Holiday Gift Guide 2013: Makeup Gifts.

I love to give makeup gifts for the holidays; not just because I am makeup obsessed, but I feel that giving a gift of makeup to someone instantly makes them feel pretty as they imagine using the new gift. Sometimes finding the right makeup for someone can be difficult, but that is where I come in. I have made it easy because I have found the best makeup gifts and sets for you by selecting the best of the best, all perfect for gifting!

bareMinerals Degrees of Dazzling - $79.00
The ultimate set of bareMinerals eyecolors, this beauty has 20 of them in four finishes. With creamy velvets, high shine shadows, super sparkling glimmers and deep liners in the brands best selling shades, this tower of beauty treats is perfect for any bareMinerals gal.

The Tarte of Giving Collector's Set & Travel Bag - $59.00
This luxurious purple quilted bag is stuffed full of some of Tarte's best selling and most iconic products plus some limited-edition shades that are reminiscent of holidays past. 33 products in all, this treasure is a chest full of delights.

BITE Beauty Best Bite Set - $25.00
These four Bite High Pigment Pencil minis come packed into the cutest little giftable tin that fits perfectly into your purse. The easy to wear colors will keep lips kissed in long wearing shades all season long.

Urban Decay Anarchy Face Case - $44.00
This must have gift comes complete with all the makeup a girls needs for a full-face look. Inside the case you'll find five new eyeshadows, two blushes in an exclusive powder formulation, a highlighter, a brand new Super-Saturated High Gloss Lip Color and a 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil.

Mally Holiday Special Edition Volumizing Mascara Trio - $34.98
Now with special limited edition packaging, you can give Mally's same full, dramatic lash boosting formula mascara with a new festive exterior perfect for gifting. This essential present includes three Limited Edition Volumizing Mascaras in a one-of-a-kind gift box.

MAC Cosmetics Stroke of Midnight Mineralize Brush Kit - $49.50
The Mineralize brush kit features four essential brushes designed to give you gorgeous makeup application each and every time. This kit includes the Duo Fiber Face brush, Duo Fiber Blush brush, Duo Fiber Tapered Blending brush and Duo Fiber Eyeshadow brush.

Clarins The Essentials Eye Palette - $45.00
This limited edition eye palette will not only have gals creating beautiful neutral eye looks all season long, but all year long. This is Clarins’ blockbuster natural eye palette that contains 10 silky soft mineral shadows in a range of brown tones. It couldn’t be more beautiful for gifting (or for yourself).

Anastasia Beverly Hills Lavish Set - $38.00
This luxurious set for brows and eyes is sure to deliver decadent beauty to any girl on your list. With ten shadows, an eyeliner, a brow pencil, tweezers, and a dual ended brush, everything is here for eyes to look their best.

MAKE UP FOR EVER Ultimate Long Lasting Lip Set - $140.00
This is the ultimate set for the ultimate lip color junkie. This limited-edition collection perfectly pairs six Aqua Rouge and six Aqua Lip in a versatile array of shades from the easy to wear neutrals to must have dramatic shades that every girl should have.

Too Faced All I Want for Christmas - $45.00
Any girl will love this six-piece full-face collection that features the best of Too Faced’s products for eyes, complexion, and lips. It's not only easy to give because the shades are universal, but it comes packed in the most stylish chevron makeup bag too.

Laura Mercier Colour-To-Go Portable Palette - $50.00
This handy portable palette has everything for eyes, cheeks and lips in one double decker compact. It's filled with a trio of shadows, a cake liner, a blush, bronzer and mini lip glacé tucked inside too. The Smoky Violets palette will work for any woman on your list.

Benefit Groovy Kind-a Love Makeup Set - $36.00
Gift your favorite girl with this groovy set! This tin is complete with makeup for eyes, lips, cheeks & face. It includes the POREfessional, they're real! mascara mini, benetint medium, dandelion & gimme fever cheek powder duo with brush plus a four shade eyeshadow palette.

bareMinerals Crystalized Full Face Collection - $54.00
bareMinerals has put together eight makeup wonders featuring shimmering crystallized color in a beautiful keepsake tin. This gorgeous gift includes beauties to create shimmering smoky eyes, radiant cheeks, and glitzy lips.

MAC Cosmetics Stroke of Midnight Gold Eye Bag - $46.50
This limited edition cosmetic bag contains everything a chic gal needs for a holiday eye. The bag includes In Extreme Dimension Lash, Fluidline in Blitz & Glitz, Pro Longwear Paint Pot in Genuine Treasure and the Double-Ended 209 Eye Liner/239SE Eye Shader Brush.

tarte Pure Delights 8-Piece LipSurgence™ Lip Set - $34.00
Give the gift of kissable lips this holiday season with this deluxe limited edition LipSurgence collector’s set. The gift boxed set features four lip tints and four matte lip tints in all-new, limited-edition shades.

Smashbox Wondervision Eye Set - $32.00
Wonder your giftee with this gift set that focuses on the eyes. This set contains a six Smashbox shadow palette, a mascara and liner, plus three tip cards to help create new eye makeup looks.

Urban Decay Naked3 Palette.

It's here! Naked3 is here. Yes, Urban Decay has expanded the Naked range yet again and has come up with 12 brand new shades to come up with another palette. It's Naked 3 and it is beautiful.

Naked3 includes 12 rose-hued neutrals that are calling me. I love rose colored shades and rosebased hues look great on every skin tone so this palette will be great for everyone. I cannot wait to get my hands on this and I bet you can't either.

What is really special about this palette is that this is the first time that Urban Decay has done a Naked palette with 12 never-before-seen shades that aren’t available anywhere else. Each shade is totally brand new. There is every finish imaginable in the palette too - ultra-smooth mattes, gorgeous pearls and glimmering metallics. From the palest, shimmery pink to deep, warm black, these neutrals will make you want to get Naked all over again. As soon as I have this beauty in my hands, I will take more pictures and show it off some more!

Until then, here is the shade run down:

STRANGE – pale neutral pink matte-satin
DUST – pale metallic pink shimmer with iridescent micro-glitter
BURNOUT – light pinky-peach satin
LIMIT – light dusty rose matte
BUZZ – metallic rose shimmer with silver micro-glitter
TRICK – light metallic pinky-copper shimmer with tonal micro-sparkle
NOONER – medium pinky-brown matte
LIAR – medium metallic mauve shimmer
FACTORY – pinky-brown satin
MUGSHOT – metallic taupe shimmer with slight pink shift
DARKSIDE – deep taupe-mauve satin
BLACKHEART – smoky black matte with rosy red micro-sparkle

Naked3 also includes a NEW double-ended Good Karma Shadow and Blending Brush AND an Eyeshadow Primer
Potion sampler with resealable samples of all four formulas (original, Sin, Eden and NEW anti-aging). Each sample holds about a week’s worth of primer!

Naked3 comes in an art-school-inspired tin case (reminiscent of the Naked2 palette), in a gorgeous rose-gold color that hints at the shades inside. You can't miss the big “Naked3” embossed on top.

Of course, each eyeshadow features Urban Decay's Pigment Infusion System™, the proprietary blend of ingredients that gives every shade its velvety texture, rich color, serious staying power and blendability. I love the formula, and if you have used it, you know you do too.

Naked3 is available only at Urbandecay.com right now but will be available at Sephora, ULTA, beauty.com and select Macy’s stores any second.

Great Gifts: MAC Nocturnals Tastitints Lip Conditioner Set.

Everyone gets dry lips, so what is better than a great gift of pretty lip conditioners? This is not just any set of lip conditioners, this set is a beautifully packaged MAC lip conditioner set.

The MAC Nocturnals Tastitints Lip Conditioner Set comes with four lip conditioners that leaves lips polished in barely there shades and for the first time for MAC, four divinely different flavors - Sugared Vanilla, Dash of Lavender, Mintessence and Taste of Paradise. Yummy! It is packaged in a beautiful sleek black gift box that id perfect for gifting too.

• Sugared Vanilla - Creamy Light Soft Beige
• Dash of Lavender - Mauve
• Mintessence - Milky White
• Taste of Paradise - Poppy Pink

MAC Nocturnals Tastitints Lip Conditioner Set retails for $32.50 at all MAC locations and online at maccosmetics.com.