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Cool concept: the beauty advent calendar

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Cool concept: the beauty advent calendar

I just saw a post about this on British Beauty Blogger: L'oreal is selling an advent calendar with a beauty product (instead of chocolate) inside each day's square. It looks like a great way to try a whole bunch of L'oreal products.

But I immediately had another idea: instead of buying this admittedly-cool new thing from L'oreal, what about shopping your own stash to find products you've forgotten about, products you've bought but haven't used yet, or products you tried once, then relegated to the back of your beauty drawer (because the color wasn't right, it didn't have the effects you thought it would, whatever)? Then do a short writeup about the item, telling people a little bit about it. That way, you get a neat “gift” (a rediscovered item that you didn't have to spend any more money on), and everyone else gets to share in the gift by reading your impressions about it.

There are a few minor waffles with this:

  1. it's not all that easy to construct advent-calendars that will fit any item one might find in one's beauty-stash (brushes, nail polishes, eyeshadows, blush compacts, quads, palettes, whatever).
  2. an advent calendar traditionally contains some elements of surprise: you don't know exactly what's going to be in each day's "cubby". If you're making the calendar yourself, you'll presumably know what's in each box.
  3. there may be enough time to make one of these for someone else, and trade them...but then again: you're spending money both in the construction, the filling (or giving away items that you may have wanted to keep for yourself), and the shipping.
  4. it kind of leaves out those who do not observe Advent. I myself haven't observed it in any fashion since I was 13.

Still...I want to try this. Maybe a bunch of us could all trade items for the final day of this calendar, so that we'd have a surprise on that day at least? That minimizes costs, but still gives everyone a little extra unknown gift.

What do you folks think?

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