If you’ve got a beauty lover on your holiday wish list, listen up. Sephora’s “Holiday Vault” has finally arrived for the 2024 holiday season, and it’s filled with giftable bundles any beauty junkie will adore. Whether your giftee is most into skin care, makeup, hair care, fragrances or all of the above, you’ll find expertly curated kits with bestselling products in every category. They’re also great for beauty newbies who want to sample a variety of items to help find a new pampering routine.
In this article: Sol de Janeiro Hydration Celebration Body Routine, Dr. Jart+ Korean Face Mask 10-Pack Gift Set and Sephora Favorites Precious Pouts Lip Set
High-end beauty products can rack up hefty price tags, but sample sets allow you to try a variety of items from the luxury aisles at a fraction of the cost. Whether you want to try multiple items from a bestselling skin care brand you’ve been eyeing, or you’re looking for a new signature scent and want to sample 18 top scents to help you choose, Sephora’s “Holiday Vault” has something for everyone.
They’re great for gifting because you don’t have to put all your eggs in one basket and commit to a single product your recipient may or may not love. Gift sets allow the giftee to sample a number of new items, often in travel-size containers.
Summer Fridays The Holiday Lip Butter Balm Set
Lip balm makes a great gift because everyone can use it, and it seems like one can never have enough. Summer Fridays’ limited-edition set features a trio of the brand’s beloved balms made with shea and murumuru seed butter. The delicious scents include cherry, pink sugar and sweet mint.
LANEIGE Midnight Minis Lip Set
At the BestReviews Testing Lab, we’re big fans of LANEIGE’s luxurious overnight lip masks for their ability to deeply hydrate our pouts while we sleep. The hardest part is picking one since there are so many yummy options to choose from. This six-piece set includes a miniature sample of five different lip mask flavors along with a sanitary spatula for scooping the product.
Sol de Janeiro Hydration Celebration Body Routine
If you don’t have any tropical trips planned this holiday season, indulge in this body care set which is practically a vacation in a bottle. The five-piece bundle includes Sol de Janeiro’s cult-favorite Brazilian Bum Bum Cream, a beachy-scented perfume mist, a body wash, a body scrub and a body oil.
Sephora Favorites Makeup and Skin Care Must Haves Set
This Sephora-branded set includes some of the beauty retailer’s bestselling products from top lines like Sol De Janiero, Rare Beauty, Olaplex and Paula's Choice. It makes a great gift for someone who likes to experiment with new products or a beauty newbie who’s open to trying different items. Inside, there are 12 curated makeup, skin care and hair products that are sure to delight.
Glow Recipe Get Glowing With Me Kit by Katie Fang with Hue Drops Tinted Serum
Get ready with TikTok creator Katie Fang’s favorite products from Glow Recipe. The skin care trio includes the brand’s Watermelon Glow PHA+BHA Pore-Tight Toner, a Plum Plump Hyaluronic Cream and the Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Hue Drops. The products are conveniently housed in travel-friendly containers.
Dr. Jart+ Korean Face Mask 10-Pack Gift Set
A high-quality collection of sheet masks are a must for any skin care lover, and Dr. Jart+ makes an expertly curated pack of 10. There are masks to address a variety of skin concerns including dryness, irritation and enlarged pores. A fun idea: Divide up the pack to create 10 individual stocking stuffers for your friends and family.
Beautyblender STARDUST Blend & Bake Set
Blending your foundation makeup is a key step to ensure skin-like results. This duo of products will help you create a flawless base: a Beautyblender makeup sponge and a double-sided makeup puff. Plus, the kit includes a sample of Beautyblender’s hydrating makeup primer.
Charlotte Tilbury Charlotte's Iconic Magic Mini Skin Set
We’re big fans of Charlotte Tilbury’s cult-favorite Magic Cream for its luxuriously rich texture and its ability to deeply hydrate skin. In this gift set, you’ll get a travel-size tub of the celebrity-loved moisturizer, along with a travel-size jar of Charlotte’s Magic Serum with Vitamin C. This skin care duo works on dry skin to lock in moisture and leave a glowing complexion.
Sephora Favorites Precious Pouts Lip Set
Step up your lip makeup with this nine-piece set that includes bestselling lip products from brands like Rare, Fenty Beauty and Huda Beauty. Inside, you’ll find a shimmering lip gloss, a retractable gel lip liner, a classic red lipstick, a deep mauve lipstick, a rosy pink lip plumper, a clear lip gloss and a brown matte lip pencil. To help prep your pout, there’s also a lip oil and a plumping lip serum.
Sephora Favorites Holiday Hair Must-Haves Value Set
This curated 10-piece set of bestselling and fan-favorite hair products will help you get your best tresses yet. Alongside travel-sized products from brands like Living Proof, Maroccanoil, Oribe, amika, dae, Sol de Janeiro and Kérastase, there’s also a full-sized Xtra Large Bombshell Volumizer from COLOR WOW.
Sephora Favorites Perfume Sampler Set with Redeemable Voucher
Why pick a single fragrance when you can indulge your senses with an array of sample-sized scents? This giftable set comes with 18 sample-sized fragrances ranging from florals and warm and spicy to fresh citrus scents. The best part: There’s an included certificate that you can use to redeem a full-size version of your favorite sample scent.
Touchland Limited-Edition Power Mist Top Five Value Set
Touchland’s hydrating hand sanitizers are a big upgrade from the drying, goopy hand sanitizers you’re used to. The sleek bottle dispenses a luxuriously scented fine mist that sanitizes, hydrates and softens your hands with a single spritz. Gift this variety five-pack to a single person, or divide it up to create five separate stocking stuffers.
MERIT Mini Flush Balm Cream Blush Trio Set
MERIT makes one of our favorite blush sticks because of its subtle, buildable color and user-friendly container. If you want to try two of the brands bestselling shades along with a new limited-edition hue, this blush trio is perfect for you.
Moroccanoil Holiday Hair Styling Value Set
All hair types can indulge in this styling set from Maroccanoil, which is centered around hydrating and nourishing argan oil. The product lineup includes a hydrating styling cream, a strong-hold hairspray, a frizz-shield spray and a smoothing and conditioning leave-in treatment.
Drunk Elephant The Littles Travel Skin Care Set
Designed to cleanse, exfoliate, hydrate, brighten, replenish and protect your skin, this giftable set includes six of Drunk Elephant's skin care favorites alongside a convenient and colorful cosmetics case. It’s a full skin care routine in a travel-friendly set, and it’s great for all skin types.
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