ADVENT CALENDAR – The month of December rhymes with Christmas and Advent calendars. Filled with chocolates, teas, make-up, games … Which Advent calendar will you fall for in 2022?
From December 1 to 24, Advent calendars allow you to enjoy Christmas before the hour with a daily surprise. The accessory is essential for the holidays and every year, adults and children alike, do not forget to get one. Brands of all kinds are also responding to the call for end-of-year meetings and offering calendars on various themes to please as many people as possible. Advent calendars filled with Kinder, Ferrero or Milka chocolates remain the most popular, especially among children. Gourmets can, however, broaden their horizons with the sweet or savory taste pleasures offered by other brands: Comtesse du Barry, Bien Manger, Maison Brémond, A la Mère de famille, etc. The offer is also varied in terms of drinks with calendars of teas, coffees, chocolates but also beers and spirits.
Others prefer beauty and well-being products to delicacies and set their sights on the calendars of major cosmetic brands: Sephora, Marionnaud, The Body Shop, L’Occitane, Fleurance and so on. With stores specializing in luxury products, organic cosmetics or grandmother’s natural recipes, there is something for everyone, even men can find something for them. In addition to the essential gourmet calendars, beauty and toys, impossible to miss Playmobil or Lego products, every year new calendar themes appear with the most original surprises such as calendars of puzzles, riddles, family challenges, decorations … Some calendars are even intended for our four-legged companions so that the whole family can enjoy the holidays. The 2022 editions of Advent calendars have not yet been released but to find the perfect product to wait for next December, here are the unmissable calendars for last Christmas.
For children, boys or girls, there is of course the chocolate Advent calendar, the Kinder is often very popular, which always seduces the most greedy but also many other choices. To allow children to invent new stories, Playmobil has designed several Advent calendars around the Christmas universe as well as on other themes with more than twenty pieces. At Disney, there are often several calendars bearing the effigies of the different heroes of the franchise that offer children the opportunity to receive jewelry, figurines, games or discover a story per day. You will understand, children have a wide choice to wait until December 24.
It is the star of Advent calendars for children and there is a choice at Playmobil with several versions to suit your child’s tastes. Among the bestsellers of the brand we find for example the Father Christmas Factory which makes it possible to build a little more each day the Christmas workshop, a special stuntman model, another inspired by the Back to the Future franchise, a royal picnic version for the ladies and even a model for the little ones from 1 year and a half with farm animals.
Lego Advent Calendar
Lego, the most popular construction game, has also designed various Advent calendars on several themes from its flagship collections: Lego Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lego Friends and Lego City. Designed for children from 5 years old, each calendar contains 24 surprises that will complete the collection of little building enthusiasts. On the official Lego website, the products cost between € 19.99 and € 24.99 depending on the model.
Advent calendars aren’t just for kids! If you can adopt a gourmet model with chocolates or other sweets, there are now much more original models that offer small gifts every day. Among the best seller of Advent calendars, we find beauty and make-up calendars but also calendars for beer, teas, French regional products or with candles. There is something for everyone with models that are as original in their content as in their form with reusable packaging for some. You will surely find happiness.
Are you addicted to cosmetics and makeup? Luckily, on the cosmetics shelves, Advent calendars are multiplying from year to year with ever richer and more original models. Sephora, Nocibé, L’Occitane, Marionnaud, Rituals, Mac, Nyx or Yves Rocher… Beauty brands are innovating to integrate their lipstick, eye shadow, hand cream and other skincare and makeup products in mini format. Many brands of organic cosmetics have recently put themselves in tune with exclusive Advent calendars such as those of the Fleurance or WAAM brands which advocate homemade cosmetics. You will certainly be eager to open the December 24 box which often contains the best gift of the entire calendar with an exceptional product.
Sephora Advent Calendar
Not only does the cosmetics brand offer many calendars from the biggest beauty brands, but it also presents its own Sephora Advent calendars every year to show you its great classics. Each year a new decor in which are hidden the many surprises of makeup, skincare, bath and accessories. It is not one, not two, but three calendars that the brand offered in December:
- Sephora Collection Holiday Vibes Advent Calendar. For example, you will find face masks, an eye pencil, varnish, a nail file or even a scrub. The Sephora Collection Advent Calendar is on sale in stores and on the website at a price of 49.99 euros.
- Sephora Do it Yourself Advent Calendar which contains 24 pretty reusable pouches to fill yourself according to the gifts you want to receive or give during the month of December. Price: € 19.90.
At Yves Rocher, place on the beauty and make-up Advent calendar with a daily surprise from the brand’s new Christmas collection. This is a pretty box with drawers in the colors of an enchanting garden in which you will find varnishes, lipstick, eyeshadows, mini perfume, mini shampoo, lip balm and even more surprises . You can also keep the recycled cardboard box to create your own calendar the following year. Count 39.95 euros for 24 beauty surprises.
Nocibé Advent Calendar
Nocibé does not offer one, but two Advent calendars. The first, in the form of a box, is sold at a price of 29.95 euros, and offers you a new surprise every day to make you discover the essentials for the bath, body and make-up of the brand. The prestige edition comes in the form of a makeup or jewelry box, and contains best-selling products in large format to take care of you. The price of this version is 49.95 euros.
Advent Calendar Rituals
At Rituals, there are two Advent calendars with a mix of body and home products in each calendar, an overview of the brand’s different rituals. The first, a 3D Advent calendar in the form of a village, offers a nice scented surprise every day at the price of 89.90 euros. The second is a 2D calendar in Christmas colors in which you will discover the brand’s best-selling products for 59.90 euros.
When you want to make a DIY Advent calendar, that is to say a calendar that you make yourself, it is better to do it in advance. You have to bring together the necessary material for the realization but also all the little surprises to slip inside. In this category, two possibilities. The first is to start from scratch by making the calendar from A to Z. For example, you can use envelopes, toilet paper rolls, string, hangers etc. Do not hesitate to watch our tutorial “make an advent calendar“to inspire you. Second option, buy an empty calendar to customize and fill. There are many wooden Advent calendars to paint. Brands such as Maisons du Monde, Cultura, Hema or Sostrene Grene offer many variations.
It is one of the flagship calendars for adults: the beer Advent calendar. Zythophiles, beer lovers understand, can taste up to 24 different beers for 24 days. A moment of discovery and guaranteed pleasure! It should be remembered, however, that alcohol abuse is dangerous for health. Where can I find beer Advent calendars? Mainly on the Web, some are already available for pre-order. Go for it! Saveur Bière, Une Petite Mousse, V and B, beer specialists are waiting for you.