The main Essence Cosmetics advent calendar is officially here, and it’s an amazing calendar this year.
The Essence Baked With Love Advent Calendar 2026 has the prettiest pink colour story, with a baked cookie theme for the outer packaging. Keep on reading to find out more, and find out which products are inside this year’s calendar;
The Essence Baked With Love Advent Calendar 2026 has a hot pink, pastel pink and white colour theme, and comes as a box.
The calendar has three separate trays within the box, with each of the three trays housing eight days worth of advent calendar treats. You get two hot pink trays, and one pastel pink tray.
Each of the three trays are separated, and they come with a cardboard stand, so you can stand the three trays upright on your dressing table.
Usually, Essence do a drawers type calendar, where you pull out the doors to find each day’s perforated door.
Essence have a little cut-out shape on each door, which you can push inwards, to make ripping the door easy without having to rip the calendar.
Inside the Essence Baked With Love Advent Calendar 2026, you’re getting a mix of makeup products, skincare products, beauty tools and beauty accessories, with the cutest pastel colour theme across the products, with pops of red.
I love that Essence always runs with a theme each year, for their advent calendar, and baked goods are the theme for this year’s calendar.
What’s inside the Essence Baked With Love Advent Calendar 2026?
Essence Brown Duo Eyeshadow
A eyeshadow duo in clear acrylic casing with gold foil detailing on the lid, with a metallic light brown shade and a matte medium brown shade.
Essence Rose Duo Eyeshadow
This is another eyeshadow duo inside acrylic casing with gold foil accents, and you get a matte baby pink shade and a marbled metallic rosy pink shade.
Essence Cream To Powder Highlighter
A cream highlighter with a cream-to-powder formula, in red acrylic casing with gold foil detailing on the lid.
The highlighter is a beautiful soft pearlescent blush pink with a subtle champagne-gold sheen.
Essence Creamy Eye Pencil
Pencil eyeliner in pink packaging with a gold metallic lid.
Essence Dewy Blushlighter Cream
This is a squeezy clear plastic tube with a silicone nozzle, with an adorable red and gold metal bow charm hanging from the top of the tube.
The tube has gold foil accents, and the shade is a vibrant rosy pink with a soft, luminous gold sheen.
Essence Glow Face Mask
This is a sachet single-use face mask, and the Essence Glow Face Mask is enriched with glycerin for extra hydration, which is exactly what we’ll need during December.
Essence Heart Shaped Eye Patches
These are a pair of single-use hydrogel heart-shaped eye patches.
They’re a metallic pink with teal green hearts, and you place them on your under-eye area for a boost of hydration and brightening thanks to glycerin, seaweed extract and vitamin C.
Essence Iridescent & Pearly Juicy Bomb Shiny Lip Gloss x 2
We get two different Essence Juicy Bomb Shiny Lip Glosses, and they’re an existing product in the Essence lip collection.
They’re squeezy tube glosses, with a slanted silicone applicator that you apply directly onto the lips.
Both shades of the lip gloss look clear on the lips, but have a different finish on the lips.
There are two shades within the calendar; Iridescent and Pearly. The Iridescent Juicy Bomb Lip Gloss has pink and lilac shimmer particles for an iridescent effect on the lips.
The Pearly Juicy Bomb Lip Gloss looks green in the tube, but it has pearlised micro shimmer for a super reflective finish.
Essence Lip & Cheek Stick
The Essence Lip & Cheek Stick is housed within blush pink plastic casing with gold foil detailing.
It is a twist-up stick with a solid cream formula, that you can swipe directly onto the lips and the cheeks for a flush of colour.
The shade looks like a deep berry in the stick, but when applied, it gives a sheer berry tint that’s perfect for winter.
Essence Lip Mask Stick
Essence have given us a bright glossy red tube with gold foil details, and the lip mask deeply hydrates your lips for winter thanks to shea butter, avocado oil, sweet almond oil, jojoba oil, grapeseed oil and vitamin E.
Essence Gingerbread Cap Topper
This is a super cute cap topper to place on the lid of your Essence Lip Mask Stick.
It’s a lilac ring which snaps open to attach to your bag or phone, and on the ring there’s a lilac silicone cap topper to stretch over the lid of your sleep mask, and an adorable pink and white iced sugar cookie heart charm, and an iced gingerbread charm too.
Essence Marbled Lip Balm
Another hydrating treat for the lips, this is a twist-up lip balm with a red and white marbled candy cane design.
The formula is enriched with shea butter and mango seed butter to soften the lips and seal in existing moisture.
Essence Milky Face Primer
You can never go wrong with Essence primers, and the Essence Baked With Love Advent Calendar 2026 features the Essence Milky Face Primer, which is a brand new product for Essence.
It is housed within a blush pink plastic tube with a white lid and white detailing.
This primer contains glycerin, hyaluronic acid, a coconut-derived emollient and lightweight oils help soften the skin and lock that hydration in.
Essence Moisturizing Hand Balm
Essence always give us a hand cream in their advent calendar, and this year’s hand balm is housed in a lilac squeezy plastic tube.
This hand balm formula has a subtle baked vanilla scent and contains shea butter, glycerin, coconut oil, sweet almond oil, apricot kernel oil and vitamin E.
Essence Plumping Lip Oil
You get the Essence Plumping Lip Oil, which is a bright red color in the tube, and gives you a juicy red tint on the lips.
Essence Nail Serum
We have another treat for the hands, and this time it’s a nail serum in clear glass bottle with a white lid and gold foil accents on the bottle.
This nail serum looks mint green in the bottle, but it goes on clear, and the formula is enriched with sweet almond oil, sunflower seed oil, vitamin E and glycerin to moisturise and condition your nails.
Essence Pearly Rose Nail Polish
To go with the Hand Balm and Nail Serum, you have a nail polish in the Pearly Rose shade, which is a pretty pearlised light pink.
Essence Pearly White Nail Polish
The second nail polish is a pearlised white shade, to go with the pearlised pink for an equally pretty French Manicure look.
Essence Jolly Nail Stickers
You get a sheet of red and white nail stickers in festive food designs, with sugar cookies, gingerbread, candy canes, lollipops, candy, bows, hearts and stars.
2 x Essence Powder Puff Sponges
There are two teardrop shaped powder puff sponges with a pink satin ribbon to slip over your fingertip, for precise application.
Essence Makeup Remover Cloth
There is a lilac makeup remover cloth in the same fabric as a Makeup Eraser, to quickly remove your makeup and gently exfoliate the skin.
Essence Baked With Love Eyeshadow Blending Brush
The calendar contains one eyeshadow blending brush with a shimmering pink, twisted-style handle, gold metallic ferrule and pink and white synthetic bristles.
2 x Essence Pearlised Hair Clips
Every year, Essence gives us a pair of hair clips, and the Essence Baked With Love Advent Calendar contains two gold metal clips with pearl effect slides.
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