Christmas is only 5 days away, and in case you’re a last minute shopper, I’m sharing the best value beauty gift sets for Christmas 2018. Whether your budget is $5 to $350, there are so many options available at your local Shoppers Drug Mart, Loblaws Superstore or Sephora. To celebrate the holiday season, I’m also giving away a luxury beauty prize set from Burt’s Bees and Laura Mercier. Keep reading below to enter to win!
Best Value Beauty Gift Sets for Christmas 2018: under $40
I’ve yet to meet a person who didn’t like bath bombs. It’s why a festive bath bomb set is the ultimate stocking-stuffer. These Me Bath bath bombs in Snow Kissed Cranberry are cruelty free and around $5. I’ve spotted them at Loblaws Superstore and are perfect for adding into a gift basket as well.
Burt’s Bees is also a universally-appreciated brand, with its natural ingredients and versatile products. This year both the Essentials Travel Kit and Naturally Soft Hands gift sets are lovely for grandparents, caregivers and Secret Santa. I’ll be giving away the Essentials Travel Kit, be sure to enter the form below!
Who isn’t in need of a new lip balm in the winter months? This EOS Holiday set is around $10, and I’ve seen it at Loblaws! It makes a great gift for teachers or young teens as well.
For around $30, the Fresh Destination Sugar Lip kit is a wonderful value. You get three minis of Fresh’s iconic Sugar Lip Treatment, and can even break them apart to share. You can also offer a full size Fresh Zodiac Collection Sugar Lip Treatment Advanced Therapy collection. This item pairs perfectly with a new deck of tarot cards.
Best skincare gift sets for Christmas
This year, I was introduced to Laline, a body care brand from Israel. Their cornerstone ingredient is dead sea salt, combined with luxurious moisturizers. All month, I’ve been using the Dead Sea Minerals Salt Scrub with Argan Oil in the shower to remove dead skin. The packaging is so lovely, and perfect for gift-giving to bring the spa home.
I’m a MASSIVE fan of Fresh skincare. Their masks (black tea instant perfecting mask and rose face masks, specifically) are my holy grails for getting rid of winter lizzard skin. The Fresh Masks for Miles set is the ULTIMATE skincare gift. Featuring four different Fresh face masks and a scrub, it’s great for giving as a unit to the skincare obsessed or splitting up into skincare gift bags. The Mindful Masking Set (pictured above) is a more economical option, with my two favourites as well as the Lotus Youth Preserve Face Mask.
Best Value Beauty Gift Sets for Christmas 2018: Makeup and Palettes
This season, I have fallen completely in love with Laura Mercier’s holiday gift set offerings. The Laura Mercier Nights Out eyeshadow palette comes packaged in a luxurious golden case, and the shades are very unique. While I tend to stick to the left side of the palette, the deep emeralds and sapphire jewel tones are perfect for Holiday makeup looks or New Year’s Eve. At $69, it’s a beautiful luxury palette.
If you’re shopping for a novice makeup lover, the Laura Mercier Shadows & Brights Caviar Stick Eye Colour Collection, is an amazing value for $50. I use this set for easy, 30 second eye-makeup look, using only my fingers! These minis are also great for travel.
The Pret-A-Powder Limited Edition Powder & Puff from Laura Mercier is also a lovely item to gift. With limited edition packaging, it offers a rich, golden glow and is great for darker shades. I’m giving away this product as well!
I’ve also become obsessed with the Laura Mercier Velour Extreme Matte Lipstick, that came as a duo in the Velour A Deux Lip Duo Rose. This universally-flattering deep rose adds a moisturizing, matte finish to lips. I’ve added this lipstick to my top 10 favourites of all time!
In the luxury category, a Eye Colour Quad palette or Refining Pressed Powder from Clé de Peau Beauté’s Holiday line, Féeries d’Hiver is a lovely gift.
Another must-have palette this season is Urban Decay’s Born to Run palette. This eyeshadow palette has a ton of matte and metallic shades in a wide variety of colours.
Lastly, the Quo line from Shoppers Drug Mart has dozens of amazing beauty gifts. From makeup brushes to makeup sponge advent calendars, I love how this line is accessible, and you can shop late! The All About Eyes Kit has so many shadows and matching liners, while the Lip Gloss Trio and Lip Gloss Ornament make for the perfect stocking stuffer! I love picking up a couple extra items and keeping them on hand for last-minute gifts.
Enter to win a Laura Mercier Pret-A-Powder Limited Edition Powder & Puff and Burt’s Bees Essentials Travel set by filling out the form below:
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Disclosure: items featured were gifted to me, but opinions are all my own. I am under no obligation to post, and genuinely love all the products featured. Happy Holidays and good luck entering the giveaway!
I love all your recco’s Nat!!! ?
This is a great list!!
We are having family for the Holidays.
Having dinner with my family members!
Celebrating this year at home with the kids!
A meal with my mom,brother & special friends.
I’m celebrating by visiting family and friends!
I’m celebrating by having a small dinner with my mom and dad.
Doing the usual food and more food with family and friends?
I am celebrating with a small group of family.
spending a quite Christmas at home. We are not having Christmas till the 27th got to wait for the kids to come home
I am celebrating Christmas with my sister and nephews this year and I am so, so excited! Merry Christmas!
I am celebrating Christmas with my daughter.
Been a hectic month, family just got home, so celebrating low key with them, resting and catching up. Also chillin at home with the cat.
I am going to dinner at my sister-in-laws.
Celebrating with my kiddos and having my bf’s family over for dinner.
Celebrating with my husband and our good friends!
We are celebrating with my inlaws and parents
Just a quiet day at home and then maybe going to the family gathering on boxing day but not sure. We celebrate Yule to so we had a family dinner that day and gifts for the kids
We are going to be opening up presents with the kids bright and early, heading over to my parent’s to open presents and then my in-laws will join us there for us all to have dinner together!
We are doing our usual family celebration at home. We have our big turkey dinner on Christmas Eve then Christmas Day is all about presents, festive movies and all the treats we can stuff into our faces.
jonnieh briefly
Just me and my husband alone!
Luckily, our families live in town, so we are just visiting our family around our city.
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I’m away from family working – but with my husband – so a quiet, romantic holiday!
celebrating with close family <3
I am hosting Christmas this year and my kids and grandkids are coming to our house for a week. It will be a great time.
Going to my boyfriend’s grandparents and having dinner and gift giving.
Celebrating with my grandkids!
I’m hosting the family for our holiday dinner.
I’m journeying to my parents!
We are going to my SIL’s house for Christmas.
Will be spending it at my parents house
I’m working most overnights, but we’re having my fiance’s kids over tomorrow for lunch, so we can still sleep before work 🙂
I’m celebrating with family!
We are haing family in for dinner and will visit our family and friends that live nearby.
We are spending a quiet holiday at home
Spend the day with my family at my sisters.
I will be spending time with the family at my mother’s.
I spent time with both sides of my family. It was so great to see everyone.
Spending time with family and cooking a holiday dinner.
My family is hosting Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and New Years.
We are hosting on Christmas Day.
We are staying home this year. My Mother in law is visiting. 🙂
Karaoke party with friends & family! And turkey dinner of course.
Celebrating with family!
Spending time with my family <3
All of my sons and their families were home for 4-5 days. 15 people here to celebrate Rosanne
I always take the week off of work because we generally only work two days, and that way I’m only loosing two days pay.
I went to ( and still have a few more) holiday parties.
I am spending time at home with family
I’m spending New Years with my family. We’ll probably go to a nice restaurant and pop fireworks.
Just keeping it really low key this holiday .spending time with friends
Unfortunately I am working New Years Eve night.
We are celebrating the holidays with friends and family this year.
We spent the holidays at home this year. It was nice to be able to relax and not worry about going anywhere.
I have spent a very low-key holiday season with just a close family friend.
I’m celebrating the holidays close to home with family and friends. Lots of parties and fun!
I will be celebrating with my whole family at my house.
We will spend the holidays with family.
We are spending the holidays at home. We had one set of the family over at Christmas and will have “2nd” Christmas on the 30th when another family visits.
We are staying home this year. We will be having lots of food and goodies with my whole family.
We are spending the holidays at home together, enjoying lots of baked goodies and board games!
I will be at home with my daughter watching Anderson Cooper
We have a party to attend NYE at a neighbors. Happy Holidays!
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I will be working and spending time with family.
We are actually expecting family any sec. for a later Christmas celebration…Sushi is on the menu!
Rhonda
I am celebrating very little, staying quiet and safe. Happy holidays to you and yours.
We had a family get together at my brother home for Christmas Eve. Don’t do much for new years eve to many drunks on the road.
We will stay at home with family and friends dropping by for holidays
We will be celebrating with all of our family at our house this year.
Cooking a big dinner for friends and family.And of course opening presents!
I spent the holidays with family and just actually saw my son this past weekend so everything was nice. Not sure what I am doing for NYE thought!
Spent the holidays with my close family members. Very low key this year…it was nice, less stress!
I am spending the holidays with my family.
I will be spending time at home watching movies & relaxing the time off my husband has
I am spending the holidays with my family.
Just staying at home and having the family over, all I need <3
We are spending the holidays with family and friends.
We had lots and lots of family time from gifts to movies and games it was lovely
Spent it with family
I am spending it with family!!
I am spending time with my family and friends.
Everyone camped out at my oldest son’s house so we could watch my granddaughter open her presents on Christmas morning. 🙂
I am spending the holidays with close family, my church family and close friends.
I’m celebrating the Holiday with close family and friends.
virginiahildreth no but
Spending time at home with my husband.
We are spending the Holidays with family and friends at home this year.
disqus_C5j1PvNb0G I agree
Celebrating the holidays with family and a few close friends.
We enjoyed a nice relaxing Holiday at home, just me, hubby and the kids!
I celebrated the holidays with my kids at great Wolf Lodge.
I’ll be celebrating with my newborn daughter at home this year!
i got to see or talk to all my loved ones.
Me and my 7 year old daughter are watching movies together till midnight!
We are celebrating with family time.
We are celebrating at home with friends and family visiting.
My holiday celebrations have been rather low-key thus far. I have a very small family, and ended up spending Christmas with only my mom and dad. There weren’t many presents, and we hadn’t done much by way of food or decor, but it was still wonderful to be able to spend those lovely moments together.
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I have been celebrating with my family with a dinner, gifts , sings and watching holiday movies
Spending New Year’s Eve watching old musicals with my hubby.
Spending time with family.
I’ll be home with my family.