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Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year and the build-up makes it even better. The 1st of December brings a host of excitement, taking us all back to being children again when we get to rip open the first door of our advent calendar. The exhilaration of opening your advent calendar each day signifies another day closer to Christmas, that feeling cannot be beaten! We’ve done our research and found the best advent calendars on the market to get you ready for the big day – from beauty to beer calendars, we’ve got you covered!
The Naked Marshmallow Co
£17.50
The Naked Marshmallow are back for their third year running, better than ever this year to help you in the countdown to Christmas. This year’s calendar features six sumptuous alternating flavours which include: Salted Caramel, Butterscotch, Gingerbread, Mint Choc Chip, Milk & Cookies and S’mores! It is the first Advent Calendar of The Naked Marshmallow to be completely designed in-house. What’s even more impressive is that all of the marshmallows are handmade and hand-cut, and the calendars are hand processed.
12 Gin & Tonics For Christmas
£34.99
B&M has got the good stuff to keep you going in the run-up to the big day – GIN! Do you know a special someone with a taste for gin? This gin and tonic advent calendar will keep juniper-loving friends and family very happy in the run-up to Christmas. The perfect gift for those who enjoy a Christmas tipple. This calendar is one of the best gin calendars on the market at an affordable cost including both12 x 50ml bottles of Gin and 12 x 150ml bottles of Tonic Water. Enjoy the lead up to Christmas with a G&T on B&M!
Yankee Candle Wreath
£24.99
We all love the scent of Christmas Yankee candles, they really do get us in the Christmas spirit. A returning favourite, the wreath advent calendar is an exciting alternative advent calendar this year. This daily treat contains their best festive loved fragrances and a Clear Glass Tea Light Holder. Enjoy 24 Tea Lights in eight fragrances: Pomegranate Gin Fizz, Candlelit Cabin, Evergreen Mist, After Sledding, Cinnamon Stick, Christmas Cookie, Snowflake Cookie, Christmas Magic. What a great way to get into the Christmas spirit than filling your home with a different festive scent every day in the lead up to Christmas!
A Chocolate Feast – Prestat
£19.50
For those of you who love a chocolate advent calendar, Prestat has got you sorted this December with their A Chocolate Feast Vegan advent calendar. The Dark and Stormy Chocolate is a revelation – representing the purity of the ultimate single-origin vegan chocolate and will be enjoyed by anyone – whether they are vegan or not. The other chocolate bites each play on the subtleties of its flavour, adding their own distinctive twist. Vegan or not, this calendar will leave you yearning for more every day in December.
The 12 Curries of Christmas Advent Calendar
£29.95
We love alternative advent calendars and The Spicery 12 Curries of Christmas Advent Calendar 2019 is a perfect example of a calendar that gives you the thrill of opening each door as well as a new recipe for the 12 days leading up to Christmas Day! The calendar contains 12 different spice blends to create curries from around the world – they’re easy to make (mainly one-pot curries!) but they’re incredibly delicious to feed 4 people. Each recipe contains suggestions on what side dishes would pair really well to make a spectacular meal (such as naans, mango chutney or plain rice, or raita!) You can enjoy a December full of curries and spices with this sumptuous calendar!
It’s the Season to be Glossy
£70 for subscribers, £80 for non subscribers
If you love beauty products then The GlossyBox ‘It’s The Season To Be Glossy’ advent calendar is perfect for you. This calendar is a perfectly packaged, premium calendar featuring a wide selection of beauty products to keep you surprised each day during December! After the critically acclaimed, debut sell-out year in 2018, beauty box subscription brand GLOSSYBOX reveals the full product line up for their second Advent Calendar which retails from just £70. 25 days’ worth of exceptional beauty and skincare products bring you some of the most sought after brands. This includes the famous sweet fragrance, Nomad by Chloé; a stunning 16-shade full- size eyeshadow palette by NYX Professional Makeup, worth £16; Dermalogica’s award-winning powder exfoliant, worth £17.50; and the incredible Limited Edition Tarte Cosmetics highlighter and bronzer palette worth £40! We couldn’t be more excited to try out this calendar this December!
Livia’s Indulgence With Bells On
£39.99
Set to be the advent calendar on everybody’s wish-list this Christmas, Livia’s festive countdown calendar is packed full with irresistibly tasty treats and it’s VEGAN! Allowing you to indulge in life a little each and every day of December, this calendar is brimming with deliciousness from heavenly, squidgy Nugglets to gooey Million Squares. Plus there’s also the dreamy DUNX, which feature soft oat cookies paired with a silky smooth Caramel Almond Swirl dip. True to the Livia’s ethos each treat awaiting you is made with the most simple ingredients, is gluten and dairy-free, vegan and completely natural. With last year’s calendar a sell-out success, you better be quick to snap up this covetable calendar!
LEGO Advent Calendars
£22.99 – £24.99
Release your inner child in the run-up to Christmas and choose a Lego advent calendar to keep you entertained. We all love Lego, it’s brings us back to our childhood and with themed Advent Calendars for all to enjoy. They have four calendars available for you to get stuck into this December including Harry Potter and Star Wars-themed calendars. Each calendar has 24 pieces for you to recreate iconic scenes from the films.
Beauty Advent Calendar
£14.99
It can be hard to find an advent calendar that’s budget-friendly with a wide range of products. Worry not this December as PrezzyBox have released their beauty advent calendar with a beauty-ful treat behind every door for you! Advent Calendars with a difference are all the rage right now, and with this amazing Beauty Advent Calendar, we can see why! The Beauty Advent Calendar has a beauty-ful gift behind each little door, including lipstick, lipgloss, eyeliner and nail polish, ideal for making sure you look absolutely cracking this Christmas. Get excited for the festive season whilst trying out some new looks for those Christmas parties with this advent calendar, featuring a beauty gift behind each door! You’ll be the belle of the Christmas ball, every time!
Beerwulf Beer Advent Calender
£49.95
The festive period is the perfect time of year to let loose and pop open a bottle of beer. For all of those beer lovers out there, you can celebrate the countdown to Christmas with the best winter beer from Beerwulf’s Beer Advent Calendar. The calendar consists of 24 beers from 24 craft breweries: with every day comes a new door to open. And with every door is a new surprise beer waiting for you. Enjoy it with friends and family or keep it all for yourself! The range of craft beers in the calendar is enough to get any beer fan excited. There’s even a surprise exclusive beer waiting behind one of the doors that you can only get with the Beerwulf Advent Calendar. We can’t think of a more perfect way to get into the Christmas spirit than treating yourself to a beer.
Classic Beauty Advent Calendar
£49.00
Another beauty advent calendar to prepare you for Christmas is the L’OCCITANE Classic Calendar. Behind each of the 24 doors, you’ll find an irresistible beauty treasure; there’s an Almond Milk Concentrate, an Ultra Thirst-Quenching Gel, an intensive Hand Balm and more. This Christmas, L’OCCITANE’s Classic Advent Calendar takes the form of a book, telling one of their true stories about the Almond tree. This bright and colourful design was created by Hsinping Pan an illustrator from Taiwan who observes the world around her and captures it with a playful feel. With a few sweeps of her brush, she created the artistic vision for L’OCCITANE’s Christmas collection capturing both the beauty and fragility of nature. Enjoy this beauty-filled advent calendar this December whilst embracing the true story behind it.
Gourmet Popcorn Advent Calendar
£25.00
Dive into December with Joe and Seph’s beautifully handmade Gourmet Popcorn Advent Calendar. Back for 2019 and now with the CORNiest popcorn jokes ever and gluten-free for the first time! Kick-start the Christmas countdown with the world’s first Popcorn Advent Calendar! Illustrated as a snow-covered, Joe & Seph’s Victorian shop-front, the calendar opens like a giant Christmas storybook. Behind each of the 24 doors are snack-sized packets of our artisan popcorn in 12 unique flavours including: Salted Caramel, Caramel & Belgian Chocolate, Caramel & White Chocolate, Toffee Apple & Cinnamon, Banoffee Pie, Raspberry Cheesecake, Speculoos, Strawberries & Cream, White Chocolate and Strawberry, Double Chocolate, Classic Caramel, Orange Chocolate. The run-up to Christmas will never be the same with this wonderfully brilliant gourmet popcorn advent calendar, each day will bring you a new flavour to get your tastebuds tingling.
Continental Advent Calendar – Thorntons
£20.00
Get ready for a chocolate filled advent with the Thorntons Continental Advent Calendar! This year’s Continental Advent Calendar is beautifully made with its crisp, white design stunningly adorned with golden Christmas trees and snowflakes, containing an assortment of delectable milk, dark and white chocolates. If you’re a fan of Thorntons finest Continental chocolates then why not treat yourself to a taste of the Continent, every day of advent? Thorntons British Chocolate Makers crafted this much-loved Continental range, inspired by travelling across Europe in search of rich and delicate taste experiences. They combined these influences, their passion and years of expertise to create special recipes of beautifully crafted chocolates, using carefully selected ingredients. This is a very special advent calendar for those grown-ups who love luxurious chocolate as much as they love Christmas.
