The five beauty advent calendars 2026 I'm most looking forward to including M&S, Lush and LookFantastic
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From Lush's bath-filled countdown to LookFantastic's brand new curator concept, these are the beauty advent calendars I'm watching for 2026.
Beauty advent calendars are already starting to appear on my radar for 2026, and there are some very tempting options to look forward to this year.
While plenty of brands are still keeping the full details of their eagerly anticipated festive launches under wraps, a few have already revealed enough to get me excited.
From the promise of premium skincare at M&S to Lush's bath-focused countdown and a completely new concept from LookFantastic, there are some calendars I’ll be keeping a particularly close eye on.
These are the five 2026 beauty calendars I’m most looking forward to (so far)
M&S is one of the calendars I'm most curious about, although the details of its 2026 beauty advent calendar haven't been unveiled yet.
Last year's offering featured 25 expertly curated treasures, with each one hand-picked by M&S beauty specialists. It included eight full-size favourites, alongside a mix of skincare, haircare, body care, makeup and fragrance.
The skincare line-up featured best-selling names including Prai, Estée Lauder and Emma Hardie, while Living Proof, Percy & Reed and Colour Wow brought some well-known haircare favourites into the mix too.
There were also pampering treats from Bloom & Blossom, Nuxe, This Works, L'Occitane, Weleda and Cowshed, while Clinique, Dr Paw Paw, Stila and Nails Inc offered some party-ready beauty treats.
The calendar was finished off with fragrances from Floral Street and M&S's own Discover Soft Gardenia scent. In short, it was a great calendar choice for those who want a mix of product type and also don’t want everything to come from just one brand.
So, I'm hoping this year's calendar will be packed with equally premium products. Judging by last year's release pattern, I'd expect the 2026 M&S beauty advent calendar to arrive around October, although we'll need to wait for the official details before knowing exactly what is inside.
Lush is another calendar I'm particularly looking forward to, and the one catching my eye is the 29½ High Street Advent Calendar.
It contains 25 bath treats to explore, with Lush describing the collection in suitably festive terms: “Festive fizzers to astound, Bubbles and sparkles all around. Scents of the season, colour and cheer, A daily indulgence for the end of the year.”
The calendar promises to take you through a daily bathing treat every day from December 1 to Christmas, making it a completely different option to anything else on the market. Anyone who has read my recent review of the Lush bath bot will know how much I enjoy relaxing in the bath, so an excuse to have one every day in the run up to Christmas sounds dreamy to me.
Lush favourite scent Snow Fairy makes an appearance, but I'm excited to try to the festive-themed products including Dominick the Donkey, The Christmas Penguin and Snowman Dreaming.
Unlike some of the calendars that are still firmly in the teaser stage, this one can already be bought for £135, with delivery available later in August. That makes it one of the earliest opportunities to get a 2026 beauty advent calendar sorted.
LookFantastic is doing something completely new with its 2026 Beauty Advent Calendar, and this makes it one of the most interesting concepts of the year.
For the first time, the calendar has been curated door-by-door by 25 names, ranging from beauty insiders and buying experts to members of the LookFantastic team. Each curator has chosen their personal pick for the door they've been given.
The line-up of curators includes The Girls Bathroom podcast hosts Sophia Tuxford and Cinzia Baylis-Zullo, celebrity hairstylist Sam McKnight and beauty and skincare tastemaker Gary Thompson.
There are 27 products hidden across 25 days, including 19 full-sized favourites. LookFantastic says the collection has a total value of £665, but it will retail for £120. That’s incredible value.
I love that there are an extra couple of products included beyond the standard 24 or 25 products in advent calendars, and there is even a product behind the Christmas Day door rather than the countdown ending on Christmas Eve. It’s just a thoughtful way to make this calendar feel like an extra special festive treat and I can’t wait for it.
The calendar launches on September 1, with early access available by joining LF Beauty Plus+ and opting in to emails.
ESPA has revealed very little about its 2026 Moments of Wellness Advent Calendar so far, but what it has said is enough to make me curious.
The brand has teased “luxurious skincare and new discoveries” waiting behind every door, although the full product list and value have yet to be revealed. Last year's calendar was released in September, so I'm expecting the full details of this year's version to arrive within the next four to six weeks, which means hopefully there’s not long to wait.
The 2025 calendar contained multiple products from across the luxury beauty brand's range, including face masks, serums, shampoo, conditioner and moisturisers.
There were 25 wellbeing treats in total, with a mixture of full-size, travel-size and sample-size products. I'm hoping and anticipating that this year's calendar to follow a similar format, although we'll have to wait for ESPA to confirm exactly what is coming.
If you simply can't wait for the ESPA 2026 calendar, however, the 2025 calendar can currently be found on Amazon. You could either save it for this year's festive season or open it now just because and then pick up the 2026 version when it launches.
NEOM is another brand keeping most of its 2026 calendar details under wraps for now, but the initial teaser sounds promising.
NEOM says buyers can expect a brand favourite behind every door which has been designed to help provide better sleep, less stress, more energy or a mood boost. The brand has also confirmed that the calendar will feature 10 full-sized products across their home fragrance, bath and body and Christmas ranges, with every product featuring 100% natural fragrances.
Last year's calendar will ahain hopefully us a useful insight of the sort of collection we could see this time around. The 2025 line-up included the NEOM Perfect Peace Travel Candle, NEOM Ceramic Star, Sparkling Joy Essential Oil Blend, Uplifting Hand Balm and Real Luxury Multi-Mineral Body Milk.
There were also products designed around sleep and relaxation, including Perfect Night's Sleep Mist, Perfect Night's Sleep Bath Foam, Perfect Night's Sleep Wellbeing Soak and Perfect Night's Sleep Magnesium Body Butter.
Other highlights included Great Day Wonder Balm, Super Shower Power Body Cleanser, Energy Burst Multi-Mineral Body Milk, a Calming Pen, Complete Bliss Essential Oil Blend, Real Luxury Cocooning Shower Cream and Real Luxury Magnesium Bath Milk. I'm very much hoping for more of the same from the 2026 calendar.
With several of these calendars still to reveal their full contents, the next few weeks will be interesting for beauty advent calendar fans, that’s for sure.
LookFantastic is already giving us a September 1 launch date, while ESPA, NEOM and M&S are expected to reveal more in the next couple of months.
For me, these five stand out because each one offers something quite different. Lush is all about bath-time treats, LookFantastic is putting individual curators in charge of the doors, M&S is promising the potential for another premium mix of beauty favourites, while ESPA and NEOM are leaning into wellbeing.
With Christmas shopping seemingly starting earlier every year, and beauty calendars always proving extremely popular and selling out, it’s definitely worth keeping an eye on these launches. I will return to this page and update it as more details are revealed for each calendar, including providing those all-important product links so you can buy.
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