November 21, 2021

Holiday Gifting For Him & Her Made Easy

[layerslider id="33"] 'Tis the season to avoid the supply chain issues we've all been saddled with by simply starting your holiday shopping early! Some of my favorite brands are stocked full of product ready to fulfill all of your beauty and grooming wishes. Get ready to fill those carts with brands like CHI, Shiseido, Urban Decay, Lancôme and so many more, which offer must-have gifting for skin care, makeup and even wellness.

CHI ‘The Sparkler’ Special Edition Hairstyling Iron brings the lux to your locks for a fraction of the price, ‘The Sparkler’ is a replica of CHI’s famous $1 Million Diamond CHI Lava Flat Iron. ‘The Sparkler’ is covered in over 3,000 genuine crystals and will add extra glam to your holiday styling experience.

Price: $159.99 / Availability: chi.com

CHI Volumizer 4-IN-1 Blowout Brush with Beauty Bag is innovatively designed to minimize frizz and cut down drying time, while delivering striking results by creating exceptional volume and shine. In a new Rose Gold color, the tool also comes with a matching cosmetic bag.

Price: $99.99 / Availability: kohls.com

MCM's 3-Piece Eau de Parfum Holiday Gift Set offers a transformative new scent expression. Hyper-real raspberry, hand-picked jasmine, clean textured woods and sheer Ambrox come together for a boundary-pushing, universal fragrance.

GIFT SET INCLUDES:
Eau de Parfum Spray, 2.5-oz.
Eau de Parfum Travel Spray, 0.34-oz.
Deluxe Miniature, 0.25-oz.
Price: $100 / Availability: macys.com

**Shiseido Vital Perfection Lifting and Firming Essentials Set** features a full-sized Vital Perfection Uplifting and Firming Cream Enriched that visibly lifts skin in just 1 week*, deluxe-sized samples of best-selling Ultimune Power Infusing Concentrate serum and Ultimune Eye Power Infusing Eye Concentrate for a youthful look around the face and eyes.

**Price**: $135 / **Availability:** shiseido.com

**Shiseido Ultimune Men's Skin Strengthening Set** features two full-sized products to treat men's unique skin care needs: Shiseido Men Ultimune Power Infusing Concentrate and Shiseido Men Total Revitalizer Eye Cream that leave skin feeling nourished and revitalized.

**Price:** $75 / **Availability**: shiseido.com

Idôle Aura reinterprets the clean floral signature of the original fragrance in a bold composition with luminous intensity. A delicate scent that is both sensual and strong. Like the glowing aura of brilliantly radiant femininity that nothing can stop from shining brightly.

Price: $59/25ml, $96.00/50ml, or $123.00/75ml / Availability: at Lancôme counters nationwide and Lancome-usa.com

GUESS Effect 3 Piece Grooming Gift Set consists of a full assortment of energizing and nourishing hair, body, and face essentials enhanced with invigorating botanicals. This floral woody musk fragrance has a blend of pear, jasmine petals, black currant, orange, sandalwood, cedar wood, musk, and amber. The set includes:

Guess Effect BOOST Invigorating Hair & Body Wash to energize and nourish the hair and skin.
Guess Effect CLEAN Face Wash with caffeine to cleanse and energize the skin.
Guess Effect is a Fougere Oriental deodorant body spray for men with notes of Grapefruit, sage and vanilla embody the aroma of the powerful and confident man who embraces his active lifestyle.
3 Piece Grooming Gift Set for Men includes: (1) 2-in-1 Hair & Body Wash 6.7oz, (1) Face Wash with Caffeine 6.7oz, and (1) Deodorizing Body Spray 6.7oz

Price: $25 / Availability: amazon.com

A $98-value eye makeup set for just $44.40 -- includes the NAKED3 eyeshadow palette and 2 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencils

A $55-value eye makeup set for just $33 – includes the NAKED Honey eyeshadow palette and the iconic Eyeshadow Primer Potion

Availability: urbandecay.com

The Ultimate Self-Care Bundle for Women is a great gift set that captures all the best of Caswell-Massey in a lovely gift box that is sure to impress. This set includes a bar of Oatmeal Bath Soap for a relaxing, soothing bath; their best-selling Dr. Hunter's Rosewater Hand Cream; the iconic Carmichael's Cuticle Cream along with a Diamond Dust Nail File for healthier-looking nails; a Rose Water Facial Mist; and a Travel-size eau de toilette in their popular Centuries Sandalwood fragrance, along with a Pocket Hair Brush. This set is perfect for travel or everyday use for $79.

Availability: caswellmassey.com / Price: $79

**BioSilk Silk Therapy Irresistible Ornament Kit** is an irresistible explosion of luscious jasmine petals with a honeyed spice scent, touched with a sensual feminine and confident essence. This gift set is shaped like an ornament and features a 2.26oz Silk Therapy and Hair Fragrance.

**Price**: $15 / **Availability**: chi.com

**BioSilk Silk Therapy Irresistible Trio Kit** is an explosion of luscious jasmine petals with a honeyed spice scent, touched with a sensual feminine and confident essence. This gift set will awaken your beauty inside and out while providing your hair with the vital ingredients to help replenish moisture in all hair types and textures. The trio includes a BioSilk Silk Therapy Irresistible Original 5.64 fl. oz., BioSilk Silk Therapy Irresistible Shampoo 7 fl. oz. and BioSilk Silk Therapy Irresistible Conditioner 7 fl. oz.

**Price**: $28.05 / Availability: chi.com

Because of their smooth texture and natural sleekness, **Celestial Silk** pillowcases are a natural way to get your beauty sleep. Tresses stay tame and skin stays moisturized. Plus silk looks and feels sublime! All of Celestial Silk's pillowcases arrive gift-wrapped, making them perfect for gift-giving because they contain 15-30% more silk and are half the price - **starting at $37**...just call it *affordable* luxury . They are available in over 25 colors and designs. Also available for individual purchase are silk scrunchies, sleep masks, headbands and face masks. Even better, with every purchase Celestial Silk donates 10% of all proceeds to charity.

**Availability**: celestialsilk.com / **Price**: starting at $37

Wonder Curl has developed a three-step system that simplifies the curly-haired customers' hair wash day routine and get great results. The bundle includes Detoxifying Clay Cleanser, Moisturizing Hair Pudding, and Get Set Hair Jelly, to set your style without crunch or flakes. Wonder Curl is a Black-owned business, and all products are free of silicones, parabens, phthalates, and are cruelty-free.

Price: $55 / Availability: wondercurl.com

Give some nail polish fun this season with nontoxic, cruelty-free, vegan **Nailtopia**! The **Jingle All the Way** set is frost done right with a variety of rich and pastel blues and shimmering purple hues...great for Fall and eases seamlessly into Spring.

**Availability**: ulta.com / Price: $14.99

Pride or not Pride, the **Love Yourself Kit** lets you celebrate you! It comes with 5- 0.17 ounce nail polishes with a percentage of proceeds going directly to to charities that support the LGBTQ+ community.

**Availability**: ulta.com / **Price**: $29.99

AOA Studio Color Flush Liquid Blush ($1) – These lightweight, blendable liquid blush sticks create the most natural, dewy glow with their serum-like texture. Available in 5 shades, each are non-toxic, cruelty-free and vegan.

AOA Studio Shimmer Nail Polish ($1) – Just in time for the holiday season, this collection of shimmering nail polish comes in 6 glistening shades. The 8-free, opaque formula applies smooth, is long wearing and is non-toxic. The complete AOA nail polish collection contains 60 shades in total.

AOA Dreamy Lipstick ($1) – These dreamy, creamy matte lipsticks come in 7 vibrant, full coverage shades. This hydrating lipstick is heavily pigmented without drying lips and is non-toxic and cruelty-free.

AOA Heat Resistant Hair Tool Mat ($1.88) – Made from high quality silicone, this mat protects counters and tables from heat styling tools and more. Withstands heat up to 460F degrees and its unique design makes it easy to wrap around the tool and put in your travel bag and keep on the counter without slipping.

AOA Studio 5x Magnifying Beauty Mirror ($1) – This magnifying mirror allows you to get ultimate precision for makeup and lash application and/or tweezing. The back of the mirror contains two suction cups so it can stick on the bathroom mirror or wall, shower or school locker. Also available in 8x.

Availability: shopmissa.com / Price:

Shades by Shan is the perfect gift to give that special person in your life who is obsessed with makeup! The best thing is that with every purchase of Shades by Shan, a percentage of sales goes to their Mamaberries Foundation that helps single parents.

Availability: sbscosmetics.com / Price: $59

The DefenAge's Men's Kit is for the discerning man who values good grooming etiquette. The travel-friendly set comes in an elegant black leather toiletry bag, making it perfect for grab-and-go packing. The kit also has a hemp towel with natural anti-microbial features. DefenAge is technology-driven, fragrance-free and uses a clearly outlined step-by-step system that includes: a facial cleanser, a daily skin renewing cream and serum, and an exfoliating mask. DefenAge’s Men's Kit is the brand's signature scientifically-backed skincare system, which is clinically proven to address signs of skin exhaustion and aging on a global scale. The line's key proprietary ingredient, Age-Repair Defensins^® reprograms the skin to become visibly younger every day and minimizes pores and wrinkles, improves brightness, evenness, oiliness, tone, texture, and hydration in just 6 weeks.

Price: $427 / Availability: defenage.com

**Eco Lips** makes Christmas 2021 more sustainable with its first holiday line that comes in a 100% plant based tube. Eco Lips **Candy Cane Organic Lip Balms** are made with certified organic beeswax combined with hydrating Fair Trade Certified™ coconut oil to nourish, moisturize, and restore lips back to health. They also come in the brand's revolutionary Plant Pod, a patented 100% plastic-free, plant-based packaging that looks and acts like a regular tube.

Availability: Ecolips.com Price: $9.99 for set of 3 tubes.

Australian Emu Apple Vitamin C To-Glow Kit

Achieve total body bliss with the Sand & Sky Byron Body Kit. This body scrub and body lotion combo that’s guaranteed to buff away the old and replenish like new. Gift or self gift, it’s designed to create Byron Bay-worthy beauty. If you’d like to say goodbye to dry skin, ingrown hairs, cellulite, or stretch marks, Smoothing Body Sand is a godsend. Its 4-in-in formula will detox, smooth, moisturize and illuminate from top-to-toe. Plus, biodegradable glitter leaves skin with a soft, radiant shimmer. Lightweight Wonder Body Lotion delivers long-lasting hydration with three types of hyaluronic acid. Its mineral-rich ingredients and age defying antioxidants create plumper, plusher skin. It’s perfect for flaunting silky soft skin for the holidays.

Price: $85.90 / Availability: SandandSky.com

The Sand & Sky Australian Pink Clay Icons Kit delivers a dose of that Australian Pink Clay magic. The Australian Pink Clay Icons Kit has all your face and body’s detox needs covered - in one convenient gifting-ready pouch! Rich in AHA extracted from finger lime, the cleanser works to gently cleanse, exfoliate and breakdown make up sitting above your skin or deep within your pores. For a fresh, healthy glow, the exfoliator couples bamboo and macadamia particles with AHA rich finger lime extracts, and antioxidant-rich oils to remove dull skin cells and nourish the skin. Powered by Aussie botanicals, the cult classic Pore Refining Face Mask then deeply detoxifies by drawing impurities, toxins, and pollutants from the skin while refining pores, clearing congestion, and instantly boosting radiance.

Price: $110.90 / Availability: SandandSky.com

The Sand & Sky Splash Series bids dry or dehydrated skin goodbye with a 3-step ultra-hydrating full body routine. Revitalize your skin with powerful aquatic ingredients, minerals and holy grail Hyaluronic Acid for plump, youthful, dewy looking skin. Hydrate and fortify your face with Splash Serum rich in probiotics and Hyaluronic Acid to drive continuous hydration for a smooth and glow-y skin. Seal in the moisture using our lightweight gel-cream Hydration Boost Cream, formulated to repair skin barrier and boost skin elasticity.

Price: $129.90 / Availability: SandandSky.com

Say goodbye dull skin this holiday season with the Sand & Sky Vitamin C To-Glow Kit, which in 3 steps restores and plumps for glowing skin that glows from within. Treat your skin to natural superfruits with anti-ageing properties to keep you looking youthful! Housed in a super-cute, reusable pouch, this kit is the ultimate glow-giving trio! First up sloth dull skin away with our unique water-activated Enzyme Powder Polish and reveals a smooth, glowing complexion after every use. Formulated to deeply hydrate & nourish your skin, the antioxidant and hyaluronic acid rich Super Bounce Mask then brightens & nourishes your skin in just 10 minutes. Rounding out the kit is the Dreamy Glow Drops. This unique oil-serum hybrid earned its holy grail status for its deep hydration and instant glow effect.

Price: $68.30 / Availability: SandandSky.com

For your teen the Mantra Mask New Holiday Kit is the perfect gift! Mantra Mask is free of parabens, sulfates and other harmful chemicals, and only relies on the highest quality, naturally-derived ingredients to keep skin looking its best. This kit, which includes our fan favorites gives you the most bang for your buck:

1 CBD Anti-Aging Sheet Mask
1 CBD Collagen Sheet Mask
1 CBD Pore-Refining Sheet Mask
2 CBD Coconut Eye Gels

Availability: mantramask.com / Price: $35

**Love Good Brows?** The **Arches & Halos Ultimate Brow Hero Kit** is like a brow party in a box! Everything you could ever wish for in your wildest brow dreams can be found here. This kit includes the Angled Brow Shading Pencil, Micro Defining Brow Pencil, Duo Luxury Brow Powder, Water Resistant Microfiber Brow Mousse, Natural Hold Gel, Dual Ended Blending Brush, Surgical Stainless Steel Eyebrow Tweezers! Whatever your mood, from easy breezy natural to night out with friends this kit has you covered.

**Availability**: target.com / **Price:** $25.99

Sahara Rose Pure Indulgence Set includes Hydrating Radiance Mist – a luxurious, lightweight mist that energizes and enhances skin's radiance. It's formulated with a unique blend of youth-boosting rose petals, hyaluronic acid and ultra-powerful, uplifting ruby crystals. Extracts of chamomile, calendula, along with aloe vera, instantly hydrate and revitalize skin. Use as a makeup setting spray or throughout the day to refresh and uplift the skin and senses for a radiant and luminous complexion.

The set also includes Divine Beauty Serum – a multitasking luxurious blend of skin soothing oils and plant extracts infused with a scent that captures and transports the senses, enveloping the skin in silky smoothness. With a combination of lipid-replenishing pomegranate prickly pear, and argan oils, this rich blend helps relieve dry, rough patches on skin, and leaves both skin and hair feeling noticeably softer and smoother.

Availability: sahararose.com / Price: $75

Formulated to nourish and calm skin, Sweet Earth's Face Care Essentials 3-piece Kit includes CBD Hydrating Lavender, Oat and Honey Cleanser leaves the skin hydrated and renewed, while Organic CBD Hydration Cream reduces inflammation, hydrates and revives dull skin cells. Sweet Earth Organic CBD Lip Balm heals chapped, dry or cracking lips while soft notes of lavender and rosemary calm the nervous system.

Availability: sweetearthskincare.com

The AOA Skin Cleansing + Toning Kit gets your skin cleansed, toned and balanced with this Kit. A perfect way to try out all the cleansers and toners from the AOA Skin Collection!

Price: $20 / Availability: shopmissa.com

The Kit includes:

Bamboo Reusable Makeup Pads (20 count)
AOA Makeup Remover Wipes
AOA Skin AHA Toner
AOA Skin AHA BHA PHA Toner
AOA Skin Coconut Water Cleansing Water
AOA Skin Green Tea Foam Cleanser
AOA Skin Licorice Root Gel Cleanser
AOA Skin Green Tea Vitamin E Cleansing Balm (Travel Size)
A+ Renew ++ Cleansing Sponge

A cheeky gift for your friend or a loved one is the Bawdy Butt Sheet Mask Kit. The butt sheet masks firm, tone, detoxify and rejuvenate your butt skin. Each mask includes two separate sheets—one for each cheek—and is infused with plant-based, clean, and potent ingredients. Masks are made from 100% cotton and are biodegradable. Set includes:

BITE IT hydrating + toning, SHAKE IT firming + illuminating, SLAP IT retexturing + detoxifying, and SQUEEZE IT brightening + rejuvenating.

Price: $37, Availability: bawdybeauty.com

The Osmosis Beauty Cranberry, Sage & Aloe Mask Trio features 15ml mini masks including Polish, Hydrating Herb and Hydralift Mask, which all work together to deliver the perfect skin experience. Cranberry enzymes help to gently exfoliate. Sage offers relief and soothes compromised skin. Aloe restores and nurtures skin back to health.

Price: $60.00 / Availability: OsmosisBeauty.com