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Independent Unboxes 2025 Beauty Advent Calendars, Weighing Value at Sephora, Boots and Next

Early verdicts highlight mid-priced calendars promising luxury-brand line-ups with high claimed savings.

Overview

  • Sephora Collection’s premium calendar is priced at £89.99 for 24 items, with The Independent noting a contents value at more than two and a half times the list price.
  • Boots launches two 2025 calendars at £150 and £70, with the flagship 24-day edition marketed as worth more than £600 and featuring brands such as Drunk Elephant, Sol De Janeiro, Nars, Elemis and Benefit.
  • Next returns with a £95 ‘25 days of beauty’ and a £185 ‘luxury beauty’ calendar that reviewers position as cheaper alternatives to department-store offerings from Liberty and Harvey Nichols.
  • Reviewers at The Independent unboxed the calendars ahead of December to assess packaging, product sizes, brand mix, full-size counts and overall value.
  • Separately, Debenhams’ 2025 beauty advent calendar is discounted to £127.50 from £150 in an early Black Friday deal, advertising 37 products including 19 full sizes and an entry into a MINI Cooper prize draw.