The Beauty as Wellness Gift Guide For 2023

This is a curated journey to revive, refresh, and renew your face, spirit, and soul. In a year filled with additional stress, it is a perfect time to turn our attention inward, so we may relax and focus inwardly on rejuvenation and self-renewal.

Often described as an application of self-care, using beauty items – particularly ones personally curated and tested by me – can represent special moments to turn inward and nurture, replenish, and renew our vitality for life.

This season, I’m sharing with you three categories: gift ideas, red carpet favorites, and items that feature Damask Rose. Let this guide direct you to gifts of self-care for yourself or someone special.

GIFT IDEAS

Dr. Barbra Sturm Make-Up Remover

You will revitalize, refresh, and reveal your skin’s natural beauty with Dr. Sturm’s Make-Up Remover. Crafted with a bi-phase technology of micelle water and hydrating oils, it effortlessly cleanses foundation, mascara, and “long-wear” products. Using this is a perfect way to start any daytime or event makeup application and a nighttime beauty regime.

Available: Dr. Strum

Legology Jelly-Lite Cold Comfort Mask for Legs

This transformative leg masque, a lightweight formula that helps revive, rejuvenate, and hydrate worn out legs, is the equivalent to giving your legs a spa day. Happily, you don’t need to make an appointment, because you’re in the comfort of your own home.

Available: Legology

Butter London Legends of London: Branwen’s Tale 19-Piece Pro Nail Vault

Just in time for 2024, Butter London created a collection of skincare-infused nail lacquers that highlight the London Street scene. The selected 19 items include colors, tools, and treatments, with each of the 16 nail colors based on the four seasons (four for each one).

Available: Butter London

R+CO BLEU Refresh & Revitalize Limited Edition Holiday Hair Kit

From time to time, everyone needs some help to keep their hair healthy. R+CO’s trio mends split ends, builds strong hair, and infuses silky texture. This ultra-hydrating kit includes a reparative shampoo, conditioner, and a multi-tasking styler.

Available: Randco

Philip B Botanicals Forever Shine Shampoo

Drenched in the opulent aroma of oud, Philip B Forever Shine Shampoo is more than an olfactory delight. It is a harmonious blend of performance and luxury. The combination of botanicals, moisture-rich elements, and amino acids create healthy, strong, luminous hair.

Available: PhillipB

Dolce Amalfi by Casamorati

You will take a journey to the Amalfi coast when you wear this complex scent, which is composed of fruits, spices, and woods. An inspiring fragrance that celebrates the ancient art of Italian perfumery, Casamorati’s Dolce Amalfi is as romantic and beautiful as the Italian seaside.

Available: Xerjoff

Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Luscious Lip Slick Kit

A classic, luscious, nude-pink lipstick is matched with a pencil and a gloss to make a perfect pout in Charlotte Tilbury’s go-to trio. Besides containing staple products for you to carry in your bag or have in your makeup arsenal, the three items make an ideal gift.

Available: Charlotte Tilbury

MERIT Shade Slick Tinted Lip Oil in Au Naturel

You’ll hydrate and nurture your lips with a high-gloss shine when applying MERIT Shade Slick. The shea butter, rosehip and grapeseed oils blend will help your lips feel moist and refreshed, and they will be plump with hydration. By itself or atop your favorite lipstick, this lip oil will soon be an everyday product.

Available: Merit Beauty

FABLE & MANE HoliRoots Pre-Wash Treatment Hair Oil

Bring home the Holy Roots Pre-Wash by FABLE & MANE and adopt the ancient ritual of Indian hair oiling. The holistic blend of nutritive, adaptogen herbs strengthen the scalp by stimulating blood circulation, while nourishing the hairs and its roots. Bonus: the oil imparts a healthy glow to the hair.

Available: Fable And Mane

RED CARPET FAVORITES (An array of items I use on clients around the world)

Mara Flower Acid Algae Serum

You’ll elevate your skin care with the power of flowers when you apply this serum. The hydrating serum contains algae-infused, aqueous herbs, and bioactive flower acid. Patting it on your skin is a simple step to get a beautiful glow, before any makeup routine.

Available: Mara Beauty

Tatcha The Starter Ritual Gift Set

You’ll discover the timeless wisdom of the Japanese Geisha when you include this beauty routine. Tatcha’s The Starter Ritual contains some of my favorite skincare products to help refine, nourish, and hydrate. The Geishas knew to use rice enzymes, camellia oil, and silk proteins; and this mini self-care ritual will let you do the same.

Available: Tatcha

NuFACE Trinity® Starter Kit

To smooth lines, lift brows, and sculpt your face, this microcurrent facial tool is magical. It’s one of my first steps before glamorizing celebrity clients, and I find it enhances the impact of skincare products. Bonus: when you’re traveling light, you can buy the mini size ($220 USD).

Available: My NuFace

Retrouvé Jami’s Moisturising Essentials Kit

You will create a lavish spa day for your face when you use this kit’s five products. They will help replenish, nourish, and hydrate your skin. Around the world, it is a makeup artist’s favorite in our work to transform all skin types.

Available: Retrouve

It’s a 10 Miracle Leave-In

I love this product for how it helps hydrate and style all hair types. It’s a 10 Miracle Leave-In helps me to deliver great blow outs and dramatic styles, while being an effective go-to product for my clients.

Available: It’s A Ten Hair Care

Chanel LES BEIGES Water-Fresh Tint

Your complexion will glow with this innovative foundation. Chanel’s technology – pigmented oil molecules suspended in water – enables light-to-medium coverage while delivering a burst of hydration. Your skin will feel, and look, refreshed and energized. LES BEIGES Water-Fresh Tint is a favorite of celebrity makeup artists who want to create healthy-looking skin for their red carpet clients.

Available: Chanel

ROSE-INSPIRED PRODUCTS

Fresh Rose Deep Hydration Oil-Infused Serum

Bring in the timeless beauty and healing power of rose into your life with Fresh’s serum. It is infused with Damask Rose water and its oil, resulting in hydrated, toned, and smoothed skin. Your complexion will appear radiant and dewy, and be stronger and healthier over time. Bonus: you will be soothed by the rose fragrance.

Available: Fresh

Sisley Black Rose Cream Mask

It is never too late to give your face a fresh start. Hydrate, revive, and soothe your skin with the power of the rose. Sisley Rose Cream mask contains a powerful blend of ingredients that nourish and protect, resulting in a look of “instant youth.” Bulgarian Rose Extract in the formula provides the skin with a silky softness and the sense of smell receives aromatherapy benefits.

Available: Sisley Paris

Floris of London Rose Mouthwash

Yes, you read that correctly: this amazing mouthwash by Floris of London contains pure rosewater. While not a replacement for the cavity-preventing liquids, adding six drops in a glass of water will ensure your breath is perfect all day. This quickly became a favorite of mine when I discovered it while traveling through Heathrow Airport.

Available: Floris London

Grown Alchemist Intensive Hand Cream

Rescue your dry hands with the healing power of the rose in this ultra-moisturizing cream. I’ve learned, through years of research and product usage, how the rose is antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, it soothes delicate and sensitive skin, and boosts hydration. Grown Alchemist’s inclusion of argan, tamanu, and camellia oils help protect and revive your hands’ moisture.

Available: Grown Alchemist

Trudon Joséphine Candle

Create your own personal ambiance with the expert craftsmanship of Trudon Home Fragrances, especially with Joséphine. All of these long-lasting and expertly scented candles transform space into an olfactory experience. My latest obsession, Joséphine, is a homage to the illustrious first wife of the emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and her rose gardens at Malmaison.

Available: Trudon

Whichever of these items you buy for yourself, or for someone you care about, when using it, please take time to allow a transformative inner journey.
Happy Holidays!

– Jeffrey Paul

Jeffrey Paul

Aristotle may have had Jeffrey Paul in mind when he said, “Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish.” Jeffrey is an award-winning makeup artist and hairstylist. For 20 years and counting, he is Hollywood’s and Bollywood's go-to artist for celebrities, film festivals, red carpets, fashion, and movie PR. He is a resource for makeup artists, beauty columns fashion & beauty blogs as well as beauty magazines including ELLE, InStyle, Harper’s Bazaar, and beauty how-to books. Additionally, he is a chef, perfumer, writer, wellness advocate, beauty advisor, leader in Sufi and beauty meditations groups, and a practicing Dervish. Jeffrey believes that today's world has prompted everyone to have a deeper reverence for life and nature. His passion for truth, accompanied by an exploration into spirituality, has led him to create a new perspective in the beauty world. Through a blend of aesthetics and wellbeing, Jeffrey created a new paradigm called Beauty as Wellness, which includes the in-development Fragrance as Wellness. Jeffrey teaches people how to look deep into the world of beauty, which includes all types of fragrance, find tools to infuse and support a healthy life. This spiritual adventurer currently lives in Los Angeles. He spends time on the east coast to look after his parents. Follow him on Instagram – @theperfumeyogi, @fragranceaswellness, @jeffreypaulbeauty – and see him being a hair and makeup artist who seeks, and presents, the soulful expression of beauty.