And while it’s fun and great value to indulge in the seasonal gift sets and advent calendars, sometimes all you want is just a simple, single skincare or makeup product. Here are our picks to add to your doppler bag this holiday, and maybe you’ll find a new love that will take a place of pride on your dressing table come the new year.
Guerlain Orchidée Impériale Black The Cream
Guerlain’s Orchidée Impériale range needs no introduction as it’s an undeniable flagship of the French beauty maison’s skincare range. With the unveiling of The Cream in the Orchidée Impériale Black range, Guerlain once again outdoes itself in the pioneering innovation game with the titular Black Orchid as the main ingredient. Boasting the peak of anti-aging in cosmetics, The Cream is youth in a jar and now takes its place at the heart of the Orchidée Impériale Black ceremonial collection.
Anastasia Beverly Hills Spice Mini Eyeshadow Palette
This is the perfect mini palette to throw in the bag this year-end. Anastasia Beverly Hills’ Spice palette features nine neutral tones encompassing the colours of autumn across matte, shimmer, and glitter finishes, letting you go from everyday-natural to evening-glam easily. Talc-free and easily blendable, this mini palette will be a staple of the season.
MAC Cosmetics Treasured Eye Shadow Palette
For the holiday season this year, MAC Cosmetics launched the Gift of Gold collection, featuring new products, new shades, and new packaging to celebrate the season. Of that, the Treasured Eye Shadow Palette, in striking gold packaging, takes the cake. The palette is available in two colour stories: Rose to the Occasion which features warm pink and berry shades, as well as All the Riches that fronts a range of shimmer shades and one matte deep teal. With either version, your eye looks are sure to catch attention this holiday season.
Hermès L’Orange En Fêtes
This year for Hermès beauty, the luxury house released a fun little holiday exclusive in the form of the L’Orange En Fêtes, a cute orange-shaped paper ornament with a beauty surpise. Playing off the maison’s emblematic colour and the orange fruit, the L’Orange En Fêtes holds a gift within, a bullet tube of lip balm with a gentle and nourishing formula that everyone can use, especially so in the colder seasons. A perfect gift made to brighten up your holidays indeed.
Bobbi Brown X PAC-MAN Collection
Bobbi Brown takes turn down nostalgia lane with a PAC-MAN collaboration, the iconic 80s arcade staple that still entertains today. The full range covers skincare and makeup favourites with limited edition packaging, as well as the collection-specific Power Play Eye Palette with eight fun-yet-wearable shades inspired by the vibrant colours of the game. Electric blue matte and ice blue shimmer pop out amongst a range of neutrals in matte, metallic, and shimmer finishes.
Rare Beauty True to Myself Tinted Pressed Finishing Powder
Dropping with 12 shades, the new True to Myself Tinted Pressed Finishing Powder from Rare Beauty is a multi-tasking maverick that will blur, smooth, set, and reduce shine with a natural finish. It’s formulated without talc, which makes it non-comedogenic and non-acnegenic, and leaves a diffused effect that maintains a skin-like radiance without looking flat. Its small half-moon compact shape also makes it easy to tote around for convenient all-day touch ups.
Dior Backstage Holiday 2024 Collection
The new Dior Backstage Holiday 2024 collection features three products, the Backstage Glow Face Palette, Backstage Eye Palette and the Addict Lip Maximizer, in all-new wintery cool colours. Pump up the icy glow on your cheeks with the cool and iridescent shades in the Glow highlighter palette, while your eyes can be decked out with the vibrant shades in the eyeshadow. Top it all off with the icy purple Lip Maximizer in the new shade 072 Celestial Purple for the ultimate ice queen look.
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Penhaligon’s Halfeti Eau de Parfum
The Penhaligon’s Bakery officially opens this Christmas, with seasonal scents inspired by the delicious (some familiar and some novel) fragrance of baked goods. One of the main new scents of the season is the Halfeti EDP, described as a warm hug on a winter’s day. A masterful combination of fruity, floral and spice, Halfeti opens with lively grapefruit and bergamot, leading into a heart of spices like cumin, nutmeg, and saffron layered over rose, before diffusing into a steady base of leather, oud, and vanilla.
Jean Paul Gaultier Gaultier Divine Le Parfum
It’s the end of the year and Jean Paul Gaultier wants you to be bold and unstoppable with the new Gaultier Divine Le Parfum. From its eye-catching bottle of a sculpted feminine body wrapped in a gold corset to its striking scent profile, a spritz of this as you head to a new year countdown party will imbue you with a sense of confidence. The fresh and marine top notes of bergamot, calypsone, salty coconut, and jasmine meets the floral burst of frangipani, lily, jasmine and ylang ylang. At the base, a sweet meringue balances the bezoin and akigalawood notes for a gourmand finish.
See more products that made our beauty wish list here.