For those of you who don't know (though it is fairly easy to work out), a beauty advent calendar is one that contains small beauty related items (lipsticks, moisturisers ect ect) behind each door instead of chocolate. I have wanted one for such a long time, and now that I have recently acquired a part-time job, I think I should spend some of my hard-earned wages and get one!
You would not BELIEVE the amount of research I have done for this, oh my goodness me, even I think it's a tad excessive. I started looking in September, but there weren't any released back then. I have quite probably read every single blog post written about beauty advent calendars, and you cannot imagine my excitement when Makeup Revolution (my favourite brand) announced that they were releasing one!
But I still have been at such a dilemma at which one to buy. Unfortunately I do have a quite limited budget, which I want a lot from. I have looked at so many advent calendars online and in stores, but all the ones that I can afford seem to be filled with tiny samples of things that I will probably never use ever, or filled with full size products, but are only 12 days long! If I'm getting an advent calendar, it will be for the whole 24 days!
So this morning, I then came up with my ground breaking idea - what if I make my own advent calendar?????
If I go round all my favourite brands, gather 24 little products (maybe ones that are on sale or on a deal), I'll create a cracking advent calendar!!! I know it will probably end up being about 4 times the price of a shop bought one, but at least it will be filled with things I know that I love and will definitely use.
Although the surprise element may be taken out of it, I have a cunning plan. I am going to wrap each product up and find some little identical boxes to put them in so that they all look exactly the same. I'll then give them to someone (probably my mum) to jumble them all up and number them, so that the surprise will be in the order and that I don't know which one I'll get each day. Plus, it's quite impressive how shocking my short term memory is!
So that is what I will be doing for my beauty advent calendar and I am soooo excited about it (though my bank account really isn't!)
See you soon!
Although the surprise element may be taken out of it, I have a cunning plan. I am going to wrap each product up and find some little identical boxes to put them in so that they all look exactly the same. I'll then give them to someone (probably my mum) to jumble them all up and number them, so that the surprise will be in the order and that I don't know which one I'll get each day. Plus, it's quite impressive how shocking my short term memory is!
So that is what I will be doing for my beauty advent calendar and I am soooo excited about it (though my bank account really isn't!)
See you soon!
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