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The 23 Best Beauty Advent Calendars For 2022's Holiday Season
Because everyone deserves a daily treat during the holidays.
When it comes to holiday gifting, a beauty advent calendar is always a good choice. It’d be pretty tough to find a beauty lover who wouldn’t appreciate waking up to daily little skin care or makeup treats. Plus, you’re basically giving multiple gifts in one which makes you the holiday MVP.
Every year, everyone’s favorite brands come out with some of the most fun and decadent advent calendars out there. For 2022, L’Occitane, Fresh, and Kiehl’s have your basic skin care needs covered. Benefit Cosmetics and bareMinerals are here to up your makeup game with their classic hero products. There are plenty of options for your bougie friend, too: Jo Malone, Dr. Barbara Sturm, luxury e-commerce site Net-A-Porter, and department store Bloomingdales have luxurious, expertly-curated sets that they will most definitely want to indulge in.
Plan accordingly and get a head start on your holiday shopping before December rolls around. Below are 23 of the best beauty advent calendars to gift your loved ones during the 2022 holiday season.
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L’Occitane
Test out L’Occitane classics such as the Shea Butter Foot Cream and Hand Cream while also indulging in soothing scents from the Citrus Verbena Shower Gel and Almond Shower Oil. For 24 days, you get a mini sample of one of L’Occitane’s best sellers (along with a full-sized hand cream).
Jo Malone London
Jo Malone’s decadent advent calendar features mini fragrances, home scents, candles, and even decor. (I mean, how adorable is that snow globe?). It would truly impress anyone on your list.
Benefit Cosmetics
Benefit’s advent calendar offers 12 days of makeup fun with miniature versions of some of its hero products, like the POREfessional Primer, Gimme Brow+, They’re Real! Mascara, and Hoola bronzer.
Dr. Barbara Sturm
Know someone whose skin care game is unmatched? Dr. Barbara Sturm’s advent calendar has mini, deluxe, and full-sized products of her most iconic products, like the hyaluronic serum and Glow Drops.
Fresh
Whether you’re already a fan or skin care newbie, this set has everything you need to cleanse, moisturize, mask, and more. You get a mix of mini and full-sized products of Fresh’s best-sellers, like the Soy Face Cleanser, Black Tea Firming Overnight Mask, and Sugar Lip Balms.
Ipsy
The OG beauty curator, Ipsy’s advent calendar is 25 days of surprises. You’ll get beauty essentials from its most popular brands like Osea, Fenty, and Tatcha.
Beekman 1802
Treat your body, face, and soul with this advent calendar. It’s filled with 24 of Beekman 1802’s best-selling products, as well as some new launches. But what really sets this apart from the rest is the daily affirmation you get when you open a time capsule — because self-love is ultimately the best gift you could ever get.
Net-A-Porter
A beauty advent calendar curated by the fashionable minds at Net-A-Porter means you’ll be walking away with the most luxurious items. Charlotte Tilbury, Dr. Barbara Sturm, Tata Harper, and Augustinus Bader are just a few of the heavy hitters that you’ll be able to sample.
Ciaté London
The thought of waking up to a new nail polish for 24 days straight will get any beauty lover super excited for the holidays. This advent calendar features 23 minis of Ciaté London’s most classic shades from the last 10 years and one full-sized polish.
Kiehl’s
Another one for the skin guru in your life (or if you just want to gift yourself a skin care reset), the Kiehl’s advent calendar offers essentials for your daily and nightly routine. You get a mix of mini and full-sized classic Kiehl’s products: Creme de Corps, Midnight Recovery Concentrate, Creamy Eye Treatment with Avocado, and so much more.
Bloomingdales
The Bloomingdales advent calendar offers some of the best prestige beauty brands — Sisley Paris, Valentino Beauty, La Prairie, and more — in fun mini samples to really treat a loved one (or yourself) for the holidays.
Dr. Hauschka
If you’re looking for the best in natural skin care, Dr. Hauschka is a great place to start. This 24-day advent calendar features trial-sized products of some of its classics like the Facial Toner and Soothing Cleansing Milk, plus a full-sized surprise on the very last day.
QVC
The QVC advent calendar covers your skin care and makeup needs for under $40. You get samples from some of your favorite brands — Sunday Riley, IT Cosmetics, and GlamGlow to name just a few — for 12 days of fun little surprises.
bareMinerals
A mix of skin care and makeup essentials, bareMinerals is giving your loved ones 12 days of beauty treats. You’ll find mini and full-sized samples of its most loved products like the Pureness Gel Cleanser and the Mineralist Lipstick in Courage. It’s perfect for the minimalist in your life.
111Skin
The next best thing to a week-long spa stay is this advent calendar that has 12 days of intensive skin treatments to give your skin the ultimate T.L.C. You’ll find all sorts of face and eye masks to target blemishes, dullness, skin sagging, and more to get your skin glowing for the new year.
Saks Fifth Avenue
With this limited-edition advent calendar from Saks Fifth Avenue, you’ll find some of the most luxurious fragrance samples from brands like Gucci, Tom Ford, and Maison Francis Kurkdjian, and makeup from Charlotte Tilbury and Dior. It’ll offer 25 super chic days throughout the holiday season.
Origins
The holidays are the perfect time to reset before the new year. Give your face and body an at-home spa experience with these 24 minis of some of Origins' essentials. It includes favorites such as the Mega-Mushroom Relief & Resilience Soothing Treatment Lotion, Clear Improvement Active Charcoal Mask to Clear Pores, and the Plantscription Multi-Powered Youth Serum.
Guerlain
Decorated by artist and illustrator Aleksandra Miletić, Guerlain’s 2022 advent calendar is intricately designed for something really dreamy and enchanting. You get 25 daily treats, including eight mini L’Art & La Matière fragrance samples, six mini candles, three Sapoceti perfumed soaps, three Abeille Royale skin care products, three ceramics perfume diffusers, one KissKiss lipstick, and a bee bracelet.
Payot
This advent calendar offers you skin-nourishing treats with 24 skin care minis. It includes products like the Pâte Grise Masque to cleanse our pores, the Rituel Corps Gommage for a dewy glow, and the Nutricia Crème Confort to hydrate dry skin in the colder months. Plus, a $240-valued set for $90 is a solid deal.
Alo Beauty & Wellness
For the pilates-obsessed (or really anyone who happens to love the active lifestyle), the Alo Yoga advent calendar offers mini skin care, athleisure, and wellness goodies. You’ll find socks, headbands, towels, a mini hair claw clip, and a one-year subscription to Alo Moves.
Sabon
This calendar has minis of Sabon’s classic scents that will nourish your skin, body, hands, and soul. There are 24 daily treats that include body scrubs in dreamy scents, a Dead Sea mud mask, and a refreshing ginger and orange-scented shower oil.
Revolve
If you need more reasons to shop at Revolve, its advent calendar offers 24 minis of some of the best-selling beauty offerings in a very adorable case. You’ll find classics like the Summer Fridays Jet Lag Mask, Sunday Riley Good Genes Lactic Acid Treatment, Supergoop! Unseen Sunscreen SPF 40, and Dr. Barbara Sturm Lip Balm.
e.l.f. Cosmetics
A mix of full and mini versions of some e.l.f. Cosmetics favorites, this advent calendar offers 24 daily treats for your skin and makeup routines. You’ll find helpful tools, like an eyelash curler and makeup brushes, but you’ll also discover eyeshadow palettes, lip products, and face jewels in limited-edition shades.
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