- Ho, ho, ho! The holidays are here.
How was that?
- [Crew] It blew the sound a little bit.
- It's not on me if you're not ready for my festive cheer.
Hello, and welcome back to the Adore Beauty YouTube channel.
My name's Amy. I'm the senior editor here at Adore Beauty.
And if you can't tell by my festive get up,
we are talking about holiday gifting.
What the heck to buy that person
that you just have no bloody idea?
If you are struggling with holiday gifting this year,
I'm gonna help you out
by basically giving you a beauty editor's edit,
cut of our holiday gifting category,
depending on who you want to buy for.
We're gonna play a bit of a game.
I'm gonna pull out of this stocking a person
and then I'm gonna match that person
with the perfect gift.
So my videographer has very kindly written out
some people that I'm sure you have in your life
that you might need to gift for,
like your colleague or...
I actually don't know.
I don't know what any of these are in here.
Number one.
Coworker you don't know well.
Oh! A classic.
You want to go for something
that is gonna be universally beloved.
A go-to option, I would say,
for anyone that you don't know that well
or just Kris Kringle coworker gifts in general, candles.
Like one of the beautiful Glasshouse,
like the big Tahaa candle.
Or you could do a candle gift set.
We've got some really good candle gift sets,
like with the little minis,
so the Glasshouse candle gift sets,
Jo Loves, Circa.
So many options, but can't go wrong with a candle.
And if they don't like it,
well, that's their problem.
That's not your problem.
All right, next up.
(Amy blows raspberries)
Gardening enthusiast.
Okay, so everyone else is gonna get this person
like some gloves or a shovel-trowel thing or seed,
but you are gonna get them the Aesop exfoliating hand-wash.
Because if your friend or your loved one is a gardener,
their hands are probably a little bit worse for wear.
- [Crew] I was going to say SPF.
Well also actually SPF would be a great
gift because they're spending a lot of time outside.
So maybe the ultraviolet, you get them
one of their really cute gift sets or just the regular
full size of their favourite ultraviolet sunscreen.
I feel like Santa.
Oh, another classic at the holidays.
The don't buy me anything friend.
You know the one, oh, I don't need anything.
Just your company's gift enough.
Do not fall for this trap.
Usually we would get food.
Candles is also a good option for the don't get me anything
friend if they're like a close friend of yours,
I would get either a mini skincare starter set
from a brand like Laneige, Alpha-H.
Any of those brands that are doing a fun gift set.
Actually, if you really want to make the don't get me
anything friend feel bad or not feel bad to be like, no,
you are that important to me
that I did obviously get you something,
you could get them Balzac, the incense,
the oil burner or the glass crafts,
because they are so beautiful.
And it's just like,
kind of like a whatever, like don't get me anything friend.
Don't be the don't get me anything friend.
All right, next we have uncle Ben.
So uncle Ben is an uncle or a semi distant relative
that you quite like,
and you like catching up with them in the holidays.
Kind of like maybe
more like a Bougiee men's skincare
or Bougiee men's grooming kitsch or product,
something like the Bad Norwegian moisturiser,
or they do a shave cream.
Burly do a really good beard balm, a universal face oil,
something like that.
Like not a subtle hint,
but just like a you're worth it.
Oh, your friend that buys every new iPhone
as soon as it comes out.
So this is a person in your life that is cutting edge.
They like newness.
What about like one of our limited edition hair packs?
Like the Cloud Nine straightener limited edition pack
or GHD limited edition, the Glasshouse Christmas candles.
You can only buy them at Christmas time.
So that might be a nice kind of thoughtful little nod
there to their newness and ingenuity.
Can you tell I'm just really making a lot of this stuff
as we go?
Mom.
Okay. Mom deserves a good trait.
All the kids could pull their money together.
And dad can chuck in a bit too.
And we can get mom the limited edition Dyson Supersonic,
or the air wrap in the beautiful holiday
limited edition colours.
We could get mom a discovery set,
the Who is Elijah fragrance set.
The Juliette Has a Gun fragrance gift set,
or we could get mom
a Kera Stase care pack because the products
are such high quality and it already comes in
festively wrapped packaging.
Distant cousin.
They're getting the gift of your company.
Oh, your boss.
I want to say for your boss, I mean,
depends how close you are with them.
If you have a really nice working relationship
with your boss, you could get them a fragrance diffuser.
So maybe the Circa Amber and Sandalwood is really beautiful.
If your boss, you just want to get them something small,
I would get them like a ball ball
or one of the kind of like limited edition
Christmas decorations,
like Glasshouse and Circa have their little ball ball tins,
or even the Lana Lips 101 ointment decoration,
not too expensive, but crap places.
Next one is dad.
Or we could also sub that in
for fatherly figure, grandparent,
a male figure in your life that's a loved one.
I think let's get the Adore Beauty,
I believe it's the seven piece men's pack.
That's like skin, hair,
bodywash, the whole deal and (indistinct)
So there's literally no excuse to not have some
kind of self-care grooming routine.
What about like a Giorgio Armani,
Acqua di Gio gift set, YSL, Tommy Hilfiger.
Am I getting paid by the hour for this, or what's the go?
Your artistic friend or a loved one in your
life that really appreciates like the small details,
like some nice packaging, either a makeup brush set.
So Spectrum Brushes have their amazing makeup brush sets
that are also quite affordable or another option
purely because I mean, the products are great,
but also the packaging is so beautiful
and considered is the 11 hair packs.
There's a few different ones and they all feature some
commissioned artwork from an indigenous artist.
We have the beauty lover.
For the beauty lover in your life,
it has to be a Bougiee makeup set, for example, benefit,
they have an advent calendar, the more the merrier,
even like an Anastasia Beverly Hills, one of their palettes,
like the Renaissance palettes.
MAC also do some really great limited edition festive sets,
but also just generally speaking their artistry pallets,
I mean, I don't know what your budget is,
but there's an advent calendar,
$250 with a whole lot of goodies there
and actually a good gift for everyone,
speaking of advent calendars
is the Adore Beauty advent calendar.
It's 12 days of Christmas, $99.
I know that's kind of now we're going back to gifts
that I would like to receive.
I would actually like to receive any and all of these
just for anyone that might need to know.
And that wraps up our festive gift guide for people
you don't know what to buy for.
Thank you for joining us.
To any person that we've missed,
just don't get them anything, it's fine,
or a voucher, an Adore Beauty voucher,
that's also an excellent option.
I need to just put my gifting superpowers
to bed cause the video needs to end.
If you have any excellent gift ideas that I've missed,
please do pop them in the comments here
and have a wonderful holiday period, see you next time.