So: friends and #fam, look away now – so as not to spoil your upcoming surprise. Because this is the advent calendar that for some years now we have given to our own beloved ones, quite simply because Latest in Beauty’s seasonal offering never disappoints. EVER.

In point of fact, this year’s calendar is a ‘24 Days of Christmas’ offering, with a wrapped gift to open each day (and an explanatory booklet), rather than a traditional calendar with doors that you open. Don’t let that put you off; the contents are spectacular, worth £360 – yet the price of this is £70 +(and actually, if you use the code ADVENT10, you’ll get another tenner off that). Shipping is another £3.95.

Think: no less than FIFTEEN full-size products, with luxury sizes of all the others! Think: brands like Elizabeth Arden, Oribe, KMS, Aromatherapy Associates, NUXE, Dr. Lipp, Nailberry, Murad, Delilah and Crabtree & Evelyn. And one of the reasons this calendar goes down so well is because aforementioned friends and family love how it introduces them to products and names they’d never normally encounter, enabling them confidently to buy full sizes of the products that float their boat.

One tip: if you’re going to mail it to a friend, you’ll need a ‘hazardous’ sticker on the parcel (you can get these from Royal Mail), otherwise it may get intercepted. So: what we tend to do is have Latest in Beauty send it to our intended recipient, while we issue strict instructions not to open before 1st December!

Quite a lot of names on our Christmas list ticked, though – and that’s always a great feeling!

£70 + £3.95 p&p (£60 + p&p with code ADVENT10) - buy here

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