Xmas Gift Ideas - Part 1

Today there are 71 days until Xmas….can you believe it!?! And well, I technically have a day less to shop, as being Scandinavian means that we celebrate Xmas on Christmas Eve!

The stores are slowly – no, actually, it’s happening rather quickly now - starting to fill up with sweets, decorations and gift sets suitable for the whole family.

So I thought I’d put together a list of things that I would love to receive - and hopefully I can give you some good ideas too.

Natio Colour Therapy Pack

This great gift set contains: Colourful Smokey Eyes eyeshadow in Midnight Sky, Mineral Pressed Powder Bronzer in Sunswept, Kabuki brush, Pure Mineral Face Primer 30ml, Mineral Blusher in Pink Apples, Mineral Crystal Loose Foundation in Beige, all presented in a display box. Total retail value $100.70

Price: $49.95 – available from select retailers, including Myer  

 

 

Elizabeth Arden 2012 Holiday Set

Gift set contains: 4 x 4ml each High Shine Lipglosses in: Golden Red, Sheer Starlight, Peony, Rosebud

Price: $39 – available from select retailers, including Myer

Estee Lauder Block Buster 2012

The collection includes:

Smokey Plums Deluxe Eye and Cheek Palette with 9 coordinating shades

Soft Neutrals Deluxe Eye and Cheek Palette with 9 coordinating shades

3 Pure Colour Long Lasting Lipsticks (full-size, in Hot Kiss, Tiger Eye and Blushing)

Pure Colour Gloss (in Plum Divine)

2 Pure Colour Intense Kajal Eyeliner (in Blackened Black and Blackened Sapphire)

Sumptuous Extreme Lash Multiplying Volume Mascara (full-size)

Gentle Eye Makeup Remover (full-size 100ml)

4 Deluxe Makeup Brushes (Powder, Blush, Lip and Eye)

Beauty Wallet & Slim Case

Price: $120 (with any fragrance purchase of 50mL or more)

Available from among others, Myer, David Jones, and Estee Lauder online

 

Bobbi Brown Book: Pretty Powerful

From best-selling author and global makeup mogul Bobbi Brown, this newly launched beautiful guide presents Bobbi's Pretty Powerful philosophy and inspires women to use makeup to be their best selves. With step-by-step application instructions, face charts breaking down the different looks, and personal stories from real women and celebrities, this book outlines the best tricks and techniques Bobbi has culled from her remarkable career in the beauty industry

Price: $31.95 - available from Booktopia

 

Nars Beach Lover Set

The Set features a blush duo in Hungry Heart and Orgasm, travel size Soft Touch Shadow Pencil in Skorpios, travel size Lip Gloss in Laguna, and 17ml Liquid Illuminator in Laguna.

Price: $79 - available from Mecca Cosmetics 

Burts Bees Star Collection

This gift set contains Radiance Body Wash, Coconut Foot Crème, Honey Lip Balm, Acai Berry Lip Balm, Lemon Butter Cuticle Cream and Cranberry & Pomegranate Sugar Scrub.

Price: $49.95 - available from Burts Bees

 

BENEFIT She’s So Jetset Set

This gift set includes a 4-shade eyeshadow palette, the POREfessional Deluxe Sample, They're Real Mini, face powder with brush, lip gloss and a dual-ended sponge applicator.

$89 – available now from Myer

 

Stila Sydney Palette

This Palette includes 5 Eye Shadow shades in Koala, Opera House, Bondi Beach, Aussie, Harbour Bridge, a Convertible Colour Dual Lip and Cheek Cream in Sugarblush.

This palette is also available in London, Seoul, Rio and Vancouver.
Price: $25 - Available from Mecca Cosmetica

 

I probably won't be so lucky to get all of these for Xmas, so my top picks would be the Estee Lauder Block Buster as they are always such great value, and then the Bobbi Brown book, Pretty Powerful as the step-by-step application guides, tips and tricks sounds fantastic.

Have you fallen in love with any of these items? Or do you already have other things on your Xmas wish list?



 

Nars Pop Art Collection

Nars Pop Art Collection

To own an Andy Warhol screen print is little more than a dream for most people, but thanks to a new collaboration with the late artist's estate, fans can get their hands on a much more affordable piece of the Pop Art legend.

 

 

"I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty," Andy Warhol once said. Now, makeup legend Francois Nars has transformed Warhol's art into a beauty collection.

In the US, Nars is has just introduced introduce a new colour range in collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

 The extensive, 29-piece range draws upon the artist’s iconic imagery and off-register chromatic harmonies. 1967's "Self Portrait" and 1965's "Flowers" series are screened onto eye-shadow palettes whose mirrors are inscribed with Warholian aphorisms like "All is pretty" and "I’ve never met a person I couldn’t call a beauty."

 
The Soup can with Warhol's famous lip motif, holds a gift set of lip glosses with cheeky names like Silver Factory and Chelsea Girls.

 

Pop star meets pop artist in NARS’ Debbie Harry Eye and Cheek Palette. Reinterpreting the glamour and grit of Debbie Harry’s downtown scene, this audacious palette of shimmering shadows and blushes was created exclusively for Sephora. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s use of Diamond Dust, this sultry spectrum sparkles with shimmer and micronized diamond powder.

 

The compact’s mirror comes etched with one of Warhol’s famously playful quotes: "I always say, one’s company, two’s a crowd, and three’s a party."

Nars Warhol Self Portrait Eyeshadow Palette, $89 each.


The Nars Andy Warhol collection will be available exclusively at Mecca Cosmetica, from October 14.

I love the look of the NARS’ Debbie Harry Eye and Cheek Palette, it looks so nifty and versatile.
Have you fallen in love with anything from this limited edition collection?