Ahh Benefit Maybe Baby Eau de Toilette is back and I couldn’t be happier. I’m not sure how long it has been but Benefit Maybe Baby Perfume dropped off into the great beyond for a little while.

At the time Benefit was putting a lot of time and attention into their Crescent Row Collection of Fragrances which, don’t get me wrong, are pretty fabulous plus hello, there’s one named after me! But I’ve always had a special place in my heart for Maybe Baby. It really is one of the more unique floral fragrances out there and believe me without tooth achingly sweet notes I typically avoid florals like the zombie plague.

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QVC Beauty Christmas Advent Calendar ($79.96) brings me back to my childhood. Recently, I was stalking Instagram and a friend of mine posted an image of an empty advent calendar. You could see smudges of chocolate inside each of the tiny openings where her kids had popped open every single day of the month. I think we have all been guilty of doing that at some point in our lives.

It was just too tempting to have 25 delicious chocolate sitting inside a calendar and expecting us to eat just one each day. Ugh! Such a tease!

Advent Calendars have evolved since I was a child and more recently they have become an important part of our beauty lives. With origins within the UK, the beauty or makeup advent calendar started gaining popularity with brands like Clarins creating gorgeous little beauty filled calendar to countdown the days to Christmas. More recently the Body Shop, Benefit, Tarte, and other brands have launched their own Christmas Countdown Calendars right here in the US.

But one of the nicest and the largest (largest content wise that is) I’ve come across was the QVC Beauty Christmas Advent Calendar.

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