41 Best Advent Calendars for Teens That Are Trending on TikTok

If the teen in your life wants to dip their toes into beauty, e.l.f.’s Advent calendar is a great place to start. It’s full of affordable but versatile essentials—primers, blender sponges, eye shadows, berry lipstick, liquid liner, even face jewels. The 24-day version offers the biggest haul, but the 12-day option is under $50 and an equally solid pick.

Days: 24 | Includes: Makeup products and tools | Value: $165 | Limited edition: Yes

This chocolate Advent calendar is a foolproof Christmas gift for teenagers of all ages, with its 24 days of delicious milk chocolate Lindt balls and teddy bears.

Days: 24 | Includes: Milk chocolate balls, truffles, teddy bears, Santas | Value: N/A | Limited edition: No

Revolution Beauty is a favorite affordable makeup brand, especially for teens just getting into beauty. This Advent calendar delivers neutral shades and easy-to-use formulas across palettes, glosses, liners, and tools.

Days: 24 | Includes: Lip gloss, blush, highlighter, mascara, beauty tools | Value: NA | Limited edition: Yes

TikTok-obsessed teens and tweens will lose it over this limited-edition collaboration. Behind each flap are Squishmallow-inspired K-beauty treats—lip balms, sheet masks, a skin care headband, pimple patches, a mystery key chain, and more—making it the cutest way to start a self-care routine.

Days: 7 | Includes: Skin care, makeup, key chain | Value: NA | Limited edition: Yes

In a clever twist, Sephora’s post-Christmas calendar keeps the fun going after the big day (and is a wise last-minute gift idea in case you miss the pre-Christmas calendar window). The numbered doors start at 25 and end at 31, extending the holiday magic with a week’s worth of surprises—like moisturizing sheet masks, mascara, nail polish, and more from the brand’s in-house line.

Days: 7 | Includes: Skin care, makeup, nail polish | Value: $79 | Limited edition: Yes

Your teen will never have enough chapstick, especially since it somehow always gets lost. Stock them up for a year (or a season, anyway) with Burt’s Bees’ yummy flavors like Sugar Cookie and Cinnamon Apple Crisp.

Days: 12 | Includes: Chapstick | Value: Not listed | Limited edition: Yes

Here's a gift for the teen who keeps tabs on all the celebrity makeup brands. This limited-edition countdown has 12 days of Kylie’s best-loved makeup, fragrance and skincare must-haves—with a kit price of $199.

Days: 12 | Includes: Makeup | Value: $285 | Limited edition: Yes

Chances are high you have a sweet-toothed teen on your hands. Instead of your standard KitKats, opt for a calendar loaded with luxury candy. Each drawer contains samplings of artisanal confections, including chocolate balls and a variety of sweet and sour gummies shaped like butterflies, Christmas trees, lips, and snowmen.

Days: 24 | Includes: Chocolate balls, gummies | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

K-beauty brands are huge with teen girls right now—and Glow Recipe is one of the biggest names for its fun, fruity packaging and plumping products. Its skin care Advent calendar gives them a taste of the company’s bestsellers, including its viral Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops and Watermelon Glow PHA + BHA Pore-Tight Toner.

Days: 12 | Includes: Cleanser, toners, serums, moisturizers, lip treatment | Value: $200 | Limited edition: Yes

With the Anthropologie, Free People, and Ulta calendars sold out, this exclusive Urban Outfitters exclusive is an equally solid pick. The products are fun and on trend, including Starface pimple patches that turn acne into a statement, heart and bow face gems, and a soft vanilla perfume. The accessories are what set it apart: a mini Baggu purse, a Snoopy compact mirror, and Miffy hair clips from brands teens already gravitate toward.

Days: 12 | Includes: Skin care, nail set, face jewels, mirror, fragrance, makeup | Value: $160 | Limited edition: Yes

Nyx’s Butter Gloss is a fan favorite among teens (and Glamour beauty editors, too) because each gloss delivers just the right balance of pigment and shine—without stickiness. This Advent calendar sets them up with enough shades to last well into next year.

Days: 12 | Includes: Lip gloss | Value: NA | Limited edition: Yes

Here’s a charm bracelet Advent calendar appropriate for younger teen girls and tweens. Inside the patterned doors of the doll-house-esque box are splashy charms to build out their own bracelet, including a colorful heart, cherries, a bow, a Christmas tree, and a candy cane.

Days: 24 | Includes: Gold-tone chain bracelet, charms with clasps | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

In the lead up to Christmas, your teen who’s into board games, puzzles, and escape rooms will have 24 days of riddles to solve. Each involves decoding which door to open next in an interplanetary race. It's a decent runner-up to the Lego Star Wars calendar, now sold out.

Days: 24 | Includes: Riddle cards, handkerchief, other items | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

If the Lindt calendar sells out—as it tends to—or if your teen has gourmet tastes, this Godiva set delivers days of decadence. TBH, you may want to grab two.

Days: 24 | Includes: A variety of artisan chocolates | Value: Not listed | Limited edition: Yes

Chocolate who? Spoil your tween with a sweet-and-sour tooth with a month of their favorite candy. Each day measures out two large Sour Patch Kids to satisfy their sugar cravings.

Days: 24 | Includes: Candy | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

This cozy, budget-friendly countdown contains daily sachets of rich hot chocolate in surprising flavors (salted caramel doughnut, pistachio macaron, and cookie butter among them). What teen could resist the sugar rush?

Days: 12 | Includes: Powdered cocoa mixes | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

The teen who follows nail trends like velvet nails will get the best winter polish colors in one calendar, with holiday shades like Spread the Cherry, Ginger Snapped, and OPI’s cult-favorite Lincoln Park After Dark. This is a fast-moving calendar—it's out of stock at Anthropologie and Ulta as of time of last publish.

Days: 12 | Includes: 12 mini polishes, topcoat, base coat | Value: NA | Limited edition: Yes

The tween (or teen) girl who chooses lip balm over gloss every time will get plenty of use this winter with a set of soothing holiday-themed ChapStick tubes.

Days: 12 | Includes: Lip balms | Value: NA | Limited edition: Yes

Festive, lace-trimmed underwear with candy-cane, Christmas-light, and holly prints makes this Advent a playful holiday. Teens still love the mall-brand nostalgia of Victoria’s Secret, and this set gives them a fun surprise from the brand to unwrap each day.

Days: 12 | Includes: Underwear | Value: NA | Limited edition: Yes

A gift set like this one is a great way for them to figure out their signature scent. This one from Ulta features some of the most popular perfumes for teen girls on TikTok, including Ariana Grande's Cloud Pink. Separate them out every day as a surprise for them.

Products: 20 | Includes: Travel-size perfumes | Value: $57 | Limited edition: Yes

Add ambience to their space with 12 seasonal scents from Voluspa. Each candle lasts for 25 hours and comes in unique fragrances like French Cade Lavender, Baltic Amber (one of the brand’s most beloved scents), Santal Vanille, and Sparkling Cuvée.

Days: 12 | Includes: 12 candles, gold-plated wick trimer | Value: $200+ | Limited edition: No

Body mists are big with teens right now—and we’re not talking subtle scents but splashy, attention-grabbing fragrances that cling to the skin and hair. This bombshell of a Victoria’s Secret calendar delivers with all manner of bold, peony-infused perfumes, shimmery glosses, and mists.

Days: 12 | Includes: Perfumes, shimmer gloss, key chain, ornament, mists | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

Here’s the cutest Advent calendar on this list by far—ideal for the teen who collects Squishmallows and Jellycats. Stuffed inside this Advent calendar is a small village’s worth of kawaii plush animals—tiny Christmas owls, reindeer, a little cartoon boba tea, and more.

Days: 24 | Includes: 3-in. seasonally themed stuffed animals | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

Keep your kid’s curiosity peaked all December long with this STEM Advent calendar, which includes kits for glowing test tubes, growing crystal trees, and a collection of cool gemstones like tigereye and chevron amethyst.

Days: 24 | Includes: Products for 13 experiments, gemstones | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

Go all out for the teen girl in your life with a showstopping jewelry gift that’s full of gorgeous, trending fine jewelry like gemstone-studded huggie earrings, an ear cuff, and a matching crystal cluster necklace and bracelet.

Days: 12 | Includes: Gold-plated brass and recycled sterling-silver earrings, studs, necklace, bracelet, $70 voucher | Value: $1,070 | Limited edition: Yes

Each day reveals a miniature 50-piece puzzle that connects to a larger holiday scene, creating a full artwork by month’s end. It’s a smart pick for teens who like quiet challenges and a gift that builds on itself.

Days: 24 | Includes: Miniature puzzles | Value: NA | Limited edition: Yes

Lovery’s calendar gives them an assortment of products that turns their bathroom into a cozy spa, including rose bubble bath, lavender bath salt, eucalyptus bath oil, and fuzzy red socks they can slip on post-wash. There’s even a beautiful solitaire crystal necklace in the mix—and it's currently on Black Friday sale at Nordstrom.

Days: 12 | Includes: Bath products, hand lotion, socks, necklace, candle | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

The teen who color-codes everything will get plenty of use out of this lovely set of surprises like notebooks, thank-you cards, a pencil bag, and a brass cherry bookmark from stationery brand Papier. The box is pretty enough to use as an organizer once the holidays are over.

Days: 12 | Includes: Sticky-note set, brass bookmark, envelope, stamps, photo frame, pen pouch, pen, thank-you card, pen clip, notebooks, stickers | Value: $200+ | Limited edition: Yes

The magic of Le Mini Macaron is all in the adorable packaging—its UV lamp looks like a tiny French pastry. If your teen has already mastered a standard mani (or hates waiting for polish to dry), this kit gives them everything they need to start doing chip-proof gel nails at home.

Days: 12 | Includes: Mini LED lamp, gel polishes, topcoat, nail care and removal accessories, holiday stickers | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

If the Advent calendar your teen wants is sold out, a reusable option is the next best thing. These come with empty drawers you can fill with small treats, beauty minis, or trinkets—and you can bring this out year after year. Order soon and it should arrive by December 1 (or close to it).

If you aren’t sure what to put inside a reusable Advent calendar, grab a beauty gift set to split up among the days. You can also wrap each item individually for a little extra fun (as with birthday Advent calendars, which are popular on TikTok). This collection from Sephora zeroes in on lip products teens love—Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb and Saie Lip Liner among them—plus a puffy makeup bag they’ll use well beyond the holidays.

Days: 11 | Includes: Lip products | Value: $148 | Limited edition: Yes

Gift the tween or teen who can’t be separated from their Stanley cup with 24 days’ worth of seasonal straw toppers.

Days: 24 | Includes: Silicone straw toppers | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

This prettily packaged calendar includes 12 must-have accessories for the teen who fusses over their hair care, like claw clips and a Glamour-editor-loved silk pillowcase.

Days: 12 | Includes: Hair accessories, self-care minis | Value: NA | Limited edition: Yes

Miniatures are having a moment with teens because they are collectible, double as accessories and decor, and are just so cute. Ulta taps into the “mini haul” trend with an Advent calendar that’s entirely tiny versions of favorite beauty products, including a mini Supergoop sunscreen, a pocket-size Naked eye shadow palette, and even a Drybar brush that best fits a doll house.

Days: 24 | Includes: Miniature replicas of beauty products, Ulta voucher | Value: NA | Limited edition: Yes

If Star Wars isn’t their thing, the Lego Friends Advent calendar is trending with girls this year (usually younger ones). They’ll get to build a little world of characters, including pets, and find props like a coffee pot and fireplace.

Days: 24 | Includes: 237-piece set with mini doll and animal figures plus props | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

Stickers never lose their popularity (speaking as an adult here) and are a great choice for teens of all ages, especially those who journal, scrapbook, or love customizing every available surface. This calendar delivers 24 full sticker sheets with different themes—Christmas, fall, animals, statues, flowers, astrology, you name it.

Days: 24 | Includes: 464 stickers | Value: NA | Limited edition: No

Set them up with a new hobby that’ll keep them busy all winter long. Each day of this calendar unveils crochet kits and accessories that help them create adorable animals—like a tiny caribou or alpaca—and they can display their finished creatures on their desk once they’re done.

Days: 13 | Includes: Crochet kits with hooks, accessory kits, crochet hook, tin | Value: $175 | Limited edition: Yes

The teen who’s a diehard Stranger Things fan can celebrate the final season with a lineup of nostalgic candies—like lemon candy Pac-Man, gummy pizza slices, and a candy cassette tape. In a fitting nod to the show, each calendar includes not 12 but 11 days of treats.

Days: 11 | Includes: Candy | Value: NA | Limited edition: Yes

For older teens ready to step up their scent game, this 12-day fragrance Advent calendar features grown-up picks like Byredo Bal d’Afrique, Maison Margiela Replica, and Giorgio Armani Thé Yulong Eau de Toilette.

Days: 12 | Includes: Eau de parfums, eau de toilettes | Value: $344 | Limited edition: Yes