Amazing last minute festive stocking fillers for beauty lovers
LOOKING for an ideas for some extra stocking fillers?
Give the gift of beauty this Christmas with some of the best luxury gifts, all under £30.
Made by Coopers Apothecary Superfood Firming Serum, £28
GIVE someone the gift of great skin by popping this nutrient-rich superfood serum in their stocking.
Containing a complex blend of bio-active plant oils, this helps to instantly firm and regenerate cells for a bright, youthful and glowing complexion.
Skin feels supremely hydrated and nourished with this serum which contains a powerful range of superfoods.
It includes beautifully scented Amalgam of Pomegranate, Chia, Broccoli, Baobab, Passion Flower and Black Cumin oils, with botanical active extracts to boost skin’s vitamins and instantly firm, for a brighter, more youthful complexion.
The miniature size and packaging is perfect for popping in to the the vegan beauty lover’s stocking.
Twist & Spritz Atomiser, £10, The Fragrance Shop
PERFUME lovers will love this miniature atomiser by The Fragrance Shop.
The pocket-sized Twist & Spritz atomiser make it easy to carry around your favourite scent without fear of smashing the bottle.
Its stylish twisting design can be easily refilled from most fragrance bottles and holds 8ml – approximately 100 sprays.
Perfect for travelling or popping in your clutch bag throughout party season.
Eye Candy Out of Darkness collection, £6.99
THESE unique limited edition lashes contain a pop of colour to enhance the natural shade of your eyes.
The Eye Candy Out of Darkness range includes four unique sets of lashes – Aurora, Luna, Ophelia and Phoenix – which each have a subtle hint of colour to make your eyes pop.
Not only does the range accentuate the colour of your eyes with tinted edges, but also completes any vibrant makeup look and can even be paired with accessories to make a bold fashion statement.
I’ll be using the Aurora shade to make my green eyes ping throughout the festive season.
Pop these in a stocking filler and your friends will thank you for it.
Jan De Vries Busy Mum Box, £23.87
IF you’re struggling for Christmas gift ideas for busy mums, why not pick up one of Jan De Vries’ pre-made gift boxes brimming with treats.
These bespoke, ready-made, vegan friendly boxes come in at prices starting at £15.57, with the Busy Mum box priced at £23.87.
This super cute set contains a de-stress roller ball, hand cream, relaxing Pukka tea bags, lavender spray and even more guilt-free beauty treats.
Visit www.jandevrieshealth.co.uk for more information or stop off at stores in Scotland.
Huda Beauty Power Bullet Metallic Lipstick, £18
PERFECT your party pout with this seductive new metallic lipstick from Huda Beauty.
The smooth, satin formula grants a gleaming, high-shine finish that’s intensely pigmented and long-lasting.
We’re obsessed with the shade ‘After Party’ – a Megan Fox-esque dramatic red with vampy undertones and sparkling flecks of gold and red.
Pop this in someone’s stocking filler and they’ll be buying you all the rounds on New Year’s Eve.
Vonza London Intensive Anti-ageing Sheet Mask, £6.99
THESE fast-acting anti-ageing sheet masks contain a peptide complex that can help to reduce the appearance of wrinkles and fine lines in a flash.
Containing potent, collagen-boosting ingredients, these work to quickly plump and hydrate the skin after just 10-15 minutes of using.
Easy to use and heavily inspired by renowned Korean beauty, these are also vegan and completely cruelty-free.
I’ll be popping one on after breakfast on Christmas day as part of my beauty prep for turbo-charged skin.
Noughty To the Rescue Gift Set, £8.50
THIS dreamy hair trio is perfect for those who are precious about their locks.
Each kit contains must-have essentials for your cabin luggage or weekend bag.
As well as being 97% natural, the moisture-boosting range comes charging to the rescue of dry and frizzy hair with an Almond and Moroccan Argan scent for a seriously sniffable mane.
Hair feels salon-treated and silky soft after using. The intensive leave-in conditioner is a must-have for soft and silky locks.
Arriving just in time for last-minute shopping, the products are available individually or as a coveted gift, wrapped for the perfect stocking filler.
From noughtyhaircare.co.uk
Profusion Contour Face Kit, £16
THIS great value kit has all the goodies you need to perfect your party face.
The ideal gift for any makeup newbie, this complete face sculpting collection contains a complete contour collection, six colour eyeshadow palette, three colour blush palette, one Lip Crème and eyeliner pencil and even a duo ended brush to help you create the perfect sculpted face.
The pigmented blushers and nude-hued eyeshadows rival MAC’s pro collections and create a gorgeous, sculpted look in seconds.
Jan De Vries Mood Essence, £4.99
PERK up someone’s day by including this mood enhancing essence from expert naturopath Jan De Vries.
Just a few drops of this added to water every day can help make users feel uplifted, cheerful and enthusiastic.
This is perfect for beating post Christmas blues as ingesting the flower essence can help with depression and lowness of spirits.
It contains a unique blend of grape alcohol, infusions of cherry plum, chestnut and heather to help users feel energetic and happy.
With Jan de Vries stores dotted all over Scotland, you won’t be far away from finding the perfect last minute gift.
Urban Decay Travel Sized Cherry Setting Spray, £10
THIS Travel-Size All Nighter Makeup Setting Spray is perfect for popping in someone’s stocking.
Made with patented Temperature Control Technology and suitable for all skin types, the bestie-in-a-bottle delivers a microfine mist that keeps makeup looking gorgeously just-applied for up to 16 hours.
The scent is a major upgrade to the original spray scent and gives the face a delicious cherry mist.
NARS Little Fetishes Mini Highlighter and Bronzer, £20
THESE cult beauty products have been revamped for these adorable mini stocking fillers.
Containing Fort De France Highlighting Powder and best-selling Nars Laguna Bronzer, this is perfect for those who love to look sculpted during party season.
Sure to bring recipients infinite joy without you having to blow the budget.
Ombar Gift Set, £8.99
CHOCCIE lovers will love this organic set from Ombar.
The beautiful box features their best-selling organic, vegan and fair trade chocolate bars.
Each is full of pure, plant-based cacao goodness, perfect for satsifying someone’s sweet tooth.
Kiss Wing It Eyeliner Kit, £8
EYELINER addicts can achieve the perfect Alexa Chung flick with this bargain kit.
The waterproof and smudge-proof gel liner comes with a stencil, making it super simple to draw up to 6 different cat-eye looks.
From mild flair to dramatic exaggeration, this is a long-lasting liner which is effortless to apply.
This is the perfect dupe for MAC’s famous gel liner at half the price.
Walden Solid Earth perfume oil, £30 for a set of five
FOR a rich, decadent scent to rival Jo Malone’s perfumes, this gift set from Walden is ideal.
Made from only the finest natural resins and essential oils, their roll on scents provide a strong, spicy aroma that lasts all day.
The Solid Earth opens citrusy fresh with Petitgrain followed by a heart of Vetiver and Light Patchouli Oil to finish off with creamy Amyris.
This delicious and distinctive scent is perfect for those who love to be remembered.
Charlotte Tilbury Mini Hollywood Lips Set, £20
GIVE makeup junkies the chance to try out some of Charlotte’s most loved lip shades with this stunning mini set.
Containing mini matte shades ‘Too Bad I’m Bad’ and ‘Show Girl,’ these are perfect for popping in stocking fillers.
Both shades contain divine creme contour liquid lipsticks which transform pouts into luscious Hollywood lips.
Lips look plumper, prettier and subtly sexy while the nourishing beeswax helps soften your pout.
Pixi Rose Tonic Holiday, £10
ALL dressed up for the festive season, this holiday edition of Pixi’s lovely Rose Tonic is a treat for any lucky recipient.
Naturally soothing and brimming with cell-friendly nutrients, this luscious tonic helps to tone, balance pH, minimise redness and calm irritated complexions.
Infused with rose and elderflower, this clever formula normalises hydration levels to refresh skin and leave it at its radiant best, while also replenishing and refreshing by gently removing any impurities.
A cute little stocking filler.
Build My Gift Sets, prices vary
IF you’re looking for a gift with a personalised touch, check out Buildmygift.com for a bespoke stocking filler.
Born from a search by the owner for a gift hamper that was truly personalised to the recipient – a loved one who was poorly – www.BuildMyGift.com has created better gifting options with an underlying mission to help spread love and appreciation.
At a range of prices, shoppers can select products by the likes of Ted Baker, Kate Spade, Katie Loxton and Vera Wang for Wedgewood, to create gift boxes that are completely unique.
We love this example set, made up with a Kate Spade travel mug – £18.00, Ted Baker ballpoint pens – £28, Katie Loxton notebook £15 and a Katie Loxton eye mask.
NUXE Reve de Miel Lip Balm, £10
FROM one of France’s best-loved pharmacy brands, Nuxe Rêve de Miel Ultra-Nourishing Lip Balm is an award-winning must-have for beauty lovers.
Formulated with conditioning plant extracts, anti-bacterial Honey and nutritive Shea Butter, this helps to rehabilitate dry, chapped lips and maintain their optimal hydration levels.
Tested in the extremely cold Canadian climate, users felt this excelled at restoring comfort and moisture, while leaving lips feeling super-soft and protected from the dehydrating effects of the elements.
This stocking stuffer gifts the wearer with luxuriously soft lips.
Live in the Light Peppermint Snow Candle, £17.50
DREAMING of a white Christmas? Nothing smells more like festivities than a heady festive candle.
These personalised candles can have any name or message inscribed and have around 40 hours of burn time.
The design features a watercolour robin and the message “Merry Christmas”.
You can add a name to be printed within the design, for a truly unique coffee table accessory.
Available from www.liveinthelight.co.uk
Highlighter, £6, Next
THIS highlighting powder from Next allows the skin to be red-carpet ready in seconds.
The glowing particles highlight your features, whilst minimising any imperfections underneath.
Sweep your highlighting brush across the powder and apply to areas you want to highlight and accentuate.
Areas include cheek bone, tip of the nose, center of your forehead, cupids bow and decolletage.
Perfect for popping into a stocking filler for ‘on fleek’ cheeks.
Nuxe Christmas cracker, £10
FAR more appealing than a paper hat and cheesy joke, this sk-indulgent cracker features four fabulous formulas.
Gentle Face Cleanser Rêve de Miel, Rêve de Miel Hand & Nail Cream, Huile Prodigieuse and Rêve de Miel Face Cream wait within this beautifully finished cracker – so if you’re pulling it open with a family member, ensure that you win.
Impulse Limited Edition Body Mists, £6
REVERT back to your childhood with this revamped body spray set from Impulse.
Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without spritzing on some of their iconic scents throughout the day.
The new range of Impulse Limited Edition Body Mists are made in collaboration with Insta stars Sophie Hannah and Helen Anderson and sparkly sisters Go Get Glitter.
All designed around the biggest trends of 2018, think glitter, mermaids, unicorns and candy – perfect for adding onto your festive gift list.
Topshop Glitter Eyeshadow in Trip, £7.50
PERFECT your glam grunge look by giving eyes a serious smoke up.
This glitter eyeshadow helps create a stardust effect that is out of this universe with its light-reflective formula.
Perfect for party season, your makeup is designed to shine.
Topshop have just relaunched their entire beauty line so now is the perfect time to shop for goodies.
NovAge Pore & Line Perfector by Oriflame, £16.95
GET flawless-looking skin with this pore and wrinkle perfector by Oriflame.
The perfect dupe for Benefit’s Porefessional primer, this also helps skin beat the stress of hard nights and exhaustion.
Soft, light and feathery, the semi-transparent formulation will help her achieve a clear, blemish-free complexion while softening lines and wrinkles.
Optical blurrers deliver a powdery base, while the absorbing powder reduces shine.
Perfect to beat hungover party season skin.
Time Bomb Complexion Cocktails To Go, £30
SKINCARE lovers will love this rescuing complexion cocktail set from Time Bomb.
Each ‘shot’ contains instant skin interventions each featuring a specific, potent shot to visibly combat the complexion-wrecking effects of day to day life.
With a shot of H2Omega to rehydrate and refresh dry, parched and crinkled skin, B12 to brighten and tighten tired skin which looks pale, dull and slack and Chlorophyll to calm and clarify stressed out skin with blotches and breakouts, this is the perfect stocking filler.
Each bottle is also fortified with a powerful blend of two types of Hyaluronic Acid for immediate plumping and a renewed dewy glow.
Nivea Luscious Lips Set, £6.50
ENSURE someone’s pout is chap-free with this gorgeous set from Nivea.
This sweet collection of four Nivea lip care must haves is the perfect gift for irresistibly soft and sumptuous lips.
It includes NIVEA Pearly Shine Caring Lip Balm; NIVEA Caring Lip Butter Raspberry Rosé; NIVEA Caring Lip Butter Red and a Limited-Edition NIVEA Original Care Caring Lip Balm.
Kiss Avenue Lash Couture, £9.99
FALSE lashes are any makeup lover’s ideal stocking filler.
The KISS 5th Avenue Lashes will elevate any look over the festive season by providing wearers with seriously fluttery lashes.
Made with the finest sourced silk, each strand is individually styled upholding its soft elegance, creating the most glamorous looking lashes, excellent for New Year’s Eve party.
Great for pre-party emergencies.
Perricone MD No Highlighter Highlight, £29
GO back to basics with this invisible highlighting liquid from Perricone MD.
Perfect for those who want a subtle glow, this imparts a dewy illumination to skin without being over the top.
Mums will love this radiant, natural looking highlighter which works amazingly alone or on top of makeup, on any skin tone.
It’s anti-ageing too; harnessing the benefits of Vitamin C Ester to help define and contour.
Prezziebox Selfie Light, £14.99
THIS smartphone selfie light is perfect for Insta-obsessed posers.
With three levels of brightness to suit your surroundings, it transforms photographs without the filter.
Simply attach to your smartphone with the clip and you’ll have a flattering light for the perfect selfie.
Available from www.prezziebox.com
Live in the light ‘Christmas tree’ essential oil, £12.95
DIFFUSER owners will love waking up to this festive inspired essential oil.
Tap into the powerful, aromatic properties of this blend of several essential oils that work together to create a wonderful aroma – perfect for Christmas.
Recipients can feel the sensation of walking through the Christmas tree lot finding the perfect tree over and over again during the holiday season while diffusing this blend of Fir, Cedarwood, Pine, and Juniper Berry Essential Oils.
Available from www.liveinthelight.co.uk
Fenty Beauty Metallic Eye Crayon Trio, £30
ANY beauty lover will gasp with delight upon receiving this dazzling trio from Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line.
Each limited edition holiday shade delivers a frosty, gleaming finish which glides on seamlessly with the creamy, metallic formula.
Line the lids or smoke them out with vivid chrome effects with the Insta-worthy crayons.
The portable pack is also complete with a hidden mirror, making these perfect for travel or popping in your clutch bag.
Available at Harvey Nichols for £30.
BEAUTIFY Illuminating Makeup Mirror, £30
UP your makeup game during the dark mornings with the help of this light-up mirror from beautify.
This is surrounded with a frosted ring light mirror with 23 LED strip lights which provides the perfect lighting used by professional MUAs to delicately highlight all the right areas of your face.
The 10x magnifying mirror can be attached to the front or rear of the mirror, or can be completely removed for handheld use, making it great for getting an up close view, as well as popping in your handbag for midday touch-ups.
The perfect gift for anyone with a serious skincare routine or a make-up lover.
Available at www.beautify.co.uk