The Beauty as Wellness Holiday Gift Guide 2022
As a celebrity makeup artist, and visionary in the worlds of beauty and taste, I am very happy to curate this gift guide. Let’s not feel overwhelmed by all of the news about the best beauty products. In this year’s guide, I share items I love that are luxurious, beautiful, and high quality.
The guide is underscored with one of my beliefs: when we experience life by cultivating a deeper connection between outer beauty and our souls, the more enriching, inspiring, and healing our lives can be. When you express and experience your life this way, you create tools for wellness.
This year, let’s rejoice in expressing who we are through beauty, luxury, and love. Let’s give gifts that cultivate, uplift, and inspire people to look and feel beautiful.
Here are some items I have used personally, with celebrity clients, and for red carpet appearances:
Olura Beauty Eno™ All-In-One Device $225 USD
Refine, hydrate, and lift your face! This is a micro pulse tool that exfoliates, sculpts, and transforms your skin. Paired with the company’s specialized and effective serums, this regimen is one of my new favorites for myself and for clients.
Dior Addict Lip Glow in Pink $38 USD
This customizing color lip balm amplifies your natural lip tone, and your lipstick’s color, while softening your lips. Dior Lip Addict Glow in Pink can be used by itself or as a base before applying your favorite lipstick.
Chanel Nº 5 Gold Body Oil $100 USD
Dazzle and illuminate your skin with a moisturizing, shimmering body oil with gold flecks. This limited-edition formula makes your skin look radiant and illuminating. It can be used as a base for any perfume.
Kevyn Aucoin Contour Eyeshadow Palette $36 USD
Eyes have the focus with this highly pigmented eyeshadow kit whose colors have varied textures, hues, and finishes. These shadows, available in four color collections, can be used wet or dry and come in a lightweight case that is easy for travel. These are perfect for someone on the move.
Tarte maneater™ after dark eyeshadow palette $52 USD
24 holiday shades come in matte, shimmer, and sheen. Each shadow is blendable and can be applied for all types of looks. Essential shades and glamorous colors provide many options for the everyday artist and the professional artist.
Tom Ford Lip Color Discovery Set $80 USD
Style appears in every step with this deluxe set of five mini lipsticks in matte and hydrating lip color formulas. Moisturizing and fade-resistant, these lipsticks can deliver the ultimate fashion moments.
MakeUp Forever HD All-In-One Face Palette $85 USD
This multi-use, full complexion, all-in-one palette is equipped with concealer, blush, highlighter, and contouring shades. This pro-inspired tool kit is available in three “Harmonies” and completes a flawless look, at home or on-the-go.
YSL Vinyl Cream Lip Stain $39 USD
A red carpet favorite of mine, this long-wearing, saturated color is more than a stain. It hydrates and has immense staying power.
Santa Maria Novella Shaving Cream $71 USD
Originally – and still! – made in the world’s oldest apothecary, Italian monks continue to infuse ancient secrets and love in this luxurious, scented shave cream. It produces a thick and foamy lather for the closest, most perfect shave. It’s scented with eucalyptus, menthol, and tobacco.
La Mer Soothing Moisture Duo $110 USD
The mini duet set of Creme de La Mer and The Concentrate offers an ultra-rich option to soothe and deeply moisturize the skin. These products immediately infuse the skin with moisture, and helps the skin feel firmer, lifted, and rejuvenated.
NARS Rising Star Cheek Palette $60 USD
Your complexion will shine and illuminate when you use this lightweight powder blush. innovative palette provides blendable colors for all skin tones. NARS, known for maximum color in all shades, is a go-to blush used by many Hollywood makeup artists.
Hourglass Ambient Lighting Face Palette $68 USD
A lustrous favorite, this palette is available in three color versions. The blush, bronzer, and highlighter capture, diffuse, and soften light. The photoluminescent technology creates a radiant glow.
Flora Mirabilis Face Oil $120 USD
Heal your skin and uplift your soul with this transformative plant based facial oil. It can brighten, balance, and soften skin, it works on all skin types.
A deep appreciation of beautiful things in our lives is more than a philosophical interest. When we develop a deeper connection to and surround ourselves with beauty, we can achieve benefits of decreased stress, calmness, and better focus. We can uplift ourselves and others.
This year, celebrate the beauty that you are, on the outside and the inside!
