40+ best beauty advent calendars - it's time to get excited for Christmas

This Christmas, LOOKFANTASTIC invites you to Find Your Fantastic with its exciting new Beauty Advent Calendar. With over 150,000 waitlist sign-ups last year, the 2023 Advent Calendar is set to be LOOKFANTASTIC's biggest launch yet.  This year's calendar includes over £565 worth of beauty treats to discover and holds a higher worth value than ever before!

Why do we love the LookFantastic Beauty Advent Calendar? 

Packed with 27 products that spotlight some of the most highly acclaimed and luxurious brands in LOOKFANTASTIC'S beauty collection, such as NARS, MAC and Elemis, as well as editor's favourites such as Disciple, Coco & Eve and GRANDE Cosmetics. From beauty classics to exciting new discoveries, this year's calendar is brimming with beauty surprises to take you all the way to Christmas day.

Calling all Charlotte Tilbury fans, her highly anticipated beauty advent calendar is back and this year's ruby red box of dreams looks better than ever before.

What's so special about the Charlotte Tilbury beauty advent calendar?

It's the perfect treasure chest of beauty icons to treat yourself to, darling! 

The M&S beauty advent calendar is a big one - and this year it's back with a new look. Designed with reusability and affordability at the heart, 2023's M&S Beauty Advent Calendar features a treasure trove of 25 beauty gems, and this year’s calendar is packaged in a metallic vegan leather vanity case, which can be used time and time again.

What's so special about the Marks & Spencer advent calendar?

Well, the M&S advent calendar features Marks & Spencer's own beauty brands, and inside you'll find third-party beauty brands too. With a mix of both travel and full-sized products, you can discover cult classics as well as the latest launches and beauty innovations. 

The Liberty London beauty advent calendar is a real classic - and makes the ideal gift for anyone who loves luxury beauty products. This year it's the most generous beauty advent calendar Liberty London has ever launched. Set to be the star of the season, the Liberty Beauty Advent Calendar for 2023 is overflowing with 30 beauty treats from Liberty's iconic beauty hall. From skincare saviours to haircare heroes, expect cult classics alongside new discoveries, carefully curated to see you through the holidays with a festive glow.

Plus, there will be Golden Tickets up for grabs, hidden inside five Beauty Advent Calendar – giving each lucky winner £1000 to spend at Liberty! Woah! Can you imagine?!

What's so special about the Liberty beauty Advent Calendar? 

Well, it's top of a lot of wish lists. The first Liberty Beauty Advent Calendar launched in 2014 as the original multi-brand beauty calendar on the market. Since then, it has grown into a global phenomenon with stock increasing this year by over 38% to meet demand. It has since become the most successful and fastest-selling product in almost 150 years of the brand.

Last year, for the first time ever, department store Harvey Nichols created its own beauty advent calendar, filled with 30 of their iconic beauty brands. This year it's back and bigger than ever, with luxe beauty brands plus treatment vouchers too.

What's so special about the Harvey Nichols Advent Calendar? 

It's the grand dame of cult and luxurious beauty brands, and stylish to boot. It also includes treatment vouchers for you to use in-store, from facials to eyebrow shaping.

If you've been meaning to try Liz Earle's iconic skincare products, this is a great way to discover the best of the best. Inside, you'll find full-size products and miniatures of some of Liz Earle's best-loved skincare, including the legendary Cleanse & Polish Hot Cloth Cleanser. 

What's so special about the Liz Earle Advent Calendar? 

If your skin is in need of a pick-me-up (let's face it, who's isn't?) then this is the one for you; every product is glow-inducing and will help your skin navigate the parties and weather of December!

This year, Kiehl’s is encouraging everyone to “bring home the wonder of Kiehl’s” both in product and practice. This Christmas, behind the doors of your Kiehl’s Advent Calendar, you'll find 24 nourishing surprises to treat your skin during the festive countdown. 

What's so special about the Kiehl's Advent Calendar? 

This holiday season, Kiehls has partnered with Icinori, the husband & wife duo, who specialise in bespoke pieces across art, fashion, and publishing, to design a limited-edition collection. The design is inspired by the creation of an animated universe with an exciting, generous, and festive spirit for the holidays. Icinori joins Kiehl’s longstanding tradition of partnering with some of the world’s most prominent and well-known artists such as Jeff Koons, Mickey, KAWS, Kenny Scharf, Peter Max, Jeremyville, Kate Moross and Janine Rewell.

Celebrate Christmas with Fortnum & Mason's extraordinary beauty advent calendar, filled with 25 treats from the iconic London store's beauty hall.

What's so special about the Fortnum & Mason Advent Calendar?

If the packaging alone isn't special enough, the collection of skincare, makeup, haircare, bath and body products nestled in the advent calendar make it ridiculously special - and this year it's worth over £1000. 

The John Lewis' beauty advent calendar has one of the highest worth-value, totalling over £900, and it includes 16 full-size products! It features luxury beauty brands such as Votary and Sunday Riley, alongside cult brands including Neom, Laura Mercier, Bobbi Brown and Philip Kingsley. Every single beauty product featured has been hand picked by the John Lewis expert buyers. 

What's so special about the John Lewis beauty advent calendar? 

Lucky customers are in for a treat behind door number 25 - 10 lucky customers could win a £500 gift voucher for an exclusive shopping spree at John Lewis, as well as four money-can't-buy experiences.

Inspired by ESPA’s wondrous spas around the globe, this collection recreates a unique, blissful spa experience, allowing you to enjoy pure relaxation in the comfort of your own home. Each of the 25 naturally powerful gifts is a harmonising treat for the skin and the senses.  

What's so special about the ESPA Advent Calendar?

If you're after a day-to-night wellness journey you're in for a treat! Revel in a selection of wellbeing luxuries including invigorating cleansers, nourishing creams, and rich essential oils. From blissful aromatherapy to powerful skincare, each treat brings inner and outer harmony. 

This year's Cult Beauty Advent Calendar is bigger and better than ever! Following on from the success of four sold out advent calendars, the Cult Beauty Advent Calendar 2023 will be a calendar filled with Cult Beauty icons, under the radar heroes, and Cult Conscious favourites. What's more, it will have 20 full size products inside. 

What's so special about the Cult Beauty Advent Calendar?

Cult Beauty is donating over £60,000 from the sales of the advent calendar to Mental Health UK: the only UK-wide mental health charity that delivers both national and local services that empower people to manage their mental health in a person-centred and empathetic way. The brand is also working with (more:trees) to plant one tree for every advent calendar sold, helping to restore forests and sequestering future CO2 emissions in the process.

"It's A Pinker Wonderland" is the name of this year's Soap & Glory advent calendar. Filled with 24 beauty treats to enjoy, including some of the brand's cult favourites including The Righteous Butter Body Butter and the Puffy Eye Attack Under-Eye Brightening Hydrogel Patches.

What's so special about the Soap & Glory Advent Calendar?

At just £46, this advent calendar has a delightful offering of 24 days of skincare and bodycare wonders that will leave you or your loved ones looking and feeling absolutely fabulous!

As you might expect, the Harrods beauty advent calendar is pure indulgence - it's chic on the outside and contains a covetable curation of the most sought-after, exciting beauty products from around the world. 

What's so special about the Harrods beauty advent calendar?

Expect everything from the likes of Augustinus Bader, Dr Barbara Sturm and Charlotte Tilbury, as well as indulgent olfactory treats from Acqua di Parma.

The White Company's Advent Calendar is always one of the most luxurious to shop - and perfect for anyone looking to earn brownie points from their other half. 

What's so special about the The White Company's Advent Calendar?

With a gorgeous present in each of the 25 pull-out drawers (including four full-size products), these selections are specially curated for you or a loved one to enjoy - expect wellness pick-me-ups throughout December. This year, 21 of the products are new to the advent. 

The Body Shop’s Advent Calendars are always a hit with fans! 

What's so special about the Body Shop beauty Advent Calendars?

The BY TERRY Advent Calendar includes 10 make-up & skincare must-haves in full size, 12 travel sizes and 2 face and eye brushes. You'll be able to create BY TERRY's iconic Parisian look: a perfected complexion with invisible foundation; hydrated skin; long, thick lashes; and an immaculate pout.

What's so specialy about the BY TERRY Advent Calendar? 

There are a lot of full-size products inside this advent calendar, making it the perfect splurge for a BY TERRY fan. 

Filled with 25 magical miniatures, the Jo Malone London advent calendar featured a mix of fragrances and products for the home as well as your bathroom, to make your December even more exciting.

What's so special about the Jo Malone London Advent Calendar?

From the much-loved colognes to the travel-size bath & body and miniature candles, this advent calendar is always the ultimate indulgence. 

Sephora’s 2023 Beauty Advent Calendar Brings the Sparks

Filled with 25 days of deluxe and full-size treats, Sephora UK reveals this year’s must have beauty countdown

What's so special about the Sephora Advent Calendar?

Sephora is giving away five of these incredible advent calendars to those who join the waitlist. So if you needed an excuse to sign up, this is it.

Last year's edition featured 24 days of luxuries from Crème de la Mer, Olaplex, Sunday Riley and more. We're expecting some goodies from this year's box of treats. 

What's so special about the Space NK advent calendar?

It's a classic for a reason, and it's usually filled with the most amazing products from the beauty department. 

Bursting with Clarins classics, the 12 drawers are guaranteed to reveal some of Clarins' most-loved skincare and make-up must-haves including full size and travel size treats.

What's so special about the Clarins beauty advent calendar? 

We love a mini beauty product but the Clarins advent calendar includes full-size products as well - the cult classic Beauty Flash Balm and the gorgeous Lip Comfort Oil features. 

A popular choice, Revolution's best-selling advent calendar received 20,694 sign-ups on the waitlist last year – so you better act quick if you want to shop it. Inside you'll find 25 different beauty bag essentials, including lip glosses, highlighters, eyeliners, accessories and more. 

The Makeup Revolution 25 Days of Glam Advent Calendar has everything you need to sleigh the most magical time of the year. From lip glosses and eyeliners to Revolution TikTok famous products and must-have tools such as tear shaped powder puffs, the countdown to Christmas has never looked so good.

What's so special about the Revolution advent calendars?

Each and every one of the beauty products inside is completely vegan and cruelty-free. 

You can try endless looks for brows, face, eyes and lashes at a major steal with 24 beauty bestsellers and makeup must-haves in full size and mini sizes. All you want? It’s right here. This advent calendar set has all the glitz and glam that any beauty lover could ever want (or need). 

What's so special about this beauty advent calendar? 

This year the Benefit advent calendar is 24 doors (it has been 12 doors in the past). 

'Tis the season to be fabulous! The NEXT Beauty Advent Calendar does not disappoint this year. Worth over £355, it features all of your favourite make-up heroes like Clarins, Living Proof, ESPA, Rituals, and Eve Lom.

What's so special about the NEXT beauty advent calendar? 

This is a fan favourite for a reason, and you can guarantee this will fly off the shelves as quickly as it arrives. There's a real decent mix of full size products with travel-friendly products you'll actually use in your hand luggage in 2024. 

More beauty, more merry. This gift-worthy set comes stocked with 12 of Bobbi Brown's bestselling skincare and beauty essentials—including three full-size favourites.

What's so special about the Bobbi Brown's Advent Calendar?

This advent calendar has everything you need for creating glowing day-to-night looks and with some nourishing post-party skincare for the added luxury.

The Selfridges beauty advent calendar is brimming with best-selling make-up and skincare must-haves from brands such as Charlotte Tilbury, Dr. Barbara Sturm and Gisou. 

What's so special about the Selfridges Advent Calendar

As well as receiving goodies galore, this advent calendar is packaged in an impressive case, it looks just as good displayed on your garland-strung mantlepiece as each treatment feels on your skin. 

Penhaligon's advent calendar for 2023 includes 24 of the label's most popular fragrances and candles. There's the iconic The Favourite, dreamy Luna, fresh Juniper Sling eau de parfum, and more to discover behind each door of this resplendent advent calendar.

What's so special about the Penhaligon's Advent Calendar?

This advent calendar just screams Christmas - so stunning! As well as being full of gorgeous scents, it's almost like a decoration for the living room. What's more, for the first time ever you get a 30ml bottle of the iconic Halfeti inside, worth £95. 

Calling all fragrance fans! Jo Loves has partnered with one of the greatest names in British textiles for this year's fragrance advent calendar. Warner House is a curator of historical archive patterns, re-imagining them for contemporary living. 

What's so special about the Jo Loves Advent Calendar?

Indulge in 25 luxuriously fragrant treats plus five exclusive Jo Loves x Warner House baubles that can be used to decorate your tree for years to come. The Calendar includes six full-size products and our newest fragrance launch, Amber, Lime & Bergamot.

The Elemis Advent Calendar always has a big reveal. This luxurious gift set is the perfect seasonal surprise and adds some festivity to your daily skincare routine. This year we're loving the festive red vibe, too! 

What's so special about the Elemis Beauty Advent Calendar? 

It includes cherry-picked must-haves from the Pro-Collagen range, the Superfood line and the Dynamic Resurfacing collection.

The No7 Advent Calendar was the number one bestseller for Boots in 2022, and it's always a big date in the advent calendar diary. Take it from someone who writes about these every single year, the No7 Advent hysteria is real. 

What's so special about the No7 advent calendar?

Shoppers will be able to choose their 25-day countdown based on their favourite No7 regime. It will be available in No7's three hero franchises - Protect & Perfect, Lift & Luminate and Restore & Renew. Those who sign up to the waitlist will get exclusive pre-sale access and will be able to shop the calendars a full 24 hours before they go on general sale. Thev will also be automatically entered into a competition to win a spa experience for two, worth up to £400.

This Christmas, take a moment each day to wrap yourself in the power of the finest, ethically and sustainably sourced herbs, botanicals and essential oils. The exclusive beauty and wellbeing calendar features 12 days of indulgent, seasonal self-care favourites encased in a beautiful, forever box to help you feel good and look good, naturally.

What's so special about the Neal's Yard Remedies Advent Calendar?

Let's talk about savings! The contents of this calendar are worth over £180, which is pretty epic. 

The MAC advent calendar is perfect for makeup lovers as it contains 24 of the brand's best-selling products to revamp your collection for the festive season and beyond. .

What's so special about the MAC Advent Calendar?

The case is always a stunner and this one has a sparkly decoration. 

There was a constellation theme for Diptyque’s Advent Calendar last year! Each day matched a new constellation, and each day you discovered a new Diptyque treasure, in full-size or discovery size.  

What's so special about the Diptyque Advent Calendar? 

Last year - for the first time - the Advent Calendar included three limited-edition Christmas scents: a small Pine Tree (Sapin) candle and miniature Snow (Neige) and Spark (Étincelles) candles.

The GLOSSYBOX advent calendar is bigger than ever for 2023. The range of beauty brand's included is diverse, from luxurious skincare Medik8 and Babor, cult brands like Rituals, Iconic London and Rodial along with TikTok favourites and more.

What's so special about the GLOSSYBOX Advent Calendar?

The range of beauty brands included is unparalleled! Plus, this year it contains some TikTok must-haves including the very popular Made by Mitchell Blursh Liquid Blush in Posey Rosey (worth £14).

The Rituals Advent Calendar is always one to get excited about - and this year we have a real treat with a spectacular 2D extravaganza. 

What's so special about the Rituals advent calendars?

It has to be the beautiful keepsake box - the 2D Christmas tree advent calendar looks like a real showpiece.

A sumptuous celebration of fragrances, body and home delights, Molton Brown's advent calendar boasts a collection of shower gels, body lotions, Eau de Toilettes, mini candles and more. 

What's so special about the Molton Brown Advent Calendar?

Rediscover classic scents of Orange & Bergamot, Re-charge Black Pepper and Heavenly Gingerlily and get a chance to try deluxe sizes of the NEW Marvellous Mandarin & Spice Collection, which has a gorgeous new scent - think of having dessert on Christmas Day surrounded by family, and have the scents of tart mandarin zest, lively ginger and tasting notes of ground cinnamon, dried fruits and an aromatic grating of earthy nutmeg waft around you.

The Jurlique Advent Calendar is a must-have on every beauty lovers’ shelf. Packed with botanicals from its own biodynamic farm, Jurlique’s selection is good for the skin and the environment, perfect for guilt-free gifting.

What's so special about the Jurlique advent calendar? 

If you love this natural skincare brand, this will be the perfect treat for December! 

Tatti Lashes Limited Edition 2023 Advent Calendar features 25 best-selling full-sized products worth over £220. Ranging from iconic award-winning lash styles to ‘must have’ accessories – this pink & gold embellished vanity trunk is everything a lash lover could possibly dream of.

Why do we love the Tatti Lashes Advent Calendar?

It has been designed with functionality in mind and can be re-used all year round to store lashes & beauty essentials once the drawers have been revealed. The durable pink faux leather handle and gold hardware allows it to be transportable meaning you can take it with you on the go.

The ASOS Face + Body 25 Day Calendar is the ultimate treat to indulge in. Full of hyped makeup, cult skincare and haircare heroes. 

What's so special about this beauty advent calendar?   

Last year, ASOS dialled up the festive excitement by creating a 100% recyclable advent calendar - and it was packaged in an ASOS tote, designed to be used repeatedly, making them a little kinder to the planet.

A 12-day journey of miraculous discoveries in a countdown calendar. Includes: The Cleansing Foam 30ml, The Tonic 30ml, The Renewal Oil 5ml, The Regenerating Serum 5ml, The Revitalizing Hydrating Serum 5ml, The Lifting & Firming Mask 15ml, The Intensive Revitalizing Mask 15ml, The Eye Concentrate 5ml, The Lip Balm 9gr, The Hydrating Infused Emulsion 15ml, The Cool Gel Cream 15ml and Crème de La Mer 15ml.

What's so special about the La Mer Advent Calendar?

The La Mer beauty advent calendar sells out every year, if you're looking to treat yourself - or others - do not wait around. 

Hidden behind the 24 days is a selection of tea lights in some of the most popular Yankee Candle winter scents, so you can bring the festive feel to your home throughout December. 

What's so special about the Yankee Candle Advent Calendar?

The calendar also comes with a clear glass tea light holder for holding your candles. 

Not what you're looking for? The Yankee Candle Wreath is also a great advent calendar and is priced at £27.99. Want an even better deal? This Yankee Candle Advent Tree from 2022 is in clearance and it's priced at £62.99 from £89.99.

Get your glow on this Christmas with Nuxe's limited edition advent calendar. It's stocked with 24 skincare essentials that'll leave you feeling pampered and rejuvenated. 

What's so special about the Nuxe Advent Calendar?

Nuxe's limited edition advent is stocked with completely vegan skincare products. 

Last year it was filled to the brim with luxury fragrance, makeup and skincare products.

What's so special about the Dior advent calendar?

Last year it was dressed in navy blue and decorated with a fairy-tale Pietro Fuffo interpretation of the iconic Dior 30 Montaigne Boutique. What's more, the golden notes paid tribute to one of the house’s iconic colours. 

The Origins advent calendar is a must-have for any fan of the brand. It has a whopping 24 doors, housing some of the natural brand's best-loved products that are in really generous sizes, too. 

What's so special about the Origins advent calendar?

Not only is it great value for money, but It's totally vegetarian - no nasties here. You won't find any Sodium lauryl sulfate, mineral oil and animal ingredients in the products (except cruelty-free honey and beeswax). 

Showcasing OPI's Holiday Celebration Collection, this advent calendar contains 25 nail lacquers in a range of festive shades. 

What's so special about the OPI Advent Calendar?

Helping you to create the perfect at-home manicure from start to finish, as well as including 23 different shades, you'll find a RapiDry Top Coat and 1 Start to Finish 3 in 1 Treatment.