It's that time of the year again, you know what I'm talking about, it's Christmas/Hannukah/Quanza/Festivus etc. Whatever your beliefs, it's gift GIVING and (my personal favorite) RECEIVING time. If you're stumped on what to give (or more often what you want to get), here is a rundown of some of the best gifts sets for this season.
OUR FAVORITE GIFT SET:
Easily this goes to YSL Beauty Essentials Luxury Holiday Gift Set ($135US/$200CDN). It just screams luxury, class, and pampers me in the way we should all be pampered! Like all things YSL, the packaging is gorgeous and will be a mainstay in your repertoire even after the holidays. What we liked most about this set, is that the items are FULL SIZE, and not the little trial sizes you tend to get with most gift sets. The collection contains most of YSL's best selling products: Volume Effet Faux Cils Luxious Mascara in Black #1, Touche Eclat in Luminous Radiance, Gloss Volupte in #1 Iced Lychee and a Top Secrets Flash Radiance Skincare Brush to help you apply. Best part is that it comes in a beautiful black vanity case, that you'll be using well after the holidays!
If this is too much for you, then go for their All For Eyes Holiday Gift Set ($62US only). Again all the products are full size and their best sellers (Volume Effet Cils Luxurious Mascara in #1 Black, Touche Eclat in Luminous Radiance and 10ml bottle of Eye Makeup Remover), so you know you'll get good use of the products well after the holidays.
A close second gift set would be Dior's Deluxe Travel Palette ($75US). It has the perfect 6 eyeshadows for this season (shades of chocolate, silver, lilac and frosted white), Black Iconic Mascara, DiorBlush in pretty pink and even includes a lip gloss (#257 Organdi Pink), so you have a complete look. Too much? Then try their Holiday Collection Makeup Palette for the Eyes ($42US). A beautiful neutral palette with a shade that will be right for you. Like all Dior eyeshadows, the colors can be mixed and matched so you have endless combinations of looks.
OTHER GREAT GIFTS:
Lancome Holiday Eye and Cheek Palette ($39.50US). This gorgeous palette is great value for the money. It has 6 eyeshadows, which go from day to night and the perfect accompanying eyeshadow to finish your look. It comes in 4 palettes (Plum Irresistible, Nude Seduction, Alluringly Bronze and Evening Splendour). Our fav is the Nude Seduction, the six eyeshadows will contain a nude that's perfect for you, no matter your skin tone (pink zinc, wear it well, erotique, amorous, kittenish and feline strut), and the aplum blush is one of my fav blush's of all time. I'm getting this one!
Shu Uemura's Tsumori Chisato Planet Cat Couture Palette ($65US/$85CDN). We really liked this limited edition palette because it has the colors you need to pull off that perfect angelic, ethereal look-so stunning for this holiday season. From the 3 pressed eyeshadows (black glitz, shiny silver and copper), to the cream eyeliner (black purple) and highlighter (gold iridescent), not to mention the perfect blush (apricot pink), your face will light up a room and turn heads at all those holiday parties!
