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The holiday countdown is on.
By Ariana Yaptangco , Andrea Navarro, and Malia Griggs
As you’re looking for the perfect present for skin care and makeup lovers, consider the best beauty Advent calendars. Since they’re used to count down the 24 days before Christmas—or in some cases, the 12 days of—with a surprise to unwrap each day, they’re literally the gift that keeps on giving. If you’re a beauty lover, they’re simply one of the most delightful ways to kick off the holiday season.
Some of 2023’s most popular beauty Advent calendars include Glamour-editor-beloved brand Charlotte Tilbury’s curation of makeup, which has its viral Magic Cream, and of course Sephora’s beauty Advent calendar, which always sells out fast. We’re also loving Le Mini Macaron’s gel manicure kit and Dr. Barbara Sturm’s celebrity-favorite collection full of high-end creams and cleansers. Looking to (really) splurge on something luxurious? Dior’s calendar comes in at a cool $700.
Ready to see what’s in store? We’ve rounded up the very best beauty Advent calendars that you can buy now. Be sure to swipe them up before the end of November so you’re ready to unbox those beauty products come December 1—and because popular calendars sell out quickly (see Benefit Cosmetics, MAC, Sephora Collection, and Harrods).
(Psst: Want even more surprises? Check out our edits of the best jewelry Advent calendars and Advent calendars for kids.)
Our top picks:
- Best Skin Care Advent Calendar: Dr. Barbara Sturm Holiday Advent Calendar, $560
- Best Makeup Advent Calendar: Charlotte Tilbury 12-Door Beauty Advent Calendar, $210
- Best Body Care Advent Calendar: Alo Yoga Advent Calendar, $250
- Best Candle Advent Calendar: Diptyque Holiday Advent Calendar, $510
- Best Advent Calendar for Men: The Body Shop The Ultimate Advent of Change Calendar
- Best Luxury Beauty Advent Calendar: La Mer 12 Days of Christmas Collection (Limited Edition), $500
All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Nyx 12 Days of Kissmas Lip Makeup Gift Set
Ulta
1/27
NYX Limited Edition 12 Days Of Kissmas Lip Makeup Gift Set
Glamour editors (and Hailey Bieber) are diehard fans of Nyx lip gloss—after all, it’s $5 a pop, has the perfect not-too-sticky texture, and just the right amount of color. With the brand’s gift set, you’ll get 12 gorgeous glosses, matte lip creams, and lipstick. Good luck choosing your favorite…though why should you, when you can have them all?
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Ulta promo codes.
Clarins 12-Day Advent Calendar
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2/27
Clarins 12-Day Advent Calendar
This streamlined calendar highlights Clarins’s rarely on-sale bestsellers, including Kate Middleton’s beloved Instant Light Natural Lip Perfector gloss and other gentle beauty essentials like makeup primer, mascara, antiaging eye cream, and more.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Nordstrom promo codes.
Voluspa 12-Day Advent Calendar
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3/27
VOLUSPA 12 Day Advent Calendar
Voluspa’s candles are the perfect blend of fancy but fairly easy on the budget, making them a really great holiday gift. This year’s Advent calendar is packed with bestsellers from the beauty brand, including one of our favorite fall candles, the Voluspa Baltic Amber.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Sephora promo codes.
Payot Advent Calendar
Payot
4/27
Payot Advent Calendar 2023
Get the best of Parisian beauty with Payot’s 24-day calendar, featuring 24 of its moisturizing bestsellers—many of which we’ve raved about in the past, like the Moisturizing Day Cream and the Micellar Cleaning Milk (to get on that milky skin care craze).
House of Huda 12-Door Advent Calendar
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5/27
House of Huda 12-Door Advent Calendar
Turn to Huda Beauty for all things makeup—and high-end makeup at that. Its products always sell out fast, so this Advent calendar, which has everything from lashes to eye shadows, editor-approved mascara, highlighter, eyeliners, lip balms, and matte lipstick, is a good one to grab ASAP.
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Dr. Barbara Sturm Holiday Advent Calendar
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6/27
Dr. Barbara Sturm Holiday Advent Calendar
This set (while certainly a splurge) offers full-size and minis of its celeb- and Glamour-editor-loved and -approved products—including its hyaluronic and vitamin C serums, volumizing lip serum, retinol cream, and Saweetie’s favorite Balancing Gel Cleanser.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Nordstrom and Sephora promo codes.
L’Occitane Classic Beauty Advent Calendar
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7/27
L'Occitane Classic Beauty Advent Calendar
L’Occitane’s Advent calendars are stocked with classic skin-nourishing salves—and this year’s lineup includes multiple hand creams, soaps, body lotions, and cleansers that your mother-in-law will love.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Sephora promo codes.
Bobbi Brown 12 Days of Glow Advent Calendar
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8/27
Bobbi Brown 12 Days of Glow Advent Calendar
Let your giftee celebrate 12 days of beauty treats with makeup basics from Bobbi Brown that are all they need for that no-makeup makeup look. This adorable ornament-shaped Advent calendar includes both full- and travel-size bestsellers like the Extra Lip Tint, Shimmer Brick, and Smokey Eye Mascara.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Nordstrom promo codes.
The Body Shop The Ultimate Advent of Change Calendar
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9/27
The Body Shop The Ultimate Advent of Change Calendar
This calendar is a great addition to your brother’s or dad’s shower caddy with its selection of 25 shower gels, body butters, shampoo, and conditioners that will keep them pampered throughout the dry season.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Ulta promo codes.
Charlotte Tilbury 12-Door Beauty Advent Calendar
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10/27
Charlotte Tilbury 12-Door Beauty Advent Calendar
If you’re on the hunt to get your glow on, turn to Charlotte Tillbury. Its mega calendar of makeup and skin care products includes its TikTok-viral products like Magic Cream, Hollywood Beauty Light Wand, and Flawless Setting Spray.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Charlotte Tillbury promo codes.
Le Mini Macaron 12 Days of Nails Advent Calendar
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11/27
Le Mini Macaron 12 Days of Nails Advent Calendar
Here’s the perfect gift for the loved one who is all about giving themself an at-home mani, who’s just tired of spending $$$ on gel manicures, or who’s perhaps learning how to paint their nails like a teen girlie. Le Mini Macaron’s 2023 Advent calendar features everything needed to DIY a long-lasting gel manicure, a cute macaron-shaped LED lamp, five different nail polish colors, plus glam nail care essentials like files, manicure prep pads, and even holiday-themed nail stickers.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Nordstrom promo codes.
Fresh Limited Edition Advent Calendar Skincare Set
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12/27
Fresh Limited Edition Advent Calendar Skincare Set
Inside this prettily packaged calendar are windows for a seemingly never-ending supply of face masks, hand lotions, body scrub, and Meghan Markle’s go-to Fresh Sugar Lip Treatment.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Neiman Marcus promo codes.
Glasshouse Fragrances 24 Days of Christmas Advent Calendar
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13/27
Glasshouse Fragrances 24 Days of Christmas Advent Calendar
This is a show-stopping gift for your mom. Just look at it! It would be so cute perched next to the Christmas tree, and each of its 24 doors reveals a mini fragrance from the brand. She can pick one a day based on her mood or outfit.
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Bloomingdale’s 25-Day Beauty Advent Calendar
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14/27
Bloomingdale's 25-Day Beauty Advent Calendar
Bloomingdale’s Advent cal is bursting with not 12, not 24, but 25 days’ worth of best-selling luxury beauty, skin care, hair care, and wellness products—many of which we’ve written about and awarded. Beauty brands of note: SK-II, Kiehl’s, Augustinus Bader, Le Labo, Shiseido, La Prarie, YSL…and the list’s so long we’ll definitely have to check it twice.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Bloomingdale’s promo codes.
Elemis First Class Skincare Advent Calendar
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15/27
Elemis First Class Skincare Advent Calendar
Oh, Elemis, how we bow down to thee when it comes to all things cream: collagen cream! wrinkle cream! neck firming cream! The brand’s skin care is packed with intensely nourishing ingredients like seabuckthorn oil and gingko, and you’ll find samples of its smoothing, soothing bestsellers as part of the 24-day calendar.
Alo Advent Calendar
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16/27
Alo Advent Calendar
Turn to Alo for all things active—leggings, fitness classes, and body care that’s restorative and luxurious. The brand’s Advent calendar is a thoughtful present for the person whose idea of true bliss is lying in corpse pose. It’s full of self-care goodies, like a magnesium spray that soothes aching muscles, dry shampoo so they can sweat and not deal with greasy hair after, and even a subscription to Alo Moves so they can get in a virtual workout wherever they are
Dior Le 30 Montaigne Holiday 2023 Advent Calendar
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17/27
Dior Le 30 Montaigne Holiday 2023 Advent Calendar
While the price tag might be alarming, this luxe Dior advent calendar actually contains a ton of value. It features popular fragrances like Miss Dior Eau de Parfum and standout makeup including Rouge Dior lipstick, plus the most dreamy scented candles.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Dior promo codes.
Bare Minerals Clean Beauty Countdown 12-Day Advent Calendar
Bare Minerals
18/27
Bare Minerals Clean Beauty Countdown 12-Day Advent Calendar
Bare Minerals’ 12-day calendar features a nice balance of skin care and beauty essentials, with four full-size products and eight travel-size ones. You’ll find its unique loose-powder eye colors and face colors, as well as an antiaging retinol eye cream and an overnight concentrate serum.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Bare Minerals promo codes.
La Mer 12 Days of Christmas Collection (Limited Edition)
La Mer
19/27
La Mer 12 Days of Christmas Collection (Limited Edition)
One Glamour editor praised La Mer’s moisturizing cream as “extravagant and lusciously thick.” The same could be said of the rest of the brand’s cult-favorite skin care products, many of which you’ll find in this exclusive 12-day calendar—including its Eye Concentrate, Treatment Lotion, and Body Cream. It’s the best gift for the luxury beauty lover (you perhaps?).
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Nordstrom promo codes.
Diptyque Holiday Advent Calendar Gift Set
Nordstrom
20/27
Diptyque Holiday Advent Calendar Gift Set
Another cult fave? Diptyque, the French candlemaker famed for its gorgeous, woodsy fragrances (particularly its feu de bois scent). The person who collects candles will absolutely adore this trending gift set, which features 10 of the company’s candles, a variety of its perfumes, soaps, and even hand lotion.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Nordstrom promo codes.
Saks 25 Days of Beauty Advent Calendar
Saks Fifth Avenue
21/27
Saks 25 Days Of Beauty Advent Calendar
There’s a little of everything in department store Saks Fifth Avenue’s Advent calendar, with 25 different skin care, hair care, beauty, and fragrance minis to discover. You’ll find picks from legacy luxury brands like La Mer, Christian Louboutin, Augustinus Bader, and Gucci Beauty.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Saks Fifth Avenue promo codes.
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Yves Saint Laurent Holiday Advent Calendar
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22/27
Yves Saint Laurent Holiday Advent Calendar
Fragrance, makeup, skin care, accessories—YSL’s Advent snowflake-studded calendar has it all. Behind its doors are 24 days of luxury from the Parisian fashion house, including its musky, floral Libre Eau de Parfum (Glamour editorial assistant Monique Wilson’s favorite fall fragrance); best-selling Rouge Volupté Shine Lipstick Balm; Pure Shots Night Reboot Resurfacing Serum; and a beautiful little portable mirror.
Lancer Advent Calendar
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23/27
Lancer Advent Calendar
Lancer makes one of the best face serums: its Ultra Hydrating Serum. Derms love it for its hyaluronic complex-7, which is ideal for sensitive skin (and doesn’t pill when applied under foundation). Lucky for you, that serum is one of the many goodies included in the celeb-favorite brand’s 12-day calendar (good for gifting at Christmas instead of before). Also of note: travel sizes of The Method Polish, Cleanse, and Nourish system.
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Nordstrom promo codes.
Maison Francis Kurkdjian The Countdown Calendar
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24/27
Maison Francis Kurkdjian The Countdown Calendar
Maison Francis Kurkdijan is the maker of Glamour senior beauty editor Ariana Yaptangco’s favorite fragrances across the seasons. She calls the perfumery’s 724 a “power perfume,” describing the eau de parfum as commanding, with notes of sweat pea and mock oranges, enveloped in cozy sandalwood-white-musk accord. The perfume is one of many packaged into this unique cube-shaped calendar, which also features the maison’s signature Baccarat Rouge and Oud scents, as well as its Sparkling Body Oil, Mon Beau Sapin Candle, scented laundry detergent, and more. The company makes just 625 of its calendars—so it’s worth considering for an exclusive splurge that, uniquely, is meant to address the “after” period between Christmas and New Year’s.
Lancôme Advent Calendar
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25/27
Lancôme Advent Calendar
Shopping for a gift for your mother or hard-to-impress mother-in-law? Wow them with 24 days’ worth of Lancôme’s heritage cosmetics. Inside its Advent calendar, she’ll find five full-size products and 19 minis that span fragrance to skin care. There’s the brand’s top-selling La Vie Est Belle perfume; makeup necessities like its Hypnose Mascara, eye shadows, and creamy lipsticks; and many, many eye creams, toning lotions, serums, and moisturizers. She’ll be stocked up on beauty products for here until the end of 2024 (or 2025, honestly).
Save when you shop the best Advent calendars with these Lancôme promo codes.
Valmont Holidays in Neverland Advent Calenda
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26/27
Valmont Holidays in Neverland Advent Calenda
We’ve recommended Valmont’s skin care for its gentle treatment of sensitive skin, and its Advent calendar of antiaging products is a nice way to try its suite (including one of the best toners, the Valmont Vital Falls, which our tester credited for evening out her skin sans breakouts). Also in the box: its cult-favorite Prime Renewing Pack cream mask, its plumping Moisturizing Booster serum, and its oxygenating Deto2x mask.
Guerlain The Hive of Wonders Advent Calendar
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27/27
Guerlain The Hive of Wonders Advent Calendar
Gift the Francophile an Advent calendar from Guerlain that which subtly modernizes French-girl beauty basics (like the red lip and black liner) with touches of glitter and navy—but heavy on the glowing skin. The maison-shaped box houses many chic staples (Glamour-favorite lipsticks and perfumes, day and night creams, and 24k gold radiance primer), as well as scented candles and soaps that’ll make her home smell like the fanciest department store in Paris.
Written by Glamour Staff
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