Our verdict: “The LookFantastic Advent Calendar provides everything you need for your pamper routine throughout December and beyond, offering high end, luxury brands you may not otherwise have afforded or treated yourself to. While they’re marketed as Advent calendars, even if you’re not intending to open them day-by-day, they can be worth it to get products for much cheaper than you'd normally buy them for separately. They're also great for dividing up as gifts for multiple friends/family members in hampers for Christmas or as birthday gifts throughout the year.” M&S have launched its luxurious advent calendar for 2022 filled with top of the range beauty brands to pamper shoppers in the lead up to Christmas, and that's exactly how I felt when unboxing it. Every day from 1-12 December, Sparks customers can look forward to a daily reward, including free festive treats, personalised offers and exclusive competitions:

Some people were, however, thrilled with what they managed to bag through the advent calendar. @Weggster tweeted: "I’ve won on the M&S 12 Days of Christmas advent calendar. I need to share my hate for tea wider I think. Grateful though so thank you." @MrsMummypennyUK said: "Share your M&S sparks card 12 days of Christmas freebies. I got mince pies. But @EveK1979 got a bottle of gin!!! Who can beat gin?" The drawers are all varying sizes, each filled with at least one product and topped with a sheet of red tissue paper. The biggest boxes are day one, five and day 25, with small and medium boxes scattered throughout. Whilst unboxing it's easy to see how this calendar has something for everyone, the products itself are staples and what everyone could need in their beauty routine - from shampoo and conditioner, facewash, body wash, moisturiser, make-up, nail polish, perfume and hand cream.High street giant Marks and Spencer (M&S) has come under fire with shoppers over its 12 Days of Christmas advent calendar. Shoppers who have the advent calendar were promised to find goodies like free gin snow globes and light-up biscuit tins inside. Here's everything you can expect to find inside the No7 Ultimate 25 Days of Beauty Advent Calendar for 2023:

Here are our top beauty advent calendars of 2022, and ones that are certainly worth keeping an eye on when they launch next year, too. LookFantastic Clinique, REN, Nuxe, This Works and Lumene are some of the skincare brands included, each fitting a different purpose from overnight cream, revitalising cream, uplift serum and under eye brightening cream. One of my favourites so far, and not a brand I've tried before, is the This Works 'In Transit Camera Close-up' primer, it's light on the skin and gives enough blurring to prep before a full-face. A focus on high-end haircare READ MORE: Boots No7's 'most powerful' anti-ageing cream broke the internet - it's made my skin so flawless, I've ditched my foundation The LookFantastic ‘Beauty Story’ 2022 Advent Calendar offers 25 windows stuffed with 26 beauty products from brands such as Elemis, Drunk Elephant and Philip Kingsley, as well as some more independent and high street brands. It quite literally looks fantastic, if you'll pardon the pun. What I love about beauty advent calendars is that the boxes can often be upcycled - for example, this one can be used to create a hamper-style gift for a friend later in the year, or transformed into a handy storage solution that can be displayed in your dressing room. The contents

Liz Earle - was £75, now £60 (worth £169)

Ted Baker's Advent Calendar is filled to the brim with indulgent bathing and beauty treats, as well as some limited edition festive surprises. Last year there were 24 products inside the advent calendar, while this year there are 27. However, comparing this year’s contents to last year, 18 products included are exactly the same, which could be good or bad depending on which way you look at it. LookFantastic’s advent calendar has become a firm favourite among shoppers over the last couple of years, completely selling out in 2021. And with a value of more than five times the retail price, it’s easy to see why. It’s December 1 which means many of us have rushed to open the first doors on our advent calendars this morning - be it chocolate, beauty or in my case, opening one filled with venison treats for my dogs. Amy Smith moaned: "I’ve updated mine press on it and nothing works can anyone help?" Katie King agreed: "I can't get mine to work. The app doesn't need updating either."