Holiday Gift Guide: Super Luxe!

If money is no object, this gift guide is for you! Otherwise...well, a girl can dream, right?Lalique Amethyst Crystal Flacon ($800) Amethyst is inspired by the original Ren� Lalique "Epines"collection of 1920, which celebrates the beauty of nature with its exquisite blackberry vine motif and distinctive amethyst color. Notes include backberry leaves, blackcurrant, raspberry, white lily, peony,

Holiday Gift Guide: Stocking Stuffers

Essie Winter 2008 Mini 4-Pack ($15) Includes Sexy Divide, an electric violet temptation; Bold & Beautiful Rich, a ruby garnet; It�s Genius, a violet quartz shimmer; and Rock Star Skinny, a glamorous crimson red.C.O. Bigelow Ginger Mentha Bath Fizz ($5) This bath bomb is all dressed up for your stocking! Ginger Mentha is comforting and warm, but still has that minty 'zing' that you expect from the

Holiday Gift Guide: The Party Girl

Check out these 9 gifts -- some serious, some tongue in cheek -- for the party girl on your list!Korres Party Survival Kit ($29) The perfect way to revitalize the bod the day after that incredible holiday bash. Includes 0.34 oz Wild Rose 24-Hour Moisturizer SPF 6, 0.17 oz Evening Primrose Eye Cream, 1.69 oz Guava Body Butter, 1.69 oz Guava Showergel, 0.47 oz Milk Proteins 3 in 1 Cleansing

Holiday Gift Guide: The Jet Setter

Shopping for the girl who always seems to be catching a flight somewhere? Check out these nine travel-friendly options, hand-picked by me. Hey, I was a pretty frequent business traveler, at least until the economy tanked, so I know my stuff.Prada Infusion d'Iris Refreshing Towels ($60) Oh, what a perfect little luxury to make travel more bearable! And a perfect gift, since it's something she'd

Holiday Gift Guide: Hair, Skin and Tools

Sedu Ultrasilent Dryer ($125) When we were little we asked Santa for Barbies, and now that we're grown-up beauty addicts we want...expensive hairdryers! I LOVE the Sedu Ultrasilent; it's lightweight, quiet, and dries hair amazingly fast. Major upgrade from regular old drugstore brand dryers; worth the investment.MAC Adoring Carmine 5 Basic Brushes ($35) It's hard to go wrong with this set of 5

Holiday Gift Guide: Bath & Body

Welcome to Beauty Addict's 2008 Holiday Gift Guides! Between now and Black Friday, I'll publish nine gift guides covering everyone on your list, from bath lovers and fragrance junkies to teens, party girls, and men! Read on for nine picks for the bath & body addict in your life:Jo Malone Bath Oil Collection ($85) A luxurious gift that will make any bath-phile squeal with glee. Six mini Jo

Holiday Luxe List: Estee Lauder Butterfly Dream Compact

Tired of your boring old powder compact? Want to have something a little more showy to pull out of your purse for touchups? Check out this limited edition Estee Lauder compact designed by Jay Strongwater, $250, exclusive to Neiman Marcus.Jay Strongwater designs aren't exactly the most subtle, and certainly aren't for everyone, but if you're a sucker for a bejeweled compact, it's hard to go wrong

Holiday Luxe List: Jo Malone Candle Trousseau

Next up on our Holiday Luxe List is this plentiful collection of Jo Malone candles, housed in a stunning leather box (check out the detail on the mirror!). Not only does this set come with 10 Jo Malone candles in various scents and sizes, you even get the ultimate in candle couture: a SNUFFER and a WICK TRIMMER. Swoon!Impress your friends with your candle snobbery this holiday season with this

Holiday Luxe List: Nina Ricci L'Air du Temps Exclusive

The classic L'Air du Temps gets a major upgrade this holiday season with this incredible black crystal bottle. It almost looks like hematite, I've neve really seen anything like it. Eye catching, elegant, unique, a little gothic.Oh yeah, and $840.Dream!Available at Neiman and Bergdorf, natch.

Giftables: Bobbi Brown Sunset Gold Collection

Bobbi Brown's Sunset Gold Collection is exclusive to Nordstrom and packs 4 shimmery essentials in a golden copper pouch.I'm absolutely obsessed with Bobbi's Metallic Eye Shadows (see my previous raves here and here). They have a velvety texture that rivals Stila's shimmer shadows, but the shimmer in these is finer and a little more subtle. They're totally work safe in moderation, and can be

Holiday Luxe List: Bobbi Brown Deluxe Beauty Trunk

Bollocks to the economy! Everyone needs a little escapism, and you can get yours here as I feature the most ridiculously luxurious holiday gift offerings for 2008.First up on the list is the Bobbi Brown Deluxe Beauty Trunk, exclusive to Neiman Marcus. This gorgeous silver leather train case is packed to the gills with Bobbi Brown favorites and will set you back $2000. Even though I know I don't

Guilt free cupcake fun!

My chum Nails bought me this lovely little cupcake lip gloss for my birthday - isn't it fab!! And it tastes yummy too and best of all no calories included :)

You can buy them online at Dolly Dagger or google cupcake lip gloss :)

Sunday's cupcake haul

Today's walk was a stomp back from sunny Lewisham where I managed to buy some rather fabby cupcake wrapping paper and a cupcake card from the Cancer Research Shop (http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/). I went to get a Fukoro shopping bag but I wasn't keen on them once I saw them - http://supportus.cancerresearchuk.org/uploads/images/fukurobag.jpg.

However I did spot they do a nice range of cards and gift wrap with cupcakes on so bought some - both were 99p each. I was happy I managed to find something cupcake AND help charity a bit at the same time :)

Four Glamorous Holiday Glosses

Seems that blinged out glosses are everywhere these days, and I'm loving this trend. Sure, you'll pay a little more, but you're getting a really fun conversation piece, whether as a gift or for yourself!Four little treasures that I'm obsessing over this holiday season:Dior DiorLight Holiday Bright Lip Gloss: This crystal bejeweled pendant is filled with a coppery-pink gloss. It looks SO much

Lancome Precious Carat Lip Gloss

New Precious Carat Lip Gloss from Lancome is the definition of the perfect holiday gift for the girl who loves, well, pretty things.It's totally adorable, functional (who doesn't love lip gloss?), reasonably priced, and definitely something she doesn't already have. The perfect conversation piece to display on a vanity or fish out of a Chanel purse for touchups at a party.The only thing that

More Holiday Solid Perfumes from Estee Lauder...

Yesterday I showed you four gorgeous Estee Lauder solid perfume compacts at Nordstrom, and now I've discovered an even more luxe collection of compacts, exclusive to Neiman Marcus.Shown here is the Glorious Gramophone, designed by Jay Strongwater (he of the infamous 420 compact fame), and filled with Beautiful solid perfume.I'm obsessing over these! In addition to the Strongwater-designed

Estee Lauder Holiday Solid Perfume Compacts

How could you not love adorable holiday compacts from Estee Lauder?They look like little antique pillboxes but they're actually filled with solid perfume (an obsession of mine these days).Each of these highly covetable little compacts is filled with a different classic Estee Lauder fragrance in solid form, making them excellent gifts or a perfect little indulgence for yourself.How cute would

UPDATE: Gucci Westman/Goyard Makeup Case

Yesterday we showed you the super-luxe makeup case created by Goyard in collaboration with Lancome's Gucci Westman, and today we have the scoop on the 36 Lancome products, handpicked by Gucci, that are included in the case!This is a truly incredible and one of a kind holiday gift. If any of you have husbands, boyfriends or parents with extremely deep pockets, you might want to leave your computer

Superluxe Gift Alert: Gucci Westman/Goyard Makeup Case

OK, I'm officially swooning. This incredibly luxe holiday offering combines some of my very favorite people and things: Lancome, Gucci Westman, and Goyard.This hand-crafted makeup case was created by Goyard exclusively for Lancome, in a special collaboration with longtime Beauty Addict favorite Gucci Westman.This gorgeous train case is done in classic Goyard white signature print with tan trim,

Gifty Things: Bath & Body

Great gifts for bathing beauties; or, just what you need to indulge yourself after all that holiday shopping, wrapping, and partying madness. From top, left to right:Gianna Rose Atelier Tres Chic Soaps: The perfect balance of chic and whimsical, these dressform soaps are wrapped in pale pink paper and finished with a pretty black bow. Molton Brown Lounging Bath & Body Gift Set: When it comes to