The 12 best beauty advent calendars you can buy for the 2024 holiday season

When the weather outside is frightful, so will be the feeling of dry, cracked lips. Kidding, kind of. Pick up this advent calendar (for less than $20, I might add) and get a dozen full-size lip balms in an array of seasonal flavors like vanilla mint and sugar cookie.

Sample Sephora Collection's best in makeup, skin care and body with this 24-day countdown. Try out a nourishing foot mask, brightening eye cream, waterproof eyeliner and lip marker (in a red hue as bright as Santa's suit). 

If you really want to pull out all the stops, then Sephora's premium offering is the way to go. It's packed with 24 similar products — sheet masks, lippies, skin saviors and makeup must-haves — but there's one key difference: Everything's bigger, or as they put it, more "generously-sized."

Here's your one-stop shop for all things Benefit. Need a refresh of the brand's beloved mascara, face primer, eyeliner or brow gel? You'll get full-size versions of all four favorites, plus 21 travel-ready minis in a cute shopping basket. 

With Charlotte Tilbury's help, you can glow brighter than the tree this Christmas. Each year, they drop a 12-drawer chest packed with a dozen of their all-star products — and this year's version comes stocked with their viral highlighter wand, cult-favorite Pillow Talk lipstick and makeup setting spray. 

Anthropologie does the holidays right — and their 24-day countdown is proof. It sells out every year and it's easy to see why: This beauty (get it?) has a $304 value, featuring travel-size goodies from sought-after brands such as Elemis, Sunday Riley, Peter Thomas Roth and more. Mini body oil, nail polish and perfume, oh my! 

You know all about the brand's almond-scented shower oil, but have you tried the rest of their range? Now's your chance to work your way through more skin-soothing favorites, everything from bath and shower gels to nourishing hand and body creams. 

It's only a matter of time until you're rockin' around the Christmas tree. This 12-day countdown will make sure you're party-ready. Get a dozen of Bobbi Brown's most dazzling makeup and skin care picks, including a shimmery shadow stick, neutral lipstick and cleansing oil to wash it all off at the end of the night. 

Unveil a new goat-milk goodie in every drawer. They've included more full-size products than ever before (16!), including lip balms, bar soaps and hand creams in the brand's signature scents. There's a thread of kindness woven throughout — before digging into the drawers, read a sweet story called "The Kindest Story Ever Told" about Goatie's determination to make it home for the holidays. 

Let Olive & June help you master the at-home mani. You'll find everything you need to soothe, buff, strengthen and dress up your tips. Get six mini nail polishes, plus two sets of festive press-ons to carry you through December.

27 products in 24 days? Now we're talking. Treat yourself to full-size versions of Benefit's lip and cheek tint, DIBS Beauty contour stick, and Biogeo's frizz-fighting hair oil, along with deluxe samples of Revolve bestsellers from top beauty brands like Oribe, Stila and Tower 28. 

Leave it to Lush to bring 24 moments of calm amid the holiday chaos. Unwrap a new bath or shower product each day — some are made specifically for the advent calendar (like the Father Christmas bath bomb and Yog Nog body lotion), others will be recognizable to longtime Lush shoppers.