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For the Makeup Addict Who Loves a Healthy Glow
Why You'll Want It: This advent calendar contains everything you need to look like you spent the weeks leading up to New Year's on a tropical isle. With products that brighten, bronze and illuminate, your beauty-loving gal will light up when she sees this under the tree.
Star Product: Amazonian Clay 12-hour Blush. Brush this fan favorite on for instant in-from-the-snow pink cheeks.
Available at Ulta.
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For the Girl Who Battles Winter-Ravaged Skin
Why You'll Want It: Once you have this advent calendar in your possession, you'll never again be satisfied with watery lotion bottles swiped from hotel rooms. These mini-sized moisturizers and oils will leave your skin soft and supple. Throw in a few shower gels, shaving gel and a sophisticated scent, and you have the perfect travel kit for the holidays. Provence, anyone?
Star Product: The wee-sized tube of L'Occitane's most buzzed-about product, the Shea Butter Hand Cream.
Available at L'Occitane.com.
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For the Beauty Junkie Who Can't Get Enough Benefit
Why You'll Want It: Packed with miniature versions of Benefit's best-selling items, this calendar is the perfect treat for beauty newbies and die-hard Benefit fans alike. Besides 18 deluxe sample sizes of products like They're Real! Mascara and High Beam highlighter, the calendar also includes six little trinkets to raise your holiday spirit.
Star Product: The POREfessional Pore Minimizer. This little product will do a vanishing trick on your pores.
Available at Benefit and Sephora.
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For the Nail-Art Obsessed
Why You'll Want It: Housed in an adorable manor, Ciaté helps you count down to Christmas with 24 different nail products. With colors like Superficial (a deep teal green), Talent Scout (a vibrant purple) and glitter texture pots and Ciaté's cult favorite caviar beads, you'll have more ideas for nail art than digits to paint.
Star Product: Most of the polishes come in mini sizes, but Celestial, an iridescent glitter polish perfect for the holidays, is a full-size bottle.
Available at Sephora.
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For the Spa-Addict
Why You'll Want It: Elemis, the British-born spa and luxury skincare line, is bringing the spa to you this year. With 12 days of surprises that include Tahitian monoi oil-infused bath treats, a papaya and pineapple enzyme peel and even hand, nail and foot treatments, you can relax without ever stepping foot in a spa.
Star Product: Elemis Pro-Collagen Cleansing Balm is a makeup remover/cleanser/moisturizer that the Brits have awarded with beauty accolades time and time again for its ability to effectively clean without stripping the skin.
Available at TimetoSpa.com
A thing of beauty is a joy forever, no? Give the gift of joy and beauty this year with an adorable beauty advent calendar. Packaged with individual compartments waiting to be opened in the days leading up to Christmas, Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, these calendars from our favorite beauty brands are filled with the best kind of treats -- nail polish, perfume, makeup, skincare and hair products galore. Perfect for holiday travel or sampling a brand's best products, you'll get on everyone's good list this year with this gift. Of course, we wouldn't fault you if you broke down and got one for yourself -- these charming calendars are just too cute to pass up.
