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We Totally Peeked at Our Christmas Presents!

Get the first look at the best new beauty kits and gifts for the holiday season
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Sonia Kashuk
Makeup artist Sonia Kashuk is obsessed with beauty packaging that doubles as accessories. Check out the gold clutch in the back of this photo. It comes stuffed with gorgeous emerald green brushes, but it's also perfect to carry to a holiday party.

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Ahava
Ahava comes up with a fantastic gift set every year, and I love this greatest hits collection of best-selling Dead Sea mineral-packed products in night sky-inspired packaging.

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Solé Bikes
These beauties (get it?) are trending like RiRi's latest hairstyle. Bikes are taking over the streets in NYC and other cities plagued by road rage-y traffic. These sweet rides come in a dozen great colors and run $379.

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Benefit for HSN
These exclusive HSN kits have tons of Benefit minis -- mascara, concealer, blush, highlighter and more. Who can resist Polly Pocket-sized products? No one, that's who. These could hit HSN.com as soon as September.

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Topshop
Why go red and green for holiday when you can go neon? That's how Topshop thinks. Their holiday sets come in trendy translucent pouches in punchy colors. I'm already planning to wear that orangey lipstick the first chance I get.

I love the holiday season in a way that's completely age-inappropriate. I generally start playing Christmas music the day after Halloween, and I decorate well before Thanksgiving.

Which is why I love July. (Stay with me.) Every July, beauty brands give editors a sneak peek at the new holiday collections, and they roll out the red and green carpet (literally), with fake snow machines, pine garlands, and giant Nutcracker statues. It really is like Christmas in July, and I'm a kid in a candy cane store.

This year, instead of keeping all of these fun, new beauty gifts to ourselves until we publish the holiday gift guide, we're sharing the pics I grabbed on the sly while browsing. That's how first-look new these products are! Consider this your early Christmas present. (You're welcome!)
BY DAWN DAVIS | JUL 22, 2013 | SHARES
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