Top 15: Luxury Beauty Gifts for Christmas 2017By Angelica Malin
Looking for the best luxury beauty gifts for Christmas 2017? Nothing says Merry Christmas like a beautiful, pampering product. For a touch of class this festive season, we’re obsessed with these luxury beauty buys:
1. Best Gift Set: Aurelia Probiotic Skincare
What: Rose Glow Collection (£175)
The Lowdown: Give the gift of relaxation this Christmas with a complete collection by Aurelia Probiotic Skincare to offer calming therapeutic benefits as well as beautifully glowing, radiant skin. The Rose Glow Collection is a beautiful Christmas gift, featuring the 3-Step Probiotic Routine to transform skin and the addition of their bestselling Cell Repair Night Oil and divinely relaxing Sculpting Rose Quartz Massage Stones to help make skin glow from morning to evening.
What They Say: Use Aurelia Probiotic Skincare’s multi award-winning 3-Step Probiotic Routine twice a day, every day to protect, restore and balance your skin from within and add the Cell Repair Night Oil for even deeper hydration in the evening.
What We Say: One of our favourite luxury beauty gifts for Christmas; we’re totally obsessed with this brand. The gift set is beautiful and such a wonderful gift to receive, with a real feminine touch. What’s more, the products are absolutely fantastic – expect a glow to your skin from day one, especially with their glow serum and night oil. This collection also allows you to enjoy the healing and sculpting benefits of using rose quartz to massage your skin. We love.
Stockist: Buy here or the skincare treasures kit here
2. Best Beauty Gadget: Foreo LUNA 2
What: LUNA 2 Facial Cleansing Brush (£169)
The Lowdown: The revolutionary LUNA 2 is an enhanced T-Sonic™ facial cleansing brush and anti-ageing system designed to eliminate blemishes while effectively addressing concerns related to ageing skin. The LUNA 2 is now available in four varieties, so you can select the one that is tailored to your skin type.
What They Say: Indulge in a gentle 2-minute daily skin care routine and uncover a more luminous, refined and youthful look. The LUNA 2 goes beyond the standard facial cleansing brush by delivering skincare results that you will notice.
What We Say: We love this product so much! After using for a few weeks, there’s a notice change in skin texture and softness. It’s great for the winter months when skin tends to get really dry and dehydrated. A total winner – one of our top luxury beauty gifts for Christmas.
Stockists: Space NK and online here
3. Best Beauty Booster: Leahlani Champagne Serum
What: Leahlani Champagne Serum (£32)
The Lowdown: Happy hour for your skin starts now with this very special Champagne Serum. This product is one of the Leahlani skincare essentials – an ideal beauty tool to help combat redness and inflammation.
What They Say: The serum is a cocktail of nutrient-rich chardonnay grapeseed oil and potent tea antioxidants which will work in harmony to bring balance to your precious skin, leaving you with a dewy, calm and supple complexion. Infused with a delicate blend of lavender, chamomile and rose geranium essential oils, just one pump is all you need to bring your skin back to its happy place.
What We Say: This serum smells absolutely beautiful, and is great for skin that’s prone to inflammation and redness. A little bit goes a long way with this product, and it’s a great all-round product for skin happiness.
Stockists: Online here
4. Best Energising Skincare: Dr. Gross C+ Range
What: C + Collagen Deep Cream (£70)
The Lowdown: A luxurious cream powered by a special energy complex, 3-O C vitamin C technology, and collagen amino acids, which deeply hydrates, smooths, and brightens your complexion.
What They Say: Super, long-lasting hydration is in your future. When nature’s most powerful vitamins and nutrients are boosted with modern science, the result is deeply nourished, supple skin with a dewy glow. C + Collagen Deep Cream features Dr Gross’ energy complex with two restoring ingredients and two recharging ingredients to dial up your skin’s energy.
What We Say: This cream is amazing for giving the skin a quick boost. Expect an intense concentration of nourishing oils extracted from camellia japonica seed, sunflower seed, and rice bran provide rich moisture to the skin. It’s perfect to revive dry skin into a plumped, energized and brighter complexion.
Stockists: Online here
Top 15: Luxury Beauty Gifts for Christmas
5. Best Nourishing Range: Supermood Beauty Sleep
What They Say: The Beauty Sleep product range is mainly powered by premium sea fennel stem cell extract, which is a wild plant known for its potent effects in reducing skin redness and blemishes. It is rich in vitamins A, C, and E, that condition and protect the skin.
What We Say: We love this product – one of the best luxury beauty gifts for Christmas if you’re in a need of a good night’s sleep. It helps to improve the look and feel of your skin – leaving it feeling renewed in the morning. The main ingredient is sea fennel stem cell extract that repairs and regenerates skin during the night!
Stockist: Online here
6. Best Travel Set: Alpha-H Petite Holiday Collection
What: Alpha-H Petite Holiday Collection (£29.50)
The Lowdown: Pack your bags and take a break from complex routines. Travel light with skincare staples that give life to simplicity. Get back to basics with velvety three-in-one Balancing Cleanser.
What They Say: Entwine sun care and skin health with Daily Essential Moisturiser and then say goodbye to all those dull skin moments by adding Liquid Gold Rose into your nightly routine to deliver overnight radiance.
What We Say: This kit has everything you need for travelling – a Balancing Cleanser, Daily Essential Moisturiser SPF30+ and Liquid Gold Rose. The products are fresh, clean-smelling and great for daily use!
Stockist: Buy online here
7. Best Facial Oil: RODIN Luxury Face Oil
What: Jasmine & Neroli Face Oil (£105)
The Lowdown: This Jasmine & Neroli Face Oil is comprised of a blend of 11 luxurious oils, including jasmine absolute from Egypt and India, as well as a neroli oil blend from Morocco and Tunisia. It is rich in evening primrose and sweet almond oil, as well as a jojoba seed oil blend.
What They Say: The easily absorbed, cold-pressed apricot kernel oil from Spain is known to help soothe skin, while the natural essences in the oil make a simple and sensual fragrance of delicate jasmine and spicy neroli. The Jasmine & Neroli Face Oil induces an extraordinary sense of well-being and leaving skin supple and luminous.
What We Say: For a real luxury treat, you can’t get much better than this lovely face oil. Our total favourite luxury beauty gift for Christmas; expect only the finest quality oils, the ingredients soften, condition, and rejuvenate the skin for a healthy glow.
Stockists: Buy online here
8. Best Daily Cleanser: Emma Hardie Merrily Moringa
What: Emma Hardie Merrily Moringa (£15)
The Lowdown: Emma Hardie brings back the popular ‘Merrily Moringa’, a limited edition mini Moringa Balm and a mini Dual Action Cleansing Cloth hidden inside a luxurious gold and white gift box; the perfect stocking filler for a beauty obsessed loved one.
What They Say: The award winning, cult Moringa Cleansing Balm is a balanced daily cleanser that thoroughly cleanses deep into the pores, moisturises and calms all skin types. Moringa seeds, Wild Sea Fennel and Vitamin E balance, purify and minimise the appearance of open pores.
What We Say: A lovely product and it smells so good! A blend of uplifting Orange Neroli and Mandarin extracts have been combined with calming Jasmine and Rose to revitalise dull, dry, dehydrated and mature skins, leaving the complexion clean, soft and exquisitely fragrant.
Buy: Online here
Top 15: Luxury Beauty Gifts for Christmas
9. Best Beauty Christmas Cracker: Sarah Chapman
What: Merry and Bright Cracker (£29)
The Lowdown: Stow under the tree, decorate the festive table or excel as secret Santa with the Merry & Bright Cracker. Coveted Overnight Facial and Intense Hydrating Booster are hidden within to guarantee great merriment and joy at Christmas time.
What They Say: Lightweight silky oil-free Intense Hydrating Booster comforts dehydrated, stressed, parched, unbalanced skin with its combination of hydrators and immune defence skin protectors. Bioecolia beta glucan and Alistin P5 activate your skin’s natural defences to protect against harsh environmental factors, whilst low molecular hyaluronic acid, moisture magnets and soothing rose water visibly plump the look of fine lines, restoring a dewy refreshed and radiant glow.
What We Say: A great luxury beauty gift for Christmas; these products are award-winning for a reason! We love the skin transforming Overnight Facial, which recreates the lifting, firming and skin perfecting benefits of a Skinesis facial overnight. Awaken to plump, smooth, rejuvenated skin with their signature Skinesis glow.
Stockists: Online here
10. Best Bespoke Skincare Range: Facial Serums by Odacite
11. Best Organic Gift Set: REN Moroccan Rose Duo
What: Moroccan Rose Duo (£36)
The Lowdown: Featuring the Moroccan Rose Otto Body Wash and Moroccan Rose Otto Body Lotion, this gift set shows off the best of REN. REN’s limited edition collaboration with iconic London florist McQueens celebrates the beauty of the Moroccan rose. Harvested at dawn from the
lush Valley of Roses in Morocco, the Moroccan rose is know for its delicate bloom and heady, unforgettable fragrance.
What They Say: Experience REN’s multi-award winning soothing Moroccan Rose Otto Body Wash and replenishing Moroccan Rose Otto Body Lotion. Together they will leave the skin looking and feeling beautifully healthy. A true cult classic.
What We Say: We totally adore this set – one of our favourite luxury beauty gifts for Christmas. A delicately fragranced body wash formulated with Moroccan Rose Otto Oil, one of the world’s most expensive and revered essential oils, it leaves your skin silky smooth and feeling fantastic.
Stockist: Online here
12. Best Luxury Face Masks: Patchology Hydrate FlashMasque
What: Hydrate FlashMasque – 5-minute sheet masks (£28 for 4)
The Lowdown: Whether it’s the dead of winter or height of summer, the elements don’t always play well with our skin. Hydrate FlashMasque® 5 Minute Facial Sheets send in a much-needed surge of moisture to ease the tensions.
What They Say: Traditional sheet masks take up to 20 minutes to work. But this advanced masque material accelerates delivery of essential ingredients Hyaluronic Acid and Vitamin B5 to improve elasticity and smooth your skin. Plus, their highly advanced HydraSurge5™ Moisture System deeply hydrates for even more moisture.
What We Say: The perfect winter boost – try one anytime you’re feeling parched. The masque is perfect for dry skin types or any time skin is fatigued and dehydrated.
Stockist: Buy online here
13. Best British Gift: ila apothecary Women’s Remedy Box
What: Women’s Remedy Box (£38)
The Lowdown: For Christmas, the expert team at British Organic Skincare brand ila apothecary has curated The Christmas Remedies Collection. This is designed to nurture the energetic and emotional needs of the busy, modern woman, man and family this festive season. The Collection includes a Digital Detox, Men’s, Women’s and Family Remedy Box, which do more than simply look after the skin.
What They Say: Infused with powerful remedial ingredients, including British grown herbs, medicinal flowers and powerful gem stones, no other brand has ever blended these various healing ingredients to such profound effect. Containing no chemicals, ila apothecary is handmade in a meditative environment in the Cotswolds.
What We Say: The products look and smell totally amazing – one our our favourite luxury beauty gifts for Christmas. We loved The Digital Detox Remedy Box, featuring Digital Detox Face Mist, Beat the Blues Room Spray and Anti-Panic Drops. The perfect gift to cleanse and recharge the recipient’s head, heart and space from the negative effects of too much screen time. Glorious.
Stockist: Buy online here
14. Best Serum Set: Odacite Serum Discovery Set
What: Odacite Pure Elements Discovery Set (£26)
The Lowdown: This Christmas, the team over at Odacite has put together four beautiful kits that targets your individual needs. Each comes with try-me sizes of the Oleosomes Time-Release Delivery Crème + 4 Serum Concentrates, allowing you to create your own targeted & long-lasting skin remedy, answering the specific needs of your skin.
What They Say: Infused with the highest quality ingredients, each serum concentrate pinpoints a specific need. When paired with the Oléosomes Time Release Delivery Crème, an advanced formula that serves as a time-release base for the Serum Concentrate, it allows for optimum delivery of actives and hydration throughout the entire day or night.
What We Say: These serums are the real deal. Their serums are the fastest way to see results, because they allow you to target your specific issue – each serum is a super-concentrated dose of actives, all you need is a couple of drops, to transform the health of your skin in record time.
Stockist: Buy online here
15. For a Professional Set: Dr LEVY Switzerland
What: Dr. LEVY Switzerland Advanced Medi-Luxe Skin Transformation (£399)
The Lowdown: Dr Phillip Levy is a top, Geneva-based dermatologist, focusing on reversing the signs of ageing, restoring their skin’s own natural youthful beauty, and delaying the need for surgery
What They Say: Based on one of the most important recent anti-aging discoveries – the dermal stem cells reservoir – Dr. LEVY Switzerland contains the revolutionary patented ArganCellActiv complex, a combination of 10 ultra potent anti-aging and hydrating molecules. In particular, it exclusively includes Argan CDV, a plant-derived stem cell activator scientifically proven to vitalize dermal stem cells the source of the skin’s natural wrinkle fighting cells.
What We Say: The products really work for plumping and boosting the skin’s surface, giving you a glow! What’s more, the Booster Cream and Serum are packed in advanced airless technology dispensers that protect the ultra-potent formula from air and maintain the treatment’s exceptional anti-aging properties.
Stockists: Buy here
