LOOKFANTASTIC sent me the full advent calendar line-up this afternoon, ahead of the 1 September launch, and said to share it with you.
So that’s what this is. All 27 products, every single door, before the thing even goes live.
I opened the file meaning to have a quick skim. Twenty minutes later I had the LOOKFANTASTIC site open in a second tab, reading up on a brand I’d never heard of. I have no self control about this stuff and I’ve stopped pretending otherwise.
Here’s what got me, though. This one isn’t just skincare and makeup. There are four hair products in it and three body, seven of the twenty-seven between them, and that’s the bit I went straight to.
There are a few names in here I’d never come across before either, so I went and looked those up too. Some genuinely lovely surprises in this one.
At a glance
- The LOOKFANTASTIC Advent Calendar 2026, which went on sale 1 September at 5pm
- LOOKFANTASTIC have it at £120, with a stated value of over £665
- It’s on pre-order now, dispatching from 2 October 2026
- 27 products across 25 doors, 19 of them full size
- New this year: every door picked by a different person, including Sam McKnight
- The split: 8 skincare, 7 makeup, 4 hair, 3 body, 2 lip, 2 fragrance, 1 lash
- Brands that hadn’t been reported anywhere before this: Avant, Aveeno, Kanzen, Anastasia Beverly Hills, UKLASH, MZ Skin, The Ordinary, Ameliorate, Spectrum, The Beauty Crop
- Hair and body are properly represented this year, not just skincare and makeup
If you just want to go straight to it, the LOOKFANTASTIC Advent Calendar 2026 is here. The full list is below either way.
The full contents list
Skincare
Medik8 Total Moisture Daily Cleansing Gel, 145ml. Gel-to-foam, prebiotics in it, and it’s the full size.
Clinique Moisture Surge 100H Auto-Replenishing Hydrator, 50ml. The aloe bioferment one, full size, and a proper cult product.
Elemis Pro-Collagen Night Cream, 30ml.
The Ordinary UV Filters SPF 45 Serum, 60ml. From their newer Suncare line, and it’s the full size. I did a small double-take at this one and I mean that as a compliment.
MZ Skin Hydra-Lift Golden Facial Treatment Mask. One gold hydrogel sheet.
Avant Skincare Hyaluronic Acid Molecular Boost Eye Cream, 10ml. The one I’m most curious about. More on it below.
Kanzen Pore Purifier, 125ml. A high strength hypochlorous wash.
LOOKFANTASTIC Reusable Eye Patches. Their own-brand ones, and they’re silicone, so you wash them and use them again rather than binning them after one go.
Hair
Color Wow Dream Cocktail Kale-Infused Leave-In Strengthening Treatment, 200ml.
Aveda Cherry Almond Softening Shampoo, 250ml. Full size.
Aveda Cherry Almond Softening Conditioner, 200ml. Full size as well, which is the bit that makes the pair worth having.
Hair by Sam McKnight Cool Girl Barely There Texture Mist, 250ml.
Body
Ameliorate Transforming Body Lotion, 100ml. The AHA one, and my personal favourite of the whole line-up. More below.
Aveeno Skin Relief Body Oil Spray, 50ml. Oat and jojoba, aimed at very dry sensitive skin.
ESPA Bergamot & Jasmine Bath & Shower Gel, 100ml.
Makeup
MAC Fix+ Alcohol-Free Multitasking Setting Spray, 100ml. Full size, and I’ve got opinions.
Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder Ultra Blur, 6g.
Benefit Roller Lash, 8.5g.
Made By Mitchell Blursh Liquid Blusher in Strawberry Cream, 6ml.
The Beauty Crop Oui Cherie Gripping Primer, 20ml. Cherry extract and hyaluronic acid.
Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Freeze, 8g. That rose gold compact I couldn’t place on the sheet is the brow wax. Mystery solved.
Spectrum Collections Pantherine Sponge Duo. Two sponges, in the tortoiseshell packaging.
Lips
Laneige Lip Glowy Balm in Vanilla, 10g.
The Beauty Crop Glow Milk Lip Oil, 3.5ml.
Fragrance
Sol de Janeiro Cheirosa ’40 Perfume Mist, 90ml.
The White Company Luxury Home Spray in Amalfi Lemon, 95ml. Lemon, neroli and cedarwood. This one’s for the room, not for you.
Lashes
UKLash Lash Serum, 1ml.
The names that were new to me
Avant is the one I’m most curious about. London brand, and the Hyaluronic Acid Molecular Boost Eye Cream is so new to LOOKFANTASTIC that it’s still showing as Coming Soon on their site. Getting something that fresh behind a door is a lovely touch. I’ve not tried it and I’d very much like to.
Kanzen was new to me as well. It’s a hypochlorous pore wash, which is having a real moment at the minute, and it’s a good one to find in a calendar because it’s the sort of thing you’d never think to buy for yourself.
And Glow Milk, which took me a minute to place. It turns out to be a sub-line of The Beauty Crop rather than a separate brand, so there are two of theirs in here between the lip oil and the Oui Cherie primer.
What I’d actually use
I shaved my head back in July, so I’m growing it out from scratch, and that changes what jumps out at me from a list like this.
The Aveda Cherry Almond shampoo and conditioner are the first things I’d reach for. Getting a matching pair at those sizes is brilliant, because you can actually use them together for weeks rather than getting one wash out of a sachet. I’ve got about an inch of hair on my head right now. This is exactly where I am.
Seeing The Ordinary in here made me happy. I already buy from them, there are a couple of their bottles sitting in my bathroom right now, so finding them in the line-up alongside Elemis and MZ Skin was a nice surprise. I’ve not used this SPF. I’d like to, because I’m fussy about sunscreen and I’ve written a whole post working out which ones I’ll actually reapply.
Then the Ameliorate, and this is the one I’d hang onto. LOOKFANTASTIC sell that lotion specifically for keratosis pilaris, the rough bumpy skin on the backs of your arms, and it’s lactic acid doing the work rather than a scrub. If you’ve been sanding your arms with an exfoliating mitt for years and wondering why nothing changes, this is the category of thing that helps. Really pleased to see it in here.
The Color Wow Dream Cocktail is a lovely leave-in and it’ll get used. It’s a conditioning treatment, so it’s all about making hair feel softer and behave itself, and mine will take all the help it can get right now.
MAC Fix+ I’ll take because it’s full size and I’ll get through it. I’m not good at makeup and I’ve never pretended to be, but I have hooded oily lids and I’ve spent a long time working out what stays put on them, so setting spray is never wasted on me.
Will my LOOKFANTASTIC code work on it?
No, it doesn’t. I’ve checked, and LFTFNEVEEN won’t come off the advent calendar. It’s priced on its own.
I’d rather tell you that here than have you sat at checkout wondering what you’re typing wrong. Advent calendars and gift sets are often excluded from discount codes, though not always, and I don’t guess about it any more. I put things in a basket and check. That’s how I found out my code does work on the LOOKFANTASTIC beauty box subscription, which I’d assumed it wouldn’t, and it’s the same way I went through every single item in the Stylevana Vana Box.
Either way, the LOOKFANTASTIC Advent Calendar 2026 sits on the LOOKFANTASTIC site, and my code LFTFNEVEEN gets up to 25% off full-price items. No minimum spend, no expiry, works on repeat orders, and you don’t have to be a new customer. Full terms are on my LOOKFANTASTIC discount code page.
So the calendar is full price, and the code is for everything else in your basket.
👉 Get the LOOKFANTASTIC advent calendar here
The LOOKFANTASTIC grooming advent calendar 2026
Okay so there’s a grooming calendar as well, and I nearly scrolled straight past it before I actually read what’s inside.
It’s £90. LOOKFANTASTIC put the value at over £469. Twenty-five doors, 27 products, 15 of them full size, so the same shape as the beauty one with a completely different line-up. ESPA, Shiseido, Rituals, Murdock London and Elemis are the names on the front of the box.
Here’s the bit that got me though. Take out the shaving brush and the comb and most of what’s left is skincare and body care. Weleda Skin Food is Weleda Skin Food. Vichy Mineral 89 is the same serum thats been sat in half the bathrooms in Britain for years. So if you’re buying this for someone and quietly planning to borrow bits of it, I’d say crack on.
What’s in the grooming calendar
- ESPA Men’s Post Shave Rescue Balm, 50ml, full size
- Aveeno Calm & Restore SPF 50, 15ml, deluxe
- Aveeno Oat Gel Moisturiser, 15ml, deluxe
- Avant Skincare Proactive Mandelic Acid Restoring and Anti-Pollution Toner, 30ml, deluxe
- Shiseido Men’s Ultimune Serum, 10ml, deluxe
- Dragons Blood Sculpting Gel, 50ml, full size
- Rituals Homme 24h Anti-Perspirant Spray, 150ml, full size
- Philip Kingsley Flaky/Itchy Shampoo, 20ml, deluxe
- Philip Kingsley Flaky/Itchy Conditioner, 20ml, deluxe
- BARBER PRO Warming Eye Mask, full size
- First Aid Beauty KP Bump Eraser Body Scrub Original, 2oz, full size
- L’Occitane Lavande Poivre Noir Shower Gel, 75ml, full size
- Weleda Skin Food, 75ml, full size
- Murdock London Black Tea Cologne, 50ml, deluxe
- Aromatherapy Muscle Shower Oil, 50ml, deluxe
- Bulldog Sensitive Face Wash, 150ml, full size
- LOOKFANTASTIC Cleansing Cloth, full size
- Ruffians Matt Clay, 30g, full size
- Elemis Pro-Collagen Marine Cream for Men, 15ml, deluxe
- Shaving brush, full size
- Acnecide Pimple Patches, x12, full size
- Comb, full size
- This Works Deep Sleep Plus Pillow Spray, 10ml, deluxe
- Murdock London Sea Salt Spray, 150ml, full size
- Vichy Mineral 89 Hyaluronic Acid Booster Serum, 10ml, deluxe
- Aery Fernweh Candle in Himalayan Cedarleaf, 155g, full size
- Ameliorate Clarifying Body Spray, 200ml, full size
The two I’d take straight out of it
The First Aid Beauty KP Bump Eraser. That’s the rough bumpy skin on the backs of your arms again, same territory as the Ameliorate lotion in the beauty calendar, and I bang on about that category constantly because hardly anyone realises it’s a thing you can actually treat rather than something you just scrub at forever.
And the Philip Kingsley flaky itchy shampoo and conditioner, which I did a proper double take at. That’s a seb derm product. Finding a matched flaky scalp duo tucked inside a men’s grooming calendar was not on my list of expectations for this afternoon, and I’m really pleased it’s in there.
👉 Get the LOOKFANTASTIC grooming advent calendar here
FAQs
When does the LOOKFANTASTIC advent calendar 2026 launch?
1 September 2026 at 5pm UK time.
How much is the LOOKFANTASTIC advent calendar 2026?
£120, with a stated value of over £665.
What’s in the LOOKFANTASTIC advent calendar 2026?
27 products across 25 doors. The full list is above. The short version: Medik8, Clinique, Elemis, The Ordinary, MZ Skin, Avant, Kanzen, Color Wow, Aveda, Hair by Sam McKnight, Ameliorate, Aveeno, ESPA, MAC, Laura Mercier, Benefit, Made By Mitchell, The Beauty Crop, Anastasia Beverly Hills, Spectrum, Laneige, Sol de Janeiro, The White Company and UKLASH.
How many full size products are in the LOOKFANTASTIC advent calendar?
19 of the 27.
Is the LOOKFANTASTIC advent calendar worth it?
I think so, yes. 19 of the 27 are full size, which is a strong ratio, and the spread across skincare, hair, body and makeup means there’s very little in here that would just sit in a drawer. If you like trying new brands it’s a good one, because there are names in this line-up you won’t have come across before. It’s £120 at LOOKFANTASTIC.
Can you use a discount code on the LOOKFANTASTIC advent calendar?
No. The advent calendar is priced on its own and my code LFTFNEVEEN doesn’t come off it. The code does still work across the rest of the site on full-price items.
Is there a LOOKFANTASTIC fragrance advent calendar too?
Yes, and a men’s grooming one, so there are three to choose from this year. Jo Malone is in the fragrance calendar rather than this one.
How much is the LOOKFANTASTIC grooming advent calendar 2026?
£90, with a stated value of over £469. It’s 25 doors and 27 products, 15 of them full size. The full grooming line-up is above, and the grooming calendar is here.
The other advent calendars I’ve written up
If you’re weighing a few up: the Clarins Advent Calendar 2026 comes in a 12 day at £98 and a 24 day at £165, and it’s the one to look at if you want body care in there. The Benefit Advent Calendar 2026 is The Hotel Beneville, £149 for 24 doors, and it’s pure makeup.
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More advent calendars
If you want to see what La Mer, Augustinus Bader and Sunday Riley look like behind 25 doors, the Space NK advent calendar 2026 is written up in full too. 35 products, 26 of them full size.
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