Beauty Bible Christmas Gift Guide 2024: £25 to £50
When you want to splurge that little bit more on someone who’s really special – or who’s done something really special – these are a little bit more expensive than the gifts we featured in Part One (stocking fillers) and Part Two £10-25) of this year’s Gift Guide, but hand on heart, they’ll thrill the recipient.
And in several cases, they offer a real saving on the normal prices of individual items in a kit, so you’ll seem even more generous than you are…! (And with Black Friday deals there are even better prices on some. However you feel about Black Friday…)
Trinny Feel Miraculous Gift Set (main pic)
Trinny’s make-up bags are practical, chic, sturdy AND glam – quite a combo. (The bags now have a holographic shimmer, which we love even more than the previous silver T-logo livery.) Inside, a product that truly lives up to its name, the instantly line-erasing Miracle Blur, togetehr with a suits-everyone duo of Sheer Shimmer shadow (in molten rose gold), plus Eye2Eye in Bunny (soft champagne shimmer), in one little divided pot. This could be the start of someone’s first Trinny stack – and we’ve a hunch they’ll be adding to it.
£49 – buy here
NEOM Perfect Night’s Sleep Wellbeing Collection
We love the look of NEOM’s stripy (and definitely too-nice-to-throw away) livery, this Christmas – and inside this box are four absolute treats for a new mum or a sleep-deprived friend: Perfect Night’s Sleep Mist (30ml), with its signature de-stressing scent of chamomile, patchouli and lavender, which is also infused into the brilliant Perfect Night’s Sleep Magnesium Body Butter (30ml) – Jo slathers this on every night, before bedtime – as well as a 50ml Bath Foam and a darling Perfect Night’s Sleep Travel Candle (75g). And is there anything more precious than the gift of a good night’s kip…?
£50 - buy here
Weleda Skin Food Bedtime Beauty Gift Set
Skin Food – what’s not to love? Recommended ALL THE TIME by us for teenagers starting on their skincare journey, for someone with sensitive skin (or who experiences flare-ups). Oh, and chaps! Here’s a great Skin Food trio, with the Cleansing Balm (75ml), Night Cream (40ml) and Lip Balm (8ml), in a useful green pouch. Whether or not they’re a fully paid-up member of the Skin Food Fan Club, they’ll be thrilled.
£35 - buy here
First off: we have an amazing prize draw for delilah, launching tomorrow (Wednesday 13th November) – for another of their fabulous great-value kits, the Beauty Heroes Collection. But we’re also loving this, which comes in two shade options, one for warmer skintones (Venus, below), one for cooler (Jezebel, above). Both feature the new Eye Shadow Brush (delilah have been working on their brushes – like the rest of the range, all vegan – for aeons, and they’re worth the wait). The Venus set has the chocolate brown Twig Eye Line Pencil, while there’s inky black Coal Eye Line Pencil in the Jezebel set. The value of this set is £85.50, but this bundle’s £49.50. (Don’t blame us if you find yourself buying one for yourself, too!)
£49.50 - buy here
Clarins Eau Dynamisante Essentials
As fresh as it ever was, just as uplifting: Eau Dynamisante is a scent icon that we’ve loved and worn for decades, now available in body treats, too, which feature in this smart Clarins zip-up bag. You get a full size (100ml of fragrance), plus 100ml Eau Dynamisante Energising Melting Body Lotion and a 30ml Energising Fresh Shower Gel. Bottled zing, for that friend, relation or colleague whose get up and go got up and went, recently.
£44 - buy here
If Eau Dynamisante is uplifting, this Do Not Disturb set is designed to have the polar opposite effect, beckoning calm and tranquility. We’re longstanding devotees of Temple Spa’s Quietude spray (miraculously calming on a pillow or eye mask when flying!), which features here alongside Drift Away Relaxing Bathing & Massage Oil (50 ml); Duvet Comforting Body Cream (45ml), a wonderfully pillowy, SEA-SCAPE Revitalising Salts (150g), ‘for those times when you’re feeling frazzled, tense, or out of sorts,’ Temple Spa say (er, most of December, then!) There’s also a 15ml size of Repose Relaxing Night Cream – soothingly scented and also, calming to skin. The finishing touch is an embroidered, fragrant Do Not Disturb pillow to remind everyone to give you some much-needed peace and quiet.
£50 – buy here
Nars Afterglow Mini Liquid Blush Duo Makeup Gift Set
Nothing perks up a face faster than a smoosh of creamy blusher, and these are so easy to use: smooth the doe-foot wand over cheeks, blend with a brush or even a finger (they’re that easy-peasy), and hey, presto! Returned to the land of the living. Two shades in the set: petal pink BUBBLY and iconic, peachy pink ORGASM (ermyou might choose not to gift this to your mother or your child’s teacher).
£35 – buy here
Here we go, waxing lyrical about Deep Sleep AGAIN – because we’re not sure where we’d be without it in our lives, frankly. This is a fab trio, with the classic Pillow Spray, plus a 200ml Deep Sleep Shower Gel and ultra-nourishing Deep Sleep Body Cocoon, all infused with that knockout-drop blend of vetiver, lavender and chamomile.
£30 – buy here
Our love for scented geraniums – and for this range, the new venture from Cath Kidston MBE – knows no bounds. And this C. Atherley Geranium No.1 Bath Oil – which we raved about here – has made quite a name for itself in beauty circles, since launch. For a green-fingered loved one or best chum, it’s honestly heaven. And we’re loving its Christmas look, meanwhile, with the red-green-black geranium-splashed print.
£39 for 140ml – buy here
Bobbi Brown Swipe-and-Shine Crushed Oil-Infused Gloss Trio - Pink
These are so comfy – the Slanket of lip products – available here in a trio of dinkily-sized, handbag-or-pocket-friendly sizes, in shades Rose Metal, Love Letter and New Romantic. Although they not only deliver a soothing feeling or nourishment, but a good swipe of glamour, with it. Pair with PJs or party gear: it’s the wearer’s call.
£35 - buy here
We’re crazy for MALIN + GOETZ’s ‘holiday’ packaging, which would actually work for gifting at any time of year. But if you would like to pimp a friend’s basin this Christmas, check out this gorgeous duo, with a chunky 250ml of Bergamot Hand & Body Wash and the truly skin-quenching Vitamin B5 Body Lotion.
£48 - buy here
NAILS Inc. 8 Days of Nails Nail Polish Set
Eight days of nails? Listen, there are well over 365 days of fabulous manicures in this set, which spans shimmering, fairy-like shades through classic red, shocking pink and a glitter finish. (And because they’re NAILS Inc., you know the quality will be fab – there are a lot of nail polish sets out there, but these go the distance in terms of being chip-proof and wear-proof, as well as high-shine).
£25 - buy here
