Body Serum Fragrance Free 250ml
- Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask 64g
- Kosas Wet Lip Oil Gloss Shade Exposed 4.5g
- Biossance Vitamin C Rose Moisturiser 15ml
- Eve Lom Rescue Mask 50ml
- Paula’s Choice 10% Azeliac Acid Booster 30ml
- Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Setting Spray 50ml
- Tatcha Luminous Dewy Skin Mist 40ml
- JVN Hair Complete Instant Recovery Serum 100ml
- Malin+Goetz Vitamin B5 Body Moisturizer 30ml
- Kate Somerville Goat Milk Moisturizing Cleanser 60ml
- Medik8 Crystal Retinal 6 50ml
- Augustinus Bader The Rich Cream 15ml
- Boy Smells Hinoki Fantôme Scented Candle 85g
- Colour Wow Dream Coat Supernatural Spray 50ml
- 19/99 Precision Colour Pencil in Nutura
- Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Matte Liquid Liner 7.5ml Joy
- Niod Multi-Molecular Hyaluronic Complex 30ml
- Laneige Lip Sleeping Mask 20g Chocolate
- Erborian Skin Hero Bare Skin Protector 15ml
The Sephora Beauty Advent Calendar 2023
Best beauty advent calendar 2023 for: Tiktok fans.
Another incredible value best beauty advent calendar from Sephora for 2023. Sephora has many brands that are exclusive to them in the UK, so this advent calendar serves up beauty products that you won’t find elsewhere such as ONE/SIZE, influencer Patrick Starr’s own label and GXVE Beauty by Gwen Stefani.I’d choose this one for a younger recipient as the brands included are skewed to Gen Z (Vegamour, Glow Recipe and Rare Beauty for example) but there is an excellent cross section of hair, skin and cosmetics. It’s £189 HERE and contains over £1000 worth of products – 33 to be exact and we love a double drawer! Full contents listed below.
Buy the The Sephora Beauty Advent Calendar 2023 HERE.
- Aromatherapy Associates De-Stress Muscle Gel 150ml
- Aromatherapy Associates Support Breathe Bath & Shower Oil 55ml
- First Aid Beauty KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub with 10% AHA 56.7g
- Sol de Janeiro Bum Bum Cream 25ml
- Molton Brown Orange & Bergamot Shower Gel 100ml
- Commodity Milk Expressive 10ml
- Floral Street Sweet Almond Blossom Eau de Parfum 10ml
- Juliette Has A Gun Not A Perfume 10ml
- NEOM Organics London Perfect Night’s Sleep Scented Candle (1 Wick) 185g
- Philip Kingsley Elasti-Styler 5-in-1 Treatment 100ml
- VIRTUE® Healing Oil 9ml
- K18 Leave-in Molecular Repair Hair Mask 15ml
- Living Proof Triple Bond Complex 45ml
- Gxve Beauty Original Me Clean High-Performance Matte Lipstick 3g
- Ilia Limitless Lash Mascara 8ml
- ONE/SIZE Beauty On ‘Til Dawn Setting Spray 143ml
- Rare Beauty Perfect Strokes Matte Liquid Liner 0.9ml
- Rose Inc Satin Lip Color Lipstick 4g
- Vegamour GRO Volumizing Lash Serum 3ml
- NAILSINC Nail Polish 14ml
- Beautifect Beautifect Blender
- Tarte Leave Your Mark Vii Eye & Cheek Palette
- BeautyPro Cica + Niacinamide Face Mask 22ml
- BeautyPro Warming Eye Mask 16g
- Elemis Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm 50g
- Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops 40ml
- Ranavat Restoring Moonseed Treatment 8g
- Sarah Chapman Glow On the Go 10ml
- Sunday Riley B3 Nice 10% Niacinamide Serum 30ml
- Tan-Luxe Super Glow Hyaluronic Self Tan Serum 30ml
- Kate Somerville ExfoliKate Intensive Exfoliating Treatment 15ml
- REN Clean Skincare Radiance Dark Circle Eye Cream 15ml
- Drunk Elephant T.L.C. Sukari Babyfacial 50ml + Virgin Marula Luxury Facial Oil 3ml
- Fenty Skin Fat Water Pore-Refining Toner Serum 10ml
- Medik8 Hydr8 B5 Intense 30ml
- Malin+Goetz Vitamin E Moisturiser 30ml
The Marks & Spencer Beauty Advent Calendar 2023
Best beauty advent calendar 2023 for: Treating yourself guilt-free after doing your present shopping 😊
The Marks & Spencer Beauty Advent Calendar 2023 is hotly anticipated. Worth £340, it’s £40 to buy with a £35 spend which is easily done if you’re in the Christmas mood and ready to start your shopping. This year, you’ll find Shay & Blue Fragrance, L’Occitane Shower Gel, Nails Inc nail polish as well as offerings from Philip Kingsley (hair), Clinique (moisturiser and lip colour), REN Cleanser and Murad.
It’s yet to launch – I’ll update as soon as it does. Full contents below:
- Philip Kingsley Elasticizer Booster Restoring Conditioner 20ml
- Philip Kingsley Moisture Balancing Combination Shampoo 20ml
- Philip Kingsley Moisture Balancing Combination Conditioner 20ml
- Nails Inc Victoria & Albert Nail Varnish 10ml
- Nail Inc Crown Place Nail Varnish 10ml
- Percy & Reed Turn Up The Volume Volumizing No Oil Oil 60ml
- Pixi Brow Tamer (Translucent) 4.5ml
- Shay & Blue Atropa Belladonna Natural Spray Fragrance 10ml
- L’Occitane Verbena Shower Gel 250ml
- Apothecary Revive Clarifying Mask 75ml
- This Works Deep Sleep Body Cocoon 100ml
- Murad Essential-C Day Moisture Broad Spectrum SPF 30 25ml
- Apothecary Meditate Hand Cream 30ml
- Dr Paw Paw Overnight Lip Mask 10ml
- Pixi LipLift Max (Sheer Rose) 2.7g
- L’Occitane Cherry Blossom Hand Cream 75ml
- Benefit Cosmetics Roller Lash Curling Mascara 8.5g
- Leighton Denny Renovate Intensive Nail Repair Cream & Buffer 10ml
- Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse Multi-Purpose Dry Oil for Face, Body, and Hair Mini 10ml
- REN Clean Skincare Evercalm Gentle Cleansing Gel 150ml
- Aveda Botanical Repair Styling Crème 40ml
- Clinique Pop Lip Colour + Primer Plum Pop
- Filorga Hydra-Hyal: Hydrating Plumping Serum 7ml
- Clinique Moisture Surge 100H 15ml
- Origins Ginzing Gel 30ml
The Rituals Beauty Advent Calendar 2023. If you adore Christmas and all the imagery that comes with it, the Rituals Advent Calendar will act as a Christmas ornament as well. Depicting a snowy Christmas village predominantly in red, white and gold, it will have your Christmas loving heart melting. It’s a range of full and small sized products that are beautifully fragranced Best beauty advent calendar 2023 for: Treating your body as a temple.
Dior Beauty Advent Calendar 2023 is sheer luxury with a price that reflects that. It’s £470 and includes a limited edition Christmas ornament which I love the sound of – who doesn’t want a Dior decoration on their tree? It’s really all about make up and fragrance this year with a selection of sample size fragrance vials, a full size candle and several small size candles, along with some stunning lipsticks. It’s a good split with seven make up items (including nail polish), four candles, three skin care items and eleven fragrance pieces. It’s £470 but yet to launch. I* will update as soon as it becomes available. Best beauty advent calendar for: Luxury fragrance lovers. Full contents are listed below:
DIOR 30 Montaigne Scented Candle 85g
DIOR Ambre Nuit Bougie Scented Candle 35g
DIOR Saint-Honoré Scented Candle 35g
DIOR Thé Osmanthus Scented Candle 35g
DIOR Capture Total Le Sérum 10ml
DIOR Prestige La Crème 15ml
DIOR Prestige La Micro Huile de Rose Advanced Sérum 10ml
DIOR Vernis 108 Muguet 7ml
DIOR Vernis 999 7ml
DIOR J’adore Eau de Parfum 5 ml
DIOR J’adore L’Or 3.5 ml
DIOR J’adore Parfum D’Eau 5 ml
DIOR La Mousse On/Off 50ml
DIOR Mascara Diorshow Iconic Overcurl 090 Black 4ml
DIOR Miss Dior Blooming Bouquet 5ml
DIOR Miss Dior Eau de Parfum 5ml
DIOR Gris Dior 7,5ml
DIOR Jasmin des Anges 7,5ml
DIOR Oud Ispahan 7,5ml
DIOR Rouge Dior 100 Nude Look Velvet 1,5g
DIOR Rouge Dior 720 Icone Velvet 1,5g
DIOR Rouge Dior 999 Velvet 1,5g
DIOR Sauvage 10ml
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Anthropologie Beauty Advent Calendar 2023. This is definitely the best beauty advent calendar for those who want something truly different. It’s a voyage of discovery away from mainstream brands, with an artist designed box and a very thoughtful edit of products that cover fragrance, skin care and make up. It includes one of my all time favourite brands, Willowberry Skin Care. It has a value of over £300 and costs £78 HERE. There are 24 boxes (what happened to doors?), each with something special in them in the form of luxury sample sizes. Sample sized products always come with me in my travel packing so they’re always so useful to have in terms of cutting down weight and being experimental. Best beauty advent calendar for: those who stay away from the mainstream.
Plenaire Rose Jelly Gentl Makeup Remover
STORIES Nº.02 Eau de Parfum
Plant DPT Day Cream Moisturiser
Verden Hand & Body Balm
Adaptology Anti-Aging Serum
Dreem Distillery Moonlit Face Mask
Ilapothecary Eye Serum
Find Your Glow Candle
Anatome Sleep Oil
LØRE Originals Cleansing Exfoliating & Nourishing Bar
Solasta Skin Nourishing Rose Facial Oil
Urban Apothecary Fig Tree Hand & Body Wash
Herlum Sandalwood & Grapefruit Hand & Body Lotion
Floral Street Mini Discovery Set
Palette London Vermillion Poppy Nail Paint
Floragy Refresh Clay Face Mask
BYBI Beauty Eye Cream
Spritz Wellness Atmosphere Mist
UpCircle Cleansing Face Balm
Willowberry Nutrient Boost Day Cream
Sister & Co. Bath Oil
FEWE Take a Deep Breath Spray
Baie Botanique Facial Serum
Nailkind Nail Polish.
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