Festoon your festive table with chic treats and beauty filled advent calendars.

Why settle for flimsy paper hats, groanworthy jokes and ‘gifts’ you’ll never use again? You can have Christmas crackers filled with mini pampering products. Admittedly, these luxurious little treats will set you back a bit more than a bumper box of supermarket crackers, but they’ll be worth the indulgence when you see what’s inside. Beauty ornaments are another refreshing change from the standard baubles and bows. What’s better than a Christmas decoration you can pop open and use?

You can have a new mini-lipstick or perfume to try. And if you’re already up to your eyes in boxes of chocolate and extra-large Toblerones, a beauty advent calendar might just be the one for you. With a good mix of full-size products and travel minis, beauty advent calendars are fantastic value.

Here are 12 of the best Christmas beauty treats for 2021…

1 Brown Thomas Luxury Beauty Advent Calendar €295, visit brownthomas.com, 2 Neom Sleepy Vibes €32, visit arnotts.ie, 3 Emma Hardie Moringa Skin Indulgence Set €25, visit spacenk.com

4 Nuxe Christmas Cracker €13.45, visit lookfantastic.ie, 5 Jo Loves A Pomelo Bauble €45.20, visit cultbeauty.com, 6 Aldi Lacura Advent Calendar €59.99, visit Aldi

7 I Heart Revolution This Ones A Cracker €12, visit prettylittlething.ie , 8 Autograph Perfect Red Lip €20, visit marksandspencer.ie, 9 Charlotte Tilbury Charlotte’s Dreams & Secrets €185, visit arnotts.ie

10 L’Occitane Festive Beauty Crackers Collection Set €26, visit millies.ie, 11 OPI Celebration Collection Nail Polish Mini Christmas Cracker €18.95, visit lookfantastic.ie, 12 MAC Cosmetics Box of Tricks Advent Calendar €160, visit maccosmetics.co.uk

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