Marks and Spencers Beauty Advent Calender Review

Back in November Marks and Spencers released their very first Beauty Advent Calender. I brought it on the day it was released but only a week after I got mine, I went back in and they were all gone. It was on a spectacular offer as well. Everything inside was worth £200 and that was the original selling price of the calender. But if you spent £30 or more on any of their beauty ranges you got the calender for a brilliant £25. And it wasn't hard to spend £30 on beauty for me.

The box is a decent size and inside you recieve twenty four indentically sized boxes and in each box you recieved either a deluxe sample size or a full size product from one of the many brands that Marks and Spencers sell in their beauty hall. 

To say the wait to open this was unbearable is an understatment. After reading what was on the back I was very eager to open the doors. And thanks to Jasmin I challenged myself to blog every day for twenty four days as I opened the calender.

And whilst there was products I didn't enjoy or that weren't suited towards me, there were more products I'd heard of or had already tried that I love. There were brands such as REN, Percy and Reed, Mio, Rosie For Autograph and Philip Kingsley to name a few.

As to which products I enjoyed the most it would have to be the skincare products I enjoyed the most. I'm a massive lover of skincare and believe that it doesn't hurt to pay a bit more to look after your skin. The Nude Lipstick I recieved and a couple of the haircare products I didn't enjoy but that's just because they weren't suited to what I need/look for in those products.

Overall I was highly impressed with this calender. Yes it's not as flash as some of the other beauty advent calenders on the market but as a first offering from Marks and Spencer's, it was brilliant first step into the market. The majority of the boxes I enjoyed and whilst there were some I didn't like the good outweighed the bad.

If Marks and Spencers decide to release another advent calender this year, I recommend that you snap one up as soon as you can, or even just take a peek at the box. It can only get bigger and better from here.

Did any of you have the M&S Calender? Did you like it? Or were the products not to your liking? Let me know in the comments.

Marks and Spencers Beauty Advent Calender Day Twenty-Four

Holidays Are Coming! Welcome back to The Final Day of my Marks and Spencers Advent Calender.

In today's box I recieved a Morgan Taylor Nail Varnish. It's in the shade Paris With Love, a beautiful deep wine shade. From the look of it, it has a very thick formula which will make application easy. It only has a thin brush but sometimes they can be easier to work with than the thicker brushes. Once I've removed all the glitter from my nails I'm definitely going to be giving this a go. If I like then I will do a full review of it in the New Year.

So that's it for this Advent Calender. I'm really impressed with this calender and think it's definitely worth the money. A full review will be going up in the New Year so keep your eyes peeled for that. But for now I'd like to say thank you to everyone who's read these posts this month. And a thank you to everyone who has read my posts this year. For now I'm going to enjoy my Christmas and time off work and I will be back next week with my last posts of 2015. So Merry Christmas to you all, I hope you have a fantastic time and I'll see you soon.

Marks and Spencers Beauty Advent Calender Day Twenty-Three

Holidays are coming! Welcome back to the penulitmate day of my Marks and Spencer Beauty Advent Calender.

In today's box I recieved a Stila Lip Glaze in the shade Sugar Plum. It's a nice sized product but when you actually look at the amount of product you get in the tube compared to the size of the packaging it's not very good. It's a nice coloured gloss, more of a mauvey shade that overly pink and I'm sure it looks nice on the lips but I'm not a gloss kind of girl. Also I'm not keen on the brush like applicator as I find that they can malt and leave bits all over the lip. I'm not sure if I'm going to do a review of this but if I do then you can expect it to be up after the new year.

I'll see you all tomorrow for the final day of the calender.

Marks and Spencers Beauty Advent Calender Day Twenty-Two

Welcome back to Day Twenty-Two in my 24 Days of Beauty Series where I show you what I get in my Marks and Spencers Advent Calender. 

In today's box I recieved a REN Flash Rinse 1 Minute Facial. It's another product I've been waiting to try from this calender as I've heard a lot of good things about REN as a brand. And this product is right up my street. A treatment that revitalizes and rejuvinates skin once activated with water. It contains Vitamin C, which helps with skins luminosity. I can't wait to give this a go and a full review of this will be on the blog at some point.  

I'll see you all tomorrow for the penulitmate box.

Marks and Spencers Beauty Calender Day Twenty-One

Welcome back to Day Twenty-One in my 24 Days of Beauty Series where I show you what I get in my Marks and Spencers Advent Calender. 

Today's box is the one box I've been looking forward to the most out of this whole calender. It has a very generous sized bottle of Pixi Glow Tonic. Now if you're a massive Caroline Hirons fan like me you will know how much she loves this product. And I've been dying to try this. 

If you don't know what the Glow Tonic is it's a exfoliating face tonic. It's designed to be used after you've cleansed and claims to help brighten whilst removing any dead skin cells. And if I wasn't already looking forward to using this when I looked up the ingredients it has glycolic acid in there which is an ingredient I absolutely love having in my skincare products. I can guarantee a full review will be up on the blog once I've given it a thorough try.

I'll see you all tomorrow for Day Twenty-Two. 

Marks and Spencers Beauty Advent Calender Day Twenty

Welcome back to Day Twenty in my 24 Days of Beauty Series where I show you what I get in my Marks and Spencers Advent Calender. 

In today's box I recieved rhe L'Occitane Verbena Shower Gel. This is one of the products I've been looking forward to trying the most. It smells heavenly which I'm glad of as I wasn't sure what it would smell like. I meant to try this in my bath this afternoon but I completely forgot. When I have my next bath I'm going to make sure I use this and if I like it then I will do a full review. 

I'll see you all tomorrow for Day Twenty-One. Trust me it's going to be a good one.