GIFT GUIDE FOR THE BEAUTY LOVER HOLIDAY 2016 #DMHOLIDAY16

We all have that special someone in our lives that is addicted to beauty products. Here’s a hint: if her bathroom drawers are overflowing, or require additional storage, you may have one of these ladies in your life. The practical side of you may roll your eyes at gifting her yet another beauty product, however, we urge you to fight that side away and gift her something you know she’ll love. Because really, who doesn’t love switching up their fragrances or makeup hues? Read on to hear our top beauty product picks for Christmas 2016.

Big Hair Blowout Kit by Drybar

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Every woman wants shiny, smooth hair, and a great hair dryer is a must-have to achieve it. The Buttercup Blow Dryer by Drybar is the ultimate blow drying tool and makes a great gift! It’s powerful (with an 1875-watt motor), lightweight, and works incredibly well. Ionic technology increases shine and reduces frizz while drying hair up to 20% faster than other professional dryers. It features three temperatures, two speed settings, and a “cool shot” button. Oh, and the color? The bright yellow might be the cheeriest and most welcoming thing you see every morning!

We think the holiday kits by Drybar are a really fun way to gift hair dryers to the ones you love! The Big Hair Blowout Kit is a limited edition set, and includes everything you need for ultimate hair volume and lift. It includes their signature Buttercup Blow Dryer, the Full Pint Medium Round Brush, Triple Sec 3-in-1 Texturizer, Southern Belle Volumizing Mousse, and High Tops Self Grip Rollers. Everything is packaged in a ready-to-give box and is a fantastic value!

Looking for something a little different? No worries! Drybar has many sets available, including a sweet little travel kit! Their assortment of kits and bundles include tools, dryers, products, and more. Drybar is the perfect way to give the gift of great hair days all year long!

Perfect gift for someone who wants to achieve salon caliber hair in the comfort of her own home!

About Drybar

Drybar originated as a chain of salons that focused on providing hair styling services and is based on the simple concept of focusing on one thing and being the best at it: blowouts. CEO Alli Webb spent several years developing a complete line of products after not finding what she needed to meet very specific styling needs. In 2013, Drybar launched a line of products, including brushes, blow dryers, sprays, and creams. Buttercup, the official blow dryer used at Drybar, is the Drybar mascot.

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Cosmetics by Too Faced and Neiman Marcus

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Too Faced combines luxury and fun in their new and gorgeous “Christmas in New York” Collection. With their deliciously scented palettes and lip products, these whimsical gift sets look and smell good enough to eat. The makeup options available in these sets make the perfect gift for both beginner and experienced makeup lovers alike. Our favorites in this amazing Holiday Collection are:

• The Grand Hotel Café
• Merry Macarons
• Naughty Kisses & Sweet Cheeks
• The Chocolate Shop

The Grand Hotel Café contains 3 coffee scented palettes – Peppermint Mocha, Gingerbread Coffee, and Eggnog Latte. With a total of 18 beautiful, ultra-pigmented and blendable eyeshadows, 2 blushes and 1 bronzer, this set has you covered. The mix of shimmery and matte colors gives these yummy scented palettes versatility, and their compact size makes them great for travel. The Grand Hotel Café also contains a deluxe sized Better Than Sex Mascara to finish your look with long, luscious lashes.

Inside the Merry Macarons, you’ll find 12 beautiful, vanilla-scented shadows and a deluxe sized Better Than Sex mascara. With both shimmers and mattes in the eyeshadow palette, you’ll be able to create an endless amount of makeup looks with the neutral and plum-toned shades, perfect for the holiday season. Use the shimmery black to create a smokey party look for any festive occasion.

The Chocolate Shop features cocoa-infused products including an eyeshadow palette with 21 eyeshadows, a Luminizer in Inner Light, a Chocolate Soleil Bronzer, and a Chocolate Covered Strawberry blush. It also contains deluxe sized Shadow Insurance eye shadow primer, the Better Than Sex mascara, and a Melted Chocolate Lipstick to complete your makeup look.

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The eye shadow palette features both matte and shimmer shadows, along with the highlighter, bronzer, and blush. With plenty of warm, neutral, and cool toned shades to choose from, this palette will be a go-to for any makeup lover. Use the soft, muted shades for an understated, natural look, or go super glam and festive with the pops of color.

Naughty Kisses & Sweet Cheeks is a trio of lip and cheek combos, making it three gifts in one! Each set comes with a Lip Injection Gloss and coordinating blush for any skin tone, a clear gloss with a fuchsia blush, peach gloss with a peachy/nude blush, and a lilac gloss with a mauve-toned blush.

Use the GloPRO MicroStimulation Face Tool to reverse the look of aging and enhance the skin’s natural regenerative process, making skin firmer, smoother, and younger looking. Using red LED and VibroTactile Stimulation technology, the GloPRO will boost collagen production and induce micro-rejuvenation deep within the skin.

Use this with the Hydra GLO serum, or any other antiaging serums and creams. The GloPRO will give maximum absorption into the skin, enhancing the benefits of the serum’s skin-restoring ingredients.

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Perfect gift for those looking to begin or expand their makeup collection!

About Too Faced 

Too Faced is known for high-quality products and adorable packaging. With beautiful, blendable eyeshadows, creamy lip products with amazing color payoff, and natural-looking highlight and bronzing products, there is something for everyone no matter what their makeup style. Enhance your natural beauty with neutral shades, go full glam with more daring shades, and create any look in between.

“We use the finest, cutting-edge ingredients to create innovative cruelty-free color cosmetics that women love to wear. We are unabashedly pink, pretty, and feminine with a playful wink. We show you how to create different looks, inspire confidence to experiment, and encourage you to Own Your Pretty.”

Veil Cosmetics

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Give the gift of a beautiful complexion using Veil Cosmetics Sunset Light Primer, Sunset Skin Foundation and Complexion Fix. This powerful trio will give the look of flawless, doll like skin with the benefits of feeling lightweight and hydrating to the skin.

Sunset Light Primer is a unique, 3-in-1 product that can be used as a primer, serum and mixing base depending on your needs and preferences. As a primer, this water-based formula can be used to achieve smooth, supple skin, creating the perfect canvas to apply your foundation. It adds longevity to your makeup and helps it stay looking as if you just applied it. It’s lightweight consistency allows your skin to breathe while still giving your foundation HD quality and the ultimate staying power.

As a serum, Sunset Light uses powerful botanicals like White Water Lily to brighten the skin, while Cinnamon Bark Extract plumps and smooths. The anti-aging peptides keep your skin looking young and radiant, creating the perfect base for your makeup. Sodium Hyaluronate will effectively help your skin retain moisture and stay hydrated, keeping your skin smooth and nourished.

As a mixing base, Sunset Light can be added to Complexion Fix to create a CC cream, which offers more coverage than a tinted moisturizer, but less coverage than foundation— perfect for days when you want a little more than just bare skin. You can add Sunset Light to any foundation or cream product to sheer it out and give a lighter, smoother product.

Sunset Skin Foundation offers sheer to medium coverage for a lightweight, oil free foundation that works on all skin types. The airy, whipped formula gives the skin a hydrating, refreshing boost while giving the skin a flawless finish. There are 4 color categories to choose from— light, medium, porcelain and tan— all with warm, neutral and cool toned shade options, so you’re sure to find a perfect match for your skin.

Complexion Fix is a highlighter and corrector that combines skincare and color science. Use Complexion Fix to hide imperfections like under eye circles, dark spots and uneven skin tone. This all over face pen will help brighten the complexion while offering buildable coverage to give you blemish free, porcelain looking skin.

Perfect gift for anyone who loves weightless foundation and wants flawless looking skin!

About Veil Cosmetics

Veil Cosmetics was created by internationally acclaimed makeup artist Sebastien Tardiff, a man who has a passion for HD quality makeup with lightweight coverage. Veil Cosmetics was launched at New York Fashion Week in September 2012 and has since been used on celebrities like Jennifer Anniston and Veil Cosmetics has been used in TV, Runway and several movie productions, proving it to be a superior makeup product.

Holiday Cosmetic Gifts by Merle Norman

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Merle Norman released their Winter Color Collection at the beginning of November, and all the products are gorgeous. This collection is full of modern metals with pops of bright color that will leave any woman glowing through those grey, cold winter months. We are obsessed with the Soft Touch Eye Pencil in a new color: Precious Gold. This metallic eye pencil will be any woman’s favorite all winter long. It is smooth to apply and lasts all day long.

Pair the eye pencil with the Eye Color Couture Cozy Nudes Pallet. Featuring four nude colors with a hint of shimmer, these colors are great for everyday or for a holiday party or special occasion.

Don’t forget the lips! Just in time for the holidays, Merle Norman has a limited edition Merle’s Kisses ornament. This sparkling ornament contains 2 shades of pure color core lipstick that are perfect for getting caught under the mistletoe. Surprise someone with this as an early gift or hang it on the tree or slip it in a stocking on Christmas Eve.

If you are giving someone new cosmetics, you might as well give her new brushes to apply all her new pretty stuff. Merle Norman has a holiday brush set that will delight any makeup lover. You get 5 different brushes in a sleek, reusable clutch. We love the pretty silver color, and these brushes perform like no other brushes!

To purchase any or all of these amazing gift ideas from Merle Norman, you have to visit your local Merle Norman studio. Find a studio here. 

Perfect gift for any woman who loves to change up her look by trying new looks for the seasons!

About Merle Norman

If you don’t know about Merle Norman, now is the time to meet Merle! This company creates its own lines of luxurious skin care and cosmetics. Merle Norman is your one stop for all things beauty. Skip the busy department store where you get impersonal service and step into a Merle Norman Studio. At a Merle Norman Studio, you will receive one on one service from a makeup expert. You can schedule a makeover to learn about all this company has to offer you. Any skincare issue or beauty desire you have can be met during your consultation with your local makeup artist at Merle Norman. You can trust the products you receive knowing that Merle Norman manufactures and packages all their own stuff in the United States, ensuring their very high quality standards. They do all their own testing, and that testing is never done on animals. Merle Norman is a company started by a woman for women. This is a family run company that started the try before you buy philosophy for choosing beauty products.

Merle Norman is “on a mission to make the world a more beautiful place one makeover at a time.”

NANO FACE STEAMER by Panasonic

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When it’s quiet, serene, and you’ve got at least ten minutes… it’s time to take care of you. You’re busy, we get that, but it doesn’t mean you have to put yourself on the back-burner and not indulge once in a while. Why not give yourself the ultra spa facial treatment in as little time as six minutes! The Nano Facial Steamer is a beautifully designed ionic facial steamer that will complement and adore your bathroom vanity.

It’s no secret that anti-aging products are a hot commodity. However, use the power of water and steam to ease away age wrinkles and lines while promoting softer skin with daily use; the Nano Steamer is your at home solution in as little as six minutes! The ultra fine nano-sized steam particles penetrate the skin at 4,000 times normal steam to effectively supplement moisture retention. By gently removing makeup, dirt, and oil, the new Panasonic Nano Facial Steamer will leave your face feeling refreshed and renewed. Deep pore cleaning never felt so gentle!  

• Quickly remove make up and dirt
• Use daily to retain moisture and develop softer skin
• Stylish design complements make-up area décor
• Up to 6 minutes of penetrating, moisturizing steam
• A spa-quality facial right at home

Perfect gift for the busy mom (or dad) who desires soft, healthy, and glowing skin, right at home!

About Panasonic

Panasonic is all about creating better life and a better world. Every moment of every day, people all over the world turn to Panasonic to make their lives simpler, more enjoyable, more productive, and more secure. Since their founding almost a century ago, they’ve been committed to improving people’s lives and making the world a better place – one customer, one business, one technological leap forward at a time.

Makeup Brush Cleaner by Lilumia

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Gift the makeup loving person on your Christmas list this year with an ultra unique and practical product that they will positively love. The beautifully designed Lilumia 2 Makeup Brush Cleaner Device makes life easier for those who daily apply makeup with any number of brushes. By one push of the button, up to 12 makeup brushes can be thoroughly cleaned in just 15 minutes, leaving you with like-new brushes that won’t clog your pores and that will guarantee a smoother makeup application.

The love for this device is apparent as it has been featured in major beauty and style magazines, used by professional makeup artists, and has been seen on The Wendy Williams Show. There is nothing better than giving someone a functional gift that they can use everyday, saving them both time and money!

• Cleans up to 12 makeup brushes at one time
• Completes a wash cycle and 3 rinse cycles within 15 minutes
• Simply pour, prep, and load!
• Prevents skin breakouts
• Modern design
• Includes removable cleaning disc, brush holder, measuring cup, and power adapter
• Use with Lilumia Cleanser – sold separately
• Comes in an array of colors

Perfect gift for the makeup fiend whose cosmetic collection is overrun with brushes!

About Lilumia

Lilumia was the brainchild of former California model Fierra Cruz, who was frustrated at the task of washing makeup brushes by hand. After a few years of development, passion, and dedication, her innovative product came to life, and has proven to be overly successful in its launch last year. With major publications singing its praise and being one of the world’s best selling makeup brush cleaning devices on the market today, the Lilumia is saving women everywhere from blemishes, poor hygienic practices, and from having to buy new brushes!

Fragrance by Dermstore

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Tocca Beauty is an Italian beauty brand that offers personal and home care products that all smell amazing. Their scents are romantic and take you back to another time. Tocca is about glamour, and their perfumes make a perfect gift. Dermstore carries this luxurious Italian brand as part of their extensive collection of the finest beauty products available. 

The Meet The Girls Fragrance Collection makes such a fun gift because there are 10 sweet and feminine fragrances to sample and enjoy. If you have a woman in your life who travels a lot, this set is a thoughtful gift because each scent comes in a travel friendly vial spray. The 10 scents vary from musk, woodsy, floral, citrus, and fresh. All 10 perfumes come in a pretty box that you can wrap up and give to someone special this year.

The Eau de Parfum Viaggio Holiday 3 Piece Set includes three of Tocca’s best scents in pretty, pastel colored, miniature bottles that look gorgeous on a dresser or shelf. The scents included are Cleopatra, which is sweet, Collette, a seductive scent, and Emelia, which is refreshing. This set is charming and lovely to the senses making it a no-brainer when it comes to shopping for the beauty lover on your list this year.  

Perfect gift for the woman in your life who is confident and loves to try new things.

About Dermstore

Dermstore was created to help women feel beautiful and confident. They enlist doctors and beauty experts to help them pick the best of the best in skincare and beauty products. In fact, Dermstore was founded by a board certified dermatologist. They offer professional skin solutions, spa quality products, and a variety of cosmetics and beauty items like perfume. If you need a product for a specific need, Dermstore makes it easy to shop by concern. There is always free shipping and returns and they always throw some free samples in too! Every product is guaranteed authentic. You can shop with confidence with real reviews written by real women. Taking care of your skin and feeling beautiful is easy with Dermstore.

  Skin Care by Sunday Riley

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If you are looking for the perfect skin care combination, look no further than The Power Couple Duo: Total Transformation Kit. Sunday Riley combines lactic acid and trans-retinol ester in order to hydrate, exfoliate, and brighten skin. This 2-step set contains Good Genes All-In-One Lactic Acid Treatment, which exfoliates and moisturizes while reducing the appearance of fine lines. The Luna Sleeping Night Oil contains a gentle yet powerful trans-retinol ester and botanical oils to minimize the appearance of pores, sun damage, and fine lines.

This kit contains both a 5 oz bottle of Good Genes All-in-One Lactic Acid Treatment and a .5 oz bottle of Luna Sleeping Night Oil. Both are free from Parabens, Sulfates, and Phthalates so they won’t be clogging up your pores with unnecessary chemicals. Designed for use on all skin types, Sunday Riley will make sure that you have the perfect kit to help bring out your most vibrant, radiant skin tone. This gift will get use through the holidays – and beyond.

Perfect gift for those with sensitive skin to reveal a hydrated, radiant complexion.

About Sunday Riley

Sunday Riley is an innovative skin care company that was founded by none other than the woman, Sunday Riley. Taking her chemistry degree from the University of Texas and years of experience working in cosmetics labs, she launched her own company in 2009. Sunday Riley has a simple and pure ideal: combine grade-A raw materials and ensure they are formulated into an effective product. From that springboard, she has crafted amazing products that have quickly become coveted by women everywhere.

Body and Home Products by Thistle Farms

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If you have someone on your Christmas list this year who loves unique, natural, and smell-good products, then hit up Thistle Farms for all your holiday shopping. Their line of bath and body products are created from essential oils and natural ingredients, and feature an array of deliciously smelling scents.

If you want your space to smell as good as you do, then check out their Room Spray and Soy Candles, which are again, eco-friendly and come in yummy scents.

Besides offering smell-goods, this give-back company also sells stationery, jewelry, gifts, children’s items, and more, all motivated by a solid mission of bettering the lives of troubled women. You can give a tangible gift that many on your list this year will love, while also knowing you’re making a difference in the world, one hand soap at a time.

Soy Candle

• 35+ hour burn time
• Eco-friendly and vegan
• Handmade
• 100% cotton wicks for clean burning
• Available in a variety of scents

Room Spray

• Made from water, artisan blend alcohol, and essential/fragrance oils
• 750 sprays per bottle
• Available in a variety of scents

Liquid Hand Soap

• Made with organic sunflower oil, coconut oil, and essential/fragrance oils
• Available in a variety of scents

Lotion and Shower Gel

• Made with shea butter and essential oils
• Available in a variety of scents

Perfect gift for eco-friendly fragrance lovers who love to make a difference in their purchases.  

About Thistle Farms

Becca Stevens, a praised woman who is actively changing the world, founded Thistle Farms in the 1990s, and helps provide healing and restoration to women suffering from abuse, addiction, trafficking, and prostitution. Through her residential program in Nashville, TN, which employs and empowers these women by providing them with the skills necessary to make a living, comes Thistle Farm’s bath and body product line, a cafe, workshop, and global marketplace, all run by residents and graduates of the program. Every time you purchase a product from Thistle Farms, you are actively participating in the emotional healing and economic stability of women who were given a second chance. “Love heals.”