M&S Beauty Advent Calendar
£75.00
The M&S beauty advent calendar 2026 holds 26 products behind 25 doors in a candy-striped ‘Love That!’ box, with M&S putting the contents at over £450. Ten pieces are full-size, from the Formula night cream to the Estée Lauder primer, and 12 brands join the calendar for the first time. It’s built for a woman who wants to sample a wide run of beauty names rather than chase one haul.
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Release date
Ships from 15/10/2026
FREE delivery
on orders over £60
Release date
Ships from 15/10/2026
AI Summary
- 26 beauty products behind 25 doors, split across make-up, skincare, haircare, fragrance and body and wellness
- 10 full-size items, from skincare and make-up through to a mascara and a bronzer
- M&S states the contents are worth over £450, its highest-value edition to date
- 12 brands make their calendar debut, including Formula, ESPA, Sweed and Floral Street
- Built for women, mid-price at £75, unlocked once you spend £30 on other M&S lines
M&S Beauty Advent Calendar 2026: 26 products behind 25 doors
The M&S Beauty Advent Calendar 2026 packs 26 products behind 25 doors, with one door hiding a pair, inside a candy-striped ‘Love That!’ keepsake box in bright red and pink. M&S puts the contents at over £450, which the retailer calls its highest-value edition yet, for a £75 box aimed squarely at women who want to try a wide spread of beauty names in one go.
Ten of the products are full-size, and the line-up leans on first-timers: 12 brands appear in the calendar for the first time, 10 of them entirely new to M&S. Think Formula and ESPA in skincare, Sweed and bareMinerals in make-up, Floral Street in fragrance, next to familiar faces like Clinique, Aveda and Benefit.
What’s inside the M&S beauty advent calendar
The breakdown reads like a cross-section of the beauty hall rather than one counter. By my reading of the published list, the 26 products split into 7 make-up, 5 skincare, 5 haircare, 3 fragrance and 6 body and wellness. No single category swamps the box, which is the point: it plays as a sampler across the whole beauty hall.
Skincare brings Formula, The Organic Pharmacy, Pai, PRAI and Clinique; haircare brings Aveda (shampoo and conditioner), Color WOW, Philip Kingsley and Hair by Sam McKnight; make-up runs from Sweed and bareMinerals to ICONIC London, Benefit, Estée Lauder and Nails Inc. Fragrance is three 10ml eaux de parfum, including Floral Street’s Ylang Ylang Espresso alongside M&S’s own Discover Pink Pepper and Midnight Blossom.
The ten full-size items are where the money sits: the Formula Ultra Peptide Night Cream (50ml), the Estée Lauder Double Wear Smooth & Blur Primer (40ml), the ICONIC London Lip Glaze and Prep Set Blur, the bareMinerals Complexion Rescue Bronzer and the Benefit BADgal Bounce Mascara among them.
The door-by-door breakdown sits in the SPOILER tab.
What the contents are worth
M&S states the contents are worth over £450, and bills this as the highest value it has put in the box. I’m taking that figure as the retailer’s own tally, not an independent recount. Split the £75 price across the 26 products and each one lands at just under £2.90, before you weigh the ten full-size pieces more heavily than the travel sizes.
The honest read: the full-size Formula night cream and Estée Lauder primer alone carry a chunk of that total, so the value is real but front-loaded onto a handful of doors, with the travel sizes filling out the rest.
This year’s edition against last year’s
Last year’s M&S box was a black case illustrated by Bella Freud, with 25 products and 8 full-size items, carrying a stated value around £315 and brands such as L’Occitane, Nuxe, Emma Hardie, REN, Living Proof and Pixi. The 2026 edition changes the look entirely: a candy-striped ‘Love That!’ case in red and pink, a brighter and more playful look for the range.
The numbers move the same direction while the £75 price holds steady: 25 products become 26, 8 full-size become 10, and the stated value climbs from roughly £315 to over £450. The brand sheet is almost a clean sweep of new names, with 12 making their calendar debut.
My verdict on the M&S beauty advent calendar
M&S has done the sensible thing and held the price while adding to the box. More products, more full-size pieces, a higher stated value, same money: on paper it’s a better deal than last year, and I’d call it one of the stronger mid-price beauty calendars on the high street.
What I’d flag is the brand reshuffle. Nearly every name is new to the calendar, so last year’s regulars, L’Occitane, Nuxe, REN, are gone. If you bought the 2025 box for those specific brands, you’re starting fresh. The breadth is the draw here, even if the fragrance count stays modest at three 10ml bottles.
It suits a woman who likes trying names she doesn’t already own more than someone hunting a specific brand haul. The £30 spend to unlock it is the catch worth knowing before you set your heart on it.
Where to buy the M&S beauty advent calendar
The calendar is sold by Marks & Spencer. There’s no discount code: instead it unlocks once you spend £30 on other M&S clothing, home or beauty lines. At £75 your basket then clears the £60 free-delivery threshold, so postage costs nothing.
- Seller: Marks & Spencer
- Unlock condition: £30 spend on other M&S items
- Delivery: free over £60
- Discount code: none
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