In our best makeup advent calendar 2024 guide, we’ve listed the calendars that contain makeup and tools for a range of budgets – from cheap up to premium
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While there is a growing number of beauty advent calendars each year, the vast majority sell a mix of skincare, makeup, hair care, tools and more.
This is great if you’re looking to get a range of products for different needs, but if you’re only interested in makeup or looking to only increase your makeup collection, then it can be better to buy a dedicated makeup advent calendar.
Makeup advent calendars only contain makeup products and tools, or they contain makeup with the odd skincare product thrown in for good measure.
We’ve previously listed the best skincare advent calendars and the best advent calendars as well as our main beauty advent calendar hub.
And now we’ve handpicked what we consider to be the best makeup advent calendars.
Our 2024 Advent Calendar Unboxing videos are starting to go live on TikTok – CLICK HERE FOR THE 2024 ADVENT PLAYLIST
Below we’ve listed what we know about the best makeup advent calendars 2024 in the UK.
These makeup calendars are either dedicated exclusively to makeup and tools, or the vast majority of their contents are makeup with the odd skincare product thrown in.
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Benefit What’s inside the Benefit Advent Calendar 2024 contents?
See the full list of what’s inside the 2024 Benefit advent calendar here or watch us unbox last year’s (disappointing) calendar below.
@victoria_woolly_web Disappointing The 2023 Benefit Advent Calendar is £148 (and on sale now) and the vast majority of products aren’t just travel-size they’re tiny. Getting the cleanser as the main gift in box 24 wasn’t what I was hoping for, and the absolute state of that eyebrow pencil. Wish I’d saved my money the full-size Roller Lash is good though… #mamabella #advent #adventcalendar #adventcalendar2023 #benefitadventcalendar #benefit #benefitbrows #makeupadventcalendar #skincareadvent #adventunboxing #unboxingvideo #unboxingadventcalendars ♬ Famous Christmas songs / Orchestra arrangement(150588) – MIZUSATO Masaki
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Bobbi Brown What’s inside the Bobbi Brown Advent Calendar 2024 contents?
See the full list of what’s inside the Bobbi Brown Advent Calendar 2024 here.
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Charlotte Tilbury What’s inside the Charlotte Tilbury Advent Calendar 2024 contents?
The 2024 Charlotte Tilbury advent calendar contains a travel-sized pot of Charlotte’s Magic Cream, the Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray and a full-size Matte Revolution Pillow Talk Lipstick. You can see the full list what’s inside the 2024 Charlotte Tilbury advent calendar here.
You can also watch our 2024 unboxing below.
@victoria_woolly_web She’s here! The 2024 Charlotte Tilbury advent calendar went on sale yesterday. It contains 12 days of Charlotte Tilbury makeup and skincare worth £243 but costs £170 which is relatively cheap (NOT actually cheap, but relatively…). The downsides are that it doesn’t contain many full-size products and there are no numbers so it’s effectively just a fancy gift set but I’ve been wanting to try the Pillow Talk eyeliner, and the Glow Toner is good. The rain ASMR was just an added unintentional extra ☔️ The full list of contents is: * Beauty Light Wand in Pinkgasm (Full Size) * Charlotte’s Magic Cream (Travel Size) * Charlotte’s Magic Lip Oil Crystal Elixir (Full Size) * Charlotte’s Magic Serum Crystal Elixir (Travel Size) * Glow Toner (Travel Size) * Hollywood Beauty Icon Lipstick in Hollywood Vixen (Travel Size) * Hyaluronic Happikiss in Pillow Talk (Full Size) * Lip Cheat in Pillow Talk Original (Travel Size) * Matte Revolution in Pillow Talk Original (Travel Size) * Pillow Talk Eyeliner (Travel Size) * Pillow Talk Push Up Lashes! Mascara in Super Black (Travel Size) * Airbrush Setting Spray #AdventCalendar2024 #CharlotteTilburyadventcalendar #BeautyAdventCalendar #adventcalendarcharlottetilbury #CharlotteTilbury #ctadvent #MakeupAdventCalendar #SkincareAdventCalendar #AdventCalendarBeauty #AdventCalendarIdeas #UnboxingVideos #UnboxingAdvent #asmr ♬ original sound – Victoria Woollaston-
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e.l.f Cosmetics What’s inside the 12-day e.l.f Love At Frost Sight Advent Calendar 2024?
The calendar includes 12 days of e.l.f skincare, tools and new lip and eye shades. You can see the full list of what’s inside the e.l.f Cosmetics advent calendar 2024 here.
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KIKO Kiehls
What’s inside the KIKO advent calendar 2024 contents?
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Kylie Cosmetics What’s inside the Kylie Cosmetics Advent Calendar 2024?
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MAC The following details are still to be confirmed and are based on last year’s numbers.
@victoria_woolly_web I’ve bought the MAC Calendar for the past two years and while £180 is a lot of money to spend, the amount of products and the range is decent. The least interesting items (in my opinion) are the MAC eyeshadows but I loved all the lipsticks I got last year and this year there is a good mix of nudes and slightly darker shades. The majority of products in the 2024 MAC calendar are full-sized and this is a nice break from previous years, however the calendar itself is £15 more expensive while being worth less so this is slightly deceiving. If you’re a fan of MAC products, you may find that you get a lot of products that you already own. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing because you’ll have replacements for your current makeup, and you may discover new favourites, but it’s worth bearing in mind. If you’re a MAC fan but can’t usually afford its range of products, this calendar is a good way to get a bargain. Even if it doesn’t quite feel like it P.s the white balance on this video is a mess. I’m sorry! The full list of contents is: * MACximal Silky Matte Lipstick in Sweet Deal * MACximal Silky Matte Lipstick in Taupe * Lustreglass Sheer-Shine Lipstick in Beam There, Done That * Lustreglass Sheer-Shine Lipstick in Business Casual * Mini Lustreglass Sheer-Shine Lipstick in PDA * Prep + Prime Lip * Squirt Plumping Gloss Stick in Like Squirt * Mini Lip Pencil in Spice * Mini Lip Pencil in Whirl * Powder Kiss Liquid Lipcolour in Over The Taupe * Lipglass in Clear * Lipglass in Oh Baby * Hyper Real Skincanvas Balm * Hyper Real Serumizer™ Skin Balancing Hydration Serum * Small Eyeshadow in Swiss Chocolate * Small Eyeshadow in Tutu Good * Veluxe Pearl Small Eyeshadow in Jingle Ball Bronze * Colour Excess Gel Pencil Eyeliner in Glide or Die * Pro Locked Brow Gel * MACstack Mascara in Black Stack * Fix+ Original #AdventCalendar2024 #MACadventcalendar #MACadventcalendar2024 #BeautyAdventCalendar #cheapadventcalendar #MakeupAdventCalendar #SkincareAdventCalendar #AdventCalendarBeauty #AdventCalendarIdeas #UnboxingVideos #UnboxingAdvent #adventcalendarasmr #asmr ♬ Diet Pepsi – Addison Rae
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NYX What’s inside the NYX Advent Calendar 2024 contents?
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PLouise Side note: Last year’s P.Louise calendar lit up and came with batteries. This year, batteries are not included and you have to provide them yourself, despite the fact the calendar is £30 more expensive for 2024.
What’s inside the 2024 P.Louise Advent Calendar?
We finally know what’s inside the P.Louise makeup calendar and it looks absolutely incredible. Multiple full-sized eyeshadow and eyeliner palettes, powder blushes, highlighters, skincare, tools and more. See the full list in our P.Louise Advent Calendar 2024 guide.
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Profusion Macmillan
What’s inside the 2024 Profusion Advent Calendar?
As one of not only the cheapest advent calendars, but one of the cheapest makeup calendars, Profusion’s calendar always sells out. It’s a great advent calendar for teens, or for people looking to build up their makeup collection with some cheap but effective staples.
The full list of contents in the Profusion Advent Calendar 2024:
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Makeup Revolution What’s inside the Makeup Revolution advent calendar 2024 contents?
The 2024 Revolution Advent Calendar contains a mix of makeup and tools, from eyeshadows and eyeshadow brushes to powder puffs, contour, brow, and eye pencils, and a mini Reloaded Palette.
All products are vegan and cruelty-free and the packaging is 100% recyclable.
You can see the full list of what’s inside the Makeup Revolution Advent Calendar 2024 here and watch our unboxing video from 2023 below while we wait for the latest version to arrive.
@victoria_woolly_web The first of this year’s advent calendar unboxing videos is of the @REVOLUTION 25 Days of Glam calendar. 25 doors, 25 products including a full-size Reloaded Pink Prosecco eyeshadow palette for £48. It’s worth £96! Let me know if you want something in particular from these videos – product names, longer unboxing, testing the products on my skin etc? I want to make sure these videos are useful Benefit, Lush and Fortnum and Mason advent calendar unboxing are coming soon #mamabella #revolution #makeuprevolution #advent #adventcalendar #adventcalendar2023 #christmascalendar #unboxing #unboxingvideo #adventunboxing #makeupadventcalendar #cheapadventcalendar ♬ Christmas Music – Memusic
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Sculpted by Aimee
What’s inside the Sculpted by Aimee advent calendar 2024 contents?
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SheGlam What’s inside the SheGlam Advent Calendar 2024 contents?
The SheGlam calendar contains a Lip Glitter Kit, Jazy Jigsaw Eyeshadow in Love N’ Taupe, Cheek 2 Cheek Blush Duo in shade Pink Sprinkles and more makeup, skincare and haircare in the SheGlam advent calendar.
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W7 What’s inside the 2024 W7 Advent Calendar Contents?
The 2024 W7 advent calendar is full of makeup and accessories, from lipsticks to powders and from scrunchies to hair clips. See the full list of what’s inside the W7 advent calendar 2024 on our cheap advent calendar guide.
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17 What’s inside the 2024 17. Advent Calendar?
We’re huge fans of 17. makeup. Its foundation scores high on our best cheap foundation list and it’s surprisingly effective given its super affordable price. Its 2024 advent calendar continues this theme and for £30 you get 25 days’ worth of makeup and accesories, including a stretchy headband.
The full list of contents is as follows:
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Last year we did a daily unboxing of a number of advent calendars and this year we’ve taken things up a notch. Ahead of the festive season, we’re unboxing some of the biggest advent calendars of the season so we can reveal which are worth the money, and which are worth avoiding.
Follow us on TikTok for updates and be the first to know, or check out our growing Advent 2024 playlist.
Alternatively, if you want to see what was in last year’s best beauty advent calendars you can find all of the videos in our Advent 2022 Playlist on TikTok. We’ve embedded one of the videos below to give you an idea of what to expect.
@victoria_woolly_web Day 8 of beauty advent calendar unboxing A full-size @augustinusbader cream from @cultbeauty and the @hourglasscosmetics Setting Powder from @spacenk are highlights for me I’ll be donating anything I don’t use to beauty banks and via the mamabella Reader Review panel #mamabella #advent #beautyadventcalendar #beautyadventcalendar2022 #beautyunboxingvideo #adventcalendarunboxing #glossyboxadventcalendar #spacenkadventcalendar2022 #macadventcalendar2022 #thewhitecompanyadventcalendar ♬ original sound – Victoria Woollaston-
In our view, the Makeup Revolution Advent Calendar stands out as the best makeup advent calendar 2024.
Makeup Revolution is a brand known for quality and affordability – it features on our best cheap makeup brand UK guide – and its 2024 advent calendar is the perfect example of this. It offers a wide range of products that can either bolster your existing collection or serve as a starter kit for someone new to makeup.
Priced at £48, but worth twice as much at £96, the calendar offers a lot of bang for your buck. What’s more, it’s currently dropped in price to £40, at the time of writing.
It is a 25-day advent calendar that includes a mix of makeup products and tools. Specifically, it contains eyeshadows, brushes, liner, contour, brow and eye pencils, a powder puff, and even a full-sized Reloaded Palette.
What makes this makeup advent calendar stand out is that 20 of the 25 products inside are full-sized items, which is quite generous. What’s more, the use of full-sized products means you’ll have ample time to test each item properly to determine which are worth rebuying, and which are worth avoiding.
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Lush We’ve started listing all the best beauty advent calendars 2024 on our advent calendar hub but you can also read about individual calendars via the clicks below.
Victoria is founder and editor-in-chief of mamabella, freelance journalist and Mum. She has a passion for empowering people to feel beautiful whatever their age, size, skin type and budget
