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The year's best beauty Advent calendars are nearly sold out—but these are still in stock
It's time to say goodbye to the year's best Advent calendars. Goodbye Liberty London and your Advent calendar with $1,600 worth of beauty supplies for only $345. Until 2025 Cult Beauty and your Advent calendar that sold out within just a few weeks. We look forward to next year's jam-packed calendars, but if you still need a great beauty Advent calendar for 2024, there are a handful left you can still shop (like Charlotte Tilbury's Treasure Chest of Love).
Whether you prefer Burt's Bees to Chap-Stick or Clinique to Mac, there's an Advent calendar out there for you. We've tracked the best beauty calendars still in stock right now, with all our sold-out favorites marked at the end of this list.
The best beauty Advent calendars of 2024
Countdown to the holidays in the most colorful, beautiful way with one of the year's top beauty advent calendars. But don't dilly dally — they'll sell out in the blink of an eye.
This beauty advent calendar by the brand that brought you the iconic Pillow Talk lip shade and dermatologist-recommended Magic Cream includes 12 doors filled with $300 worth of makeup and skin care gifts, including some full-sized products. (Spoiler: You'll a travel-sized Pillow Talk lipstick and Magic Cream in the calendar!)
If it's time to refresh your makeup collection, you won't do better than the MAC Advent Calendar, which offers five lipsticks, two mascaras, and an array of tints, creams, liners, and glosses in gorgeous gold boxes that you'll want to keep displayed all year long.
Could your skincare routine use a little work? Score the best of Dermstore with this 2024 Advent calendar that comes with $900 worth of merch for just $175. Get serums, retinols, cleansers, shampoos, and even a microneedle system with the best of Dermstore's beauty offerings.
Bloomingdale's has packed its 25-day Advent calendar with some of the best brands the merchant has to offer, including Dr. Barbara Sturm (Oprah's favorite), Kiehl's, Diptyque, and La Mer. The calendar features over $900 of beauty goodies, but you can snag it for just $325 (until it sells out).
Macy's sells some of the best beauty brands out there, many of which are found in the brand's 25-day Advent calendar. You can get Clinique, Mario Badescu, Borghese, and more, all for under $100. You may even find a new product you can't live without.
For the person who's all about skin care, you can't go wrong with this 12-piece set holiday set featuring Kiehl's best-selling classics like Ultimate Strength Hand Salve, Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado and Clearly Corrective Dark Spot Solution.
A limited-edition 24-gift journey for the senses featuring the best of what L'Occitane has to offer your skin, body, hair, hands and more. This advent calendar is like a treasure chest full of presents, from the brand's iconic hand creams to decadent almond favorites and skin-care must-haves. Expect a full size of the brand's Intensive Foot Balm as well as travel sizes of favorites like Overnight Reset Oil-in-Serum and Almond Shower Scrub.
For the tween on your list, this Chapstick advent calendar is a fun gift idea. For 12 days they'll get a unique, one-of-a-kind Chapstick flavor, from cotton candy and chocolate milk to sugar cookie and cake batter.
If your giftee prefers Burt's Bees to ChapStick, this Advent calendar will keep them moisturized throughout the new year. It comes loaded with 12 balms in a range of flavors, including Cranberry Spritz, Mint Cocoa, and more.
Surprise their senses this holiday season with this 24-day advent calendar full of shower steamers. These sparkling shower steamers are made with essential oils in the scents of the season, like peppermint, eucalyptus, fir tree, and clove.
You're not getting the greatest savings with this one ($199 for $250 worth of products), but Kylie Jenner is an incredibly popular beauty influencer, so if you've got a budding makeup lover on your list, they'll drool over Kylie's 2024 Advent calendar.
This limited edition Advent calendar from Sol De Janeiro is great for those who love refreshing scents in all their skincare products. The brand is well-known for its Brazilian Bum Bum Cream, which reviewers say helps de-wrinkle their sensitive areas.
With this advent calendar, you'll get a colorful countdown to Christmas like no other. Each day you'll unbox a different Lush gift for every beauty need from head to toe. Enjoy festive bath bombs, luxurious lotions, and even a candle for your home.
Beauty Advent calendars that have already sold out
Each year, we see beauty Advent calendars fly off the shelves. 2024 is no different — the following beauty Advent calendars are already gone for the year. You can try signing up for waitlists where applicable, but don't get your hopes up for these coveted calendars.
One of the most highly coveted beauty advent calendars every year is the Anthropologie beauty advent calendar. For under $100 and with two-dozen different travel-sized products from fan favorite brands, it's not hard to see why it sells out every single year. Expect to get products from brands like L'Occitane, ELEMIS, Supergoop!, Salt & Stone, Sunday Riley, Anastasia Beverley Hill and much, much more.
This 12-day advent calendar comes with premium beauty favorites from brands you know, like Mario Badescu, Slip Silk, Patchology and more. Expect to unbox luxe beauty faves like Slip Silk scrunchies, Lancer Method Polish and Babe Original Lash Serum
Beekman 1802 makes skincare products with goat milk, which feels nourishing and enriching. If you're intrigued, you can try some of the brand's best skincare finds — like lotions, creams, and serums — for just $179. That includes 16 full-sized products, which is pretty rare for an Advent calendar.
Checking out what's in your shopping basket has never been more thrilling thanks to this "Gorgeous Grocer" beauty advent calendar from Benefit Cosmetics. The 24-day advent calendar includes Benefit Cosmetics favorites from fresh brow looks to cheek treats to crave-worthy lashes and so much more — all served in a cute grocers basket. Expect travel-sized gifts of brand favorites like Hoola Matte Bronzer, They’re Real Beyond Mascara, Gimme Brow+ Brow-Volumizing Fiber Gel and Benetint Rose-Tinted Lip & Cheek Stain.
If you're going to splurge on an Advent calendar, it's hard to beat Bluemercury, which carries some of the best beauty products you can try. This box carries a whopping $1,315 value, yet only costs $300, meaning you can try a ridiculous number of luxury beauty goods for just a few hundred bucks.
Countdown to Christmas with this calendar that's full of head-to-toe nifty gifties from The Body Shop. The gift set includes a mix of both full-sized and travel-sized favorites such as Tea Tree Facial Wash, British Rose Facial Mask, Satsuma Shower Gel and Avocado Body Butter.
Cult Beauty's official advent calendar is back and bigger than ever, with with over 40 expertly curated beauty gifts — including 19 full sized faves and six Cult Beauty exclusives! You'll unbox delightful skin and hair items from brands you know and love like gisou, Tower 28, Paula's Choice, Ceremonia, Byoma, Ouai, MZ Skin and many (many!) more.
An advent calendar, only not the way you know it.It's the perfect gift to give in the lead-up to the holidays or for the big event. Open a box each day and discover a surprise of six daily luxuries all proudly scented with the brand's iconic warm and spicy Not A Perfume fragrance.
Feeling splurgy? Let us introduce you to La Mer's 2024 advent calendar, "The World Of La Mer." In it you'll unbox over 12 days a handful of the brand's most notorious silky serums, sumptuous creams and other indulgent delights. You can expect to find the Crème de la Mer, the Regenerating Serum, the Moisturizing Soft Cream and the Hand Treatment.
Laneige carries one of the best lip masks we've ever seen—it has more than 46,000 Amazon ratings and a solid 4.6-stars. You can get your own mask along with 11 other bestsellers from the brand in its 2024 Advent calendar.
It's one of the most iconic beauty advent calendars each and every year, and we're thrilled that it's back and bigger than ever for 2024. Worth more than $1,650 in total value (yep, that's right), this calendar is fit to burst with 28 luxury beauty products — 18 of which are full sized! You'll unbox products such as La Mer Lip Volumiser, Sunday Riley Good Genes, Augustinus Bader The Rich Cream, Byredo lipstick and Davines Oi Milk — to name just a few.
The box includes 25 drawers and is decorated with charming illustrations by world-renowned artist Clym Evernden.
If that wasn't enough, a select few of the advent calendars includes a Golden ticket hidden inside that awards each of the lucky winners £1,000 to spend at Liberty.
Perfect for the fragrance obsessive, this 12-day advent calendar from a brand that's all about using scents to unlock (and create) memories. The calendar spotlights miniatures of the brand’s perfumes, candles and body products like Jazz Club Eau de Toilette, Lazy Sunday Morning Mini Scented Candle and By The Fireplace Eau de Toilette.
Sephora's Advent calendar is only $50 this year and carries 24 days' worth of beauty goodies, including mascara, wipes, hydrators, shower gel, face masks, and more. This Advent calendar is great for any beauty-loving teens or young adults who you're shopping for this season.
If you're unfamiliar with SpaceNK, we're thrilled to be the ones to introduce you. Founded in the London in 1991, SpaceNK is now a worldwide retailer for luxury cosmetics. It's kind of like the Sephora of the UK, but with a bit more of a premium experience.
And the brand's 2024 advent calendar is definitely worth splurging on if luxury beauty is your (or your giftees) favorite thing. In it you'll find 35 beauty gifts behind 25 doors and 23 of those items are full-size beauty products from brands like including Rare Beauty, Summer Fridays and Medik8.
Expect to unbox luxe beauty items such as Augustinus Bader's The Serum, Olaplex No. 7 Bonding Oil, Tatcha's The Serum and Drunk Elephant's La La Retro Whipped Cream.
Ulta's 24 Days of Self Care Advent Calendar is not nearly as expensive as other offerings we've found—but it offers an incredible savings. You can score nearly $300 worth of beauty goodies (like Clinique, Elemis, Murad, Olaplex, and Philosophy) for only $75.
For the candle lover on your list there's no better gift than a bunch of candles. This advent calendar comes with 12 full-sized Voluspa candles in scents that remind one of a fancy spa like French Cade Lavender, Baltic Amber and Sparkling Cuvée.
For beauty-curious kids and tweens, look no further than this 12-day advent calendar from wet n' wild. Each day for 12 days you'll unbox some of the brand's best selling makeup products for eyes and face, like the Wild Icon Blush, Mega Volume Mascara (and curler!) and Mega Last Breakup Proof retractable eyeliner.
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