Your Expert Guide to the Best Skincare Gifts and Wellness Picks This Season
I loved putting this guide together. Whether you’re upgrading your New Year skincare routine or hunting for beauty gift ideas that feel thoughtful and efficacious, this edit brings together the best skincare gifts, beauty picks and wellness treats that deserve a place on everyone’s list. Every recommendation has been tried, tested or long-admired by yours truly, so consider this your FB-approved guide to giving something brilliant.
Best Wellness Gifts
The NEOM Tortoiseshell Wellbeing Pod Luxe Essential Oil Diffuser
I have my eye on this stunning Wellbeing pod, I already have the original and use it constantly. This exclusive NEOM Wellbeing Pod is a perfect wellness gift for anyone who loves elevating their home environment or daily rituals. The upgraded technology includes a new pairing mode, extra mist setting, and subtle vibration touch controls. With dimmable lighting, remote-controlled settings and diffusion lasting up to 12 hours, it’s a thoughtful luxury for anyone who deserves a little calm in their life.
Neom Wellbeing London Pod Mini+ Waterless Essential Oil Diffuser
If you love the idea of something portable that can move effortlessly from room to room, you’ll love this.
NEOM Christmas Candles; Fiona’s Three Favourites
All 3-wick candles (420g), made with 100% naturally derived wax and pure essential oil blends.
Christmas Wish: A limited-edition blend of mandarin, cinnamon and tonka bean. BUY HERE
Sparkling Joy: A gorgeous new fragrance with ginger, lime and vetiver (a personal favourite). BUY HERE
Perfect Piece: A limited-edition festive scent with fir, myrrh and lime. BUY HERE
Temple Spa The Wellness Lab Daily Mood Boosters
If you haven't tried Temple Spa Bath and Body, or you're buying for someone who adores aromatic bodycare, this collection is delicious. Created with neuroscience and aromatherapy in mind, each scent journey uses Mediterranean botanicals to invigorate, uplift or de-stress.
The set includes three bath and shower products and three balms or lotions across the ranges ‘SEIZE THE DAY’, ‘AAAHHH!’, ‘SIMPLY THE ZEST’, ‘SOUL FOOD’, ‘QUIET TIME’ and ‘ALL IS CALM’.
Nursem Hydrating Hand Cream Christmas Cracker Set
A brilliant crowd-pleaser and perfect if you have teachers’ gifts to buy. Inside the giant cracker you get six Caring Hand Cream Minis (30ml each) designed to soothe, condition and protect hands throughout the day.
If you’re not already familiar with the brand, Nursem runs a brilliant initiative called the Nursem Promise. For every product purchased, they donate a month’s worth of free hand cream to a nurse or midwife. A thoughtful gift that genuinely pays it forward.
Best Skincare Gifts
The Dr. Jart+ Korean Mask Mix
For anyone with dehydrated or parched skin, this is a perfect skincare gift set. It includes five sheet masks that deliver deep hydration.
The Dermask™ Vital Hydra Solution Pro uses hyaluronic acid to hydrate and plump while supporting the skin barrier. The Dermask™ Soothing Hydra Solution Pro contains calming ingredients including allantoin to soothe, de-stress and comfort the skin.
The Tatcha Dewy Cleanse & Hydrate Set
This is the perfect introduction to Tatcha, whether you are buying for someone who already loves skincare or someone just starting their routine. The Dewy Skin Cream is one of my favourite moisturisers, and the bestselling Rice Wash cleanser pairs beautifully with it to cleanse without stripping and leave the skin soft, hydrated and balanced.
BUY HERE
MEDIK8 Retinal Rewind Age-Defying Face & Under Eye Collection
If you are buying for someone who is new to retinoids or a skincare lover ready to start their retinal journey, this is exactly where I would recommend beginning. Crystal Retinal is one of my most trusted formulas. It is clinically proven to smooth fine lines and wrinkles and because retinal works up to 10 times faster than traditional retinol, you see results sooner with much more ease. A brilliant, beginner-friendly upgrade for anyone serious about improving their skin.
This gift sets includes: Crystal Retinal 3 (full-size) and Crystal Retinal Ceramide Eye 3 (full-size)
BUY HERE MEDIK8
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MEDIK8 Luminous Lift Instant Glow and Smooth Duo
I love this duo. It is all about radiant, glowing and plump skin. Press and Glow gives quick, effortless exfoliation with PHA, a hydrating and incredibly gentle acid that helps smooth texture without irritation. Pair it with Liquid Peptides, a daily peptide serum featuring 10 potent peptides that soften fine lines and support firmer, healthier-looking skin. Together they create a beautifully luminous complexion.
This gift set includes: Press & Glow (full-size) and Liquid Peptides (full-size).
BUY HERE Medik8
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Shiseido Lifting And Firming Ritual
Shiseido always makes my Christmas list, both to give and to receive. I love what the brand represents, from scientific innovation to the incredible textures that deliver real results. This collection contains some of my all-time favourites, including the Vital Perfection Uplifting and Firming Advanced Cream and the iconic ULTIMUNE Power Infusing Serum, all presented in a gorgeous pouch.
This gift set contains: Vital Perfection Uplifting & Firming Advanced Cream (50ml), Clarifying Cleansing Foam (15ml), Treatment Softener (30ml) and Ultimune Power Infusing Serum (10ml).
BUY HERE
Shiseido Ultimune Gift Set
Ultimune Power Infusing Serum is one of my favourite super serums of 2025. I dedicated an entire blog to this one because the science behind it is remarkable. The formula is backed by over 20 years of research and focuses on how ageing cells impact healthy cells, contributing to accelerated ageing. The result is skin that looks more radiant, hydrated, smooth and resilient.
This gift set contains: Ultimune Power Infusing Serum (50ml), Vital Perfection Uplifting & Firming Advanced Cream (15ml), and Vital Perfection Overnight Firming Treatment (15 ml).
BUY HERE
Trinny London The Uplifted Skin Set
This set contains two of my favourite products from Trinny London. Plump Up, a peptide serum for bouncy, hydrated skin, and The Elevator, a targeted neck cream designed to smooth and firm.
A brilliant duo for anyone who loves visible results and wants a more lifted, sculpted appearance.
BUY HERE
Best Beauty Tools & devices
BARE FEET by Margaret Dabbs: Foldable Foot Spa with Foot Soak
This is one of those gifts you would never think to buy for yourself but once you have it, you will wonder how you ever managed without it. Designed with over 100 columns to stimulate and massage the soles of your feet, plus a vibration setting that targets acupuncture points, it delivers a deeply soothing, spa-like experience. It also maintains a perfectly warm temperature between 40°C and 45°C. A thoughtful treat for anyone who deserves proper relaxation.
BUY HERE
Best Facial Devices
CurrentBody LED Red Light Therapy Face Mask Series 2
If you are a dedicated skincare lover, an LED mask absolutely deserves a place on your Christmas list. LED is one of the most effective at-home technologies for boosting your routine, think brighter, calmer and smoother skin with consistent use. The device uses targeted wavelengths of red light to help improve firmness, radiance and overall skin health without downtime. It is the sort of gift you do not always buy for yourself, but once you have it, you will use it constantly.
BUY HERE - Use code FIONAB for extra discount
The Best Microcurrent Devices for Sculpting and Lifting
For someone serious about lifting, toning and definition, a microcurrent device is the perfect partner to an LED mask. These tools help firm the facial contours and support a more sculpted look when used consistently. If you know the person you are buying for will stick to a daily routine, this is one of the most transformative at-home technologies to invest in.
If you are not sure which device to choose, you may find this comparison helpful. FOREO Bear 2 vs ZIIP HALO: The Best Microcurrent Devices for Sculpting and Lifting
BUY HERE ZIIP HALO - Use code FIONAHALO for an extra discount
BUY HERE FOREO BEAR 2
Best Fragrances
For more fragrance ideas and my personal favourites for 2025, you can explore Best Gifts for Her at Space NK. Best Gifts for Her at Space NK
Phlur Holiday Ornament
I am obsessed with anything Phlur at the moment and this festive ornament is gorgeous. It hangs right on your tree, though you may secretly hope you get to keep it. The scent opens with bright pink apple and sugar crystals, moves into jasmine, lily and cashmere wood, then settles into sandalwood, vanilla and benzoin. It’s cute, so giftable and universally flattering.
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