Editor’s Holiday Picks 2023

Here are my top picks for the best beauty products of 2023 that make perfect gifts!

The Smooth Your Style Hair Kit

This hair-strengthening, frizz-control kit starts strong with the must-have Nº.3, a pre-shampoo repair treatment for stronger hair in as little as 3 minutes. When you’re ready to style, Nº.9 shields hair from damaging heat and pollution and improves style memory; Nº.6 hydrates and provides 72-hour frizz control, faster blow-dries, and more defined air-dries; and Nº.7 delivers dramatic shine at the finish line. Sleek, strong hair is the gift of the season.

  • Nº.3 Hair Perfector™ (30 mL / 1 fl. oz.)
  • Nº.6 Bond Smoother® (100 mL / 3.3 fl. oz.)
  • Nº.7 Bonding Oil™ (7.7 mL / .25 fl. oz.)
  • Nº.9 Bond Protector Nourishing Hair Serum (20 mL / .68 fl. oz.)

$41.25

The Iconic Shooting Star Texture Iconic Meringue Shape

On a countless number of editorial shoots and celebrity red carpets, Ted Gibson created this product to make your styling capabilities endless. Using SSTM you can transform your hair wet or dry. For dry hair it creates texture and shine with a matte/shiny editorial finish. For wet hair creates a beautiful, sexy blow dry. A high performance fragrance that opens with notes of fig and amber that gives way to notes of coriander and vanilla and rounded out with creamy coconut and warm woods. Fragrance Notes:

Top: Fig and Amber

Middle: Coriander and Vanilla

Bottom: Coconut and Cedar

$52.00

Chantal Kreviazuk’s Must Have Skincare Set

Discover Chantal’s favorite daily products that keeps her looking fresh and ready to go 24/7.

GLOW Facial Mist: Daily facial toner refreshes the skin and helps prepare it for your daily moisturizing care. Made with 100% pure and natural ingredients blended to help provide balance, hydration and condition the skin.

GLOW Daily Moisturizer: A daily lightweight moisturizer that helps to hydrate, nourish and block out everyday pollutants.

GLOW Eye Cream: A daily eye cream to help restore tired, dry and puffy eyes. Dedicated for the delicate skin around eyes, it helps alleviate dark circles and leaves skin feeling nourished and moisturized.

$95.00

Vitamino Color ensures vibrant, long-lasting color protection

Give the gift of healthy and radiant hair with L’Oréal Professionnel gift sets! Our curated sets bring a touch of luxury and nourish, protect and repair during the festive season. Elevate the joy of gifting with our products for a thoughtful holiday surprise!

VITAMINO COLOR SHAMPOO 500ML

VITAMINO COLOR CONDITIONER 500ML

METAL DETOX SHAMPOO 100ML

PRICE

SRP $68.00

Value $94.50

Water Color Tint 1999

A unique water-balm hybrid formula for a sheer, weightless wash of colour on lips and cheeks, with a skin-like finish. The buildable formula can be layered for intensity. With a comfortable, barely-there finish, this fragrance-free formula is made with a blend of water and waxes for a sheer application. The formula is vegan and cruelty-free.

PARNA is rose petal pink
MALNA is cool-pink mauve
TEGLA is warm muted-brick
TINTA is cool-toned inky plum

$26.00

Kerasilk Smoothing Trio Kit

Smoothing SHAMPOO & CONDITIONER: A gentle cleansing shampoo and rich conditioner infused with Biomimetic Silk & Shea Oil. Our 100% vegan formula tames frizz and calms the overall hair structure while intensively nourishing the hair for a luxuriously smooth and soft feel.

LIQUID CUTICLE FILLER: A heat-activated spray infused with Biomimetic Silk & Blue Lotus Extract. Our 100% vegan formula1 rebuilds and optimizes the hair surface for a long-lasting structural recovery of the cuticle and healthy-looking hair full of natural shine. Ideal for coarse, frizzy or unruly hair; hair that lacks control and is difficult to style; curly and wavy hair.

$98.00

True Expression Natural Brow Duo & Brush

Update your expression with brow shades designed to truly compliment and evolve with the changing beauty of your natural silvering hair.  A stay-in-place silky powder formulation that can be applied dry for soft filling in and shaping or wet to create hair-like strokes for definition.  Comes with a premium brow brush for a perfectly fine application.  The compact magnifying mirror ensures precision.  Responsible luxury, high-quality effective products made from certified clean ingredients in plastic-free beauty packaging.

$42.00

Lashify Control Kit DIY Extended Wear Lashes

The world’s first multi-award winning, patented DIY Lash System in one sleek box.  The “underlash” concept allows you to easily create a look that is perfect for your eye shape. Lashify offers various lash gossamer styles for a personalized, flirty lash look with endless possibilities. The Whisper Light bond uses a Micro Mascara applicator for precise application. This bond is safe for clients that are allergic to the tradiional lash extensions offering a safe alternative without fumes, burning or formaldehydes.

Achieve customizable, salon-quality extensions in minutes that can last up to two weeks! The Control Kit is the perfect way to get started on your exciting new lash journey.

Control Kit:

$175

Charlotte Tilbury Beautyverse Palette

Get Supermodel ready for the holidays with with limited edition 9-pan eyeshadow palette featuring neutral and eye-popping golden, pink, lilac and silver shades in a mixture of matte and metallic finishes.

$95.00

L’Oréal Professionnel Steampod

Your ticket to flawless hair this holiday season! This innovative styling tool harnesses the magic of steam to create a smooth, and sleek look that radiates elegance. The Steampod features adjustable temperature settings to cater to various hair types, and allows for effortless styling. The Steampod paired with L’Oréal Professionnel’s NEWEST launch: Alpha-Silane is designed to instantly control frizz for 72 hours and help with making the hair look shinier while also feeling nourished up to 5 washes. Activated by heat, and amplified by steam; 5% Alpha-cilane creates a protective layer around the hair fiber to protect any hair type against extreme heat and humidity conditions. Gift yourself or a loved one the luxury of salon-quality results at home.

$364.00

Ember Wellness Highlighting Moisture Bar – Rose Quartz

This 3-in-1 zero waste bar sculpts like a gua sha, hydrates and protects your skin’s barrier, and imparts a subtle glow thanks to sustainably sourced Mica. The Sculpt & Glow Bar is made from twelve organic ingredients, is water-free, vegan, and refillable, and is both skin and environmentally friendly. Includes ingredients like Shea Butter, Grape Seed Oil, Chamomilla Recutita Flower and Mica to make skin radiant. Housed in an aluminum slide box for ease of use, meet your new on-the-go skincare essentials.

$35.00

Wella Oil Reflections Holiday Box

Oil Reflections is Wella’s precious oil collection of products for shiny hair. With camellia oil and white tea extract, the Oil Reflections products leave the hair up to 3 times smoother and create instant luminosity. Our 2 distinct subliming oils, Luminous Smoothening Oil and Luminous Light Oil, create light reflections and a glossy, radiant hair.

Set Includes:

  • 1x Oil Reflections Luminous Reveal Shampoo 250ml
  • 1x Oil Reflections Luminous Instant Conditioner 200ml
  • 1x Oil Reflections Luminous Reboost Mask 150ml

$42.99

OMY Laboratories Glow Set

The Glow Set is ideal for skin that desires a more luminous, plumped-up appearance. Includes a Tri-Exfoliating Face Mask, BHA Active Foam Cleanser and Pure Face Oil.

It’s the perfect gift set to treat yourself or to give as a special present this holiday season.

$98.00

Mirigal Body Elixir

This luxurious body oil is a multi-functional, fast-absorbing, deeply nourishing, toning and restorative oil designed with certified organic, wild-crafted, and co-op-grown botanical and plant-based ingredients.  The unique, fresh, and sensual scent transforms your skin with locked-in moisture for the colder months ahead. Can also be used on your face and hair. Ingredients include argan, prickly pear, pomegranate, rose absolute, jojoba and more.

$200

Francis Kurkdjian Aqua Universalis Detergent for Dark Colors

This Aqua Universalis scented laundry soap embellishes the clothing in the wash cycle with bright fresh notes. Aqua Universalis creates a subtle connection between skin and clothing. Your dark colours are delicately scented with a refined and sunny scent which is as much a tribute to the art of perfume as to the art of living well.

$75.00

CND Magical Botany Collection

This holiday season, be inspired by holiday glamour and the enchanting essence of nature.  Available in both Shellac and Vinylux.