Benefit’s 2025 beauty advent calendar is a fun design filled with cult classic make-up and skincare products from the brand – and I was thrilled with what I found inside
If you’re still looking for the perfect beauty advent calendar and are after cult classic, suits-all make-up and skincare products that you know you’ll get plenty of use out of, I think I’ve found it in Benefit’s 2025 offering.
Benefit’s 2025 advent calendar, the Glam Cube Makeup Advent Calendar Gift Set, is a super cute design shaped like a Rubik’s cube and filled with 24 of some of the brand’s best-loved products, including one of the only brow gels that can hold up my thick brows, and several of my all-time favourite mascaras.
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As you expect now with beauty advent calendars, there’s also a huge saving to be had with this one: it costs £135 to buy but the contents inside are worth over £266 – a saving of 49%.
I’ve already seen the Glam Cube in real life, and I’ll tell you what I love most about it in a moment, but for those who don’t want the surprise, here’s a full list of its contents:
- BADgal BANG! BIGGER, BADDER volumizing mascara in intense pitch black | full-size
- Benetint rose-tinted lip & cheek stain | full-size
- 24-HR Brow Setter 24-hour invisible shaping & setting gel for brows | full-size
- Hoola powder bronzer in original | mini
- Willa soft neutral-rose blush | mini
- Shellie warm seashell-pink blush | mini
- Dandelion baby-pink brightening blush | mini
- Crystah strawberry pink blush | mini
- The POREfessional smoothing primer to minimize the look of pores | mini
- The POREfessional Smooth Sip lightweight smoothing moisturizer for pores | mini
- They’re Real! beyond mascara in jet black | fun-size
- Roller Lash super-curling & lifting mascara in black | fun-size
- Fan Fest fanning & volumizing mascara in hyper black | fun-size
- BADgal Bounce FULLER, FLUFFIER volumizing mascara in pump’d up black | fun-size
- The POREfessional: Super Setter long-lasting makeup setting spray | fun-size
- The POREfessional Deep Retreat pore-clearing clay mask | fun-size
- The POREfessional Good Cleanup pore-purifying foaming cleanser | fun-size
- The POREfessional Get Unblocked pore-clearing makeup-removing cleansing oil | fun-size
- Dew-la-la liquid glow in luna | fun-size
- Fluff Up Brow Wax flexible brow-texturizing wax | fun-size
- Gimme Brow+ brow-volumizing fiber gel in shade 3 (neutral light brown) | fun-size
- Eye Gotta Glow hydrogel undereye mask
- Makeup Removers makeup-removing pads
- Scrunchie hair scrunchie
First up, the box itself is really fun. The three layers of the cube spin like a real Rubik’s cube, opening up to reveal the numbered boxes inside. While the inner boxes aren’t that sturdy, the outer packaging is, and I’ve seen some shoppers online say that they’ll reuse it for storage afterwards.
I was especially happy to see some of my all-time favourite, repeat purchase make-up products in here. All of Benefit’s mascaras are brilliant, and they’re all in here, even the newest one, Bounce. I switch between favourites but I think BADgal BANG! just about comes out on top, and there’s a full size tube in here.
There are also three different brow products – 24-HR Brow Setter, Fluff Up Brow Wax and Gimme Brow+ – which, as someone with thick, heavy eyebrows, I’m thrilled to see.
The other products consist of other make-up classics such as Benefit’s pretty powder blushes, and a selection of skincare from its The POREfessional range, and I’m happy to say that this calendar has filled up my make-up bag for the year.
The only things to be aware is if you have very fair or very dark eyebrows, the Gimme Brow+ might not be the right shade for you (there’s a shade 3, neutral light brown, in here), and the skincare is slightly aimed at younger or oilier skin.
If you instead have more mature or dry skin, something like the Gatineau 12 Days of Christmas Advent Calendar, £85 but worth £336, or the ELEMIS Wonders Advent Calendar, £225 and worth a whopping £698, might be better suited.