Ciate Mini Manor Advent Calendar

The Ciate Mini Manor Advent Calendar is one of my favourite beauty advent calendars this year. If you love all things nails, it’s about as blissful as you can get.

Inside, you’ll find 23 dinky sized bottles – some beads, some polishes, some glitters and one full size (is it just me or did advent calendars used to go up to 25 days – I am sure when I was little day 25 was always the manger scene?) polish.

Ciate Mini Manor

Presentation is all with beauty advent calendars – some of the first are now starting to look a little tired compared to newer, more design conscious versions (yes, L’Oreal, that’s you) and Ciate so has this right. I’ve done a quick scout around and can’t find this on offer anywhere – I’m linking to Boots where at least you will pick up some points if you do decide that December isn’t going to be the same without a Ciate Mini Manor! At £49 HERE, that’s some points worth having.

Scandi Advent House

BUT, while I was scooting around the internets looking for offers, I came across the Scandi House Advent from John Lewis. The lid comes off each little house and so if you do want something longer lasting that you can re-fill every year then I haven’t seen anything more lovely. You could do a mix of chocolates, hair-ties, sample sized beauty bits, little letters or notes and – well, just about anything. Its potential is as much as your imagination. It’s £40 HERE.