Cover Count down to Christmas 2024 in style with these luxurious advent calendars. (Photo: Lancôme)
Count down to Christmas 2024 in style with these luxurious advent calendars. (Photo: Lancôme)
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These calendars offer a lavish way to count down to Christmas while indulging in luxury beauty products
As the festive season approaches, many of us are gearing up to start working on our Christmas shopping lists. On top of that, one of the most anticipated highlights of the festive season are advent calendars. More than just mere calendars, they represent a fun and engaging way to count down to Christmas. Each calendar usually offers 12 or 24 days of hidden surprises and treats, which ideally should be unveiled one per day starting from December 1 or December 12—depending on the type of advent calendar you have.
These calendars are the perfect way to indulge in self-care or surprise a loved one; after all, nothing beats receiving a mini gift each day until Christmas Day!
For beauty junkies everywhere, the advent calendars offered by different beauty brands are always exciting and fun to discover. Brands pull out all the stops by including full-sized bestsellers to limited-edition minis that are great for travel vanity kits.
Here’s our curated list of eight enchanting beauty advent calendars that are available for purchase in Singapore or online, each filled with delightful surprises to brighten the year-end festivities.
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Dior
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Dior advent calendar
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Dior’s Le 30 Montaigne is a poetic celebration of Paris, featuring 24 miniature creations from the maison. This exquisite calendar includes refined fragrances, make-up items, skincare products, and a scented candle, all beautifully adorned with artwork by frequent collaborator Pietro Ruffo. It’s perfect for those who appreciate luxury and elegance during the festive season.
Lancôme
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Lancôme advent calendar
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This year’s advent calendar for Lancôme is adorned with a stunning celestial rose pattern designed by French illustrator Safia Ouares, transforms the countdown to Christmas into a delightful experience. It includes 24 surprises featuring some of Lancôme’s most iconic products. Expect to find beloved items such as the La Vie Est Belle fragrance, Advanced Génifique Serum, Hypnôse eyeshadow palette, and Lash Idole mascara, among others.
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Augustinus Bader
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Augustinus Bader advent calendar
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A luxurious selection featuring the brand’s renowned skincare products, including the cult-favourite Rich Cream and Retinol Serum. This calendar by luxury beauty brand Augustinus Bader is a must-have for anyone serious about their skincare routine and looking to experience exceptional formulations.
Armani Beauty
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Armani Beauty advent calendar
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Elevate your festive season with the Armani Beauty advent calendar for this year, as it features 24 surprises, including both full-sized and travel-sized products. As you count down to Christmas, look forward to a carefully curated selection that showcases Armani’s suite of efficacious products. Expect to find luxurious items such as the iconic Si Eau de Parfum and the versatile Lip Maestro in various shades. There are also skincare essentials, ensuring a well-rounded beauty experience in a stylish, reusable box.
Bobbi Brown
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Bobbi Brown advent calendar
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Bobbi Brown sure knows the way to beauty lovers’ hearts this Christmas. The brand has unveiled its advent calendar for 2024, showcasing an enticing selection that will bring joy during the festive season.
Titled “Dazzle & Glow”, it boasts 12 carefully curated skincare and makeup products, including three full-sized items. Highlights from the calendar include the Smokey Eye Mascara, Extra Plump Lip Serum, and a Long Wear Cream Shadow Stick—essentials for creating a stunning holiday look. There are also deluxe miniatures such as the ever-popular Vitamin Enriched Face Base and Highlighting Powder in Pink Glow.
Mac Cosmetics
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Mac Cosmetics advent calendar
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This one’s for Mac Cosmetics fans everywhere. For Christmas, the brand presents an impressive collection of 24 beauty products including 18 full-sized products, making it a standout choice for makeup enthusiasts.
Inside, you’ll discover a curated selection of the brand’s bestsellers, including the popular MACStack Mascara, various lipsticks such as the Lustreglass Sheer-Shine Lipstick and MACximal Matte Lipstick, as well as essential eye products like eyeshadows and brow gel. This stellar combination of lip, eye, and skincare items ensures that you have a mini makeup routine to enjoy each day leading up to Christmas. Plus, it comes with a limited-edition beauty sleeping mask.
Jo Malone
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Jo Malone advent calendar
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Jo Malone’s 2024 advent calendar serves as the best opportunity to explore a variety of the brand’s scents over 25 days.
It features 25 beautifully curated surprises, including a mix of classic and festive fragrances, candles, and body care products. The calendar showcases Jo Malone's signature scents, such as Lime Basil & Mandarin, Peony & Blush Suede, and Myrrh & Tonka, alongside travel-sized items and a full-sized 30ml cologne that can be unwrapped on Christmas Day.
Designed with elegance in mind, the calendar comes in the brand’s iconic cream and black packaging with festive details.
Kiehl’s
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Kiehl’s advent calendar
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This highly anticipated addition to the beauty advent calendar market is none other than the 2024 Open for Advent-ure Calendar by Kiehl’s. This limited-edition offering features 24 delightful skincare surprises, allowing users to explore a curated selection of the American skincare brand’s best-selling products. Inside, users will find a range of beloved products, including the Ultra Facial Cleanser, Midnight Recovery Concentrate, and the Powerful-Strength Line-Reducing Vitamin C Eye Serum. Each day of December brings a new opportunity to discover effective skincare solutions, making it a perfect gift for anyone passionate about skincare.
Andrea Saadan is the Senior Digital Editor of Tatler Singapore. She oversees all digital content for the website and currently leads the Beauty and Lifestyle verticals. As a child, she had always enjoyed reading and writing but it was only after she joined her college newspaper, The Spectrum, in Buffalo, New York, that she considered a career in journalism. Her love for all things beauty started from the age of two—when she was caught playing with (and damaging) her mother’s YSL lipstick. On top of her day job, she is also an unpaid beauty consultant for friends and family. Besides make-up, her obsessions include the wizarding world of Harry Potter, podcasts, ice-cream, her walking pad and watching endless re-runs of The Office (US).
