Okay, so this is the big one I think – the one I’ve seen the most excitement about anyway, and certainly to me it seems like incredible value with some very desirable products. Although I have little or nothing to do with the M&S affiliate programme these days (they email me with ‘amazing’ offers by mistake every now and again) because you had to join a special group and it’s not my job to sell for M&S, I think this is going to be very heavily promoted by affiliates and therefore will sell out very, very quickly (look what happened with the MAC one – the first run was gone in a day).
So, it’s the usual deal – the advent will cost you £35 with a £35 spend on home, clothing or beauty. Everyone can make a happy £35 spend in any of those departments I would have thought, and £35 for everything in the calendar, when it has a value of £280+, seems unmissable to me. My only issue is that it’s not that stable when you open it up. The box stacking is like a puzzle (pity the poor packers who had to do this job!) and it feels like one wrong move and it’s Jenga time. Good luck putting it all back if that happens 😊.
Here’s the content list:
Nuxe Luxurious Body Cream, Diego Dalla Palma Eye Pencil, Eyeko Lash Alert Mascara, Percy & Reed Perfectly Perfecting Wonder Overnight Recovery, The Hero Project Hyasoft Instant Moisture Boost, This Works Deep Sleep Pillow Spray, This Works In Transit Camera Close-Up Mask, Moisturiser and Primer in One, Skyn Iceland Berry Lip Fix with Wintered Red, Algae Phillip Kingsley Pomegranate & Cassis Elasticizer, Leighton Denny High Performance Nail Colour, Living Proof 5-in-1 Styling Treatment, Studio 10 Lip Perfecting Balm Gloss, Pur Afterglow Skin-Perfecting Powder Highlighter, Filorga Time-Filler Eyes, Stila Smudge Stick Waterproof Eye Liner, L’Occitane Immortelle Divine Cream Advanced Anti-Aging Skincare, L’Occitane Verbena Shower Gel, Autograph Blusher Brush, M&S Formula Absolute Ultimate Sleep Cream, Prai Ageless Throat & Décolletage Crème, Balance Me Wonder Eye Cream, Pixi Rose Tonic, Autograph Luminosity Luxe Multi Bronzer, Ren V-Cense Revitalising Night Cream, and Shay & Blue Black Tulip Natura Spray Fragrance.
Highlights for me include Skyn Iceland Berry Lip Fix, Formula Absolute Ultimate Sleep Cream (the best own brand product M&S has ever done), Ren V-Cense Night Cream, This Works Deep Sleep Pillow Spray, Prai Throat & Decolletage Cream and L’Occitane Immortelle. I’ve been through most of the drawers and the product sizes are either travel or luxury sampe mostly. Anyway, it’s HERE – hope I’m early enough with this post for you to be able to get hold of one! If you don’t I have some lovely alternatives coming up over the next couple of weeks including Elemis, L’Occitane and Feel Unique.
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Thanks Jane – all ordered by 7.30am. Didn’t want to miss this one, and your reminder was really timely! x
Still available at almost 2pm. I see the Liberty one is still available over a week after going on sale too. Is the advent calendar bubble bursting?
I’m not sure.. there is certainly stiffer competition as there are so many this year.
I’ve just got home with mine. To me it’s just a beauty box, there’s no way I could wait to open it!
Last year the M&S in London Colney (M25 Junction 22) had lots of stock available in store long after it had sold out online
The logical side of me kept thinking if this calendar was to be stood up on a desk or a counter, how can one pull out the #1, #2, #3 and so forth without the base and the rest crumbling? Not a complaint since it’s just 35 GBP! Making little drawers would be too much to ask for.
They have 250,000 boxes to sell so I’m guessing they’ll be available for a little while 🙂