A cute little quartet of essentials for eyes, lips and cheeks – Cult Beauty’s Beauty Bauble makes for a great gift for beauty lovers. Worth over £54, there’s miniatures from Iconic London, Too Faced, Natasha Denona and NudeStix. 

Shop Cult Beauty The Beauty Bauble, £19

Spoil them silly with this Sol de Janerio Bum Bum set. The body cream and mist duo is infused with the brand’s iconic Cheirosa 62 scent.

Shop Sol de Janeiro Brazilian Starter Pack at Lookfantastic, £39

Nothing says Christmas quite like our exclusive and much-loved Shimmering Spice candle. Packed full of festive notes like cinnamon, cedar and spice, it adds a warming, cosy vibe to any room. 

Space NK Shimmering Spice Scented Candle, £26

So much more than just your average dry shampoo, this little beauty adds body and texture with every spritz. It’s like having your very own pro-hairdresser at your fingertips. 

Shop Hair by Sam McKnight Lazy Girl Dry Shampoo at Space NK, £10

While it might take up half of your stocking, this gorgeous gift set is sure to light up anyone’s Christmas morning. Including 10 travel-sized brushes for face, eyes and brows – you’ll have a full set to hand for creating unlimited make-up looks.

Shop Spectrum Sunset Ombre Make Up Bag and Brush Set at Lookfantastic, £49.99

A sustainable way to get sudsy, the Plus body wash works by simply adding water. Packaging-free, all you need to do is wet the sheet inside until it foams. The outer paper can be dropped on the shower/bath floor, it’ll dissolve on its own. 

Vegan, printed with bio-renewable ink and cruelty-free, it’s a guaranteed stocking hit. 

Shop Plus No Waste Body Wash, £12

There’s no denying a Flamingo Razor is one of the smoothest, easiest ways to shave. Ergonomic, the five-blade razor also has a 360º “comfort area” around the head, enriched with aloe and shea butter to nourish the skin. Try it and report back. I’m 99% sure you’ll agree.

Shop Flamingo Razor, £8

Vieve’s Lip Dew is a hybrid between lip oil and lip gloss for super-nourished lips. Choose from a variety of shades from shimmer to shades that compliment all skin tones.

Shop Vieve Lip Dew at Cult Beauty, £17

Enriched with organic ginger and lavender essential oils, this body wash is designed to help calm you down when stress riles you up.

Shop Plant Apothecary Calm Down Ginger and Lavender Body Wash at Selfridges, £15

One of Glossier’s most celebrated items, this exfoliating bar can be used all over the body to slough and polish away dead skin cells, revealing softer, brighter skin underneath. 

Shop Glossier Body Hero Exfoliating Bar, £13

Give your skin a little helping hand this year with a hard-working hyaluronic acid and vitamin b5 combination; both excellent tools to aid skin surface hydration. 

Shop The Ordinary Hyaluronic Acid 2% + B5, £6.40

If there’s ever a time to do a little more with your make-up, it’s party season. This lip polish is shimmery, multi-dimensional and enriched with sweet almond oil to moisturise as it dazzles. 

Shop Illamasqua Beyond Lip Polish in Fizz, £10

Rich, nourishing and suitable for all hair types, the Dizziak deep conditioner would be welcome in any stocking. Soft, supple, tangle-free hair is only one wash away. 

Shop Dizziak Deep Conditioner, £22

If there’s one scent to brighten dismal winter days, it has to be Flowerbomb. A longtime favourite of Stylist beauty editor Morgan Fargo, the sweet warmth of tea, amber and freesia, along with bright bergamot and fresh sambac jasmine create a feeling of instant glamour and joy – what better thing to gift someone this year.

Shop Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb at Lookfantastic, £46.39

Use a sponge, brush or your fingers to apply this creamy, blendable contour. Infused with ingredients such as vitamin E, hyaluronic acid and meadow-foam seed oil, it’s as good for your skin as it is for your final look.

Shop Danessa Myricks Beauty Balm Contour at Cult Beauty, £26

Founded by celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin, Ouai is loved by celebrities, professionals and everyone in between. This set combines a thoroughly cleansing shampoo (great if you find your hair gets greasy quickly), with a nourishing leave-in conditioner. A winner.

Shop Ouai Better Together Kit at Cult Beauty, £23.10

Supporting your skin during the cold (and wet and windy) season comes down to efficacious hydration and sandwiching in moisture. Meet your SOS (save our skin) mist. 

Formulated with extract from the powerful flower edelweiss – which can continue to grow under snow, don’t you know – the mist is high in antioxidants, helping to rebalance, rehydrate and strengthen your skin against the woes of winter. Plus, it protects against pollution and blue light too. Spritz on after cleansing and before your heaviest (thickest) moisturiser or oil. 

Shop The Body Shop Edelweiss Bouncy Jelly Mist, £18

Who wouldn’t want their lips to taste like cinnamon buns? Swipe this matte liquid lipstick across bare lips for a sleek and highly pigmented finish. 

Shop Too Faced Limited Edition Melted Matte Cinnamon Bun Longwear Liquid Lipstick, £22

Give your hair the gift of hydration, softness and light-reflecting shine this year with Wella’s luminous smoothing oil. Use as a styling product, leave-in conditioner or pre-shampoo oil for best results. 

Shop Wella Professionals Oil Reflections Luminous Smoothing Oil at Lookfantastic, £18.50

Jessica Alba founded Honest Beauty to combine her two loves: beauty and skincare. Swipe this tinted lip balm straight from the bullet for a sheer wash of colour.

Shop Honest Beauty Tinted Lip Balm in Lychee Fruit at Cult Beauty, £10

Celebrated for packing a helluva lot into one scrub (it exfoliates, firms, tones and evens out skin tone) Frank Body’s Coconut Coffee Scrub polishes away dead skin to leave you bright and radiant.

Shop Frank Body Coconut Coffee Scrub at Cult Beauty, £7.96

Founder Huda Kattan designed Wishful to tackle the skin concerns she comes up against every day. Her moisturising Thirst Trap Mask is infused with althaea rosea flower extract to soften, soothe and condition skin.

Shop Wishful Thirst Trap Cocoon Mask at Cult Beauty, £8

A nourishing body cleanser, Drunk Elephant infused their winter skin saviour with fatty acids, sweet almond oil and amino acids to moisturise as it gently cleans.

Shop Drunk Elephant Kamili Cream Body Cleanser at Cult Beauty, £18

Mimicking skin’s natural processes, Lanolips’ not-so-secret ingredient lanolin works to restore adequate moisture levels. Non-sticky and super hydrating, we’d suggest popping them in multiple stockings to win the best present giver award this year. 

Shop Lanolips 101 Ointment Multi-Balm Coconutter at Cult Beauty, £8.99

Hydrate, soothe and repair skin overnight with an intensely nourishing sleeping mask. Designed to tackle redness, irritation and dryness, your skin will be back to baseline sharpish. 

Shop Dr Jart+ Cicapair Tiger Grass Sleepair Intensive Mask at Boots, £11.90

A guaranteed well-received stocking filler, Kylie Jenner’s eponymous lip kit is celebrated for its wide shade range and high pigmentation. 

Shop Kylie Cosmetics Matte Lip Kit in Kylie at Boots, £28

Featuring the cult-favourite Deep Sleep Pillow Spray and helpful add-on, the Stress Check Roll-On, you’ll be gifting someone sweet dreams this Christmas. Probs the best present under the tree, eh?

Shop This Works Dream Team at Space NK, £5

The perfect antidote to dry winter skin, Nursem is renowned for its intensive moisture-rich formulas that hydrate and protect suffering hands.

Shop Nursem Caring Minis Gift Set at Space NK, £15

A smaller version of the brand’s smash hit mascara, Better Than Sex curls, stretches and lengthens eyelashes for your best lash yet.

Shop Too Faced Better Than Sex Doll-Size Mascara at Cult Beauty, £13

A collaboration between Soapsmith and Crosstown, the dirty sugar soap bar is inspired by the bakery’s Tongan Vanilla Bean Doughnut and enriched with cocoa butter and shea butter. It smells good enough to eat, definitely, but don’t. Because it’s soap. 

Shop Soapsmith Dirty Sugar Soap, £12

The Yoruba word for magic, this idan oil is made from tuberose-infused cold-pressed coconut oil. Deeply nourishing, use the special liquid as a body oil, leave-in hair conditioner and overnight moisturiser. 

Shop Liha Idan Oil, £16

Packed full of hydrating and nourishing ingredients, Narloa’s clever body oil softens, smooths and heals skin. 

Shop Narloa Jasmine and Neroli Body Oil at Rich Skxn, £18

Moisturising and lightweight, Briogeo’s leave-in conditioner is a blend of rosehip, argan and coconut oils to leave dry, damaged hair softer, more supple and highly nourished.

Shop Briogeo Farewell Frizz Rosarco Milk Leave-In Conditioner at Cult Beauty, £12

Love a gloss but hate the stick? Enter Tower 28’s conditioning lip jelly. The same shine (made with apricot oil, avocado oil and raspberry seed oil for extra hydration) in four shades – coconut, cashew, oat and almond. 

Shop Tower 28 Beauty ShineOn Milky Lip Jelly at Cult Beauty, £15

An old favourite in a miniature size, Benefit’s award-winning matte bronzer, Hoola, is an undeniable crowd-pleaser. Complete with a built-in mirror and powder brush, it’s good for on-the-go or on the bathroom shelf. 

Shop Benefit Hoola Matte Bronzer Mini at Boots, £13.50

Renowned for repairing dry, brittle hair, Olaplex products have fast become a staple for heat-damaged, coloured and chemically treated hair. This set of minis is designed for intense repair work: No.0 is a pre-wash treatment that primes hair for the conditioning No.3 Hair Perfector.

Shop Olaplex Repair and Moisture Set at Cult Beauty, £52

Nars Orgasm X is the older sister to Nars’ cult-classic blusher Orgasm. A vivid coral pink dotted with golden shimmer, up the ante this Christmas with a new iteration of a true classic. There’s never a bad moment for a Nars flush. Genuinely, never. 

Shop Nars Cosmetics Orgasm X Mini Blush at Cult Beauty, £17

If you think concealer only comes in a pot or tube, think again. The Jones Road Face Pencil is a time-saving gem, covering redness, dark spots and correcting discolouration in a few simple swipes. The brainchild of internationally acclaimed make-up artist Bobbi Brown, it’s a creamy, buildable product that disappears seamlessly into the skin. 

Shop Jones Road The Face Pencil, £23

A standout beauty product, Refy’s bronzer is creamy, buildable and buffs out into a beautifully diffused natural glow. It’s as good as the hype suggests (if not better). Trust me on this.

Shop Refy Cream Bronzer (available in Tan, Sand and Onyx), £18

And if you’re at a loss for how to apply Refy’s cream bronzer, pop the double-ended fluffy and condensed brush into your bag too. It’s multi-use (foundation, blusher, and highlighter) and exceptionally effective.

Shop Refy Duo Brush, £16

From the makers of the viral Frozen Over Ice-to-Gel Hydrator comes a moisturising and brightening essence. Enter Skin Proud’s Jelly Bright Essence, rich in anti-oxidants and hydration-boosting amino acids. Apply after cleansing and before moisturising.

Shop Skin Proud Jelly Bright Essence at Beauty Bay, £13.95

A cute, hardworking mini version of the full-sized brush. Use for everything that requires buffing: foundation, cream and liquid contour, bronzer or blush. 

Shop Real Techniques Mini Expert Face Brush at Lookfantastic, £5.99

This Christmas, Liz Earle’s award-winning cleanser is available in a smaller travel-friendly size that’s unsurprisingly stocking-friendly size.

Enriched with moisturising cocoa butter, purifying rosemary and soothing chamomile and eucalyptus, it comes with a soft cloth to help remove dirt, grime and make-up, too. 

Shop Liz Earle Cleanse & Polish Hot Cloth Cleanser at Boots, £8.50

There’s something sweet about mini versions of products we know and love, right? Give the gift of clean skin this year with a gentle (yet effective) make-up melting cleansing balm. 

Shop Clinique Take the Day Off Cleansing Balm at Boots, £9.90

Bouclème Curl Defining Gel helps control frizz while adding body, bounce and shine. The best bit? There’s no greasy, sticky residue. Sign us up! 

Shop Bouclème Curl Defining Gel at Lookfantastic, £152

One of Fenty’s most beloved products, this lightweight moisturising primer prepares normal to dry skin for make-up. It softens, smooths and lightly blurs skin leaving a silky smooth canvas.

Shop Fenty Beauty Mini Pro Filt’r Hydrating Primer, £15

A “combination of colour and care”, Ruby Hammer’s lip serum balm is blended with seed oils and cocoa butter to hydrate and moisturise thirsty lips. Add the sheer, dewy colour and you’ve got the perfect low-maintenance lip.

Shop Ruby Hammer Lip Serum Balm available in Red, Nude and Fx, £18

Self-care shouldn’t stop when your skincare routine ends. Guarantee a good night’s kip with a beautifully relaxing sleep mist. 

Shop Neom Perfect Night’s Sleep Pillow Mist Tranquillity at Lookfantastic, £8

Give the gift of olfactory bliss this Christmas with a spirited and deeply refreshing scented body and hand wash from fragrance house Jo Malone. 

Shop Jo Malone London Wood Sage and Sea Salt Body and Hand Wash, £16

Sweetly indulgent, Philosophy’s cinnamon bun-inspired shower gel is a cleansing multi-tasking wonder that works as a bubble bath, shampoo or body wash. 

Shop Philosophy Cinnamon Buns Shower Gel at Lookfantastic, £12

Up the vampy-ante this year with a smooth, soft, dramatic lip liner. We love to complete a dark lipstick look with this one by Charlotte Tilbury. 

Shop Charlotte Tilbury Lip Cheat in Pillow Talk Intense, £19

A brilliant and sustainable gift, these reusable and recyclable make-up remover pads replace non-biodegradable wipes and cotton pads. Each one is the equivalent of 500 single-use make-up wipes. Wow.  

Shop Face Halo The Modern Make-Up Remover Original at Lookfantastic, £14.40

This nifty eye mask blocks out the light and helps to stop the sensitive skin around your eyes from becoming dehydrated while you sleep. It’s chic, sleek and comes in black or blush colourways. 

Shop Kitsch Pillow Eye Mask at Cult Beauty, £13

In the original Mac matte finish, this mini-version of the classic lipstick will always be a welcome present. Always. 

Shop Mac Mini Matte Lipstick in Velvet Teddy at Boots, £12.60

Ever wondered what temporary freckles might look like? Well, look no further. The Lottie London Freckle Tint creates realistic and super-natural freckle sprinkles. Cute! 

Shop Lottie London Freckle Tint at Lookfantastic, £6.95

The Lottie London Ombre Blush is a lightweight and natural-looking flush, designed to give cheeks a delicate tint and provide a pop of colour to the face. It comes in three different colours: peach, tan and pink. 

Shop Lottie London Ombre Blush at Lookfantastic, £5.95

Paula’s Choice’s widely loved liquid exfoliant helps deal with congested, oily and combination skin by clearing pores and reducing breakouts. 

Shop Paula’s Choice Skin Perfecting 2% BHA Liquid Exfoliant, £11

Another cult-favourite, Weleda’s skin food helps to deeply nourish and repair dry, dehydrated, scaly skin. Perfect for the colder months. 

Shop Weleda Skin Food at Cult Beauty, £8.25

Now that Tatcha is finally available in the UK, the well-loved hydrating lip mask is a must-have this Christmas. Say hello to smooth and juicy-looking lips.

Shop Tatcha The Kissu Lip Mask at Space NK, £25

Christmas makeup is all about shimmers and sparkles and Kem’s eyeshadow palette includes 15 creamy and pigmented shades to see you through the festive season and beyond.

Shop Kem Beauty The Aurora Palette at Shop Kem, £9.99

If you’ve been interested in stepping foot in the world of collagen but haven’t been sure about where to start, this one also contains rocket extract, keratin, biotin and vitamin C to encourage healthy hair growth and support your skin during the tricky winter months. 

Shop Collagen Superdose By Gold Collagen Hair Growth at Boots, £22

This blush is a game-changer with its colour-changing effect that adds a rosy glow to the cheeks and suits all skin tones and types.

Shop Youthforia Byo Blush at Beauty Bay, £26

Who said body care has to cost you a fortune? This body wash blends notes of pink pepper and musk for a sweet but addictive scent that’s not sickly sweet.

Shop & Other Stories Miami Muse Body Wash at Stories, £8

This glowing concealer unveils a soft-focus radiance to the skin and comes in an inclusive shade offering. You better be quick though as it continues to be a sell-out success.

Shop E.l.f. Halo Glow Liquid Filter at Boots, £14

This skincare set features four skincare products perfect for giving your skin the radiance it deserves. Whether gifting to someone newly into skincare or a skincare-enthusiast, this set is sure to be a hit!

Shop Wild Source Discovery Set at Liberty, £48

Whether you’re gifting Huda Beauty’s Empowered Eyeshadow Palette to a beauty newbie or pro, this intensely pigmented 18-pan eyeshadow palette is perfect for all-year-round looks from a classic smoky eye to something more daring.

Shop Huda Beauty Empowered Eyeshadow Palette at Cult Beauty, £58 

What’s better than one blush shade? A two-in-one blush duo, of course. Swirl the highly pigmented shades together for a radiant finish to the cheeks that lasts all the way from sunrise to sunset.

Shop Pat McGrath Labs Skin Fetish Divine Blush Duo Set at Selfridges, £42 

Give the gift of glowing skin this holiday season with Glow Recipe’s Hey You, You’re Dewing Great Set which features the brand’s skin quenching plum plump hyaluronic serum and cream.

Shop Glow Recipe Hey You, You’re Dewing Great Set at Cult Beauty, £18.98 

Sanctuary Spa brings all the cosy vibes with its scent-sational candle trio that’ll transport any room to the ultimate spa experience.

Shop Sanctuary Spa Candle Trio at Boots, £18 

Make a statement with Suqqu’s signature eyeshadow palette for the perfect pop of colour on the eye. Layer shades or use one standout shade around the eye area.

Shop Suqqu Signature Color Eyes Eyeshadow Palette at Selfridges, £48 

Molton Brown’s Fiery Pink Pepper Festive Bauble makes the perfect addition to any tree or stocking. The shower gel-filled bauble features a blend of sweet woody spices for a beautiful scent that’ll always remind you of Christmas.

Shop Molton Brown Fiery Pink Pepper Festive Bauble at Cult Beauty, £12 

Coco Cosmetics By Chloe Marshmallow’s Sponges has become a viral sensation thanks to TikTok. The super soft and expandable sponge deserves a spot in any makeup routine. Get ready for next-level and seamless application thanks to the marshmallow sponge.

Shop Coco Cosmetics By Chloe Marshmallow Sponge Shape 2 at Beauty Bay, £8.95 

Dr Hauschka’s gel-like cleansing balm is ideal for removing makeup and any built-up impurities on all skin types. Massage the gentle formula onto the face, both morning and evening before going in with the rest of your skincare holy grails.

Shop Dr Hauschka Cleansing Balm at John Lewis, £23 

Byoma’s Hydrating Starter Kit is perfect for anyone looking to nourish their complexion and achieve a natural-looking glow (pro or not). Inside you’ll find some of Byoma’s well-loved products from the creamy cleanser, hydrating serum and gel cream for a skin routine that is sure to stick.

Shop Byoma Hydrating Starter Kit at Cult Beauty, £14.99 

Herlum is a British brand inspired by Brazilian nature and features ingredients sustainably harvested from the Amazon Rainforest. The discovery set is a great stocking filler and features the brand’s well-loved hand and body products, along with a candle, which is sure to go down a treat.

Shop Herlum Discovery Set at Cult Beauty, £42