Buy Beauty Gifts Sets for Her this Christmas

Every woman likes to feel pretty and pampered, especially around Christmas time. Sure, the glow of warm hearths and family can make a woman feel beautiful but there’s nothing to ruin good looks like rain, snow and blustery winds, which is why Christmas is a perfect time to give the women you care about beauty gift sets.

Beauty gift sets are great for Christmas because they are bundled packages of goodies and they aren’t something a woman would usually buy for herself. And we have searched all over the Internet for a wide range of thoughtful skin care, hair care and cosmetic gifts sets for all different age ranges. So whether you’re looking for a gift for your mother, wife, sister, aunt, daughter or friend there’s something in this list for you.

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…as voted for in the Cosmopolitan Beauty Awards.

Each year, in one of the most hotly anticipated events in the beauty calendar, Cosmopolitan readers, together with the Cosmo beauty team, vote for the UK’s top beauty products. The categories cover everything from skin care to hair care, lip gloss to blusher and a whole lot more.

This year’s event took place at the ultra-glam Kensington Roof Gardens where Cosmo’s Editor Louise Court, and Beauty Director Ingeborg van Lotringen were joined by celebrity judges Strictly Come Dancing winner Alesha Dixon, TV presenter Emma Griffiths, esteemed makeup artist Ruby Hammer and hairdresser Andrew Barton from 10 Year’s Younger.

More votes than ever were cast by readers in the Readers’ Kiss of Approval categories, and the Cosmo beauty team also chose the winners of two new awards: The Cosmo Classic Award won by YSL Touch Éclat and the Beauty Breakthrough Award won by L’Oréal Paris Derma Genesis Cellular-Youth Nurturing Skincare SPF 15 Day Cream.

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Just in time for party season, the kind folks at feelunique.com are offering a credit crunch busting 10% discount on all of the items in their makeup category when you buy any 3 products!

We’re not just talking end of line stuff either, but all the top brands including Bare Escentuals, Clarins, Clinique, Dior and YSL. Considering their prices are already mega cheap and delivery is free, as always, there really isn’t a better excuse to restock your makeup bag. You could even stock up on some Christmas gifts for your girlfriends while you’re at it. 

There’s no discount code required, the 10% will automatically be applied to all products in the makeup category when you purchase 3 or more before 28th October 2008. Click here to grab a bargain.

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Purple ghd Gift Set is top of our Christmas Wish List

Sometimes when you hit the stores looking for that perfect gift for your trendy friend who has it all (and is incredibly difficult to please), you stumble on something so unbelievably perfect that you just have to buy one for yourself, too. This season that item is the limited edition purple ghd Christmas Gift Set.

You’ve seen gift sets before – you’ve even seen them from ghd – but the purple ghd Christmas Gift Set is a step far and beyond anything released to date. No space is wasted on unwanted filler items or tote bags that will be left at the bottom of a drawer. Every piece in the limited edition purple ghd Christmas Gift Set is a much needed tool in your everyday hair-styling routine.

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TIGI Hair Care Products & Stockists

It is worth some thought, worth some money, and worth taking a few minutes to think about hair care. There’s so much you can do with your hair. Keep it, lose it, cut it, trim it, colour it, curl it, straighten it, bend it, wet it, plaster it, smooth it, scrunch it, put it up, put it down, stick it up, grow it here but trim it there, scent it, mask it, cover it, spray it, dry it, perm it, comb it, brush it, finger it, or just leave it! When you consider the importance of hair care, and the plethora of options, you’re going to need some advice and some guidance.

Right now in the UK, there is no shortage of people, companies, salons, and boutiques clamouring for your money and offering hair care services. You can find a hairdresser worthy of a celebrity, or…otherwise. The trend in hair right now is not the slicked-back smooth look. That was yesterday. Now, the look for men is the tousled look, the kind of feel that suggests ruggedness and preparedness, but with a heavy dose of the suave. This is accomplished by selecting only the best hair care products from top-of-the-line manufacturers. Women’s styles vary, as usual, but sleek, smooth, glossy, and healthy hair is always in fashion. Eye-catching colours and funky styles are always popular too.

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Introducing Urban Decay Cosmetics

It’s Friday night and you pull on your party dress with your stiletto heels and prepare your cosmetics. You lay out your eyeshadow, eye pencils, and lipsticks. You blink in disbelief. Could it be true, your only options are pink and a different shade of pink? You throw your purple and silver dress across the room in frustration, until you remember; Urban Decay Cosmetics.

You reach into your bag and pull out the Urban Decay Book of Shadows and Big Fatty Lip Plumper that you received from you best friend earlier in the evening. Although you have seen your friend’s addiction growing stronger by the night you decided to give Urban Decay a try. You open the case and begin to apply the shimmering colours. You look in the mirror amazed at the no longer ordinary face staring back at you. You smile, noticing the Lip Plumper actually worked.

Again, Urban Decay has rescued another night out on the urban landscape. With trend-setting alternative colours Urban Decay Cosmetics covers you head to toe with metallic eyeshadows, lip stains and plumpers, concealer, bronzers, and even flavoured body powders. These are not your ordinary cosmetic products but products that have come from the brilliant minds of the creative team who are Urban Decay.

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For over 30 years, L’Occitane En Provence beauty products have been a unique line based on the rich, fertile beauty of the South of France.

Close your eyes a moment visualise the following. Imagine you are relaxing in a field of lavender in a small village in the South of France. The sky above you is a radiant blue, sparsely decorated with wispy, white clouds. The air is fresh and abundant. You are surrounded by rolling hills, lush, emerald fields, and quaint, stone cottages. You feel as light and carefree as your whole body soaks in the gorgeous view. Naturally, you may find yourself unable to open your eyes; because, if you do, you may see only gloomy, grey skies, dingy, brick buildings and loud bustling crowds. All of that stress and pollution suffocates your pores and dulls your senses. Consequently, you may begin to fancy a trip back to that lovely village and the way the soft breeze and fragrant meadows made you feel, and more specifically, the way it made your skin feel. That wistful sentiment is precisely what moved Olivier Baussan to develop a line of hair and beauty products that inspired in its users serene visions of his home in L’Occitane En Provence.

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Have you tried Clarins Beauty Flash Balm?

Ladies we know how important it is to look our best no matter what age we are, and we know how hard it can be to find beauty products that actually work. You buy product after product and get absolutely no results. The products either make your skin too dry or too oily, it seems that you cannot find one that really works. Now you can relax and allow yourself to indulge in luxury with Clarins Beauty Flash Balm.

Clarins has been in business since 1954, and the international market since 1970, has 19 distribution subsidiaries in over 150 countries, and they have an exceptional reputation. Clarins uses only high quality ingredients in all of their products. Clarins does not use animals for testing or in any of their products, and they are environmentally safe.

We’ve all hear of Clarins, but how many of us have actually tried Clarins products? Clarins has a complete line of beauty products so you never need to shop anywhere else. These products include everything you need for cleansing, hydrating, moisturising, firming, and toning your face, neck, and body. There is a wonderful line of fragrances that not only make you smell great, but they make you feel great too. You can purchase all of your makeup through Clarins, and there is even a line of Clarins products for men. There are just so many products available through Clarins that you must really take a look for yourself, you will not be disappointed.

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Too Faced Makeup – A Girls Best Friend

It all began in 1998 with two boys and a vision. That vision was to take ordinary faces and make them extraordinary. Prestigious Hollywood Makeup Artist Jarrod Blandino and Fashion and business guru Jeremy Johnson dreamt of creating and marketing a line of cosmetics that was irreverent and inspiring, thus was born Too Faced, Inc. With a mantra of “Why be pretty, when you can be gorgeous?” this dynamic duo aspired to use their talents to take beauty one step further, to make it glamorous. With celebrity clients and loads of experience in movie makeup, Jerrod and Jeremy sparked a product that really lives up to its name.

They say “Dog is a Man’s best mate.” And that may be true; but, if so, what does that leave women? Without a doubt, a woman’s best friend is her makeup. Think on it a moment… a girl’s makeup kit is always there when she needs it, tucked loyally away in her trendy bag. It’s oh so flattering, and it doesn’t talk back or point out her faults. In fact, it exists to help cover her flaws. What more could you ask for in a bff? Even on those days when she is feeling downcast and looking sullen, a single session with her cosmetic chums and suddenly the world is a little brighter, much like her complexion.

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The Philosophy brand started with BioMedic a medical beauty product promoted by plastic surgeons and dermatologists. The company was first created by Cristina Carlino and followed the concept of creating a new line of beauty products backed by science and research. From peels to creams and rejuvenation products, Philosophy, Inc was and remains about the whole body not just a part of it.

The UK Beauty Products Sector

While the economy is taking a downward spiral statistics show that the beauty and health market in the UK is beating the retail market where spending is concerned. It is called the Lipstick theory. The fact is when the economy slows lipstick sale increase. It’s a case of mind over matter. With things falling apart in life, it is simply easier to look good and hence, feel good. The small things on the beauty products counter seem more affordable compared to the more expensive retail products.

It is not only the women who are buying; men’s toiletries take a good ten percent of the sales. As consumers continue to buy the market becomes even competitive as brands try to make their products as appealing and affordable as possible.

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