There is a full-size Rodial Bee Venom Eye Cream inside this calendar. On its own, it costs £145 — thirty-six pounds more than the entire box you’d be buying it in. That single fact tells you most of what makes the OK! Beauty Box Advent Calendar 2026 worth a look: it’s a £109 calendar curated by A-list make-up artist Hannah Martin, and it leads with genuinely substantial products rather than a drawer of 5ml samples. Bobbi Brown, Kosas, Gatineau Paris, Aromatherapy Associates, 19/99 Beauty and Arkive all turn up in full size. Twenty-five products, twenty-two of them full size, for £109 — and the line-up is skewed towards makeup in a way most calendars at this price simply aren’t.
The numbers
The OK! Beauty Box Advent Calendar 2026 is £109 and holds 25 products. OK! Beauty Box states the contents are worth over £605, and that 22 of the 25 products are full size. The line-up breaks down as 11 makeup and nail products, 8 skincare, 2 haircare and body, 1 fragrance, and 3 tools and wellbeing pieces — a makeup-led calendar with a solid skincare spine rather than a skincare calendar with a few lipsticks attached. It’s curated by Hannah Martin, the make-up artist behind three previous sell-out OK! Beauty Box calendars. It’s available to pre-order now, dispatch begins in October 2026, and OK! Beauty Box guarantees delivery before 1 December 2026. Last year’s pre-order sold out in under five hours.
Does it pique our interest?
The Rodial Bee Venom Eye Cream is the reason this calendar gets attention, and rightly so. A 25ml full-size jar at £145 inside a £109 box is the kind of inclusion that usually belongs in a calendar three or four times this price, and it anchors the whole proposition. It isn’t a token luxury either — Rodial appears twice, with the £38 Glass Powder turning up in the makeup section, so the brand’s presence feels like a deliberate curation choice rather than one headline-grabbing drop.
The full-size ratio is the second thing worth dwelling on. Twenty-two of twenty-five products at full size is unusually high for this price bracket, and it changes what the calendar actually is. Rather than a month of trying things, this is closer to a beauty collection you could genuinely restock a bag from: a 120ml Gatineau Paris Hydra Essence, a 55ml Aromatherapy Associates Support Breathe bath and shower oil at £65, a 50ml Hello Sunday SPF 50, a 200ml Arkive body mousse. These are quantities that last past January.
The makeup selection is where Hannah Martin’s hand shows most clearly. A Bobbi Brown dual-ended cream eyeshadow stick, a bareMinerals gloss-balm, the 19/99 Beauty Precision Highlight Pencil, delilah’s retractable eye pencil, a Kosas lip plumper, a Hildun Beauty lip pencil — these are wearable, professional-kit choices rather than novelty shades, and a £11.99 L’Oréal Telescopic mascara earns its place among them on merit. The mix of established names and smaller discovery brands is the point.
And there’s more variety beyond the makeup bag than the category counts suggest. The 50ml Arkive Decorated Woods Eau de Parfum is a proper fragrance for hair and skin rather than a 2ml vial, the Aromatherapy Associates oil is a recognisable indulgence, and the tools — a Spectrum mini brush set, Pippa of London’s Everything Sponge, a self-heating Sensory Retreats eye mask — round out the month rather than padding it.
What we’d change
Three things are worth knowing before you buy:
The value is heavily concentrated in one product. Nearly a quarter of the stated total sits in the £145 Rodial eye cream, which is wonderful if that’s a product you want and much less compelling if it isn’t. Anyone who doesn’t use eye cream, or already has a favourite, is looking at a rather different calendar to the one the headline figure suggests.
Not every full-size product carries the same weight. The £3 MUA cream blusher, the £3.95 Sensory Retreats eye mask and the £7 Blink Brow Bar lash clusters are all legitimately full size, and they all help build that impressive 22-of-25 count, but they aren’t the reason anyone buys this. It’s worth reading the full-size figure as a measure of usability rather than of value.
Several categories are thinner than the spread implies. There’s one fragrance, one haircare product and one dedicated body product in the whole box. For a calendar that covers makeup, skincare, hair, body, fragrance and tools, those last few categories are represented rather than explored — this is a makeup and skincare calendar with a few well-chosen extras, not an all-rounder.
Full contents list
Makeup & nails
- Bobbi Brown — Dual-Ended Long-Wear Cream Eyeshadow Stick in Heat Ray and Biscotti, 1.6g (£36)
- Rodial — Glass Powder, 10g (£38)
- bareMinerals — Dewy Lip Gloss-Balm in Devotion, 3g (£25)
- Kosas — Lip Pulse Glassy Lip Plumper in Unspoken, 12.5ml (£24)
- delilah — Eye Line Long Wear Retractable Pencil in Coal, 0.312g (£23)
- Hildun Beauty — Silk To Set Longwear Lip Pencil in Sara, 1.2g (£19)
- 19/99 Beauty — Precision Highlight Pencil in Lustro, 1.1g (£19)
- L’Oréal Paris — Telescopic Mascara in Black, 8ml (£11.99)
- Nail Kind — Nail Polish in Read My Lips, 8ml (£8.95)
- Blink Brow Bar — Blink & Go Lashes, 12 clusters (£7)
- MUA Makeup Academy — Blushed Liquid Cream Blusher in Misty Rose, 10ml (£3)
Skincare
- Rodial — Bee Venom Eye Cream, 25ml (£145)
- Gatineau Paris — Collagene Expert Hydra Essence, 120ml (£46)
- PRAI Beauty — Ageless Throat & Décolletage Crème Intensive Gold+, 30ml (£25)
- Hello Sunday — The Everyday One Face Moisturiser SPF 50 with Hyaluronic Acid, 50ml (£18)
- Weleda — Skin Food Original, 30ml (£9.50)
- Dr.PAWPAW — Shea Butter Lip Balm, 25ml (£9.25)
- Brow Aid — IllumiLift Eye & Brow Hydrogel Mask, 1 mask (£8)
- Hello Skin — Hydraglass Sculpting Eye Masks, 1 pair (£7.95)
Haircare & body
- Aromatherapy Associates — Support Breathe Bath and Shower Oil, 55ml (£65)
- Arkive — The Body Hybrid Mousse, 200ml (£14)
Fragrance
- Arkive — Decorated Woods Eau de Parfum for Hair and Skin, 50ml (£30)
Beauty tools & wellbeing
- Spectrum — Very Cherry 4-Piece Mini On-The-Go Brush Set (£14.99)
- Pippa of London — The Everything Sponge (£14)
- Sensory Retreats — Spa Scent Self-Heating Eye Mask in Lavender, 1 mask (£3.95)
Who it’s perfect for
This one is for a makeup-first beauty lover who would rather have twenty-two things they can actually finish than a tray of luxury miniatures. If you follow Hannah Martin, or you like polished, wearable makeup, useful tools and a mix of names you know with brands you don’t, this is a very easy £109 to justify — especially with the Rodial eye cream doing so much heavy lifting on its own.
It’s a less obvious fit if you’re shopping for prestige labels above all, or for a fragrance-led or skincare-led month. There’s one fragrance here and no designer perfume names, so if scent is what you want from a calendar, a dedicated fragrance calendar will serve you far better.
Our Pique Verdict
Perfect for: Makeup lovers who want full-size products they’ll genuinely use, and anyone who trusts a make-up artist’s curation over a big brand name.
Best product: Rodial Bee Venom Eye Cream, 25ml — £145 on its own, £36 more than the whole calendar.
Biggest drawback: The value leans heavily on that one eye cream, and a few of the full-size inclusions are there to make up the numbers.
Value for money: ★★★★☆ (4/5)
Pre-order the OK! Beauty Box Advent Calendar 2026 — £109
It’s one of our picks in The Best Beauty Advent Calendars Under £200 in 2026, if you’d like to see it alongside the others at this price.
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Frequently asked questions
How much is the OK! Beauty Box Advent Calendar 2026?
It’s £109, and OK! Beauty Box states the contents are worth over £605.
How many products are in the OK! Beauty Box Advent Calendar 2026?
There are 25 products, 22 of which OK! Beauty Box states are full size.
Who curated the OK! Beauty Box Advent Calendar 2026?
It’s curated by make-up artist Hannah Martin, who has curated three previous sell-out OK! Beauty Box calendars.
When does the OK! Beauty Box Advent Calendar 2026 ship?
It’s available to pre-order now. Dispatch begins in October 2026, and OK! Beauty Box guarantees orders arrive before 1 December 2026.
Is the OK! Beauty Box Advent Calendar 2026 worth it?
If you want full-size, usable makeup and skincare rather than luxury miniatures, yes — the Rodial Bee Venom Eye Cream alone is worth more than the £109 price. It’s less suited to anyone shopping primarily for prestige fragrance or a skincare-heavy luxury line-up.
