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PSA - many advent calendars are on sale or clearance for Black Friday / Cyber Week. If there's an advent calendar you've had your eye on, now might be a good time to see if it's been marked down on the brand's site or through another retailer.from Litmus December 1 is just around the corner!Counting down to unboxings - we've got 3 more sleeps until the start of unboxing for the 24/25 day advent calendars. 🎉

Merit - 20% off sitewide + gwp on every order, now until 12.1.2025 (or until stock runs out). Some exclusions may apply; see T&Cs on brand site for more details.The card case has sold out but Merit is offering their Shade Slick Gelée as a promo gwp on every order. FYI - it appears the Shade Slick Gelée will be discontinued so if it is something you were interested in getting your hands on, now might be the time.

@missjeanie it is crammed with lots of stuff

Milky toners are something I'm curious about too, @missjeanie . I love the gingerbread people. 🤎🧡🍂🍁

Seems like a scam @ausmanc , usually anything that contacts you, especially with a link, is typically a scam + that misspelling in the email address

Ok just going off of this I love like floral scents and some soft vanilla scents but I need something medium sized

Fenty Pose Queen, Scholar Sista & The MVPLipstick Nos. 6, 7 & 8 for this challenge are from the Fenty Icon Semi Matte Lipstick line that I've been reaching for as part of this week's Capsule Makeup Collection Challenge 2025. These Fenty lippies may be on their way to being discontinued, or already discontinued. Figures that I would be just now getting to the sample pack. 😔 I can't even be said to be fashionably late. Sigh. 3/100 - Fenty Pose Queen (top right) is a warm-leaning, dark pinky-peach shade (that looks a lot warmer and peachier in the sample blister packet up close). This is typically a very disagreeable color family for my lips (e.g., usually too warm, leans too orange, etc), but, for some reason, Pose Queen doesn't look so bad. So it makes complete sense that I would discover this shade after it appears to have long been discontinued. =P I'll have to sift through my bin of refills at some point as there is a sliiiight possibility this may have been a shade I picked up when it was heavily marked down before being entirely removed from the brand's lineup. 4/100 - Fenty Scholar Sista shows up as a neutral-to-warm leaning medium rosy-mauve pink on my lips (it looks more like a muted red-based pink in the blister packet). I have a full size of this shade. 5/100 - Fenty The MVP, a cool-toned, medium-dark, blue-based red, is the type of red that scares me the most because (1) in the tube, these types of red look like they are meant for grown-ups (and I'm pretty much still in training wheels as far as red lipsticks go, notwithstanding my profile pic, lol) and (2) blue-based reds have a tendency to turn fuchsia on me, which would be fine if I were looking or hoping for a fuchsia-hued lip color. Of the three lip shades, this was the fussiest. I applied 2 passes of Melt Ivory before applying the actual lipstick and once after to clean up the areas where the product had migrated. Other products* used:Melt Makeup eye liner Ivory to contour my lipsMerit lip liner in Bespoke to softly line lips, blended/diffused color with fingers - for Pose Queen and Scholas Sista onlyLip brush to apply color to lipsFenty lip oil - Cherry - I didn't end up using the lip oil for any of these swatches as the product was pretty creamy on its own - surprising (in the best way for me, someone with drier lips). This is described as having a demi-matte finish but based on my experience, it feels more like it leaves a creamy, satin finish. * Merit lip liner Bespoke and Fenty lip oil Cherry are still available on Sephora but I'm unable to tag them at the moment. Melt eye liner is no longer carried at Sephora online but can be purchased through brand site directly. I'll continue to reach for Pose Queen and Scholar Sista as they are; I can see one or both being part of a future Lips on Lock 🔐: List Your Lip Combos 💄👄 post. I don't see myself wearing The MVP without some modifications, but I'm not quite ready to declutter it. I have a feeling that I will end up mixing it with one of my many lip balms for a DIY tinted lip balm, possibly with another color added to the mix. We'll see.

@lmaster, thank you.

November Update: Monthly Summary:We're chugging along as we near the end of 2025. I've been more consistent with reaching for the makeup in my pan it! challenge thanks to the Capsule Makeup Collection Challenge 2025. Finished one more project pan product this month 🙌 and it looks like another could be used up by the end of the year, or at least, very, very close to being panned by then. 😊 November All Stars:The Typology Resurfacing Lip Peel is no more, for the best of reasons - I've used it up. Yaaay! This was probably the product I was most consistent with this pan it! challenge. I started off slow, using it once a week, at the beginning of the year but realized soon enough that it was gentle enough that I could use it twice a day, if so desired. I can actually tell the difference this made now that I've been without it for about a week or so. It will be repurchased but I'm waiting to see if it is included in the advent calendar which I'll start unboxing soon on Advent Calendars 2025 - I could look at the list of what's included but I want to be a little surprised, at least for a few days. 😅 I'm always reminded how much I love Cle de Peau The Foundation when I actually use it. A little goes a long way so to most, it will look like there's hardly a dent in the jar, but I've been making progress, slowly but surely on it. Next Month's Focus:My focus for December as far as the pan it! challenge goes will be primarily be to: use up haruharu wonder Black Rice Bakuchiol Eye Cream - I am really so close. I'll need get out my trusty tube squeezer (I talked about more on the It's Tool Time - The BIC Beauty Edition thread) soon since we're getting down to the end and the design of this particular tube is such that the top or the dispensing agent (pump) attached to the tube cannot be removed by simply unscrewing it use the makeup products in this year's pan it! more frequently and rotate #HERMÈS Barénia, Eau de Parfum into my fragrances for the month - I'll rotated it in with and maybe try layering it with the perfumes in the discovery sets from the Shop Your Stash / Use Your Stash Challenge: Fall 2025 🍂🍁 finalize my picks for next year's pan it! challenge - I'm thinking about taking a slightly different approach than I have in past years 😬🤔 All done!!!

Thise are gorgeous @caitbird