Holt Renfrew’s Beauty Advent Calendar is a month-long tour through the most luxe beauty brands.
Don’t wait until later in the season to give your dearest friend their holiday gift. A beauty advent calendars is a daily present from December first to the 24th, and the best substitute for the chocolate-stuffed ones we got as kids. (Remember how much bigger the last window was and you knew that the chocolate hiding inside would be huge as well?) The calendars with drawers are gorgeous and reusable, but the ones that require you to carefully open all the perforations are a retro thrill.
L’Occitane’s Classic is the beauty advent calendar OG and clocks in at only $89 Canadian. The mix of soaps, hair care (and purse-sized shea-butter skin and hand care from L’Occitane’s partner artisans in Burkina Faso and Ghana) is a delight that guarantees the recipients are properly moisturized for months to come.
The Body Shop’s Share the Love Big Advent Calendar is a cornucopia of face masks, hand creams, shampoo, soap, as well as a headband and a full sized Avocado Body Butter, all for $129. And this year, The Body Shop is supporting First Nations by donating $50,000 to The Caring Society to help community leaders focused on First Nations children’s rights.
Charlotte Tilbury’s Beauty Dreams and Secrets, $250, charlottetilbury.com contains nine travel and three full sized, best-selling skincare and makeup items in a sparkly chest of drawers, which, after emptying, needs to be reloaded with tiny treats and gifted to the nearest young family member to make their head explode with joy.
Holt Renfrew’s Beauty Advent Calendar, $525, is a heart-stopping beauty fully loaded with beautifully wrapped generously-sized luxe beauty treats from brands like La Mer, Diptyque, Sulwhasoo, Westman Atelier and Gucci, each in its own protective dust-bag. Maybe you just want it all for yourself? We are not here to judge.
The Shoppers Drug Mart Beauty Surprises Advent Calendar, $95, contains a wide assortment of classics like Clinique, Estee Lauder and Darphin as well as lines you need to discover.
Lancôme’s Beauty Advent Calendar, $199, Shoppers Drug Mart, is a flatlay, 3D Parisian streetscape of iconic quintessentially French products like Monsieur Big mascara, Advanced Génifique eye cream and L’Absolue Rouge lipstick (in a classic French girl red, of course.)