Looking for Christmas gift ideas for an important lady in your life? Well, you’ve come to the right place. This gift guide is jam-packed with thoughtful, fun and quirky advent calendars for women.
We’ve broken down our favourite advent calendars into categories — from beauty to self-care to jewellery — to help you choose the right advent calendar for her. So, whether she’s barmy for beauty or crazy about crafts, you’re bound to find a gift she’ll love.
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Yes, chocolate is delicious, but is anyone else getting a little tired of opening those same old cardboard calendar doors and eating those same chocs every December?
Wouldn’t the countdown to Christmas Day be a bit more fun if the calendar doors held an actual surprise?
This guide has the lowdown on all the best women’s advent calendars available for Christmas 2024. And if you're looking for unique men’s advent calendars, we’ve got a whole separate guide on that too.
A few of our top picks for 2024
BEST FOR BEAUTY: LOOKFANTASTIC Iconic Beauty Advent Calendar
£100 at LOOKFANTASTIC - read more
BEST FOR JEWELLERY: Abbott Lyon Made More You Advent Calendar
£299 at Abbott Lyon - read more
BEST FOR FOOD AND DRINK: Ultimate Nitro Cocktail Advent Calendar
£59.99 at Funkin Cocktails - read more
BEST FOR WINTER SELF-CARE: LUSH Advent Calendar
£190 at LUSH - read more
BEST FOR STATIONERY AND CRAFTS: Merry & Bright Christmas Crafty Project DIY Advent Calendar Village
£38 at Etsy - read more
BEST FOR AN UNUSUAL CHOICE: Personalised A Date A Day Couples
Advent Calendar
£37.50 £28.12 at Etsy - read more
Our favourite women’s advent calendars for 2024
There are so many thoughtful advent calendars for women available to buy this year. But never fear, we’ve narrowed down some of the best ones for you, from a range of categories.
We’ll let you know where to buy each calendar and also keep you in the know about any cashback opportunities along the way.
Look out for our TopCashback hummingbird which we've added next to brands eligible for cashback. This means you can earn a percentage of your purchase through a referral link. It's completely free to join and earn.
We'll be updating these deals frequently during the Christmas period. All current prices and cashback amounts are correct as of November 19th, 2024.
Beauty advent calendars
Beauty advent calendars are ridiculously popular, with a range of brands and beauty retailers offering calendars that sell out in a matter of days or weeks.
While they can sometimes be on the pricier side, this is usually balanced out by the value you’ll get from the products. Expect to find everything from make-up, skincare and body lotions, to fragrances and hair care.
A beauty Christmas advent calendar makes a wonderful gift for a beauty fanatic, as they can discover new favourite products to rave about in 2025.
LOOKFANTASTIC Iconic Beauty
Advent Calendar 2024
Price:
£100
The hotly-anticipated LOOKFANTASTIC advent calendar is back. Worth over £565, this year's Christmas countdown includes 27 products. Highlights include the Sol de Janeiro Cheirosa 59 perfume mist, Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair Serum and a pair of Trigwell Cosmetics Velvet Powder Puffs.
Where to buy: LOOKFANTASTIC
Liberty Beauty Advent Calendar 2024
SOLD OUT
Price:
£260
This Liberty London beauty advent calendar (worth an impressive £1,205) contains 28 beauty products, including 18 full-sized items. Stand-outs include a full size The Rich Cream from Augustinus Bader, a Sunday Riley Good Genes treatment and a La Mer Lip Volumiser.
Where to buy: Liberty London
Kiehl’s Open For Advent-ure Calendar
Price:
£118
Fans of Kiehl’s will no doubt love this skincare advent calendar, which has 24 days of beauty goodies inside. With brand favourites like the Ultra Facial Cream, Creme de Corps and Super Multi-Corrective Cream, this collection is a fantastic introduction to Kiehl’s.
Where to buy: Kiehl's
Sephora Favorites Advent Calendar 2024
SOLD OUT
Price:
£199
Sephora’s 2024 beauty advent calendar contains a whopping 40 products from a range of brands, including 24 full-sized products. Their handpicked collection includes hair styling, make-up, skincare, body care and fragrances. Highlights include the Medik8 Clarity Peptides Serum, Paula's Choice C15 Super Booster and Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Pink Juice Moisturizer.
Where to buy: Sephora
Jewellery advent calendars
Jewellery calendars make very thoughtful gifts, with stunning pieces she can cherish for years to come.
There are options for all budgets, but if you’re looking to buy a high-quality jewellery advent calendar, you will have to spend a decent chunk of money. We’ve found a few of the best value jewellery advent calendars for 2024.
Check out our full jewellery advent calendar guide for more inspo.
Missoma Gold Jewellery Advent Calendar 2024
Price: £395
Worth £827, this gold jewellery advent calendar from Missoma is the perfect gift for a lady who loves all that glitters. It contains 12 of their best-selling gold pieces, including a pair of mini helical hoop earrings, an orb chain bracelet and a beaded stone pendant necklace.
Where to buy: Missoma
12 Days of Grove & Vae Jewellery
Advent Calendar 2024
Price: £395
This beautiful collection from Grove & Vae is made up of 12 of the brand's bestselling pieces. With a combined value of £679, this luxurious calendar is bound to delight. Favourites include the stunning Maia gold malachite necklace.
Where to buy: Grove & Vae
Abbott Lyon Made More You Advent Calendar
Price:
£249
This customisable jewellery advent calendar will make a truly heartfelt gift for someone special. As well as adding her name to the front cover, pieces inside include an initial bracelet and mini heart birthstone pendant. Choose from silver or gold, depending on her tastes.
Where to buy: Abbott Lyon
Food and drink advent calendars
Food and drink advent calendars are a smart choice for any women in your life who are particularly tricky to buy for. Whether they love an alcoholic tipple or festive coffee, you can find plenty of fairly-priced and delicious options.
Ultimate Nitro Cocktail Advent Calendar
Price:
£59.99
This 24-day advent calendar contains seven different Funkin cocktails, ensuring the Christmas countdown is as tipsy and as tasty as it should be. Drinks include the Nitro Espresso Martini, Berry Woo Woo and Pina Colada.
Where to buy: Funkin Cocktails
Grind Advent Calendar
SOLD OUT
Price: £28
For a coffee lover, the 2024 Grind advent calendar is an obvious choice. This Christmas countdown contains 25 Nespresso-compatible coffee pods that can be composted at home. Among the flavours are limited-edition Christmas, extra dark, and caramel blends.
Where to buy: Grind
Cartwright & Butler Advent Calendar
SOLD OUT
Price: £224.99
If you're looking for luxury gifts with a slightly higher price tag, you might want to pick this calendar. This Cartwright & Butler calendar has 24 days’ worth of delicious treats, including cheddar cheese crumbles, Belgian chocolate fudge and Earl Grey tea.
Where to buy: Selfridges
Looking for the perfect advent calendar for a cheese aficionado? Check out our tasty cheese advent calendar recommendations (they're bound to make your Christmas calendar shopping a brie-ze).
Winter self-care advent calendars
Treat someone special to a self-care advent calendar to get them through those gloomy winter months.
Whether you go for a bath, body and skincare advent calendar or a collection of candles and fragrances, all of these will make thoughtful gifts that are bound to be appreciated.
The calendars in this section will make fabulous gifts for mums, sisters or friends who need to take a bit of time in December to relax.
LUSH Advent Calendar
Price:
£190
LUSH's latest vegan-friendly advent calendar contains 25 deliciously scented bath bombs, bars, bubbles and more. Spread the festive cheer with a Snowdrift bath bomb, Candy Cane bubble bar and Snow Fairy lip mask.
Where to buy: LUSH
The Ritual of Advent Deluxe Advent Calendar
Price:
£114.90
This beautifully packaged collection from Rituals contains a mix of 24 different home, body and beauty products. These include four mini candles, shower oil, luxury hand balm and more. Winter blues? Well and truly banished.
Where to buy: Rituals
Yankee Candle Advent Book 2024
Price:
£49.99
Yankee Candle's 2024 gifting collection contains a variety of tealight and votive candles with a mix of classic and Christmassy scents. From Black Cherry to Silver Sage & Pine, gift this to someone special and fill their home with festive cheer. They’ll also get a constellation silver-plated glass tea light holder to hold their candles.
Where to buy: Yankee Candle
Stationery and craft advent calendars
If you’re buying for someone who’s particularly crafty, there are plenty of fun gift ideas to choose from.
Whether it’s a stationery advent calendar or some DIY Christmas crafts, the following options will make wonderful gifts for creative friends and family members.
Merry & Bright Christmas Advent Calendar Village
Price:
£38
This adorable advent calendar set contains everything needed to make 25 beautiful, intricate paper buildings, from an ice skate hire shop to a candy cane factory. Once the buildings have been assembled, they make lovely decorations for the home.
Where to buy: Etsy
24 Days Of Advent Christmas Embroidery Kit
Price:
£24.95
Whether she’s a keen sewer or a complete novice, this embroidery advent set makes a special, unusual gift. She can count down the days to Christmas by adding to her festive hoop each day, and she’ll have a keepsake to hang up at the end too.
Where to buy: Not On The High Street
Papier’s 24 Doors of Desk Delights
Price:
£140
Papier are seeking to outdo themselves after last year with their 24 Doors of Desk Delights 2024. Its 24 advent calendar gifts range from unique mini-products to full-size bestsellers. This collection features Papier staples like an A6 notebook, a three-fineliner set, and a rollerball pen.
Where to buy: Papier
For something a bit unusual…
Not quite found what you’re looking for yet? Check out the following miscellaneous calendars to see if any of them suit the recipient you have in mind.
Personalised A Date A Day Couples
Advent Calendar
Price:
£37.50 £28.12
This more affordable advent calendar will make a great gift for a girlfriend, wife, or a close friend who’s besotted with their partner. It contains 24 sweet but simple date ideas and can be personalised with your loved one’s name.
Where to buy: Etsy
Chili Klaus Chili Advent Calendar
Price:
£60
Your giftee can really test their chops with this alternative advent calendar. From chilli balls to fiery marzipan, there are spicy treats behind 24 doors in the run-up to Christmas. Ranked on a heat scale from Mild to Apocalypse, this calendar is ideal for spice lovers.
Where to buy: Sous Chef
Bonne Maman Jam Advent Calendar
OUT OF STOCK
Price:
£34.99
With 24 miniature jams and conserves, the run-up to Christmas can be tastier than ever. Flavours include Orange with Cinnamon Marmalade, Mango Peach and Lime, and Apricot with Bergamot.
Where to buy: Selfridges
Advent calendar money-saving tips
Some of the advent calendars we’ve mentioned in this guide are on the more expensive side — sometimes that’s unavoidable. However, there are nearly always ways you can reduce the cost.
Earn cashback on your advent calendar purchase
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We earn a small commission from our retailers when we send you to their website and you make a purchase. And unlike other cashback sites, we give 100% of that commission to you, in the form of cashback.
Your cashback will be credited to your TopCashback account, where it will turn green once it becomes payable. When it’s ready to be withdrawn, you can do so via bank transfer or PayPal, or use your cashback to buy a gift card using our Reward Wallet. If you cash out using Reward Wallet, you'll earn yourself a nice festive cashback bonus.
If you're new to TopCashback, you can get a free £15 cashback when you sign up to TopCashback and shop with one of our retailers. Just click the green Join TopCashback button below to get started.
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Take advantage of Black Friday deals in the run-up to Christmas
If you’re starting your Christmas shopping during the Black Friday period, you can make your budget stretch further. Thousands of retailers offer big price reductions, freebies and other promotions during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, making November a great time to shop.
Don’t forget that if you sign up to TopCashback, you can earn cashback on your Black Friday purchases too. We feature lots of exclusive cashback deals during this time too, which means you can essentially make savings on top of savings.
While we are updating this guide throughout November and December, you may find that some of these calendars are even cheaper by the time you look for yourself. Our cashback deals for certain brands may have increased too, so it’s worth double-checking!
Our Trending Now page is a good place to keep track of all our biggest and best cashback rates at any given time.
Make it a festive season to remember
Whoever you’re buying advent calendars for this year, hopefully this guide has given you plenty of inspiration.
From premium beauty and make-up advent calendars to tasty tipples and DIY crafts, you should find you have at least a few options to choose from, whatever your budget.
Don’t forget there are ways to save money on your women’s advent calendar too, whether that’s a Black Friday discount or a cashback offer from us.
And if you’re keen to discover even more Christmas advent calendar options (whether for a loved one or to treat yourself), why not check out the rest of our gift guides? We’ve got the lowdown on all the best stationery calendars, jewellery calendars, unique calendars for men, and even cheese calendars.
Have you bought any of the calendars in this guide? Or maybe you’ve bought a different advent calendar that you think is even better? Let us know in the comments about your favourite advent calendar purchases.