Sephora, WHY WOULD YOU MAKE IT WORSE?! | Sephora Advent Calendar 2023 Unboxing

Sephora Managed to make the 2023 Advent Calendar WORSE than last year!? Lets Unbox it and see how!
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0:00 - Intro
0:00 - How it is WORSE!
1:31 - Advent Calendar Unboxing
20:23 - After Advent Calendar Unboxing

[@Alexandria-Ryan]

Hey guys! Its that most wonderfully disappointing time of year again! Today we have two Sephora Advent Calendar and they have somehow made one of them WORSE!? Sephora, why did you do that?? Let me know what you guys think about these calendars! Love ya💖

[@elamarie2794]

❤

[@ResinAlchemist2024]

Horrible as always. Sephora never fails to disappoint. Perhaps one day they will rise to the standards we hope for. Sadly 2023 is not that year.😢

[@ashleefarmer6578]

You should keep a spreadsheet/list of calendars this year, so you can stop buying the bad ones. I know you are trying to show more price points, but you could make a video out of “What I’m skipping and Why” that would be just as helpful.

[@m.service5584]

Are you actually able to use the sharpener for that brown liner? It looked like a liquid-ish style in a plastic pen. (?)

[@susanharris5331]

Omg I am hoping Sephora looks at this review. You have a few years of the same products with no full size make up in site for the 1st calendar. No one should have to get a second advent calendar from the same place. Happy to see that now with Sephora out of the way we can look at the other ones. Hopefully they are good!

[@alyssabrown9256]

Sephora 100% thought the advent calendar would be a hit 5 years ago and bought everything in bulk and are still trying to get rid of the extra stock 😂

[@RSiB-22]

If one thing is consistent in advent season it’s Alexandria opening the boxes with random, sharp, household items The way this has more likes than the pinned comment 💀 thank y’all

[@shortcake66]

Did it used to be a beekeeping implement, or did I dream that…? 🙃

[@kel2633]

@@shortcake66ur right. Then she lost it for a time and began using random things and then found the bee keeping thing again and lost it again.

[@RSiB-22]

@@shortcake66 most likely- she uses anything and everything

[@frankie5713]

I get being annoyed but I feel like I’m being yelled at!

[@Cathidee]

😂

[@Mariah.Jo.]

Sephora: "Welp. It's time to make our advent calendar for that one girl that keeps buying it." 😂 I hope they keep doing it, because it makes for excellent content.

[@roselynmvm]

Lol 😂😂😂😂

[@Cassman13]

😂

[@bonniehowell9206]

And the clueless dads, husband's, and boyfriends trying to find a last minute gift.

[@autumnchaos]

I'd say let's make a drinking game, but if we took a shot everytime sephora included the same item, alcohol poisoning by the end 😂

[@amandaspence3072]

I'd be wasted by day 3.

[@BeautifulDisaster1122]

I'm just seeing this on day...9? AND I happen to have a beverage. I'll report back lmao

[@BeautifulDisaster1122]

It was day 11... and it was a mixed drink but ... I've put down prolly...15 or 20 oz between day 11 and day 24. So yeah. Going shots could be bad lmao

[@evelynsparrow6528]

I love the snippets from last year that also have snippets of the year before in them! In a few years it’ll be an endless loop 😂

[@katiek5082]

For some reason, it reminds me on the movie "Inception"

[@cammie72]

Sephora-shit-ception.

[@Lilliz91]

😂😂😂

[@briannafernandez2506]

That made me giggle she even has the same motions with the products.

[@appalachiancat]

It wouldn't be Christmas without the sweet disappointment of Sephora. 😂

[@tammyholt1798]

😂

[@WildflowersCreations]

Oh my gosh this is so true!

[@VV-nk1yj]

Every single year! Who keeps buying these?

[@JuggrnautWraith13]

@@VV-nk1yjAlexandria 😂 they keep it going just for her

[@WillSing4TP]

Right?!😂

[@hannahalexia]

A lot of people think Mariah Carey posting kicks off the Christmas season, but for me, Alexandria unboxing the Sephora advent calendar is the true start of the season. I was so emotionally ready for this video, and yet like every year, I was not ready at all. Thank you ❤

[@cherylbaker4290]

The US 🇺🇸

[@reggers138]

I love how the snippets of past years just keep going deeper. First its just last year, then in the corner of last year's you can see the year before, and the Sephoraception just keeps going

[@remmilouann]

I feel like Sephora is duping people into paying THEM for free samples. Lol So excited for more!

[@zoeygroat1560]

💯

[@PixieDusted72]

The Sephora near me downright refuses to give our free samples. I think the employees hoard them all to themselves.

[@xladycaosx]

I think I wrote it in a previous year, but in Japan in a lot of places you have to pay for samples or they don’t give them at all. I’ve been here 10 years and maybe got samples 4 times, and 2 times it was foreign perfume brands ( I don’t buy beauty/skin care much, but come on 😂) they’re just in the wrong market! 😂

[@mitch868]

It really is a fraudulent business of Sephora's. Massive false advertising. Massively overpriced. It should even be free, but then it’s all junk anyway. I feel like I want to go into business selling a REAL VALUE FOR MONEY calendar.

[@teridoster5840]

Totally 💯

[@thatonekarissa]

I actually cannot stop laughing at the "corner cam" of previous years with the duplicate products. my partner had to ask what was wrong I was WHEEZING I love advent calendar season

[@angelikasiwik3044]

You know expectations for the Sephora advent calendar are low when Alexandria gets excited over a full face sheet mask

[@Lilliz91]

And two nail files instead of just one 😂😂

[@shelleyjacobs2563]

You need a little basket next to your desk to put all the wipes you receive in subscription boxes. That way you won't have to use random paper during your monthly beauty unboxings.😊

[@kimg5184]

I agree, but also we all know Alexandra so I am pretty sure that she would misplace the basket in the blink of an eye 🤣

[@BeatriceCowley-ck2kx]

It wouldn't be a little basket it would quite big. Because some of those subscription boxes also put wipes in them.

[@katieadams7708]

Advent calendars roasting on an open fire, Alexandria laughing at the flames….. lol. Couldn’t help myself! Love advent calendar season!

[@m.service5584]

😂😂😂

[@transcendentalismproject3092]

Regrets being had by the buyer The pile of liners slowly grows. Everybody knows, That Sephora's there to set the tone And to make the consumer groan. Tiny execs with their eyes all aglow Don't find it hard to sleep at night. They know that profits on its way. They loaded lots of mark-ups in a tray. And a savvy viewer's gonna spy You don't need a separate mask for under eye.

[@WillSing4TP]

That was good!😅❤️

[@kevinsmahomie]

You should make a like Advent calendar bingo board that we can all play along with throughout the season! It could have like inside jokes and common products we see in these advent calenders! I feel like that could be a lot of fun!

[@emilygreene6779]

Love this idea!

[@tiffanynicole5920]

Dang even Sephora’s advent Calendar got hit by inflation 😅

[@lynamunoz1718]

"I hope this is not the same eyeliner that was in the 1st calendar," Alexandria said, holding a box that says "YES" as she is opening it.

[@kaydwessie296]

I’m laughing so hard 😂

[@nightmareonyrst333]

WOOHOO! Advent season with Alexandria has officially BEGUN! 🙌 🎄❤

[@liznelson7344]

🙏📆

[@DCSquirrel]

I just watched a previous year’s Sephora Advent Calendar video and my current theory is that the calendars don’t sell so the company just takes last year’s products that haven’t expired yet and put in in new advent boxes. That’s why everything is mostly the same.

[@cammie72]

Sad thing is...I think they do sell. We all have that 1 relative whos like "you like make-up Dear and this has 24 gifts in it." You know the one ... They call Ulta...UltRa and Sephora..Serafina. Oh wait that's just my family.😅 Happy Advent Calendar Season everyone. 🎁🎄😀

[@buyerbware25]

Dang! Happy Festivus! 🙃

[@Britishvisitor]

I will never tire of the window-in-windows glimpses of Sephora let downs from Christmas past 🧡 They make me genuinely LOL everytime

[@uribove]

content idea: On june 25 - opposite christmas basically - go to sephora, walk through the store and buy your advent calander prediction items so we can see how many you got right when you buy the real calander later in the year

[@Lassy089]

love this idea!!!

[@gigi2k326]

Can we buy that random mirror & singles of the face masks? Lol I've only been inside a sephora once. Lol

[@uribove]

@@gigi2k326 i have no idea whatsoever, but whe remade one with dollar store items years ago so we can have a bit of creative liberty here as well

[@truemoonlightful]

@@gigi2k326 the masks are sold like that but the mirror is an advent calendar exclusive if we can say that

[@tiffanynicole5920]

Ummmm no

[@poor.wayfaring.strxnger5198]

alexandria: knows that sephora calendars are the same every year also alexandria: buys it, expecting it to be different, but is always disappointed 🤣❤️ so excited for advent calendar season!!

[@shadowhawk225]

What an absolutely glorious disappointment Sephora is every year. I don't know why they keep putting the same things in over and over but I will watch you unbox it over and over. Like how they can't even do a variety of colors from year to year is insane. I know they're still clearly getting money from people but like how much bad press about this terrible calendar can they take? A beautiful start to the seasonal disappointment

[@kimg5184]

In all honesty, it's not really disappointing, I mean if you have watched Alexandra's advent calendar openings in the past then you kind of expect a craptastic Sephora advent calendar. You just know it has to get better from here on...lol

[@hurricanebubbles]

Omg, the difference between the US Sephora Advent and the UK one is insane, just watched Cherry Wallis's unboxing of the UK one and was blown away....

[@jeden75]

I was just hopping on here to say the same thing! We need the UK version next year.

[@zeta802]

Advent calendar season is what made me join your channel. Your infectious joy and laughter made me stay. This is my favorite time of the year. I look forward to your daily advents. Such joy.

[@NatiSaednejad]

We need to do Sephora Advent Calendar Bingo every year that includes squares for tiny mirrors, nail files and sheet masks 😂

[@menap1337]

I was thinking the same thing

[@bonniehowell9206]

Disappointment should be the free square an the middle.

[@rachelgammill7868]

Every year I hold out hope it will be better. Every year I remain surprised at how bad it is.

[@246kisses]

Me too! I’ve used some awesome Sephora products that would work in the calendars but they never put them in it

[@jand7201]

Ooo, here is an idea. Recreate a Sephora calendar at the dollar store!

[@audreyl5648]

LMAO

[@kygal]

Yould honestly get more value that way. 😂

[@margaretandandrewroth9229]

She did! She used a cereal box and showed how she could get the stuff for like nothing

[@sandyrae3092]

These advent calendars are now a full fledged part of my Christmas season. My 10 year old watches them with me. We love your videos!

[@246kisses]

It’s officially a Christmas tradition!

[@2rockingchairs330]

I really love the little snippets from previous years. It must take so much more time to edit in, so I appreciate it. Happy Advent Calendar Season Everyone!! ❤️🐾🎉

[@AwkwardBirb]

I don’t know why but it’s so aesthetically pleasing to me to see you holding each of the same products in the exact same way over the years 😂

[@ivria4724]

It PAINS ME that you didn’t get paid for the first ever Sephora advent calendar video because it is such a trademark on your channel now!! SO EXCITED FOR ADVENT SEASON 🥹🎉

[@abigailsara]

Everything else may change but at least we can always count on the Sephora advent calendar to always be the same 😂. Sephora should honestly be ashamed of themselves. Thanks for starting off the holiday season. At this point just save your money next year and just redo the intro to this video because it will still be the same calendar 😂 the second calendar was better but pretty sure it's the same as last year's too. Anyway, you look gorgeous as always. Thanks for sharing!

[@kelqueen9998]

It's a great idea. She can pack this calendar back up and just open it again next year. Who would know?! 😉

[@adriennestanger4893]

HUZZAH!!! Advent calendar season with Alexandria is the most wonderful time of the year!

[@ambermathewson3136]

Alexandria out here showing us the reason why none of us buy Sephora advent calendars.

[@tracyroweauthor]

No way would I pay $45 for that Advent calendar. But I am excited that calendar season has started!

[@rachelgammill7868]

This the most wonderful time of the year.... Sephora Advent calendar time!

[@NicholeParker]

How can they raise the price and still give the same crap? 🙄 thank you for putting yourself through this for us!

[@hollyaliyev6503]

I love that you open these, it shows me not too 😂 plus I don't want tropical and pale pink in an advent calendar I want jewel tones, Christmas colors, metallic, and peppermint and gingerbread 😂

[@trippinggauntlet4520]

Sephora never fail to disappoint, it's just tradition now.

[@kirstybrown1185]

The interaction with the 12 box at 8:03 confirms that Alexandria is actually a cat hiding in a human suit. 🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@mmgwife]

Ah the Sephora Advent dumpster fire to start the season!

[@dawnmcanany5673]

Advent Calendar Season is how I found Alexandria and I've been happy ever since. I love these videos above all.

[@michelebowen4263]

This is putting me in a holiday spirit! Advent calendars are hysterically disappointing but entertaining!

[@NikkieAnOrdinaryGirl]

I enjoy when it becomes a picture in picture in picture in picture when you've gotten the same item entry year

[@Persephone_Personified]

We’re fallin short $1.80 on this day! 😂 truly the highlight of my nov-dec are advent unboxing videos. I can’t buy them myself so it’s so satisfying to see them open here for us with spot on commentary ❤💚

[@bethlovesthings]

I would be so pissed if I bought both and ended with NEW YEARS with the SAME scrunchie and rhinestones that I got in my Xmas calender. Thank you for your service & sacrifice! Can't wait to see all of them haha

[@tinaschroeder1189]

I think it would be funny to do a video at the end of opening all these advent calendars where you do your makeup/skin care with all the tiny samples

[@TFG0045]

I’m so excited for advent calendar season!!! You save me so much money but I love watching you open all of them.🎄🎄🎄🧑🏻‍🎄🧑🏻‍🎄🧑🏻‍🎄

[@97sarahb]

The advent calendar queen has returned! I can't wait to dive into the chaos of 2023 holiday calendars for the rest of year ( & maybe beyond that)!!!

[@micaelizza1813]

I'm so ready to be disappointed for how ever long this advent calendar season is gonna take us 🎉

[@AC-pm3mc]

I have had such a hard day. I threw my dinner together and now I’m going to have some mommy alone time with the video I’ve been looking forward to all day! Your timing can’t be better THANK YOU!

[@paulagiordan3753]

Roasting an advent calendar over an open fire-I love it!

[@m.service5584]

😂😂😂 Same!!!

[@Persephone_Personified]

Nothing like disappointment season! ❤❤ awesome advent unveiling as always

[@coolgirl312]

The year Sephora comes out with an calendar full of decent items that have zero repeats from the previous year would be the year you retire from opening their calendar (which we know will never happen). I love seeing the little clip on the side of the previous year of the same item and it going back several years. Should make it a drinking game xD

[@RingPopShawty]

I’m convinced Sephora has just a stack of the same advent calendar’s labeled ‘Alexandria’ 😂

[@hayleyhansen1808]

YESSSSSSSSSSSS ADVENT CALENDAR SEASON!!!!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@lilly0741]

Yay!!! I missed advent calendars with you

[@janizzlek6350]

Who else here feels, like the only real GOOD thing about the holidays, is the Alexandria Ryan advent calendar unboxing season? I seriously get so excited for it, and it's one of the few holiday/seasonal things, I actually look forward to. Lol.

[@marylucia2705]

The Sephora eyeliners especially that brown are really nice! Makeup by Mario dupes!

[@Maddym365]

YAY ADVENT CALENDARS!!!

[@theelaavar]

YAY!!! IT'S THAT BEST TIME OF THE YEAR!! ALEXANDRIA RYAN ADVENT CALENDAR SEASON!!! 🎉❤🎉

[@wildawoods6096]

I honestly live for these unboxings. Alexandria's reactions are just the best. LOL

[@liannangel2004]

I'm loving the picture in picture in picture! I look forward to seeing it get longer and longer in the years to come!💜

[@nicoledinzey3396]

I was hoping you’d do Sephora first. Rip the bandaid off immediately 😂

[@christinestewart5951]

Comin’ in hot 🔥

[@m.service5584]

😂😂😂

[@kenziewilson549]

Yay advent calendar time!! 🎉

[@emmakwright]

YAYYYYYY 2023 advent calendar unboxings are HERE!!!!!

[@mollyd1154]

13:01 “is that just heavily polished metal? like a prison mirror” absolutely SENT me

[@Gracieisawsome]

OMG i can't wait! My favorite video of every year 🎉

[@alenaharvey2123]

Yay! Let the season commence!❤

[@Zaguzah]

The Advent Inception in the corner, LOLOLOLOL!

[@cristinaedgecomb6232]

Picture in Picture in Picture in Picture!!!! Amazing. Editing 100/10 on this one!!

[@m.service5584]

😂❤

[@PolishedAfterSixtyYvette]

Oh lord, let the holidays begin! I so enjoy these videos.🎄🎅🏻

[@Melody-vt9po]

Yeah! Avent season is officially here!❤🎉🎉🥳

[@sandystormable]

I find it hilarious that I just watched a Sephora commercial while watching this 🤣 I was kinda bummed that I heard these advent calendars were sold out…I’m no longer bummed thanks for making me feel better 😂

[@khope74]

Ok I love the "Inception" moments with the video within the video of all the repeat products. Who at Sephora figured the products to be worth $95? They really need to go back to school.

[@SilverWolf4216]

Yessssssss it has begun!!!!! :3 I'm so happy, work was rough today and seeing this notification made my day. Also great video and I loved the Sephoraception with the corner videos of Sephora pasts. 😂

[@Mollyrae0607]

I love that you’re starting advent season with Sephora, advent season is my favorite always wait for your videos 💜

[@m.service5584]

Hopefully the only way to go is UP from here!!!

[@Simbley]

footage from years prior popping up is always my favorite part

[@aimeekessell5022]

I love that you called a scrunchie and rhinestones would be put in there and count as “full-sized” in the after-advent calendar. 😂

[@liznelson7344]

Oh yay! Super excited for the Advent calendar season! Thanks for always being awesome Alexandria. P.S. Your nails 💅 look great!

[@Cheekers]

Sephora is a master of the grift. They know how bad the calendars are, and dupe everyone in to buy it again hoping it’ll be better.

[@alyem95]

the start of my favorite time of the year: advent calendar unboxing time!!

[@PantheraMorag]

Woo! I love advent calendar season! I even rewatch your advent calendar archive yearly around this time

[@deviltryinrapture]

It's 2054 and Sephora is still putting out the same tiny products in their advent calendar, and Alexandria has run out of room on the screen to show her reactions of years gone by. 😂

[@Mama_Bear2017]

At this point sephora is like well we know people are gonna buy the calendar to see if we have finally put new stuff in it so let's not and just rip them off again lol.

[@m.service5584]

Exactly! From one Mama Bear to another.❤

[@claudiaking4064]

I watch zero beauty videos during the year, but best you bet I’ll be watching EVERY ALEXANDRIA ADVENT CALENDAR VIDEO!!!!!

[@holliesoldonia4746]

I was gonna ask when this was starting and now I’m so excited that it has started!

[@teacheraprilrogers]

I love Advent Calendar season. I wish I could order them all with you and do an unbox along. But I have a 19 year old college freshman who thinks he needs to eat and have a roof over his head. A history teachers salary should take in to account that we want advent calendars from Harrods too. Lol. Love these videos so much.

[@m.service5584]

😂

[@margieryne6220]

Hi sweet girl, boy, wasn’t that just the greatest ever…NOT! I love how you tell it like it is & they should be ashamed of themselves for putting out such awful calendars year after year! Love watching your videos & the boys! Surely it has to get better from here…Right!? Sending love & hugs!❤️🐾🐾

[@twinklegura5304]

Can't wait for when Alexandria comes out with her own advent calendar. It'll be THE advent calendar of all advent calendars!

[@eliontheinternet3298]

I usually listen to these videos more than watch them, but I caught a glimpse of the little rewind cam in the corner and I LOVE it 😂

[@darlenecarroll3876]

Why do I love watching you open the horrible Sephora calendar every year. 😂

[@heidimargaret306]

Ok after another disappointing year it’s time to stop giving your money to these horrible Sephora calendars lol have a great weekend Alex 😀❤️🎄

[@Squidpickle95]

I absolutely love the additions of the old footage and the picture-in-picture it creates! Kills me 😂

[@deeatkinson2395]

Yay do so happy your series is the one I look forward too ❤❤❤ thank you xx

[@LunaRose316]

One thing I know is never to buy sephora advent calendars.

[@therealdonnawagner]

😂😂😂 I love the infinite windows of Sephora disappointment that pop up with pretty much each product. I can't believe how awful a job they do every. Single. YEAR. At this point, the only people keeping this calendar going are KZbinrs roasting it and parents/grandparents that buy things for the kid in their family they know "likes makeup". LOL Can't wait for the rest of the calendars! Thanks for sharing. 😊

[@erikag.7396]

Can't belive it's already been a full year since last advent calendar season, can't wait to see them all!

[@lindastiewing2456]

So excited to watch all of your advent calendars unboxings!