Shopping for the beauty-obsessed is no easy feat. We should know — that is who we are after all.
To ease the process of finding a thoughtful gift this season, we’ve sifted through all the new beauty products to put together this comprehensive guide of covetable beauty gifts across skincare, makeup, fragrances and even home candles.
Clé De Peau Enchanted Lake
Clé de Peau whisks you away to the moonlit home of magical swans with its festive Enchanted Lake collection that features a motif of gold feathers inspired by a gilded theatre stage. The range includes the radiance-boosting The Serum, a mini lipstick set with coral, pink and red shades, and the Luminizing Face Enhancer highlighter.
Available at Cle De Peau counters and boutiques.
Huda Beauty Haze Obsessions
Take your smoky eye look up a notch with the Huda Beauty Haze Obsessions palette. Available in three edits of Khaki, Purple, Sand, each palette contains nine eyeshadow shades with assorted textures and finishes for diverse looks. Our pick is Sand Haze, which takes inspiration from the Antelope Canyon in Arizona. Berry metallics are placed alongside dusty pinks, browns, terracotta and sand shades for seamless blending.
Available at Sephora.
Eve Lom Rescue Ritual Gift set
Hit the reset button for your complexion with Eve Lom’s Rescue Ritual Gift Set. Comprising three of the brand’s essentials, it includes two full-sized skincare products and a 100 per cent muslin cloth to gently exfoliate skin. The balm Cleanser tones and removes all traces of grease and make-up, while the Rescue Mask banishes impurities without drying out skin.
Available at escentials and Sephora.
Nudestix Nude Blooms by Pony Park
A collaboration with Korean makeup artist and beauty Youtube Pony Park, this limited edition five-piece multitasking makeup kit has all you need to look gorgeous on the go. The Nudies Bloom Cream blush adds life to cheeks and eyes; the Nudies Glow highlighter stick delivers luminosity for glass skin; Lip Glace coats lips in high shine and conditioning ingredients, while the creamy Magnetic Luminous Eye Color is a budge-proof and long-wearing eyeshadow.
Available at Sephora.
Laneige Water Bank series
Laneige’s best-selling Water Bank series is now available in a holiday gift set. Great for parched skin, the products hydrate and repair the skin’s barrier while locking in moisture. The set includes a full-sized bottle of the Moisture Essence and mini versions of the Water Sleeping Mask and Cica Sleeping Mask.
Available island wide at all Laneige boutiques and counters, Laniege Official Mall on Lazada, Shopee, Zalora and Sephora.sg.
Dr Jart+ Special All Day Kit
If you’re looking for a thoughtful gift for those with sensitive skin, this kit is it. By day, the Calming Gel Cream’s Centella Asiatica Extract quickly absorbs into skin to soothe irritation; by night, the Sleepair Ampoule in Mask boosts skin’s ability to repair and defend with the proprietary Jartbiome to balance skin’s condition using probiotics, and Cicabond to soothe sensitised skin.
Available at Sephora.
Chanel’s No. 5 Holiday 2020
Turn scent-wearing into a ritual with the five new holiday essentials of Chanel’s No. 5 Eau de Parfum. Intensify the iconic scent on skin with new bath and body products that include a creamy shower gel, hydrating body lotion, a rich and sensual body cream, and deodorant. To complete the ritual, the hair mist infuses tresses with the delicate scent, while leaving them soft and shiny.
Available at Chanel beauty boutiques and counters.
First Aid Beauty’s All that Fab Kit
For skincare that never fails, First Aid Beauty will get you soiree-ready for the holidays. Its gentle formulas are suitable for most complexions. The kit includes the exfoliating Facial Radiance Pads for brightening, the fragrance-free Pure Skin Face Cleanser, and the cult, do-it-all Ultra Repair Cream that repairs, hydrates and soothes skin.
Available at Sephora.
Acqua Di Parma’s Christmas sets
Acqua Di Parma’s festive collection is an exclusive collaboration with Chinese artist Oamul, who conjures up holiday magic with a poetic motif that transforms traditional rows of festive lights into elegant graphic motifs. It adorns the various Christmas gift boxes that house the maison’s most iconic collections such as Signatures of the Sun and Colonia.
Available at Takashimaya, escentials and Sephora.
Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Lip Secrets
The perfect stocking stuffer, the Pillow Talk Lip Secrets is a complete wardrobe revolving around Charlotte Tilbury‘s iconic and universally-flattering lipstick shade. The set includes a full-sized Matte Revolution Lipstick with a soft, cashmere-like finish, the Lip Cheat liner for a fuller-looking pout, Collagen Lip Bath to to smooth and plump, and the Charlotte’s Jewel Lips which is made with diamond powder for a cushiony, mirror-like effect.
Available at Sephora.
Mon Francis Kurkdijan Mon Beau Sapin
Ring in the holidays with Maison Francis Kurkdijan’s iconic candle. The Mon Beau Sapin now comes in a clean white colour with a fir bough adorned in white and gold. The wintery scent features 40 hours of burn time and leaves the scent of balsam fir wafting through your house, enveloping you in the warmth of a forest.
Available at escentials.
Natasha Denona Glam Palette
Every makeup addict worth his or her salt knows you need a Natasha Denona palette in your arsenal. The Glam Palette is the everyday tool you need for the new year, with 15 cool and warm neutral shades made with quality pure colour pigments, chromacrystals, and luminous mineral pearls. Each shade is labelled with its recommended application such as ‘lash line’, ‘blend’ and ‘center eye lid’ for beginners.
Available at Sephora.
Cire Trudon’s Enchanted Souk
Cire Trudon takes you deep into the heart of a Moroccan souk. Each glass makes a beautiful accent piece for your Christmas decorations as they resemble Moroccan lanterns with its coppery gold accents. The Enchanted Souk collection comes in four colours: amber for Abd el Kader, anthracite for Ernesto, sapphire blue for Fir, emerald green for Gabriel and ruby red for Gloria. These come in brick red boxes decorated with well-known motifs such as an incense burner and babouche slippers as well as architectural details of a mosque. The fragrances are reminiscent of the spices and scents swirling in the air in Morocco’s souks like the steeped mint leaves, incense, orange blossoms and spices.
Available at escentials.
Diptyque Holiday
While the Diptyque advent calendar is already sold out, take heart in the rest of the ample Christmas collection. Add the three new limited edition scents to your mantle. Floral Majesty captures the scent of a spice-laden rose bouquet; Amber Feather combines orange, cinnamon and ginger with amber accords; finally Moonlit Fir, also available as an interior scent, embodies the wintery fir notes with sparkling eucalyptus and peppermint. Back this season is the carousel that rotates with the heat of the flame. This time, it’s silvered and comes attached with gleaming animal charms, in a set of two 70g candles. Another Christmas special we love is the lantern that also moves with the flame to project dancing shadows.
Available at Diptyque stores and escentials.
Marc Jacobs Perfect
Marc Jacobs’ latest scent, Perfect, is now available in a limited-edition gift set that includes a full-sized and a mini version of the perfume, along with a body lotion. A modern and bright fragrance with notes of rhubarb and daffodil that fade into a heart of almond milk, its base of cedarwood and cashmeran gives it a soft and dry finish.
Available at Sephora.
Sk-II Pitera Essence Streetart Limited Edition
Just for the holidays, SK-II has launched a limited-edition street art interpretation of its iconic Pitera Facial Treatment Essence. The bottle comes in three designs, with a matching scarf wrapped in the traditional Furoshiki Japanese wrapping style for gifting. The Facial Treatment Essence is as skin-changing as it’s often described. The Pitera ingredient is the ticket to leaving your skin hydrated, clear, and prepped for the absorption of more ingredients in subsequent products.
Available at Tangs, Metro and Sephora.
Jo Malone London Christmas
Be spoilt for choice with gift ideas from Jo Malone, which range from large advent calendars to four-scent cologne collections. The scent of the season is the Midnight Musk and Amber which is a bright fragrance that layers sensual musk with amber and sparkling juniper and mandarin. For fans of the classic English Pear & Freesia, Jo Malone presents a new way to layer your fragrance: A pearlescent scented body powder housed in a mirrored powder that also comes with a kabuki brush.
Available at Jo Malone London Concierge Service and Jo Malone London boutiques.
Dr Dennis Gross Peel Glow Be Merry
Gift the gift of great skin in 2021 with Dr Dennis Gross’ Peel Glow Be Merry skincare set. The set has all you need to kickstart a new routine: 21 treatments of Dr. Dennis Gross iconic Alpha Beta Extra Strength Daily Peel, a full-sized C + Collagen Brighten & Firm Vitamin C Serum and a kit size of the C + Collagen Deep Cream moisturiser.
Available at all Sephora stores in Singapore and e-store.
Glow Recipe Glow Together
Achieve glowing, glass skin with Glow Recipe’s holiday Watermelon set. The Watermelon Glow Ultra-Fine Mist, concocted with 84 percent watermelon, hyaluronic acid, and hibiscus, refreshes skin and makeup. The Glow Sleeping Mask boasts a bouncy texture for luxe bedtime routines and contains watermelon, hyaluronic acid, and AHAs to gently exfoliate pore while you clock in your beauty sleep.
Available at Sephora.
Kiehl’s Holiday Collection
Spread joy with this season’s collectibles from Kiehl’s. The limited edition holiday collection is adorned with designs by Maïté Franchi, a Lyon-based illustrator. Franchi’s work takes inspiration from the Art Deco period, and incorporates a play on geometry, colours and textures. The collection spans bestsellers such as the Calendula Herbal Extract toner, Clearly Corrective Dark Spot solution and the online exclusive of the Midnight Recovery Concentrate.
Available at Kiehl’s stores and boutiques.
Drunk Elephant’s Holiday kits
Drunk Elephant has its bestsellers down-sized in staycay-friendly bottles for Christmas. Pick from Dewy, Firmy, or Glowy to suit your skin needs. Dewy is a polypeptide kit to keep your skin hydrated and dewy with the full-sized Protini Polypeptide Cream and miniature versions of the retinol and hydrating serum. Firmy gives your skin healthy doses of antioxidants, while the Glowy is a night kit that replenishes your skin barrier with a glycolic acid exfoliator, and hydrating serums.
Available at Sephora.
Mac Cosmetics Frosted Fireworks
Mac brings serious sparkle this Christmas with the Frosted Fireworks collection. Five single foil shadows help draw attention to your eyes in soft metallic shades such as frosted pink and deep ruby red. Deep berry shades make their presence known in lipsticks, while the lipglasses coat lips in frosted glosses of peachy pink shades. To add lustre to your cheekbones, brush the Extra Dimension Skin Finish highlighter on the highest points of your face.
Assorted availability across different retailers.
