Holiday Gifting Challenge 2023: Tag a beauty gift you'd like to unwrap this season! 🎁

[TeamBIC]

This holiday season, we’re presenting a challenge to our Beauty Insider Community members: picking the perfect presents for various people and prompts! 🎁 Community members are some of the best folks to ask for the latest and greatest product recommendations – so who better to go to as we all build our beauty shopping lists? This Holiday Gifting Challenge is a fun way to give and get gifting inspo for loved ones in your life … and don’t forget to account for self-gifting as well. 🙈

As we close out 2023, we’re challenging you to response to each of the weekly prompts below – and be sure to use the “#” symbol to tag products you mention!

• Week 1 (10/25 - 10/31): Tag a product you’d give to a skincare enthusiast 🧼
• Week 2 (11/1 - 11/7): Tag a gift that reminds you of one of your BIC besties (and tag them too! 🥰)
• Week 3 (11/8 - 11/14): Tag a gift with the prettiest packaging 🤩
• Week 4 (11/15 - 11/21): Tag a gift for the host/hostess with the most/mostest 🏡
• Week 5 (11/22 - 11/28): Tag a gift with the best bang for your buck 💸
• Week 6 (11/29 - 12/5): Tag a gift from your favorite brand 🧡
• Week 7 (12/6 - 12/12): Tag the cutest beauty mini or stocking-stuffer 🤏
• Week 8 (12/13 - 12/19): Tag the perfect gift for a fragrance fan in your life ✨
• Week 9 (12/20 - 12/26): Tag the gift you want to receive this season 🤗

It’s the season of giving, BIC! 👐 Hit the “Reply” button to share your answer to the prompt of the week and use the “#” symbol to tag Sephora products.

[Samtian]

This one is a bit tricky, hopefully I would know their skin types and concerns. But I think it'd be a good bet to gift SEPHORA COLLECTION Holy Sheet Mask Set unless of course they don't like sheet masks. 

[itsfi]

“unless of course they don’t like sheet masks” What @Samtian?!! 😳 lol, completely get that sheet masks are not for everyone for a host of reasons. But good thing I was sitting when I read that. 😝 

This has a good sampling of the different lines of the Sephora Collection sheet masks and would be a nice set to introduce someone to sheet masks in general or the SC masks in particular. 

[Titian06]

@itsfi - Please sit down...You and I had a discussion about this last year.  I'm one of those people--or maybe I'm the only one--who doesn't like sheet masks.

- I feel like I'm suffocating.

- Many of the ingredients are off-putting. 

- They feel slimey.

- I have to leave it on for how long?!?

After talking to you, I occasionally look at Sephora, Ulta, and TJ Maxx, but just haven't found "the one." 😷

[Samtian]

@Titian06 @sprocketta doesn't like them either. 

[CorgiMommy]

@Samtian I totally agree with the sheet mask set.  Great value 

[danielledanielle]

The Ordinary The Bright Set with Glycolic Acid 

First Aid Beauty Hydration Wonderland – Full Face Routine Holiday Gift Set 

belif DIVE IN! Hydration Set 

SEPHORA COLLECTION Under-Eye Roller 

Freck Beauty Cactus Water Cleansing Lactic Acid Toner 6.5 oz/ 192 mL 

Peter Thomas Roth The Gift of Bright Eyes 

The value sets are 🤌🏽🤌🏽. You get to try the best of best or greatest hits.  You can also split them into stocking stuffers.  The PTR eye patches are my fave and if you snag the roller, it's an ultimate treat yourself gift @TeamBIC 

[itsfi]

The under eye roller would make such a fun gift @danielledanielle - it’s functional and cute! 💕

[itsfi]

Week 1 (10/25 - 10/31): Tag a product you’d give to a skincare enthusiast 🧼

Love me some skincare @TeamBIC! 💖 Here are some beauties I love or have loved gifting to others.

$25 and under:

• SEPHORA COLLECTION Wellness Time Trio Set would be great for skincare beginners and veterans alike.
• Glow Recipe Smooth Skin Dreams Kit - good for acne/blemishes, pores
• Youth To The People Youth Stacks™: Daily Skin Health Your Way for Pores and Oiliness - (oily skin)
• SEPHORA COLLECTION SOS Routine Skincare Set - good intro to hydrating skincare routine
• OLEHENRIKSEN Glow Strong Mini Moisturizer + Eye Cream Duo - great for strengthening skin barrier & brightening under eyes
• SEPHORA COLLECTION Wooden Massager Set - I just picked this up for myself, because caring for your skin includes caring for the skin on your body

Between $25 - $50: 

• EADEM Bare-Skin Confidence Brightening Trio With Niacinamide and Vitamin C - love, love, love the Dark Spot serum and it's great that there's a mini set for the entire line
• Paula's Choice Favorite's Mini Kit - great intro to the brand, with a lot of its bestsellers
• INNBEAUTY PROJECT The Healthy Skin Edit Bestsellers Kit - their eye cream is favorite (not in kit) and I like their bakuchiol slushy serum. Combining the slushy serum and the moisturizer from this set makes for a fabulous anti-aging skincare pairing
• LANEIGE Heavenly Hydration Set - hydration and moisture for face & lips
• Glow Recipe Fruit Babies Bestsellers Kit - great intro to the brand

Over $50:

• Biossance Vitamin C Brightening Trio Set - brightening and hydrating (@jaaayp, have you seen this set?) 
• Tatcha Plumping Dewy Skin Essentials for Dry to Combination Skin - beautiful combo for moisturized and bouncy skin
• Farmacy Honey Dewy Duo Hydrating Moisturizer + Brightening Eye Cream - a dream duo for winter skin; great pre and post-flight ✈️

A LOT more than $50: 

• Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare Light It Up FaceWare Pro LED Device Kit - I have the original FaceWare Pro and it helps with breakouts when I use it consistently. The one in this kit is pink!! 😍
• NuFACE MINI+ Smart Petite Facial Toning Routine 

DDG FaceWare PRO (interior)

DDG FaceWare PRO (original) - skincare tool or last minute Halloween costume? Or both!

[jaaayp]

Omg... @itsfi .... WHAT A LIST!!! and omg x2, I actually purchased the Biossance Vitamin C Brightening Trio Set yesterday 😂😂😂 AND the Biossance Glow Forth Hydrating Set... did I need both? Does ANYONE need both? 😂😂😂😂😂

[GeorginaBT]

Love this breakdown into price categories @itsfi - I might end up shopping your recs 🥰 LANEIGE Heavenly Hydration Set would make a great gift for a teen! 

[itsfi]

The Laneige set is a great intro to the brand @GeorginaBT. I really like the LANEIGE Cream Skin Milky Toner with Ceramides & Peptides for Nourishing Hydration ❣️ And, of course it includes the Laneige lip sleeping mask, which could mean the start of a collection for a teen, or anyone for that matter, of the different flavors. 😝 

[danielledanielle]

Always appreciate your breakdowns @itsfi 

[itsfi]

Thank you @danielledanielle! 🎁 I have some relatives and coworkers for whom I need to be extra mindful of how much is spent on each person so if they’re not all getting the same kind of gift, I have to think through price points a bit more. 

[GeorginaBT]

I have a family member whose birthday falls around the holiday period, and she loves SK-II Facial Treatment Sheet Masks 10 masks / pack! These are definitely luxe (and I haven't actually tried them myself!) but I'm happy to treat her to them every year. 😊

[itsfi]

These are such a luxe treat @GeorginaBT! Very generous of you to gift them to your family member. I feel like you're due for a treat for yourself of this mask. I think there's also set out with a single sheet mask and some other SK-II beauties. 

[CarolBT]

I give my mom Kiehl's Since 1851 Creme de Corps Soy Milk & Honey Whipped Body Butter 12 oz/ 340 g (or some version of the creme de corps line) for Christmas every year. She loves it!

[itsfi]

"milk and honey whipped body butter" - that just sounds decadently nourishing @CarolBT! 

[Loretta55]

If my budget was unlimited I would choose Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare Light It Up FaceWare Pro LED Device Kit @TeamBIC .

[itsfi]

This really is such a great set @Loretta55! Love how they updated the mask with different color options. This pink one looks so fun!

[SportyGirly125]

• Week 1 (10/25 - 10/31): Tag a product you’d give to a skincare enthusiast 🧼
  
  NuFACE Trinity Facial Toning Device + Wrinkle Reducer Attachment Bundle 

[CookieGirl1]

For the skincare enthusiast, maybe the Tatcha Smoothing + Firming Skincare Holiday Value Set .