What is the most beautiful cosmetics calendar of Christmas 2024? If you are looking for fresh and visually appealing elegance with northern spirit, the answer is LUMENE's luxurious beauty advent calendar, designed and manufactured together with LUMENE, Metsä Board, and packaging converter Van Genechten Packaging.

What makes LUMENE's cosmetics calendar especially impressive and unique is its innovative, multi-dimensional structure. The visual beauty of the advent calendar is further enhanced by its stylish graphic design, featuring domestic berries and Nordic winter scenery. It is entirely made of Metsä Board's folding boxboard, and it can be recycled in the paperboard collection after Christmas.

The calendar was designed in virtual workshops organised by Metsä Board together with LUMENE and Van Genechten Packaging's team in Riga. The aim of the collaboration was to create a calendar in line with LUMENE's brand, drawing inspiration from Nordic nature and enhancing the experiential consumer experience.

"The advent calendar is designed to create a visually stunning and immersive experience. The exterior captures the beauty of the northern landscape. The 3D embossing on the calendar's surface adds a tactile feel to the illustration's frozen flowers. The translucent holographic foil creates a magical sparkle, giving a festive, enchanting finish," says Essi Arola, LUMENE's Sustainability & Packaging Director.

"This year's LUMENE cosmetics calendar has several dimensions. The innovative calendar part with product packages is hidden inside an outer package, which is closed by a separate sleeve. The concept forms a three-dimensional entity, both in terms of structure and graphics," says packaging designer Iiro Numminen from Metsä Board's packaging design team.

"The doors of the advent calendar are built from boxes of different shapes, which, when repeated, form a flower pattern. This innovative structure makes the interior particularly impressive, but also easy to manufacture," describes Numminen.

The calendar is made from MetsäBoard Prime FBB Bright and MetsäBoard Pro FBB Bright folding boxboards, which are made from renewable wood fibres and are easy to recycle. The excellent surface smoothness and high brightness of the board ensures that the winter landscape looks stunning on the outer packaging of the calendar as well as on the protective sleeve.

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