Hey guys it’s Mi-Anne, and this is
Beauty With Mi.
Happy Holidays!
It is December, which means that we are
knee deep in the holiday season and
ABC is gonna
start playing Harry Potter reruns,
the best time of year.
I’ve been collecting a lot of gift guides
over the past few weeks.
I’ve been trying them all, and I’ve
come up with a comprehensive
list of things that
I want to recommend to you guys.
I decided to break them all up into
sections divided by budget.
The first section is under $25,
the second is under $50,
and the third is under $150.
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So, let’s start with the under $25 portion
and the first product
that I wanna show you
is very exciting.
This is the C’est Moi
Visual Artist Makeup Crayon Set.
This one is $25.49,
which I know is 49 cents
over budget, but it is a really
good set, and I wanted
to show it to you anyway.
I discovered this brand
I wanna say six months ago.
I was really surprised that each of these
crayons cost under $10,
and they have a lot
of really fun shades.
These are just like a sampler set of
all the colors they have like
lavenders, pinks, and everything like that.
This is a really good set for anyone
who wants to dabble in color, but
maybe wants something that’s easy to
use, so it’s a jumbo crayon,
you can just sharpen them
when you need.
You can do all over the lid work
with it, you can just line your eyes
with it, they last a pretty long time,
the shade range is really good.
So, next up is hair and this is the
Ouai Three Ouai Kit.
It costs $25 and it comes with
three kind of smaller versions
of their Wave Spray, their
Volume Spray, and their
Dry Texture Foam.
I have had the same Wave Spray
for a year,
and I’m only just now getting to the end
of it so this stuff is really good.
The Volume Spray you would put
into wet hair
and it would just give you a little more
volume once it’s dried.
The Dry Texture Foam is really great
to put in dry hair when you wanna
just zhuzh it up.
It comes with a few little hair pins, too
that can help section
your hair when you’re
styling it, so very good,
I’m a big fan of Ouai
and this is a really good starter kit
for anyone who wants to
be introduced to the brand.
The final product in the under $25 section
is this little kit from Nars.
$22 it’s called the
Wanted Power Pack Lip Kit.
Hands-down my favorite liquid lipstick
that I’ve tried in the past year or so
is probably the Nars
Power Matte Lip Pigment.
These are little mini versions of them,
there is the nude set,
which comes with two nude
lipsticks and then there’s also the
red version,
which comes with two shades of red
that honestly are pretty similar.
There’s a pink-toned red
and then a more orange-toned red,
but if you’re a big red
lipstick wearer, you’ll
probably really love it.
This lipstick formula is so good.
It has a really nice, precise
doe foot applicator,
it’s very comfortable, it doesn’t feel
drying.
It’s just very, very good.
So now we’re moving on to the
under $50 section, and the first
thing I have is this
kit from Milk.
Now this is called
Milk Meet The Fam.
I am a really big fan of Milk
in general as a brand.
I’ve used them a ton of times on
this channel before.
This has a bunch of different little mini
versions of their popular stick products,
so there’s the Cooling Water
which is like a roll-on serum toner,
there’s a watermelon serum,
and then we’re getting to the
good stuff: the makeup.
Milk makes really good stick
bronzers, blushes, highlighters.
They’re really big, they’re like…
they’re like deodorant sized.
These are the cutest little sample sizes.
I almost feel like I prefer them
to the large size because,
again, they’re so great for
travel and
this is still a lot of product like your
cheekbones are so tiny,
it’s gonna take you like months--
years to finish this.
It comes with their Lit Highlighter,
which is a beautiful like little
Champagne-y gold,
their Holographic Stick Highlighter
in Supernova,
which is their like purple-y
iridescent highlighter,
their blush, which I love,
it’s the Lip and Cheek Blush in Werk,
with an E
and then finally this is
their Blur Stick, a silicone free blurring
primer.
I know they’re small,
but I’m telling you that stuff is gonna
last you a very long time
and it comes in at $39,
which I think is a really good price
to try a ton of their items
and find out what you really like
before you go in and buy the full sizes.
Next up on the makeup front
is this kit from Stila.
It’s the Aura Alight Glitter & Glow
Highlighter and Liquid Eyeshadow Set.
It has one two three four five...six
of their like Glitter & Glow Shadows,
which are some of my favorite
liquid glitter formulations
on the market.
They last a long time,
they’re super glittery,
and they dry down matte
so they’re not gonna
be sliding all over your lid,
they’re not gonna get underneath
your eye.
They’re really quality shadows,
and they’re pretty pigmented, too.
This is a good array of different colors
it has like a silver,
some coppery tones, a really
beautiful purple,
like a nice white diamond kind of color.
It retails for $45,
which an individual like Stila
full-size of them is gonna run you like
$24, and you’re getting six of them in here.
I think it’s gonna take you a long time
to get through one of these,
I mean they’re
not that small, look.
My eye for scale.
And finally in the under $50 section
I have something that I’m
very excited about.
Look at this!
It is so cute, this is the Glow Recipe
gift set, it comes in
this adorable pink acrylic
bag that I am
definitely going to wear, so
I’ll take some pictures of me wearing
this bag as a normal bag,
and I’ll slap them up here
so you can see how I styled it.
But it is the cutest little thing,
it has all of their
watermelon products in it.
This is their Watermelon Sleeping Mask,
which is an amazing mask,
it smells so good like watermelon.
And it has a lot of like gentle acids
in it to help exfoliate the face,
but it’s also still
very hydrating, so it’s not gonna
leave your face red,
it’s not gonna leave your
face irritated,
It’s a really luxurious mask, and this is
a pretty big size of it.
On your left, on my right here...
wait a second.
On the other side,
there’s the Watermelon Pink
Juice Moisturizer,
which is a very lightweight,
almost serum-like moisturizer.
For my skin, or anyone who
would probably have like
combination-dry skin it’s probably
not gonna be enough
to be your sole moisturizer.
I use it more as like a
hydrating serum before
like a thicker moisturizer or an oil.
Really nice as well.
And then finally there is the
Jelly Sheet Mask, which is a
hydrating and soothing mask.
The jelly texture is really nice,
calming on the skin.
My producer did also point out that it
kind of looks like a Bratz doll
bag or just generally
any Polly Pocket.
It’s just really, really cute and
all this is $40, which I think
is just like
you get a bag!
So, moving right along to under $150,
now this is the bigger
spending section, obviously.
Like for when you
wanna treat yourself slash
when you wanna give a gift to
someone that you really, really like.
This first item is the Drunk Elephant
The Littles set, another skincare find.
I love Drunk Elephant,
it’s one of my favorite skincare lines,
and they always come out with
a kit during the holiday season
that’s a really good way to
try out some of their products
before you buy the full size.
The Night Serum, this fella right here,
is my favorite product from the line.
It’s a gentle night serum that has AHAs,
BHAs, like just gentle acids in it.
It really helps in terms of brightening
the skin, it helps with acne,
it’s just a great
serum, but it costs $90,
and that is a lot for one serum,
especially if you don’t know
that you like it.
So, you can spend the same
amount of money
and you get a ton of stuff.
You get the Hydration Serum,
sunscreen, eye cream,
you get a brightening vitamin C serum,
a moisturizer, and an oil.
All that, one kit.
Not bad.
So, I also wanted to include some tools in
this gift guide.
This is the Sigma Make Me Classy set,
it comes in a cool little travel size case,
and there
are a ton of brushes in here
that you can pretty much do your
entire face with it.
So if you’re gonna give this to someone
or you’re asking someone to give this to
you, you pretty much have your
entire face full of brushes in here.
It’s $125, which I know is a hit,
but the Sigma brushes
last a really long time, they
wash really well, they don’t shed.
I don’t know, are brushes boring?
I don’t think so, when I get a
new brush I’m like so excited to use it.
Having good tools makes
such a difference in your makeup
application and having a good
set of like nice eye brushes like
nice face brushes can
make putting on your makeup so
much more fun, too.
Last but not least, we have
this set from Nest, it’s the
Birchwood Pine
candle and diffuser set.
And this is my favorite holiday scent
ever because it reminds me
of when I was
an intern here at Refinery
like three years ago, my editor
who I admire and love, hi Meghan,
she got this candle and told me that
it was her favorite scent and
me, being the copycat
that I am, adopted it and
made it my favorite scent.
It’s just a really nice warm pine,
birch, obviously it’s a birchy pine scent,
but it has a very warm, smoky feel to it too.
The whole set retails for $74 and you get
a full size candle and a full size diffuser.
The candle retails for $42
and the diffuser retails for $48
so you are saving some money
there.
It’s a great gift for like family members,
it’s a great gift for me
if you guys wanna
buy me more.
Like opening the box I
was just transported to one of the first
times that I went to her
apartment to babysit her cat
and I was like,
“Your apartment smells so good, you’re
such an adult, you have a real couch!”
It was amazing.
I know that not everyone
is willing to spend
$74 on products that are gonna
fragrance your home,
but I think it’s really nice to like
walk into a home and it smells
really nice and it really
puts you into the mood.
So, even if you don’t wanna spend
all that money on a candle,
which I don’t blame you,
I hope there’s other stuff in this
gift guide that you do think
is worth trying out.
So, that is the final product in the
gift guide, I hope that you guys
enjoyed this video.
Please let me know in the
comments below if there are
any other gift sets that you guys
think I should try,
and I’ll see you guys next week, bye!
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