Christmas Beauty Essentials: The Ultimate Festive Guide for 2021

With Christmas preparations well under way, PBL Magazine has gathered the Christmas Collections, Sets and Kits to warm every household - the true favourites as chosen by our editor from the Beauty Industry’s most opulent brands.

Aromatherapy Associates

The festive picks from Aromatherapy Associates offer something for every wellbeing need, igniting all of your senses for the upmost wellbeing experience, with every precious drop. With Aromatherapy Associates you can give the ultimate, thoughtful gift on everybody’s wish list tailored to what they really want and need this Christmas. Alongside this, the range is free from any unnecessary plastics and fully recyclable so you can gift consciously this Christmas.

Collection Highlight: Moments to Treasure - If there was ever a gift for those who need an entire Sunday afternoon of self-care Aromatherapy Associates ‘Moments to Treasure’ is it.

Our Favourites: The innovative and iconic waterless diffuser; the Atomiser is perfect for creating a relaxing environment in your home.

Swissline

Premium Swiss-made skincare brand is offering three luxurious gift sets this Christmas. Inspired by beauty, informed by biology the Swissline sets maintain the skin’s beauty and balance, with sets tailored to essential skincare as well as indulgent offerings. These are the perfect offerings for a premium gift and skincare lover.

Collection Highlight: 30th Anniversary Cell Shock Luxe-Lift Gift Set Kit - featuring sensational packaging and the hero Cell Shock range.

Our Favourites: The luxurious Age Intelligence Kit contains the best selling Smart Cream; a heavenly surge of pleasure for tired skin and frequent travelers and Resurfacing Water (travel size).

ESPA

Step into the magical ESPA world with a range of hand-picked collections, curated and tailored to suit every previous moment. This year, the Christmas offering from ESPA includes home spa gift sets to pamper gift hampers, ensuring that everyone will find the perfect gift for the special people in their life.

Collection Highlight: ESPA Hidden Treasures Advent Calendar

Our Favourites: Our favourites from the festive collection include the winter spice-scented monogram - perfect to hang in cosy spaces, and the Ultimate Bath & Body Jewels set; a collection of ESPA dual-action oils for every mood.

Guerlain

This Christmas, Guerlain is releasing a magical limited edition collection with never-before-seen colourways, packaging and formulas. In their enchanted atelier, the Guerlain bees have been busy creating luxury cases and sparkling shades, finished with a touch of precious gold, to enhance your most festive looks.

Our Favourite: Guerlain’s well-loved bronzing powder with its natural formula now comes with a sequin G design sprayed in gold, offering a subtle shimmer in the Christmas collections as the Terracotta The Bronzing Powder. Complete with sparkling packaging, this is perfect for warming up the skin for the Christmas period and beyond.

Decleor

Backed by science and powered by essential oils, highly effective Parisian skincare brand, Decléor opens the doors of its factory, a flourishing universe that brings together expertise and science in an enchanted word. Elegance and sensoriality reveal what lies behind its iconic products. Within the six-part collection sits 5 sets from their top-selling lines and an amazing value advent calendar.

Collection Highlight: Essential Oils Lab Christmas Advent Calendar

Our Favourite: The Neroli Bigarade Lab Hydrating Christmas Collection is ideal for dehydrated skin for the most perfect hydrating daily routine to increase moisture levels in skin from within.

111 Skin

Discover 111 Skin through their luxury curated holiday collections. These opulent gift sets featuring best selling, high-performance 111 Skin cosmetics are the perfect gift for every skincare connoisseur.

Collection Highlight: The Luxury Advent Calendar - featuring brand favourites in one set

Our Favourite: The Liquid Mask Discovery Set was the perfect way to enjoy radiance and replenishment usually offered by 111 Skin’s sheet masks. Offering a multi-use alternative for visible long-term results, these targeted products are formulated with considered, clinical-level actives that address specific skincare concerns - ensuring you will never be without the right treatment when travelling. It is the ultimate form of science-based self-care.

Dermalogica

This holiday season, give the gift of touch. One of the foundations of Dermalogica is the focus on the importance of human touch. This year they’ve partnered with Los Angeles artist Marleigh Culver, who artfully interpreted their Face Mapping skin analysis​ – creating an abstract motif that depicts facial zones and hand-based touch analysis, and captures the importance of human touch.

Collection Highlight: Deeply Nourishing Duo

Our Favourite: Ultra-hydrating trio takes skin from parched to luminous in three steps in the Hydration Heroes Set. Including Hydro Masque Exfoliant, Multi-Active Toner, Skin Smoothing Cream.

MAC Cosmetics

Captivate your crew with wow-worthy, limited-edition kits and a spellbinding colour collection for eyes, lips and skin. Featuring beloved best-sellers and never-before-seen shades, all dressed in hypnotic optical-illusion packaging, all in the Hypnotising Holiday Collection.

Collection Highlight: Hypnotizing Holiday Box of Tricks Advent Calendar

Our Favourite: If you’re looking for a mega-mesmerising palette, the Size of the Prize Eye Shadow Palette is your go to. The limited-edition eyeshadow palette features 25 holiday-exclusive shadows.

Environ

More luxurious than ever, this year’s offering features a celebratory wreath, brought to life with an original, unmistakably Environ design. All eight sets are expertly curated to answer specific skin needs, including bestsellers, packed with ingredients that deliver results and leave skin looking healthy, refreshed and revived.

Collection Highlight: Environ Ultimate Skincare Set - Take your complexion to the next level with Environ®’s premium range, scientifically formulated with a highly effective combination of powerful vitamins, antioxidants and peptides to supercharge your skin health.

Our Favourite: Super Moisturiser Super Size; This year’s Environ stocking filler comes in the form of a comforting moisturising cream formulated to help relieve dry skin conditions by regulating skin’s natural moisture levels and replenishing its moisture barrier.

Medik8

As captivating as nature itself, these limited edition gift sets have been inspired by nature’s landscapes to evoke a sense of positivity, hope, joy and togetherness. With time to reflect over the past year on what is really and truly important, this festive season, family and togetherness means more than ever before.

Collection Highlight: r-Retinoate Luxe Collection 2.0 Gift Set

Our Favourite: Celebrated Gift Set; this ultimate bedtime gift set includes a selection of products to enhance your evening skincare routine. Featuring global bestseller, Press & Glow, a next generation exfoliating toner that boosts your daily glow and its perfect vitamin A partner, Crystal Retinal.

Cloud Nine

The Evergreen Collection is the fiercest gift this Christmas, as an exclusive limited edition of Cloud Nine’s award-winning hair styling tools in a luxurious forest green finish with rose gold detailing. Making sustainability strides in the beauty industry, Cloud Nine recognise the importance of having a positive impact on the environment, therefore, for every purchase of The Evergreen Collection they will plant nine trees, helping to restore the natural beauty that inspired this iconic collection.

Our Favourite: Experience an instant curl crush with the Curling Wand made for all kinds of curls, from large, bouncy curls to soft waves. With heat settings ranging from 125-175°C for styling at lower temperatures without the unnecessary heat damage.

Osmo

This Christmas, OSMO lets you give your clients the gift of fabulous, healthy, and shiny hair. The professional haircare brand has created a collection of gift packs from the ranges X.POSED, Super Silver Deep Moisture, and Grooming.

Our Favourite: For those who are ready to take a step back, gift them with the X.POSED collection; a desirable, deluxe range that is stripping it back to the basics. The newest collection from OSMO, offering sustainable and environmentally friendly hair care for restoring the hairs essential hydration and protecting it from further damage. Exceptional everyday results every time.

Dermaquest

Give the gift of glowing youthful skin this year with this progressive anti-aging collection to restore youth and infuse vitality into mature complexion. Utilizing innovative peptides such as Idealift and CS peptide, along with glycolic acid to encourage collagen and elastin production, reduce fine lines and wrinkles and improve overall tone and texture. Consistent use of these products will leave skin nourished, polished and more youthful! The set includes: Peptide Glyco Cleanser, Essential B5 Hydrating Serum, Nourishing Peptide Rich, SunArmor SPF50.

Schwarzkopf Professional

Covering every hair type and every gifting eventuality Schwarzkopf Professional has once again got you and your clients covered this festive season. Give the gift of variety to ensure clients are always looking like they’ve just stepped out of the salon throughout this festive season. In total, there are 10 different sets from different Schwarzkopf Professional ranges.

Our Favourite: Inspired by skincare, BC pH 4.5 Color Freeze is for the beauty savvy! Each set includes a micellar shampoo, spray conditioner and treatment mask. and is perfect for colour and highlighted hair.

Advanced Nutrition Programme

This Festive Gift Collection covers the brand’s most popular supplements, pairing these with the ultimate modern multivitamin – Skin Vitality – which delivers a total of 28 smart nutrients in a convenient, one-a-day capsule for skin, hair, nail and body health. With a focus on overall wellbeing, these intelligent ingredients provide the perfect pairing for the accompanying supplements in each set.

Collection Highlight: Flawless Future Skin

Our Favourite: Future Skin Biome; Discover the skin benefits of pioneering microbiome supplements with a 10-day supply of two bestselling, award winning supplements Skin Clear Biome and Skin Youth Biome. This duo nurtures the connection between gut and skin, delivering a total of 10 billion active cultures, supported by zinc and vitamin C to kickstart your journey.

Dermatology M

Stay in control of a clear, calm complexion with this two-step skincare routine. These formulas harness nature’s most effective botanicals to restore and protect soft, balanced skin in the Dermatology M Blemish Essentials Set.

The renowned Jin Yin Hua Honeysuckle Cleansing Wash purifies and conditions, leaving skin bright and soft day and night while targeted spot gel Fei Zi Shui, swiftly clears blocked pores and blemishes to reveal a revitalised complexion.