Gift guide: The best holiday gift sets for the beauty lovers in your life

One of the best parts of holiday shopping is the gift sets! It’s a time when some of our favourite brands put together special holiday collections or accumulate their best-selling products into sets that make gift-giving easy. The beauty gift sets are some of the best because you save money compared to buying each product individually and it’s a great way to try new products. If you know someone in your life that loves all things beauty we’ve gathered some of the best gift sets and products any beauty junkie out there will surely love.

Understory – Discovery Kit

If you haven’t discovered Understory Botanicals yet, you need to. It’s a brand I fell in love with as soon as I smeared the first luscious drop of cream onto my face. The best way to discover Understory is with The Discovery Kit which includes the Blue Velvet cleansing balm, Power Cleanser, Smooth Terrain Mask, Emerald Temple Eye Cream, Golden Hour Overnight Cream, and Cloud Barrier Moisturizer. The items last for a month, and you’ll get a really good understanding of the products. Understory harnesses the power and benefits of botanicals grown in Ontario with high-performance active ingredients. It’s the perfect mixture of science and plants that make unique products the skin will love.

$88, understorybotanicals.com

SSENSE Exclusive Holiday Beauty Bag

This limited-run beauty set by SSENSE features 26 self-care items for face, body, hair, make-up and fragrance items. The green tote was designed by Collina Strada and includes lots of beauty brands in the set. This is SSENSE’s first-holiday bag that contains almost $1,000 worth of beauty products. This is perfect for the person who loves to indulge in the best skincare and self-care items. Some of the brands include Valmont, Dr. Barbara Sturm, Aesop, Necessaire, Byredo, Jo Malone, and more.

$250, ssense.com

Wildcraft

Wildcraft’s Holiday Skincare Bundles are thoughtfully curated bundles that provide a calming atmosphere in the home. There are five different skincare sets made from Wildcraft’s bestselling, 100% plant-powered products. Select from GET THE GLOW, the Full Routine Skin Set, RELAX & UNWIND the Body care Set, WINTER WARRIOR the Hydrating Gift Set, BEAUTY BASICS for the skin minimalist, or the Mask Duo.

Nordstrom I YSL Rouge Pur Couture Red Ensemble 

Get perfect lips this holiday season with the YSL Pur Couture Red Ensemble featuring four mini satin lipsticks in powerful red shades wrapped in beautiful, bold gold. Nordstrom also has a helpful Holiday Gifting Hub for the best decor, holiday gifts, and more.

$68, Nordstrom.ca

Dermalogica The Brighter Skin set

Give the gift of brighter skin with this perfect Vitamin C triple threat that promises to hydrate, brighten and reduce with biolumin-C. The ultra-stable Vitamin C delivers three times more brightening power to the face and eyes with the gel moisturizer, eye serum and serum in this set.

$217, dermalogica.ca

Sulwhasoo Limited Edition Cult Classic Set

Sulwhasoo is a Korean holistic skincare brand harnessing the power of ginseng to revive the skin. With this two-piece set, you’ll get the best of Sulwhasoo with the First Care Activating Serum and Concentrated Ginseng Renewing Cream.

$250, sephora.ca

Sulwhasoo’s Concentrated Ginseng Renewing Cream Set

This four-piece limited-edition set includes Sulwhasoo’s iconic cream that helps skin look firmer, smoother, and more refreshed! It includes the Concentrated Ginseng Renewing Cream, First Care Activating Serum, Concentrated Ginseng Renewing Serum,  and Concentrated Ginseng Renewing Eye Cream. It’s a great gift for anti-aging and firming.

$341, Nordstrom.ca

Shoppers Beauty Mascara Discovery Collection

Discover the perfect mascara for your eyelashes with this Shoppers Drug Mart set. Whether you want something lengthening or volumizing this Mascara Discovery Collection features seven much-loved miniature samples.  Samples include Benefit Cosmetics BADgal BANG! Volumizing Mascara, Clarins SOS Lashes Serum Mascara, Lise Watier 24 HRS Glam Intense, PUR Fully Charged Mascara Powered by Magnetic Technology, Too Faced Better Than Sex Mascara, Lancôme Lash Idôle Mascara, and Lancôme Le 8 Hypnôse Mascara.

$44, shoppersdrugmart.ca

Auraïha Glass Face Bundle

Auraïha is a clean beauty brand that, with its natural skincare, gives a glowy glass skin look. It’s affordable and beautiful! The glass bundle is meant to give you a glass-like finish with its collection of superfood serums that include Squalane and AHA fruit acids, and the mist setting spray.

$40, auraiha.com

LASHGOD – Fashion Brush Set

This brush set features 12 brushes for the perfect glow-up – it includes a foundation brush,
contour, bronzer, blush, highlight, setting powder, brow and eyeshadow brushes! The brushes
are 100% cruelty-free and hypoallergenic.

$55.99, lashgod.ca

Graydon Skincare- Holiday Dewy Skin Duo

This duo comes with Graydon’s award-winning 10 mL Full Moon and 10 mL Moon Boost serums in a limited edition set that delivers radiance to the skin. The water-based Fullmoon Serum hydrates and plumps the skin with vegan hyaluronic acid, collagen and bio retinol while the oil-based Moon Boost Serum nourishes and protects the skin with vitamin-rich superfood oils.

$60.00, graydonskincare.ca