Gift Guide: 27 of the Best Makeup Gift Sets to Give (or Keep) (2025)

As a beauty editor, I’ve tested and evaluated the makeup in this year’s gift sets from a range of brands. These are my top picks:

Best Vaults

• Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Dreams Come True
• Fenty Beauty The Gloss Bomb Vault
• MAC Golden Girls Mini Lustreglass Lipstick Vault
• INNBeauty Project Lip Glaze Vault
• Saie Glossybounce Collection
• Yves Saint Laurent Lipstick Showroom Vault

Best Advent Calendars

• Benefit The Gorgeous Grocer
• Charlotte Tilbury Charlotte’s Beauty Treasure Chest of Love

Best Lip & Cheek Sets

• Fara Homidi Essential Holiday Lip
• MERIT The Mini Flush Balm Trio
• Rare Beauty Mini Blush & Luminize Trio
• Kosas The Wet Set: Juicy Jellies
• Glossier Storm Lip + Cheek Duo
• Tower 28 Line + Shine Lip Duo
• Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Lip Kit

Best Eye & Brow Sets

• Benefit All Brow’t That Cheddar
• Laura Mercier Enchanting Shimmers Caviar Stick Eye Shadow Trio
• Lancôme Lashes for Every Occasion Holiday Mascara Gift Set
• Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Care Kit

Best Clean Beauty

• ILIA The Party Set
• Westman Atelier Petite Fête Edition
• Saie Glowy Super Gel Duo
• RMS Beauty A Little Lip2Cheek Kit

Best Luxury

• Dior The Pink Glow Ritual
• Gucci Rouge à Lèvres Mat Mini Lipsticks Trio Gift Set
• Tom Ford Eye Color Quad and Lip Color Mini Deluxe Set

Best K-Beauty

• Kaja Heart & Seoul Best of Kaja Eye, Cheek & Lip Set

For more details on each gift set, read on.

Charlotte Tilbury’s Pillow Talk Dreams Come Trueis a treasure trove of 13 full-sized Pillow Talk products. They include everything from lipstick to blush to eyeshadow in the brand’s iconic, universally flattering nude-pink. Plus, you get a keepsake quilted makeup box to store them in.

Fenty Beauty The Gloss Bomb Vaulthas 10 full-sized Gloss Bomb lip glosses in both existing and never-seen-before shades. You get five of the original high-shine formula, and four of the plumping version (called Gloss Bomb Heat). Plus, you get one Gloss Bomb Ice, another plumping gloss but with a cool tingly sensation.

MAC’s Golden Girls Mini Lustreglass Lipstick Vault is a collection of 12 mini Lustreglass Sheer-Shine Lipsticks in all-new shades. The formula was recently upgraded to give you translucent, buildable colour with lip-nourishing ingredients and a glossy finish.

INNBeauty Project’s Lip Glaze Vault is a set of 12 full-sized lip oils in an array of tints. The formula gives you the shine of a gloss with the hydration of an oil, and no stickiness. They also come with a denim makeup bag.

Saie’s Glossybounce Collection is the ultimate gift for the lip gloss lover in your life. This vault includes the brand’s full range of nine Glossybounce lip gloss-oils in full sizes. Six shades are sheer, and three are shimmery.

Yves Saint Laurent’s Lipstick Showroom Vault has everything you need for a complete lip colour wardrobe. You get 10 of the brand’s most-loved lip products in a range of shades, textures and finishes. There are three lip oil sticks, three lip gloss sticks, two satin lipsticks and two tinted balms.

If only all grocery trips were as fun asBenefit The Gorgeous Grocer. This shopping basket-inspired advent calendar is packed with 24 daily surprises, including a full-sized primer, mascara, brow gel and liquid liner. There are also multiple blushes, lip tints, brow products and more.

Charlotte Tilbury Charlotte’s Beauty Treasure Chest of Loveis a heart-shaped, 12-drawer advent calendar that doubles as a jewelry box. Inside are three full-sized products: the Beauty Light Wand highlighter, the Hyaluronic Happikiss lipstick gloss-balm, and the Magic Lip Oil (a clear glossy lip conditioner). You also get nine minis, including lipsticks, mascara, eyeliner and lip liner.

Fara Homidi’s Essential Holiday Lip is this season’s most stylish lip kit. Designed by celebrity makeup artist Fara Homidi, it includes a matte lip pencil, sharpener and lip compact, all in universal berry tones (and the prettiest blue packaging!). The lip compact is particularly unique because it contains both a buildable cream-to-powder colour and a priming balm, so you can customize your finish.

MERIT’s The Mini Flush Balm Trio gives you the brand’s bestselling balm-like blush in three mini shades. You get Mood (a soft burgundy), Stockholm (a baby pink), and a brand new shade called Bespoke (pink brown), which you can only get in this set. Since they’re sheer and buildable, they all work on a wide range of skin tones.

Rare Beauty’s Mini Blush & Luminize Triois your ticket to the “dewy blush hack” that you may have seen on social media. You start with one—or both!—of the mini liquid blushes, in Virtue (beige peach) and Beloved (muted oxblood). Then you layer on the mini liquid luminizer in Enliven (peach with gold flecks) and blend it all together. Voilà: glowy, dewy cheeks!

Kosas The Wet Set: Juicy Jelliesgives you three mini lip oils in sheer, juicy shades. Think of this formula as a moisturizing lip oil, lip gloss and plumping peptide treatment in one. You getSlushy (a sheer cherry red), Sorbet (a sheer baby pink) and Cola (asheer rich brown).

Glossier’s Storm Lip + Cheek Duoincludes two full-sized products in Storm, a fan-favourite warm rose shade. One is Cloud Paint, the brand’s buildable gel-cream blush with a blurred finish. The other is Ultralip, a high-shine lipstick that previously hasn’t been offered in this shade!

Tower 28’s Line + Shine Lip Duois all about a “your lips, but better” lip look. This set comes with a full-sized Lip Jelly in Pistachio, a milky nude pink with a hint of shimmer. You also get a full-sized Oneliner pencil in the new shade Check Me Out, a warm rose. It can be used not just to line your lips, but also as a blush and eyeshadow.

Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Lip Kit is your complete Pillow Talk wardrobe in four products. The set contains a full-sized Happikiss lipstick gloss-balm and mini Jewel Lips gloss in the famously flattering nude-pink. Plus, you get a mini lip liner and mini matte lipstick in Pillow Talk 2, a warm berry pink variation.

Benefit All Brow’t That Cheddargives you three full-sized brow products for a steal. There’s a tube of my favourite 24-HR Brow Setter, the best clear brow gel that holds your brows in place all day with no flaking. You also get two brow pencils (one with a fine tip and one with a micro tip for detailing) in your choice of five shades.

Laura Mercier’s Enchanting Shimmers Caviar Stick Eye Shadow Trio is ideal for anyone who loves the ease of a cream eyeshadow stick. Just swipe on and blend with your fingertip! You get three minis in ultra-wearable shades: champagne gold, shimmery terracotta rose and metallic warm bronze.

Lancôme’s Lashes for Every Occasion Holiday Mascara Gift Setfeatures four full-sized mascaras for longer, thicker lashes. It includes Lash Idôle for fanned-out volume, Monsieur Big for a false lash effect, and Définicils for definition and length. Plus, you get a Cils Booster XL lash primer to layer underneath them for an even more dramatic effect.

Anastasia Beverly Hills’ Brow Care Kit helps you get groomed, natural-looking brows with two products. You get a full-sized iconic Brow Wiz brow pencil in your choice of five shades. You also get a mini Brow Genius brow serum to help encourage fuller brow growth over time.

ILIA The Party Set has all you need for a holiday party makeup look. The set includes three mini clean beauty essentials, including a liquid eyeshadow (which I can attest does not budge!) in a universally flattering silvery taupe. You also get a multi-purpose colour stick in rose for lips and cheeks, and the brand’s ever-popular mascara.

Westman Atelier’s Petite Fête Edition contains celebrity makeup artist Gucci Westman’s party essentials in three mini products. They include a berry-toned cream blush stick (which you can also use on your lips), a rosy taupe highlighter (which does double duty as eyeshadow), and a black mascara.

Saie’s Glowy Super Gel Duois back again this year. This gel highlighter is one of the brand’s bestsellers, and you get two mini sizes to try. One is the popular Starglow champagne shade, and the other is a golden shimmer called Warmglow that you can only get in this kit. Wear them alone, mixed with foundation, or under makeup as a primer.

RMS Beauty’s A Little Lip2Cheek Kitfeatures three of the brand’s famous cream colour pots in full sizes. As one of the original clean beauty formulas, they can be used on both your lips and cheeks, and applied with either your fingers or a brush. There’s a nude dusty rose, a matte berry, and a true red (which is said to suit all skin tones).

Dior The Pink Glow Ritualfeatures two of the brand’s most sought-after products in full sizes. One is the Rosy Blush, which reacts with your skin’s pH for a customized colour. The other is the Glow Lip Oil, which brings out your lip’s natural hue with a glossy finish. But that’s not all—they also come with a cute gold pouch.

Gucci’s Rouge à Lèvres Mat Mini Lipsticks Trio Gift Set gives you three luxe mini lipsticks at a sweet low price. Expect bold colour with a silky texture and matte finish. The shades include Janet Rust (rusty red), They Met in Argentina (warm rosewood), and Goldie Red (the brand’s signature red matte).

Tom Ford’s Eye Color Quad and Lip Color Mini Deluxe Sethas the perfect eye and lip products for easy day-to-night looks. The full-sized eyeshadow palette features four coordinating shades that take all the guesswork out of a smoky eye. You also get two mini lipsticks in wearable rosy tones.

Kaja’s Heart & Seoul Best of Kaja Eye, Cheek & Lip Set features an array of full-sized fan favourites from the cutest Korean makeup brand. There are three eyeshadows in wearable neutral tones, a lip oil in rosy pink, and the brand’s signature blush balm in dusty rose.