Christmas Beauty Gifts and Edits You Have to Buy Before They Sell Out!
If there were ever a year to indulge your loved ones with Christmas gifts, it’s 2020!
We’ve scoured the best of brands and picked our favourite Christmas beauty gift sets and makeup products that will have everyone cheering with joy. Advent calendars, limited-edition launches, luxury skincare and even pocket-friendly stocking fillers, these are the Christmas beauty gifts you should buy – before they sell out!
Lush Cosmetics
From affordable stocking fillers to jaw-dropping, gorgeous gifts, this year’s Christmas collection from Lush is as much fun to shop for as it is to receive! Bubble bars, wonderballs, haircare treats and even Hippos, the Lush 2020 Christmas collection offers bold colours, incredible scents and 100% vegan treats. With prices starting at $10 for an elfie bubble stick to $30 gift sets(and more), you can sort out all of your Christmas gift shopping, just at this one store!
If you’ve been humming to “I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”, there’s every reason to buy this super-cute bath bomb! A floating hippopotamus that fizzes away, leaving a trail of raspberry fragrance and popping candy!
Miss going on winter holidays? The Winter Wonderland Gift Set comes with five fruity and floral shower products to transport you to a wintery escape. Imagine enlivening showers followed by an exclusive Sakura body lotion - this is indeed a keeper!
Secret Santa at the office is made easy this year with the Lush Secret Santa Gift set. A simple yet fun present for that person you may not know very well or someone who loves all things Lush.
Snow Fairy fans adore the Snow Fairy Christmas Gift that includes 7 products with the iconic fragrance and makes for a perfect present. Expect a Snow Fairy Bath Bomb, Snow Fairy Bubble Bar Roll, Body Spray, Body Conditioner and other luscious treats from this range!
Got colour-themed presents to fill? The Lush Christmas collection offers a wide variety of bold colours, so you’ll definitely find products that will suit your story!
What’s more, Lush uses 100% recycled plastic for its pots and bottles. The gift packaging includes paper made out of 100% recycled materials including cotton t-shirt offcuts and banana paper. And over 840,000 recycled bottles have been turned into Lush ribbons! Their glitter is plastic-free, 100% free of microbeads and 100% mineral oil-free.
Beautiful for you and the environment - what’s not to love!
Lush Festive treats are available in stores, sg.lush.com, ZALORA Beauty and Shopee Mall.
Lookfantastic
If like us you adore beauty advent calendars, no one does them better than Lookfantastic! Their annual festive advent calendar may be sold out now(remember to queue up next year!), but that still leaves you with a huge range of beauty gifts to choose from.
For starters, the Elemis Pro-Collagen Stars of the Show gift set is presented in a luxurious hexagonal vanity case that will complement any dresser. This gift set comes with six skin-plumping superstars that will soften the look of fine lines and wrinkles through intense hydration from rich and powerful marine-sourced actives. Use alone or in a full regime and rediscover soft, smooth skin that glows with a restored youthful radiance!
Nuxe fans will love receiving the NUXE Prodigiously Iconic Gift Set that combines the sensory universes of Huile Prodigieuse® and Rêve de Miel® - all of Nuxe’s best sellers in one nifty box!
Need a Christmas gift for your man? The luxe ESPA Modern Alchemy Experience is everything he’ll love! Sacred rituals and ancient wisdom, reimagined for modern-day souls, this is a deeply sensorial body-care collection exploring healing rituals and transformative textures. Inspired by the ancient rituals from Chinese Medicine practises, the Modern Alchemy collection aims to encourage relaxation by guiding the mind to a place of calm. Perfect for that busy man in your life!
Fenty Beauty
Fenty Beauty’s new mini, giftable Christmas sets come in new, highly covetable shades that everyone will want! The Fenty Beauty Glossy Posse: Holo’daze Shine features 4 brand new shades in the best-selling, ultimate gotta-have-it lip gloss. Featuring a range of shades for a subtle glow or a poppin’ pout, GlossyPosse is ultra-wearable and will flatter all skin tones. One luscious swipe of and your lips look instantly fuller and smoother, with a non-sticky formula that’s super shiny.
Want a long-lasting lipstick that stays all night? The festive edition, Two Lil Stunnas Mini Longwear Fluid Lip Color Duo features two brand new shades that make for the perfect stocking filler for any lipstick lover. Turn heads in these two mini limited-edition Stunna Lip Paint shades, Unmatched(deep cool red), and Underrated(deep berry) that look incredible on all skin tones! Remember to shake StunnaLip Paint before use as its hyper-intense pigment performs best when activated.
Caudalie
If you’d rather gift skincare, take a look at Caudalie’s holiday sets that come in a range of sizes, price points and adorable Christmas gift packaging. This holiday season, Caudalie has launched holiday sets that feature some of their cult favourites including Vinosource, Beauty Elixir and their luxury hand creams.
The Vinoperfect Christmas Set "The Cult Anti-Dark Spot Routine" includes the best-selling Vinoperfect range and has everything you need to achieve a bright and even complexion for the face! Kickstart your day with the Vinoperfect Dark Spot Correcting Moisturiser, an effective and moisturising day cream that helps to correct and prevent dark spots and even out complexion.
Pair it with the Vinoperfect Radiance Serum that corrects and prevents dark spots, evens the skin tone and brightens the complexion. For your bedtime ritual, apply the Vinoperfect Dark Spot Correcting Glycolic Night Cream which gently exfoliates and renews skin whilst you sleep.
Looking for a cute beauty bauble? Deck your Christmas tree with the Beauty Elixir Mini Mist Bauble, containing a travel-sized version of the Beauty Elixir – a cult favourite amongst beauty mavens! This powerful plant-based face mist works to smooth away fine lines, tighten pores, and give the complexion an instant boost of radiance.
Dr Dennis Gross
Give your skin all the TLC it needs, with the Dr. Dennis Gross exclusive holiday skincare kit – Peel. Glow. Be Merry!
Carefully curated in beautiful packaging fit for the holiday season, the Dr. Dennis Gross Peel. Glow. Be Merry. holiday kit is the gift of radiant skin for you and your loved ones. Featuring 21 treatments of the brand’s iconic Alpha Beta® Extra Strength Daily Peel, a full-size C + Collagen Brighten & Firm Vitamin C Serum and a kit-size of the C + Collagen Deep Cream, the Peel. Glow. Be Merry. holiday kit not only works towards providing you with that coveted holiday glow but will also help to hydrate your skin, even skin tone, prevent free radical damage and smooth the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles!
Clogged pores? The Alpha Beta Pore Perfectors Skincare Kit includes products that are formulated to treat pores at the source. This Alpha Beta® powered, pore-perfecting kit features a gently exfoliating cleanser, best-selling patented 2-step peel, and a silicone-free, pore-refining treatment. Expect clearer pores and visibly transformed your skin that leads to a flawless, filtered-looking complexion.
Milani
Stocking fillers, easy presents or make-your-own gift baskets, the products at Milani are sure to please any Christmas gift recipient this year!
Want something for the eyes? Define your brows and create natural, hair-like strokes with the Precision Brow Pencil. Or apply a coat or two of the lengthening and volumising The Waterproof One Mascara that has a black, smudge-free formula.
Make those celebrations extra-special with the Milani Pure Passion Eyeshadow Palette. Designed with a coordinated blend of fine-milled lustrous rose golds, and warm berry shadows, this curated palette features 12 mega-pigmented, airbrushed mattes, and shimmer soaked metallics to accentuate and sculpt one-of-a-kind depth and dimension.
We also love Milani’s range of Baked Blush products! Richly pigmented and highly buildable, the beautiful matte and shimmery shades of Baked Blush are the perfect cheeky pop of colour for every skin tone. Available in 12 different shades, the warm finish adds a radiance that helps to shape, contour and highlight your best features.
For that natural glow, reach out for the Baked Highlighter in 110 Dolce Perla, a pale pearlescent pink highlighter that lends a healthy glow to your face.
Available at Watsons stores and Watsons E-store.
The Body Shop
The surprise-packed and may we add super-popular advent calendars by The Body Shop should be on everyone’s Christmas gift list!
The Make It Real Together Advent Calendar is an entry-level calendar that is packed with 24 small surprises, like lip butters, hand creams, body butters, and shower gels, so you can refresh, scrub and pamper that beautiful body from head to toe.
Want full-sized fun? The Make It Real Together BIG Advent Calendar packs 25 full-sized and mini surprises, including mini pampering face masks and the full-sized Banana haircare duo and Almond Milk & Honey body butter.
And finally, the Make It Real Together ULTIMATE Advent Calendar is stuffed with 25 new and most-loved surprises from The Body Shop, including the skin-tingling Himalayan Charcoal Purifying Glow Mask and skin-smoothing Drops of Youth™ Youth Concentrate.
The full Christmas collection and Advent Calendars are now available in all stores islandwide, and online on Shopee, Lazada, GrabMart and foodpanda shops.
Psst...this year, The Body Shop will donate S$0.10 from every transaction made in stores and online from 1 November to 31 December, to support Daughters Of Tomorrow in helping underprivileged women on their back-to-work journeys to build financially independent and resilient families
Natasha Tulsi - Vanilla Luxury Magazine Editorial Director
Wordsmith and marketer by day, Natasha is your go-to girl on all things beauty, travel and family. This mommy to two loves her cheese, a fab read and crooning to Ping Fong (don't we all?). Natasha also heads Communications at Expatgiving and helps volunteers find their dream non-profit role! Reach her at email or via her Instagram @sonattymama
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