Marks & Spencer launches Bella Freud Beauty Advent Calendar 2025

Marks and Spencer has launched its much-anticipated Beauty Advent Calendar for 2025, offering shoppers 25 makeup, skincare and haircare items curated in collaboration with designer Bella Freud. The calendar goes on sale in stores and online following an October release and is priced at £60 when purchased alongside a minimum £35 spend on full-price fashion, beauty or home items, a promotion that effectively reduces the calendar from its stated retail value of about £330.

The countdown-style set includes eight full-size products and 17 deluxe minis drawn from a mix of household and premium names. Products singled out in early previews include a 7ml Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair serum, a Clinique High Impact mascara, Benefit Benetint and treatments from Prai, Living Proof, Cowshed and Percy and Reed, along with body oils and travel-friendly fragrances. A reviewer who tested the set before its release described the packaging and contents as “everything you’d want from an advent calendar,” praising a range of bath and hair items and highlighting the pleasure of daily unboxing. Marks and Spencer’s promotional offer requires the additional £35 spend to unlock the £60 price, a...