LUX Beauty: Holiday Beauty Gift Guide

Dec 4, 2012
Marisa Machak • Beauty

By now, most people are probably scouring every mall and eboutique for the perfect gift. If you’re playing Santa this year, don’t worry! We’ve got you covered with some great options for gift sets and products for the beauty buffs and makeup junkies in your life. Here are 10 fabulous cosmetic gift and stocking stuffer ideas great for any girl to unwrap on Christmas morning.

A cute and conventional stocking stuffer is the Le Metier de Beaute Kaleidoscope lip kit in Bauhaus. With four distinctive lipstick shades, each color is placed on a silver disc, flipping out of the compact for easy access and application.

Bobbi Brown offers the Caviar & Oyster travel brush set filled with the exact brushes most used by the makeup artist herself, all tucked inside a chic case with pink satin interior. Perfectly sized for travel and on-the-go touch-ups, this set includes brushes for foundation, blush, eyebrow, eye sweep, eye smudge, angle shadow, dual-ended eyeliner and ultra-fine eyeliner.

For the ultimate beauty gift, give your girlfriend the amazing 16-piece nail lacquer set from Tom Ford. All encased in an elegant brown and gold box, this wardrobe of high-shine and extra glossy polishes will let her express her mood with any of the shades ranging from alluring brights to chic neutrals.

Let the main lady in your life deck the halls and her nails with the Deborah Lippmann Christmas in the City lacquer trio. These three limited-edition nail polishes in Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, Let it Snow and Run, Run, Rudolph will make her nails glimmer and shimmer during the entire Christmas season.

Stuff a single gloss or the entire set of Lancome’s Juicy Tubes inside a Christmas stocking for a beautiful surprise. After sweeping on a sheer wash of sexy gloss, your gift recipient will love every shade including Berry Bold, Miracle, Pink Horizon, Magic Spell and Raspberry Ice.

A gift that should be cherished and used any time of the year is the Kiehl’s Crème de Corps collection. Including a nurturing body moisture, travel size crème de corps, soy milk and honey body polish, lip balm, ultra facial cream and powerful-strength line-reducing concentrate, these products are rich in all-day hydration and perfect for luxifying and pampering dry skin.

Your girlfriend will wake up to sweet treats as she unwraps the Philosophy Christmas Morning gift set. Featuring a shampoo and body wash with the barely glazed scent and a sugar sprinkles and funnel cake flavored lip gloss, this gift set will fill her house with the sweet aroma of candy.

Give your girlfriends the gift of glamour with the Sephora Glitz and Glam Party Sampler. Encased in a chic metallic clutch is a set of Sephora’s nine top glittering cosmetic products. This kit has a gorgeous assortment of festive products to create your most shimmering party look for the holidays or New Year’s Eve.

NARS offers the Andy Warhol Beautiful Darling gift set to create the iconic makeup look of the blonde bombshell—Warhol’s greatest actress. A gift to use through the spring season, the striking set consists of a Candy Darling nail polish in Electric Pink, a Femme Fatale eye shadow duo in sheer white shimmer and mint green and a Women In Revolt Larger Than Life lip gloss in Hot Pink to design the legendary look.

Makeup fanatics can now be their own makeup artist with the Make Up For Ever cosmetic case and stand. This limited-edition case is filled with 38 of makeup artist Danny Sanz’s favorite products, which enables unlimited creativity and exploration. The cosmetic case can serve as a portable professional cosmetic stand or a fabulous personal vanity.