All I Want This Christmas is.... My Own Blinking Advent Calendar!

As a child, my siblings and I were never allowed chocolate advent calendars. ‘Advent is about the holy time before the birth of Jesus and should be thought about and remembered as that, not used as an excuse to eat chocolates,’ my father would say. (Which fair play to him, for Christians, is true)

That said, after several years of putting up with the moaning and nagging from us three he relented, but would only buy one chocolate advent calendar between me, my brother and my sister.
(Yes,he still bought the religious one for himself)

This meant that we had to share, with each of us taking it in turn to open a door, meaning you got your long, pined over chocolate once every three days.

As I’m sure any parents out there or anyone who grew up with siblings can imagine, this lead to many, many arguments.

People would forget which day was theirs (easy to do when your 10, 8 and 4 years old), chocolates would mysteriously going missing from seemingly unopened doors (cough * not guilty*) and everyone would fight over who got to open Christmas day, which arguably had the biggest chocolate behind it.

Still, we eventually grew out of that, but now I make sure that I always get my own advent calendar all to myself, I even buy my husband a separate one so I don’t have to share, but this year, its not a chocolate calendar that I’m going to be lusting over. Oh no. It's this!

Now I know, I know, its not even November yet and I know that you aren’t wanting to think about the ‘C’ word yet (The word being Christmas, by the way)  but I had to show you this and figured that as it is undoubtedly going to sell out fast, if I didn’t tell you now you’d hate me later!

Available from Selfridges now is their All I Want This Christmas Advent Calendar, a luxury calendar packed full of a host of different luxury beauty brands, all in gorgeous miniatures.

I know that £80 for an Advent calendar sounds like a lot of money, but look at the list below of everything you get!

(Plus with a bit of luck, someone special will buy it for you so you don’t have to, then its definitely a bargain!)

 

Lancôme 

Teint Miracle 03 5ml

 Trésor eau de parfum 7.5ml

 Miracle eau de parfum 5ml

 Hypnôse Drama Mascara 2ml

 Hypnôse Classic Mascara 2ml

Absolu Nu 302 Mini

 Mini Juicy Tube 19 – Lychee

 Visionnaire 7ml

 Génifique 7ml

Génifique Yeux 5ml

Rénergie Lift Volumetry Day 15ml

 Eau Micellaire Douceur 50ml

Bi–Facil 30ml

 Giorgio Armani⁄Emporio Armani

 Armani Code Femme eau de parfum 3ml

 Emporio Armani Diamonds eau de parfum 5ml

Kiehl's 

Kiehl's Ultra Facial Cream 7ml

 Kiehl's Crème De Corps 30ml

 Kiehl's Hand Salve 30ml

 Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Concentrate 4ml

Shu Uemura 

Cleansing Oil 20ml

Viktor & Rolf 

Flowerbomb eau de parfum 7ml

 YSL 

Belle D'Opium eau de parfum 7.5ml

 Rouge Pur Couture Mini

 Khol Pencil Mini