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Here are the pictures of my advent calendars in the order of my preference of the contents for this year and here is the order. 1. Youbeauty has been the advent calendar that I recommended to everyone the last two years and this year didn't disappoint. I got this for just under £50 as I had a £10 off code and it was well worth the price and I will use it all apart from the tweezers. 2. Marks and spencer was fabulous for 2015 and I will definitely repurchase this year. It was £25 with a £25 purchase and it was fabulous value and I loved opening the little boxes every day. A really great value and with more 'classic' products it will be great for all. 3. In third place was lookfantastic and this one is here as it was £70.70 which makes it £20 more than youbeauty and £45 more than M and S and I can't see the value. I do prefer it to the others as I prefer the beauty calendars but not sure I will get it next year unless I get it on an...

This is the last day for both of these advent calendars.

Here are my single brand advent calendars for the 23rd December 2015. These are Ciate and Clarins.

As well as the multibrand I also have the single brand advent calendars and these are my Clarins and Ciate advent calendar items for the 22nd December.

So close but so far to Christmas but here are my day 21 single brand calendar reviews for my Clarins and Ciate advent calendars.

Here are my day 20 single brand Advent calendars. These are Ciate and Clarins.

Getting exceptionally close to Christmas now that I am on day 19 of the single brand advent calendar. Thank you for getting this far with me and I hope that you are enjoying reviews. Here are the items for Clarins and Ciate .

Here are the day 18 single brand Advent calendar items

I have to admit that having a wide range of nail varnishes is nice but I'm not sure how many of these I will use and now I'm not sure that would buy this advent calendar again but it's nice to have the Ciate. It is also nice to have the Clarins this year. It is a day 16 of my advent calendars for single brands.

Okay here are my day 15 Advent calendars for the single brands. These are for Clarins and Ciate.  Thank you for your patience and sorry that I have been running behind on these.

After addressing how I feel about the single brand advent calendars at the beginning of day 13 I don't need to address that again so I'll go straight into my review. Day 14 of ciate is another plain door but this one has a snow print on it. But inside the door is anything but plain. I think that this is a really jazzy colour. This is a nail varnish in the shade Raspberry Collins.  This is the most delicious raspberry colour and I think that this would be great to wear all year round as it isn't really a colour that will go out of style at any time of the year and it would also be absolutely wonderful with the glitter overlay. It is the sort of colour that I really really like and the actual colour is quite unusual and I have not actually got a colour like this so I'm really happy. A real happy bunny with one. Next is Clarins which has a more decorated door. Inside is 10mls of the Clarins instant light radiant boosting complexion...

For me the two single brand advent calendars are probably the most disappointing of the year. I'm not sure that I would buy either next year as I now have a lot of Ciate nail polishes to use so I wouldn't need any more thanks to this and the other year I had this and as for the Clarins I'm finding it generally disappointing because the sample sizes are too small. I really am not sure that most people would get this every year but it's nice to try everything. But, here are my day 13 single brand advent calendar contents.

The final advent calendars for the 12th day are the single brand advent calendars which are the Ciate and the Clarins advent calendars.

Here are my day 11 single brand advent calendars.

Here is the final review for my day 10 advent calendars and this is my single brand event calendars, which come from Clarins and Ciate.

And now we are on to my single brand calendars. These are great for getting more familiar with a single brand but have less value than the multibrand advent calendars. I'm not sure that I would get these again unless they were heavily on offer but so far they have given me a good glimpse into Clarins and into Ciate. But here are my day nine items that will give me some more familiarity.

The single brand advent calendar are always quite useful if you wanna try particular brand out and this year I am particularly interested in trying out the Clarins and I also got this Ciate one because I got it on an offer code. But, enough of that and I'll show you what items I got today on 8 December:

Hopefully today I can get up-to-date. I know that I am slightly behind but here are my single brand advent calendars.

With a mix of a meh and a good review I am looking forward to seeing my single brand advent calendars today. Clarins has been a bit of a mixed bag but I'm enjoying trying different things from their product range and I'm also enjoying Ciate.

I apologise that this is a day late but this is my single beauty advent calendar review for the 5th December. These are my Ciate and Clarins items.