29 Best Beauty Advent Calendars to Buy in 2025

With 13 products total, including six full sizes, this advent calendar is a real treasure chest.

• Value: $327
• Brands included: Summer Fridays, Benefit, Dr. Barbara Sturm, Oribe, Kosas, and more
• Best for: Trying viral products

Aspiring makeup artists, rejoice! This 24-piece set from MAC Cosmetics has everything you need for an easy everyday makeup look or something more ornate — even false lashes!

• Value: $498
• Brands included: MAC Cosmetics
• Best for: Makeup enthusiasts

If there's a clean beauty lover in your life, delight them with this Credo Beauty set, featuring products from buzzy clean brands like Kosas and Tower28.

• Value: $416
• Brands included: Ceremonia, Kosas, Tower28, Nécessaire
• Best for: Clean beauty fans

For a more budget-friendly option, try this sleek set from everyone's favorite drugstore brand, e.l.f.! The Love at Frost Sight calendar includes skincare, makeup, and tools for a well-rounded routine.

• Brands included: e.l.f.
• Best for: A great deal!

What's better than a new Burt's Bees Lip Balm? Well, 12 Burt's Bees Lip Balms! This adorable set of the beloved balm is perfect for sharing with friends or keeping for yourself. Flavors include Sugar Cookie, Cranberry Spritz, Coconut and Pear, Vanilla Bean, and more.

• Brands included: Burt's Bees
• Best for: Splitting up and sharing with friends

Whether you've never tried Kiehl's products or you can't live without them, this set of 24 bestselling products will definitely delight you. Experience the iconic skin care, hair care, and body care brand via lip balm, moisturizer, eye cream, and so much more.

• Value: $292
• Brands included: Kiehl's
• Best for: Skin care fans

YesStyle's “Starlight Diaries” advent calendar is so cute, you'll want to keep it forever! Inside the pastel box, you'll find 25 full-sized K-beauty products from brands like Biodance — a great way to try something new or restock your go-tos.

• Brands included: Dr. Althea, Biodance
• Best for: K-beauty fans

Surround your loved one or yourself in comforting luxury with this splurgeworthy set, which includes body care, skin care, and some extra-fancy Jenni Kayne cashmere accessories, including a facemask and socks! It's perfect for your favorite homebody who loves nothing more than an at-home spa night on the couch.

• Value: $504
• Brands included: Oak Essentials, Jenni Kayne
• Best for: Homebodies

The holiday season is all about sparkle, so make your nails shine and shimmer long past the parties and ball drop with this kit, which includes 24 full-sized polishes, tools, and nail care accessories. Inside, you'll find everything you need for photo-worthy nails.

• Value: $321
• Brands included: Manucurist
• Best for: Nail trendsetters

So cuuuuute! Unbox 12 mini nail polishes from OPI in the lead-up to Christmas with this precious little calendar, which includes some of the brand's most beloved shades, like Bubble Bath, Lincoln Park After Dark, and Big Apple Red, plus seasonal colors and a base and top coat.

• Brands included: OPI
• Best for: Your friend who changes their nail polish every day

What's more fun than unboxing a new nail polish or nail care product every day? Nothing! Olive & June is launching two different nail-centric calendars — one for the 25 days of Christmas, and another for the eight nights of Hanukkah. The calendars are currently on preorder, so scoop up your set before they're gone and make your nails sparkle like the holiday lights.

• Value: $140/$100
• Brands included: Olive & June
• Best for: At-home manicurists

NUDESTIX's multitasking products make getting ready easy; you can use their crayons and pencils for eyes, lips, cheeks, and face. This sleek set is perfect for the makeup minimalists on your list.

• Value: $195
• Brands included: NUDESTIX
• Best for: Beauty minimalists

This luxurious, glamorous set from Yves Saint Laurent is packed with mini- and full-size perfume, makeup, and skin care, including three full-size Candy Glow Tinted Butter Balm, Candy Glaze Lip Gloss Stick, and Loveshine Lip Oil Stick — some of the brand's most popular formulas.

• Brands included: YSL
• Best for: Fashionistas

Wellness is the theme of this packed box from Alo, which includes body care and skin care products, hair accessories, and even a few of the brand's gel packet wellness shots. Consider your gym bag packed.

• Value: $450
• Brands included: Alo
• Best for: Gymgoers and yogis

Fragrance house Maison Louis Marie's advent calendar is just beautiful — and packed with treasures, including mini perfumes, deodorant, hand cream, and oils, plus two adorable votive candles. The packaging is equally lovely, and honestly, you wouldn't even need to wrap it if you gave it as a gift! If you or someone on your list is looking for a new fragrance or two, this gives you lots of space to play and experiment.

• Value: $300
• Brands included: Maison Louis Marie
• Best for: Fragrance fans

Kitsch, known for its affordably priced hair accessories, packed its 2025 advent calendar with a variety of surprises. While some brands share what's inside their advent calendars, Kitsch is keeping it a true secret; all we know is that you'll get 12 full-size items in each cute little cubby.

• Value: $144
• Brands included: Kitsch
• Best for: Aspiring hairstylists

Charlotte Tilbury's yearly advent calendar is a beauty event. The brand's “treasure chest” is exactly that, housed in a glamorous gold chest of drawers. In each drawer hides a Charlotte Tilbury product, including five full-size items. It's the perfect gift for a Charlotte Tilbury fan and feels so luxurious in every way.

• Value: $314
• Brands included: Charlotte Tilbury
• Best for: Glamorous older siblings… or yourself!

L'Occitane's yearly advent calendar is another incredible treat, filled with tons of skin and body care essentials from the French brand — including its beloved hand creams and almond-scented shower oil. This advent calendar would be a wonderful splurge gift for your mom; she'll be so happy, she won't mind if you swipe a hand cream or two.

• Value: $369
• Brands included: L'Occitane
• Best for: Skin care lovers, at-home spa days

Looking for a new signature scent? Start here! This set of 12 mini luxury scents from brands like Parfums de Marly, Maison Margiela, and Byredo is beautifully packaged and allows you to experiment with different brands and fragrance notes.

• Value: $344
• Brands included: Parfums de Marly, Bond No. 9, Juliette Has a Gun
• Best for: Fragrance fans

Many major department stores are getting in on the advent calendar game, including Macy's, whose 25-day advent calendar includes a selection of mini-sized products from some of their favorite brands. We spy a teeny Carolina Herrera perfume, a Kiehl's face cream, and even a foot mask.

• Value: $325
• Brands included: Kiehl's, Bumble & bumble, Jo Malone
• Best for: Fancy moms

This gorgeous set from the legendary department store Bloomingdale's is absolutely packed with delight. With a value of $800, this set includes candles, skin care products, and more, featuring nine full-size items. You'll unbox products from luxury brands like La Mer, Diptyque, Charlotte Tilbury, and Kiehl's, along with samples of scents from Le Labo and Maison Francis Kurkdjian. (Yes, we mean Baccarat Rouge 540!)

• Value: $800
• Brands included: La Mer, Le Labo, Slip
• Best for: Sharing with your mom

Don't sleep on Sephora's private-label Sephora Collection! The store's in-house line is a hidden gem, and this advent calendar, with a $163+ value, gives you the best of the best in one handy set. There's a little bit of everything inside, including blush, makeup remover, face masks, and beauty tools.

• Value: $163.50
• Brands included: Sephora Collection
• Best for: Sephora tweens

Get more from the Sephora Collection with the premium advent calendar, which comes in a reusable gold tin and includes both makeup and skin care. You'll unwrap everything from setting spray to eyeliner to blush and lipstick, and we have a feeling that each item will find a permanent place in your makeup kit.

• Value: $245
• Brands included: Sephora Collection
• Best for: College students

Discover 24 days of glam with Benefit Cosmetics and its cute Glam Cube. It's designed like a Rubik's Cube so you can twist it to unlock a new surprise every day, including a full-size mascara and Benetint, mini-size blushes and bronzers, and fun-size skin care.

• Value: $292
• Brands included: Benefit Cosmetics
• Best for: Jetsetters

Anthropologie's advent calendar is so beautifully packaged, you don't even need to wrap it! Inside the illustrated box, you'll find 24 equally precious small boxes hiding treasures from brands like Vacation, First Aid Beauty, and Mario Badescu.

• Value: $300
• Brands included: Supergoop!, Hero, Caudalie
• Best for: Everyone!

If your makeup bag needs a makeover, look no further than Makeup Revolution's 24-piece advent calendar. There's a little bit of everything inside: liquid eyeliner, highlighter, a few tools, and lip oil, among many other mini-size treats.

• Value: N/A
• Brands included: Makeup Revolution
• Best for: Future beauty YouTubers

If you really, really want to splurge, look no further than Guerlain's extremely luxurious, gilded advent calendar. Each day reveals a new treasure, including 10ml, 7.5ml, and 5ml perfumes, candles, skin care, and lipsticks. The calendar is a work of art in itself, created by paper artist Mélissandre Vidal.

• Brands included: Guerlain
• Best for: The Blair Waldorf on your list