Here are a few of what I would pick up for my friends and family members…

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Must Have Fragrance Mist Gift Set ($34) – This set includes 4 of the best selling scents from VS, Dream Angels Heavenly®, Very Sexy®, Sexy Little Things® and Sexy Little Things Noir. This is a great way for someone to test out the each fragrance too!

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Amber Romance Must Have Gift Bag ($22) – Another popular scent from the VS bath and body line. This set includes a Hydrating Body Lotion, Exhilarating Body Wash and a Refreshing Body Mist. Great for travel as well as it comes with a cute little bag.

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Naturally Victoria’s Secret Acai Berry and Magnolia Gift Set ($25) – If they’ve never tried out the naturally VS line, treat them to this lovely scent! This set includes a Hydrating Body Lotion, a Fragrant Moisture Mist and a skin Softening Body Wash.

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Secret Garden Collection Body Lotion and Mist Set ($22) – And for those on your list who love the original secret garden scents, this gift set is perfect! The set includes three scents, Love Spell, Amber Romance and Pure Seduction. Each scent comes in a Refreshing Body Mist and Hydrating Body Lotion. Such a great deal!

I love all the pretty packaging and some of these you can mix and match as well. Another idea is to separate different scents and give them away as stocking stuffers! Head over to Victoria’s Secret to check out their other holiday gift ideas, you won’t be disappointed!

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Gift Ideas for the Beauty Junkie

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The Bathing Beauties Gift Set is free with your purchase of three or more items from the Benefit website. Sound good?

Here’s what you’ll get in the set:

Bum Deal – ans exfoliating sugar scrub
Wonder Mitt – a cleanser mitt with “scrubbies” on one side and terrycloth on the other
Bathina Shower Cap – super cute shower cap to keep your hair in place

All you have to do score this set is enter the promo code: BATHGIFT when you check out.

This would make a wonderful gift idea for the beauty addict in your family. Get them a few things from the Benefit website and you can add this set to their gift.  Or you can keep this set for yourself. After all, you’re the one doing all the shopping – you deserve to be pampered too!

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Bathing Beauties from Benefit Cosmetics

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The Best of Smashbox Kit ($35) is perfect for you if you’re a bit hesitant about committing to a full sized product. This 11 piece collection is super portable and even comes with a cute little zip up makeup bag.

Here’s what you’ll get for only $35:
Mini Artificial Light in Glow
Mini Photo Finish Foundation Primer SPF 15 + Dermaxyl
Mini Photo Finish Foundation Primer Light
Mini O-Gloss Intuitive Lip Gloss
Mini Photo Op Under Eye Brightener
Cream Eye Liner Duo (full size!) in Caviar/Midnight Brown
Mini Eye Shadow Trio in Headshot
Mini Baked Fusion Soft Lights in Stardust
2 Mini Lip Enhancing Glosses in Pout and Afterglow

Not a bad deal, right?  All of these shades will compliment most skin tones, too.  If you want to get a feel for and their products you can pick up this set on Smashboxtheir website. You’ll also receive free standard shipping (within the US) with every order, can’t beat that!

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With the holidays coming up there will be so many fabulous ones to choose from. I was browsing through Ulta and noticed these fun Too Faced value sets had really pretty shades of eye shadow and face products and equally pretty packaging.

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Eye Shadow Insurance Policy ($35)
This set is perfect for you if you love vibrant eye shadow colours. It has Too Faced’s best selling shadows and their awesome Shadow Insurance eye shadow primer which rivals that of Urban Decay’s Primer Potion.

French and Fabulous Palette ($28.50)
This pretty palette will have you looking fresh and radiant. It has a combination of eye shadows, bronzer and highlighter in one. Colours included in this kit are:

Mess In A Dress
Totally Toasted Brown
Totally Toasted Beige
Poodle Puff Pink/Poodle Puff Raisin
Eyeshadow in Ooh & Aah
Pink Leopard Highlighting Bronzer
Sun Bunny Bronzer

Queen for a Day Set ($45)
I would definitely pick up this set if I were you. It comes with the eye shadow primer, an eye shadow quad with neutral shades that will compliment just about any skin tone, a bronzer, lipstick, macara and a little buki brush, all in an adorable cosmetics bag. Too cute!

Natural Eye Kit ($34)
This one makes it super easy if you’re just getting into make up. It includes step by step instructions to create a pretty, natural look for every day.

Eye shadow shades include:
Heaven (matte ivory)
Velvet Revolver (matte taupe)
Sexspresso (matte deep brown)
Silk Teddy (peach champagne shimmer)
Push-Up (light bronze shimmer)
Erotica (soft charcoal shimmer)
Nude Beach (champagne shimmer with gold glitter)
Honey Pot (gold shimmer)
Cocoa Puff (warm chocolate brown shimmer)

These Too Faced kits would be wonderful for travel or overnight trips because they give you an easy way to create and come up with different looks for just about any situation you may find yourself in. You can purchase these at Ulta online or in stores.

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Fun and Fabulous Too Faced Palettes

The Shu Uemura Wish Upon A Star Holiday Collection is a collaboration between Shu Uemura and Japanese designer Tsumori Chisato.  Tsumori Chisato is a talented designer whose clothing line reflects a style that is edgy, dramatic, quirky, bold with a little bit of manga thrown into the mix. The Wish Upon A Star Holiday Collection includes the following products in probably the prettiest packaging ever!

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‘Planet Ribbon’ Palette ($35)
‘Golden Snow’ Duo ($45)
‘Planet Cat’ Palette ($65)

The Planet Ribbon and Planet Cat palettes each contain three eye shadows, one cream eyeliner, one cream highlighter, one blush and two dual-ended applicators. The Golden Snow duo is an all over highlighter.

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Mini Brush Set ($69) Such a cute travel brush set! I love the case, it’s adorable and the brushes are easily ones that will be used on a daily basis for make up application. The brush set includes a Face/Cheek Brush, Eyeshadow Brush, Concealer Brush and Lip/Eyeliner Brush—all of which were made in Japan.

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‘Rouge Unlimited’ Lipstick ($25) in Jupiter Brown in an adorble shimmery gold ‘Lucky Cat’ design.

‘Gloss Unlimited’ Mini Lip Gloss Trio ($45) This would make such a pretty gift! The cute little Tsumori Chisato designed satin pouch contains three mini lip glosses in Venus Peach, Moon Gold and Scorpion Red.

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Cosmetic Pouch ($29) An adorable make up pouch to store all of these goodies in. Decorated with lucky stars in pink, red, and gold. So cute!

Compact Mirror ($15) A sweet little mirror compact perfect to throw into your bag for easy on the go touch ups!

Aren’t they beautiful? I wouldn’t mind getting this set myself. I think the designs are darling and the makeup colours are wearable for every day and suited for most skin tones. This is a limited edition collection so hurry into Nordstrom to pick it up before they’re all gone!

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Shu Uemura Wish Upon A Star Collection

I saw two gift sets at Sephora the other day and they’ll make wonderful birthday, anniversary and holiday gifts for your loved one.

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Harajuku Lovers Snow Bunnies Gift Set ($100)  These are the original Harajuku Lovers scents but they’re dressed up for the cold season with cute scarves and coats. They smell great and make cute collectibles! The bottles are small at .33 oz but you get the full line of scents; Love, Lil’ Angel, G, Music, Baby. The gift box even doubles as a little playhouse for the “dolls”. Definitely a cute gift to give to a teenager or pre-teen.

Clean Coffret Set ($65) Have you smelled Clean? I love their scents because well, they’re so clean smelling! If you know someone who love light weight, non over powering perfumes, this is the set to give them. It includes the following 1.0 oz bottles of Original, Warm Cotton, Shower Fresh, Simply Soap.

If the person  you’re giving these to is a perfume collector (like myself) these sets would make a wonderful addition to their collection.  You can purchase these at Sephora online or in stores.

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Sweet Smelling Gift Sets

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Get this Kiehls Ultimate Scented Lip Balm Set ($32) for the lipbalm addict (I confess, I am one myself!). It’s a ultra-moisturizing limited edition set that was created to celebrate Kiehls 40th anniversary. Flavors include the original Lip Balm #1, Coconut, Vanilla, Mango, Cranberry and Mint. Mmm, sounds good enough to eat!

For the high-end beauty junkie, give her this stunning Dior Jazz Club Eye Palette ($65). This lovely palete features beautiful shades of pinks, greys, berries and plums to create a seductive eye look that will work for day or evening. In the palette you’ll receive, a dark shade to use as an eyeliners, another shade to use for brows and four complimentary eye shadows.

This fun Bare Escentuals Bare Minerals In Fashion Kit 2 ($55) will give her everything she needs to create looks from smokey eyes for nighttime to light and natural eyes for day.

The kit includes the following:
- bareMinerals® Rose Radiance Allover Face Color
- bareMinerals® Eyecolors in Stunner Eyecolor, Charleston Eyecolor and Retro Liner Shadow
- bareMinerals® 100% Natural Lip Gloss
- a Defining Edge Eye and Line Double-Ended Brush
- Soft Focus Face Brush

I would definitely go for the Dior Jazz Club palette, the colours are beautiful and will compliment all eye colours. You can pick up these gift sets at your nearby Nordstroms or on the website.

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Beauty Gifts for the Beauty Junkie

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The Smashbox Master’s Class GlamourEyes kits are especially made for women with Brown, Blue and Hazel eyes. This collection has everything she needs to create eye looks that will make her eye colour stand out.

Each kit contains the following products:
Photo Finish Lid Primer
Eye Beam Double-Ended Eye Brightener (pale pink/ pale gold)
Smudger Brush
An Step By Step Guide to create three different looks

Along with the above products, there are additional items that specifically cater to each eye colour.

For Brown eyes, the kit comes with:
Bionic Mascara in Indigo Ink (dark blue black)
Jet Set Waterproof Eye Liner In Midnight Blue (dark blue)
Cream Eye Liner in Blue Steel (deep silvery blue)
Eye Shadow Quad in GlamourEyes Brown (warm champagne/ pale silver/ deep bronze/ midnight blue)

For Blue eyes, the kit also includes:
Bionic Mascara in Bronze (dark warm brown)
Jet Set Waterproof Eye Liner In Midnight Mahogany (deep warm brown)
Cream Eye Liner in Burnished Bronze (bronze shimmer)
Eye Shadow Quad in GlamourEyes Blue (taupe/ pale blue/ deep brown/ coppery bronze)

And lastly, for Hazel (and green) eyes, the products included are:
Bionic Mascara in Black Violet (deep violet purple)
Jet Set Waterproof Eye Liner In Midnight Purple (deep eggplant purple)
Cream Eye Liner in Black Plum (dark violet plum)
Eye Shadow Quad in GlamourEyes Hazel (lavender taupe/ soft gold/ dark plum purple/ golden olive)

These kits would make wonderful birthday, anniversary or just because gifts and they’re priced nicely too. Each runs at $59, if you buy all these products separately they’ll run you $175, so these kits are absolute bargains! Pick them up at a Sephora store near you or online.

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Philosophy It’s Your Birthday

Philosophy I Think You Are Wonderful

Philosophy Apricots and Cream

All of the sets above are $24 each and are available at Nordstrom. Such a great buy especially if you’re a fan of Philosophy products.

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Pamper Her with Philosophy Gift Sets

Eau Girl Fragrance Deluxe Sampler

This set of samples is worth $80 – seriously a bargain at $40.  Wouldn’t this look cute sitting on a little tray?

The set includes these fabulous fragrances:

* 0.17 oz Dior Miss Dior Cherie Eau de Parfum
* 0.17 oz Bvlgari Omnia Green Jade Eau de Toilette
* 0.17 oz Versace Bright Crystal Eau de Toilette
* 0.13 oz Vera Wang Princess Eau de Toilette
* 0.3 oz Prada Infusion d’Iris Eau de Parfum
* 0.13 oz Clean Eau de Parfum
* 0.24 oz Ralph Lauren Ralph Eau de Toilette
* 0.13 oz Givenchy Very Irresistable Givenchy Eau de Toilette

And for the boys……..

Eau Boy Fragrance Deluxe Sampler

This might be a good idea for Dad, too. Valued at $80, but yours for only $40, it includes:

* 0.17 oz Versace Pour Homme Eau de Toilette
* 0.17 oz Guerlain Homme Eau de Toilette
* 0.17 oz Bvlgari AQVA Pour Homme Marine Eau de Toilette
* 0.13 oz Clean Men Eau de Parfum
* 0.17 oz Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gio Pour Homme Eau de Toilette
* 0.13 oz Givenchy Pi Neo Eau de Toilette
* 0.24 oz Diesel Fuel For Life Pour Homme Eau de Toilette
* 0.17 oz Giorgio Armani Code 5 Eau de Toilette

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