Month: November 2022

21 Beauty Advent Calendars From Charlotte Tilbury, L’Occitane, NYX & More That Will Save You So Much Money

Alright, hear me out—I know it’s only November, but you should order your holiday beauty advent calendars now. If you wait until December, your faves might be sold out and that’s not the way you want to start the holiday season.

The secret about beauty advent calendars is that they’re great deals. Whether want to try your go-to skincare brand’s entire product line or do a mix-and-match of famously good beauty products, you can get 12 or 24 items for a fraction of the full retail price. Plus, they’re fun. If you have a collector’s mindset or get a burst of serotonin whenever you unbox one item, you should definitely add an advent calendar to your cart. It’s basically 24 days of presents to yourself (or the loved one you gift it to).

We rounded up the best beauty advent calendars that are either available right at this very moment or can be pre-ordered. And because we love finding amazing deals, we found a few advent calendars that you will literally save hundreds of dollars on—we’re not kidding. Scroll down to find out which ones we’re talking about. We also found some budget-friendly advent calendars that are under $20, which are perfect early holiday gifts.

The advent calendars below encompass the wide range of beauty products out there, from nail polish to skincare. No matter what you’re into, you can get a set that’ll fuel your obsession. And you’ll want to keep an eye on this list—we’ll be updating it periodically leading up to peak advent calendar season.

Our mission at STYLECASTER is to bring style to the people, and we only feature products we think you’ll love as much as we do. Nordstrom, QVC and HSN are STYLECASTER sponsors, however, all products in this article were independently selected by our editors. Please note that if you purchase something by clicking on a link within this story, we may receive a small commission of the sale.

L'Occitane  Classic Advent Calendar Gift Set

Courtesy of L’Occitane.

L’Occitane Classic Advent Calendar Gift Set

When it comes to soothing dry, cracked winter skin, L’Occitane’s selections of lotions, balms, and creams go unmatched. That’s why its advent calendar is a must-have this season. It comes with 24 of the brand’s iconic skincare products, including lip balms, soaps, shampoos, and more. Valued at $129, you can save nearly $50 and get it for $80 when you shop at Nordstrom.

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Courtesy of Amazon Beauty.

Amazon Premium Beauty Advent Calendar

In Amazon’s Premium Beauty Advent Calendar you’ll find an incredible surprise each day from Amazon Premium Beauty’s storefront. You can expect a curated selection of high-end products from all your favorite beauty brands. From Marvis toothpaste to Moroccanoil, explore the site’s beauty advent calendar before it sells out.

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Courtesy of Alo Yoga.

Alo Yoga Wellness Calendar

Now on sale, this advent calendar is packed with 24 days worth of skincare, activewear, and wellness goodies. The perfect holiday gift for the yoga and wellness lover in your life.

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Courtesy of Kate Somerville.

12 Days of Kate Advent Calendar

Worth over $835, this advent calendar bundles cult-favorite products with newer SKUs to bring you the most beautiful skin ever.

charlotte tilbury advent calendar

Courtesy of Charlotte Tilbury.

Charlotte Tilbury’s Diamond Chest of Beauty Stars

Get a cheeky collection of both makeup and skincare must-haves from the iconic Charlotte Tilbury herself — that magic cream goes for $100!

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Courtesy of Beauty Bio.

Beauty Bio 12 Days of Glow Beauty Advent Calendar

Snag deluxe minis of your favorite skincare products and some never before seen minis that are sure to keep skin glowing and hydrated.

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Courtesy of Beekman 1802.

Beekman 1802 Time Capsule Advent Calendar

Deluxe skincare minis that are sure to keep you guessing every day until Christmas — what do you think will be in your Beekman 1802 advent calendar?

rituals advent calendar

Courtesy of Rituals.

Rituals 3D Advent Deluxe Calendar

Take the holiday season one day at a time with advent calendar valued at over $213.50. It boasts shower products, a scrub glove and a number of mini candles. This is the perfect gift for the person who has a hard time relaxing in November and December.

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Courtesy of Barbara Sturm.

Dr. Barbara Sturm Advent Calendar

Fans of the doctor’s buzzy skincare will go crazy for this 24-piece advent calendar. Grab the cutest minis of favorites such as the Cleanser, Face Mask and Clarifying Face Cream.

benefit advent calendar

Courtesy of Benefit! Cosmetics.

Benefit Cosmetics Mini Sincerely Yours, Beauty Advent Calendar Set

This huge value selling for just under $65 is undoubtedly a good deal, but knowing this calendar’s contents makes it even better. You get 24 different products, including the brand’s popular mascaras, bronzers, blushes, and more.

florence by mills advent calendar

Courtesy of Florence by Mills.

Peace, Love, Florence Advent Calendar

This Peace, Love, Florence Advent Calendar is only $129 right now, when originally it’s $162? This is a gift set totally worth buying, in my opinion. It’s on sale ahead of the holidays? Grab it while it’s hot.

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OPI.

OPI Holiday Celebration Collection Advent Calendar

Mani fans, get ready. This massive 25-shade advent calendar is going to make your jaw drop. You get brights, holographics, nudes and glitters in GelColor, Infinite Shine, and Nail Lacquer formulas.

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Charlotte Tilbury.

Charlotte’s Beauty Dreams & Secrets

Charlotte Tilbury stans will go crazy for this 12-piece makeup and skincare set. It includes the brand new and exclusive Pillow Talk Color Chameleon easy-to-use eyeshadow pencil. A $283 value!

ulta advent calendar

Courtesy of Ulta.

The Body Shop Love Big Advent Calendar

Indulge your body’s senses by purchasing this advent calendar from The Body Shop. It’s got everything you need for some real self care, including scrubs, sheet masks, and lotions: there’s 25 of them for you to try.

Glossybox Advent Calendar

Courtesy: Glossybox.

Glossybox ‘Surprise Me’ Advent Calendar

How does the opportunity to test 25+ beauty essentials from the likes of Glow Recipe, Elemis, and Medik8 sound to you? How about the ability to buy something for $99 when it’s actually worth $550? The correct answer is: amazing. Obviously, a gift set like this is a hot commodity. It sold out last year, so hop on it before it’s too late.

 

8 Nights of Mani Advent Caledar

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Olive & June 8 Nights of Mani Magic

Advent Calendars don’t have to be specific for Christmas—nor should they be. This Hanukkah-inspired set includes six mini polishes and six sticker packs that make for a seriously bright buy.

Dr. Barbara Sturm Advent Calendar

Dr. Barbara Sturm.

Dr. Barbara Sturm Advent Calendar

Fans of the doctor’s buzzy skincare will go crazy for this 24-piece advent calendar. Grab the cutest minis of favorites such as the Cleanser, Face Mask and Clarifying Face Cream.

25 Days of Mani Magic Advent Calendar

Courtesy: Olive & June.

Olive & June 25 Days of Mani Magic Advent Calendar

With this 25-day pack, you get $111 worth of manicure essentials for nearly half the cost. It includes nine miniature nail polishes as well as seven miniature sticker packs. Your house is about to be the best salon on the block.

nyx advent calendar

Image: Courtesy of NYX.

NYX Professional Makeup Gimme Super Stars!

NYX has gathered up its most popular products for this star-studded advent calendar. We don’t even know what’s in this advent calendar, but NYX has teased that it will feature full-sizes…

 

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Courtesy of SpaLife.

SpaLife Fizzle All The Way Bath Bomb Advent Calendar

For this stressful season, add a little self-care and joy to your life with 12 days of surprise bath bombs. Each bath bomb is a different color and a unique scent.

Buy: SpaLife Fizzle All The Way Bath Bomb Advent Calendar $14.99

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Courtesy of Ciaté London.

Ciaté London Mini Mani Month 2022

You don’t only need to celebrate the holiday season with skincare and makeup advent calendars. This nail polish calendar includes 22 mini polishes, one full-size, a primer and a keepsake illustration. It’s a perfect gift for the person who always has their nails done.

 

StyleCaster | Beauty Advent Calendars

Courtesy of ChapStick.

ChapStick Holiday Storybook Holiday Flavored Lip Balm Gift Set

Alright, this isn’t quite an advent calendar, but if you use self-control, you can pull one ChapStick out of this pouch every day for 10 days straight. Enjoy holiday-icious flavors like Candy Cane and Holiday Cocoa.

Buy: ChapStick Holiday Storybook Holiday Flavored Lip Balm Gift Set $11.70

 

 

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Is Resentment Keeping You Stuck After Divorce?

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There is a five-phase cycle to divorce recovery of feelings and emotions that you may experience after your transition through divorce. It’s called the Road Through Recovery. Some women feel “stuck” or “in pain” in one of the phases, go back and forth in between them, or skip over one or two.

How Can Learning About the Road Through Recovery Benefit You?

Firstly, it can help you to get more in touch with your feelings and emotions. By that I mean, it guides you to begin noticing your thoughts. When you begin to notice your thoughts, you can then become aware of what “triggers” them.

Once aware of what triggers your thoughts, you can start observing them instead of getting all wrapped up within them. You get less involved in the self-talk conversation that you have in your head. You know, the one that continues to remind you about your dissatisfaction or misery at the present moment.

Why is it important to notice and be the observer of your thoughts? You’ll experience a less contracted feeling inside because you’re not all consumed with the thought.

Instead, you start to step into your power. Your healing gets underway. It’s the first step. It’s not that feelings aren’t still there, but you are in control of them; and most of all, your feelings aren’t in control of you.

Secondly, by creating a higher level of awareness of what you are thinking, you begin to notice dominating thoughts of longing and discontent that repeatedly come up. Equally important and with confidence, you can pinpoint exactly where you are “stuck.”

Thirdly, when you know exactly where you’re stuck, according to your present feelings and emotions, you have the starting point to create a plan of action to move past it.

(I’ll be giving you some questions, suggestions, and ideas to help you form a plan of action.)

What Will You Learn?

This article will teach you about the second phase on the Road Through Recovery called the Resentment phase. If you missed the article about the first phase, Rejection, you can read about it here.

Next, I’ll give you a real-life example of someone who is stuck in the Resentment phase. Then, you’ll see how she overcomes challenges and beliefs holding her back.

Finally, as a bonus, I include the RESENTMENT Phase Survey which gives ideas and suggestions of action steps you can take.

How Will You Know If You’re Stuck Here?

In the Resentment Phase, you begin to allow the intense feelings that you reject in the first phase (Rejection) to finally hit. It could be fear, anger, pain or hurt that rushes in and fills your senses. For some, it can take a while as in this phase, you are allowing what you feel and the emotions you are experiencing to come in.

The feelings are usually extremely uncomfortable. When you first release the emotions related to loss, resentment is usually the first feeling to show up. This can display in the form of anger which may mask or hide many of the emotions and pain you are experiencing.

What Can Alert You to This Situation?

When you start to notice your thoughts, you learn to become aware of situations, conditions, circumstances, and people that push your emotional buttons. Additionally, it can help you to take a step back, and choose a better way of handling emotions and feelings.

It is important to express and let out those feelings in a healthy way; otherwise, you may find yourself blaming others, lashing out, or reacting in other damaging or ineffective ways.

With this in mind, feeling resentment and allowing it to wash over you can be very productive. The intensity of the feeling will begin to lessen.

The good news about being stuck in the Resentment phase is these feelings can also help to motivate and empower you to start to cut the cord. If they are channeled in the right direction, you will have the power to make the difficult emotional break that needs to happen in order to move forward.

Holding on to resentment can keep you in a self-imposed prison and is a risk if you make it your final destination. Deciding to change your mindset and behavior means that you are willing to start to think positively and accept responsibility for your own personal accountability.

Meet Joan

Joan has come to terms with the fact that this is a transition in life that she is now in, has no control over, and has to adapt to this change.

She married her college sweetheart, Henry. They were married for 42 years. Henry had been cheating on her for years with one of his co-workers. Not only that, but once she went digging around, more dirt surfaced about other infidelities.

Joan is so humiliated and hurt that once she works through the Rejection phase on her own, she needs help with the deep resentment and betrayal she feels after all those years of thinking she has a good marriage and trustworthy spouse.

She experiences anger and fear of the unknown that lays ahead. The pain starts to set in. It manifests itself with intense emotions of fury and rage. The good news is that experiencing the anger and other strong emotions is a necessary part of the healing process.

The more she allows herself to feel the anger and let it pass through her, the more the intensity of the emotion will dissolve.

Here Are Some Steps Joan Can Take

Joan becomes “unstuck” and moves past the Road through Recovery when she begins looking at her situation differently. It is “key” that she start to look at the same situation from a different, unfamiliar perspective.

Why? If she continues to look at the situation from the same perspective, she continues to feel the same feelings and emotions. Joan reacts the same way over and over and continues to get the same results.

Using the free RESENTMENT PHASE SURVEY, here are some action steps she creates to move out of the Resentment phase on The Road Through Recovery:

  • Find ways to manage resentment so she can stop playing the “victim.”
  • Create change for constructive decision-making moving forward.
  • Learn to control overreacting to situations and blaming others for her behavior.

What Are the Positive Takeaways?

Joan admits to playing the “victim” and that she had adopted this behavior through her own choice. Although it’s the choice she makes up until now, she can change her attitude, perspective, and way of thinking right in this moment!

She learns to control her impulses so that she no longer gives up the power over her emotions. Although she can’t control the way others act, she has control over how she responds to situations that might “trigger” victim behavior.

Joan realizes that her anger and lashing out were detrimental to herself and those around her. She takes responsibility for her actions. She makes a plan to use that anger and channel its energy into something positive and creative. Joan also has to work through taking some responsibility for her own choices that didn’t leave her totally blameless.

She rises up after divorce, and so can you.

If you feel you may be stuck in the Resentment phase, I encourage you to take the RESENTMENT PHASE SURVEY. It’s the bonus I include for you as my gift. It has questions, suggestions, and ideas for action steps going forward. You can learn more about the whole process, Rise Up After Divorce, and how to create a new, purposeful life you would love living.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

Do you feel stuck in the Resentment phase after divorce? Does the expression of anger at your former spouse or others who will listen, really do any good? Does it serve any constructive purpose? Is it going to change the circumstances as they are now? Is it wreaking havoc with your physical well-being?

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Angie Harrington’s Black and Ivory Striped Outfit

Angie Harrington’s Black and Ivory Striped Outfit at Choir

Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 3 Episode 7 Fashion

Spoiler Alert! Based on the previews for this week’s episode of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Angie Harrington apparently made the cut into Heather Gay’s choir. And we’re just glad to see that she swapped that Dancing With The Stars-esque gold fringe costume for this cute black and ivory striped set, which should definitely has us singing it’s praises. 🎵

 

Fashionably,

Faryn

 

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This Is the Only Way to Get Dyson Hair Tools On Sale This Holiday Season


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Listen up, Dyson fans: we have good news and bad news. The bad news first? Dyson’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales exclude hair tools, just like every other year. The good news is the annual Dyson Owner Rewards Sale allows previous Dyson owners to get 20 percent off the Personal Care collection, excluding the Airwrap. Here’s how it works.

If you’ve had your eyes on the pricey Supersonic Hair Dryer ($429.99 at Dyson) or Corrale straightener/styler ($499.99 at Dyson), you can save a whopping 20 percent from November 21 to December 10. That might not seem like a lot but it’s at least a $100 savings! If you’ve previously purchased a Dyson and registered the product will receive your 20 percent off code on the afternoon of November 21. If you don’t receive the code, you should call 1-866-664-9004 to get it. The discount will work on one product of your choosing, the Supersonic and Corrale, as well as vacuums and purifiers.

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Dyson.

While a vacuum and/or purifier deal sounds like a great gift for yourself for the holidays, we have to recommend  the special gift edition of the Supersonic Hair Dryer. It comes with five styling attachments including the new Flyaway attachment — a total game changer. The others are the Diffuser (for curly and wavy styles), Wide-tooth comb (to shape and lengthen curls), Styling Concentrator (for precise airflow), Gentle air attachment (for light, cool airflow), Rosé Paddle brush and Detangling comb. Plus, we’re kind of obsessed with the Vinca-Blue-Rosé color option with the matching blue Presentation case.

If you’re not familiar with Dyson hair technology, here’s the deal. The powerful digital motor was designed to protect hair from extreme heat damage. It dries hair super-fast and promises to increase increase smoothness by 75 percent, shine by up to 132 percent, and decrease frizz and flyaways by up to 61 percent. This is your chance to get it at a discount. Look out for your code November 21 and check back here to shop.

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Tarte’s Color-Changing Lip Gloss Is Blowing Up on TikTok — Here’s How It Works


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Color-changing makeup isn’t new but it’s gotten a lot more fun in recent years. Back in the early 2000s, we millennials had all the “mood” products we could want, including mood rings, which we said changed colors depending on how we were feeling. While that’s not exactly how it works, color-changing makeup has made a comeback. The newest? Tarte’s Maracuja Juicy Lip & Cheek Shift.

TikTokers like Nicol Concilio and Kit Keenan are loving how they can get their perfect pink lip and cheek shade just by swiping one of the six colors: Blueberry, Lemon, Kiwi, Grape, Blackberry and Clementine. Just a swipe of each will turn your lips and cheeks into a shade of pink depending on the pH of your skin. They all turn into about the same poppy pink so you don’t need them all, just whichever color you think is the most fun to use.

Maracuja Juicy Lip and Cheek Shift Tartes Color Changing Lip Gloss Is Blowing Up on TikTok — Heres How It Works

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Now, these aren’t the $5 lip glosses you bought at the mall when you were a kid. If you’ve tried Tarte’s Maracuja Juicy Lip formula, you know how hydrating and, well, juicy, it is. These are no different. They contain a hyaluronic acid superfruit complex for plumper-looking lips without the burn, as well as essential fatty acids and vitamin C. The glossy, conditioning formula is great for those no-makeup makeup days but can also be used as a lipstick topper or over your favorite cream blush for an additional pop of color.

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While the color that shows up has little to do with your mood, these just might make you smile and elevate an otherwise basic makeup day. Who doesn’t like a little magic in their routine? The poppy pink is also the perfect hue for TikTok’s cold weather “cold girl” makeup trend. It’s like you just came in from the snow and sat in front of a fire, when really you’ve been on your couch watching Netflix. Grab your fave on Tarte’s website now.

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