Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so, so much for joining me.
So what we are doing today is a bit of
a gift guide, not necessarily just for Christmas, because I
feel like by the time I put this out, it
may be a bit too late to order for Christmas,
but I want to do some gifts for makeup love...
I feel like it's really hard to buy for
people who like makeup, who like makeup, but you're kind
of like, I don't know what to get them because
maybe you're not that much into makeup.
Because I know people who aren't much into makeup
do also watch my videos, or maybe
that you feel like they have everything.
I have a few unique items here
that would be really great to gift
someone that they probably don't have already.
So this could be for Christmas, it could
be for New Year, it could be for
their birthday, it could be for whatever.
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Okay, let's start with the first one.
The first one we're talking about, I
actually don't have in front of me.
I actually rearranged my room a little bit, and
there's boxes everywhere, stuff I haven't unpacked again yet.
So the first one I want to talk about,
you may have seen me talk about before, is
the Makeup Artist Journal from The Contemporary Edit.
Now, this journal is something that I can't
believe hasn't existed already, hasn't been made already.
We needed this years ago, and it
is this makeup artist journal, self explanatory.
But inside it, you have face charts, you
have expenses, you have room for inspiration.
You have room to write down contact numbers.
There's this whole journal which is specifically made for
makeup artists and will also go really well alongside
content creators, people who are starting to maybe, they
want to start creating TikToks or YouTube videos.
You can plan out all your content
within the pages of this journal.
There is face charts, for those of you who don't know,
you can literally draw makeup onto this
special paper, and it'll hold to the makeup.
But you can blend. You can do everything.
So you can plan your looks ahead of time.
If you're doing a wedding, for example, you
can write down all the products you've used
in their trial, even the nail polish
color, everything is included within this journal.
It is so well organized and is such a unique thing.
I have never seen it before.
If there's a makeup artist in your life,
somebody who wants to be a makeup artist,
perhaps they're going to start a makeup course.
This is a product to get them.
I cannot tell you enough how, when I saw it and
when I opened it, I looked through it and I gasped.
I was like, oh, this is incredible.
Lisa Eldridge shared it on her...
I think it was her Instagram saying how amazing it was.
All these incredible makeup artists have shared this,
and they're like, where has this been?
Why wasn't this around in life when, you know...
For all these years, it's something we really, really needed.
Yeah, so if somebody is about to take a
makeup journey, whether they want to become a
content creator or they're doing work, maybe they're
getting their own salon, anything.
This is the most organized journal,
makeup journal I've ever seen.
I haven't even seen a makeup journal, what I'm talking about?
But I can't give it praise enough.
It is amazing.
So next up is going to be the
Fawn Milk Hydrating Skin Mist from Ritual De Fille.
And this is, their whole brand
first of all, if you want unique makeup that you can
bet not a lot of people have, their brand is incredible.
Just look how beautiful.
I know it looks like blood, but it's cute.
It's just so, so amazing.
Just give it a good shake.
And this is great for skin prep.
If you don't use too much, you want your makeup to
last a long time, but you don't want to over hydrate.
You don't want your skincare, anything,
to interfere with your foundation. This is incredible.
I just love the way it looks.
They also do a cleanser. And this brand in
particular do the most unique shades and highlighters.
And you just need to... I will link everything below, but check them
out, because even if you're not sure about this,
go and check out their brand, because the products
they do, I have never seen, so unique, so
unique to that brand and their aesthetic.
And I feel like it's a good gift.
It's an amazing quality product and truly unique.
Again, like I keep saying about everything, but
if you're struggling, like, what do you want?
And they go, oh, I don't know.
I don't really want anything, just a voucher.
But you want to give them something physical.
Check out this brand, because there's stuff on
there that you won't find anywhere else.
Okay, next up is this.
I got this one from Makeup A Murder, which
is the brand with IMAKEUPNOW.
And I actually found one online randomly.
I think it was like...
I had to take off this lipstick.
It was on TikTok, and I clicked on a link.
But these again, and I'm sure a lot of
you have seen it, are incredible for anybody who's
wanting to learn makeup or start learning makeup.
I have one I've used ages ago already,
but they are practice eyes, so you can
literally practice eye makeup on these palettes.
Makeup A Murder have loads of different skin tones as
well, which I've got a few of all the different ones.
So it's great to practice, like, how colors sit
on the face and what they look like.
The skin texture is very unique. It's not like...
It's not like a mannequin.
It's not like that kind of thing.
Product sits really, really well on
this, and it blends very well.
And this is the closest thing to a true skin
texture and eye texture that I have seen, ever.
The great thing as well about the eyes
being open and looking down is that's a
great way to do eye makeup anyway.
But you can get lashes on there.
You can see the socket more.
You can draw your own brows on if you want to.
Or you can get those, like, brow
tattoos and kind of stamp them on.
It cleans incredibly well.
It doesn't stain anything like that.
And it's just a good time. If you maybe have
a younger child who likes to do makeup, but you
don't always exactly want to be the model.
Get a few of these, a few different skin tones and
let them try, and let them play with makeup on these
because it is the closest thing to practicing on a real
person that you're going to get without using a real person.
These are really incredible.
Again, I wish these were around
when I was learning makeup.
My poor mum had to be my model all the time.
So I guess I didn't start out doing the best makeup, you know.
Everyone starts somewhere.
So these are such a great invention, and I'm so happy
to see something like this where anyone can do makeup.
Not everybody wants to be the
model for their own makeup.
Maybe they want to do it on other people.
So this is a really great way to learn.
I absolutely love this.
You know what would be good? If you can mount these to a wall and actually do
it like the level you would, height level, because you have
the kind of have to practice down on the table.
Maybe we can figure that out.
Now, this is a bit of a weird one because
you're kind of like, how is this really unique?
But this is the ColourPop Manifest This.
Kind of like palette vault.
ColourPop are really, really good when they aren't
releasing something every week, for their vaults. their...
What's it called? Super Shock shadow vaults.
Their lip vaults, are so amazing for somebody
who does makeup because they're going to have
one of everything, one of every color.
And this is no exception.
All these palettes come within this vault.
It's extremely affordable for how many palettes you get
in here and how many shades you get.
And instead of just giving somebody like just
one palette or something like that.
There's all this choice, and it all just folds up.
It's really easy to store away.
You can easily just slip it back into the box.
Back into the box as well.
And that's why I really like this one, because it's
all the palettes you can have pretty much but in
this tiny, not tiny, but small enough box.
You could even carry this if you wanted to, if
you needed that many palettes with you.
Choice, choice.
Having choice is a good thing to have.
So that's something I just wanted to put
in there, because it's quite a cute idea.
Okay, so next up, I want to talk about the Danessa Myricks Color Fix
24 Hours cream colors.
They come in matte, and I believe, I think
that shares the name of the shimmers as well.
I can't remember. I'll put it on the screen.
I have loads of them, but again, they're in a box.
These are so incredible.
If you've never seen Danessa Myricks live on her
Instagram, doing makeup on somebody with these products, it
is the most incredible thing to watch her work
these products as a blush, as an eyeshadow, as
a lipstick, as an eyeliner.
These products are so universal
and so incredible to use.
They're just this really beautiful, fluidlike texture that's
not too sticky, that's not too greasy.
It's definitely more like a cream paint,
and they can just be used for everything.
Mix it up with a clear gloss to make a
lipstick, use it as an eyeshadow on the lid and
blend it out and blend it in, a blush.
They are so incredible.
You can buy three or four shades.
They are a little bit pricey, if
I remember. Three or four shades,
and they can just be added to each other
and mixed up, and they're just absolutely incredible.
Anything from Danessa Myricks,
in my opinion, is so unique to her brand that
I think it really makes a good gift for a makeup
lover or somebody who's skilled in makeup that can use these
different textures or confident in makeup, I should say, that can
use these different textures, and mix them up with other products
and make a whole new thing.
Okay, the last thing on my list of
unique gifts is this nail polish from Pleasing.
And this is Harry Styles brand,
I do believe, and this is the shade Pearly Tops.
It is, right? I didn't just say that.
Yes. And I don't know if you can
see it, but it has this blue shift.
Oh, come on.
Going to have to focus.
It has this, like, blue shift to it, and I
personally don't really like wearing much on my nails.
But the great thing about this, let me put it on now, because
I don't have anything on, is it kind of tidy's up the
tone of your nail, but at the same...
Oh, I got dirt under my nail. Okay.
Please ignore the lash glue underneath my fingernail.
It adds, like, this really undetectable, like, creamy
kind of tone to the nail.
And then it has this really unique shift of blue.
I don't know if you can see it.
Oh, it's not going to show up very well on camera.
Okay, it doesn't really show up too well on camera.
But for someone like me, who doesn't like a lot on my
nails, if anything, but I also want my hands to look okayish,
because I use them a lot on camera, whatever.
It's nice to have that little bit of something
that isn't, like too out there, that's quite muted
and subtle, but still has a uniqueness to it.
It's like, oh, it's blue, but only in
certain lights and only when the light catches it,
it adds a really bit of something
different to your nails, to your hands.
The brush is also... I'm not very good with applying
nail polish, so the brush is really, really nice and
it's just kind of like, it's just like one dip
and you can do a whole nail.
It doesn't catch and drag like some nail brands do.
This one's really smooth, really quick to apply and
it dries quite quickly, like it's already dry.
So, yeah, I really like that one.
So that's it. That's my list of really nice, unique ideas.
Gifts for any time, Christmas, but I think
it's going to be too late to order,
especially with our postal strikes in the UK.
But that can be any time
throughout the year, birthdays, whatever.
If you know of any unique brands or gifts or anything
like that, that are beauty related, leave them down below in
the comments and we can all share and have a look.
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