When you’re all grown up, the count-down to Christmas can feel more exhausting than exciting. Navigating busy shopping centres, making sure presents are wrapped and coordinating Christmas lunch is enough to make even the most enthusiastic and organised amongst us want to clamber into bed for a nap. Luckily some of our favourite beauty brands have come up with a way to inject some much needed indulgence, self-care and child-like-glee back into the countdown to Christmas.
Net-A-Porter’s 25 Days of Beauty Advent Calendar, $410
Forget the days of dodgy boxes filled with dodgier chocolate, behind each of the signature black doors in NET-A-PORTER’s advent calendar you’ll find products from some of the world’s most coveted beauty brands including Dr Barbara Sturm, Tata Harper and Augustinus Bader. This daily indulgence is sure to see you through the holidays and coax bright, beautiful, healthy skin well into the New Year.
Go-To Beauty’s 12- Day Advent Calendar, $150
It’s billed as a “breathtakingly limited” fun, fancy and festive 12-day advent calendar that’s stuffed with 12 Go-To delights – to which we say ‘Get in quick!’.
Why? This cheerful advent calendar is filled with all your favourite Go-To goodies – from Face Hero and the Transformazing Sheet Mask to handy beauty essentials like hair ties and a silk eye mask. Yes please.
Mecca Max’s 12 Piece Mini Must Haves Calendar, $65
Mecca promises a summer of non-stop beauty with 12 mini must-haves to open day-by-day (or all at once!). This beauty-filled holiday calendar is full of treats that slip perfectly into your carry-on or mini bag to ensure you’re always looking your holiday best.
The Body Shop’s Share Love & Joy Ultimate Advent Calendar, $250
Feel good, inside and out, with The Body Shop’s 2021 advent calendars. Bursting with the brand’s best-selling self-care products like soothing day creams and shower gels you will feel nourished while also getting into the spirit of giving, with a portion of proceeds from every calendar purchased going to organisations such as Little Dreamers, a Melbourne based organisation which supports young Aussie carers.
Chanel N°5 Advent Calendar, $1,140
There is something ludicrously luxurious about Chanel’s holiday calendar (the first it’s ever released) which is shaped like an enormous bottle of N°5. Designed as a work of art, the calendar is a celebration of the house’s iconic scent and is filled with (along with a bottle of Chanel N°5) a host of other products and accessories dedicated to the fragrance including a limited edition bracelet, snow globe and two full-size lipsticks (both red, one matte and one satin).
Endota’s Christmas Advent Calendar
With a holistic approach to wellness, this Christmas Endota have teamed up with up with Australian contemporary artist Jenna Paige to create bespoke packaging centred around the theme of optimism. And whats better than a daily-dose of optimism? When that optimism is delivered in the form of products that combine science’s brightest innovations and nature’s finest ingredients.
L’Occitane’s Classic Advent Calendar, $99
Start everyday of December (re)discovering the best of L’Occitane products with this calendar packed full of try-it sizes of signature favourites like Almond Shower Oil and Immortelle Overnight Reset Oil-in-Serum, plus a bundle of their best-selling hand creams including their cult-classic Shea Butter.
Amazon Beauty Advent Calendar, $99.99
Amazon Australia’s bespoke Beauty Advent Calendar showcases a mix of trusted and popular global and local brands in skincare and beauty – including hero products from brands such as Antipodes, Weleda and Wella to name just a few.
BY Maeve Galea
Maeve has written for marie claire, Fashion Journal and is PRIMER's editorial assistant
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