Joy to the World! These Beautifying Products have Come!

What are the hottest gift items this season? What will make your friends look, feel and even smell glamorous this season? We talked to Chenese Bean, contributor for Cincy Chic, makeup artist and owner of Chenese Bean Makeup Artistry, for a few of her favorites this season. “The holidays bring out the celebratory side in all of us to share and live life,” says Bean. “So why not express it in beauty and all things made to make us feel good?”

These choices will make you feel good from head to toe.

Sugar Star Treatment Set by Fresh, $87, Sephora, Kenwood Towne Center. A limited-edition collection that includes a full-sized Fresh’s famous Sugar Scrub, a travel size Fresh Sugar Hand Treatment and a full-sized Sugar Lip Treatment. Everything is lemon scented and nourishing for your body and your senses.

Michael Kors Gift Set, $55, Sephora, Kenwood Towne Center. This set includes perfume spray, with notes of tuberose, freesia, incense and musk, a matching body lotion, a two-in-one lip gloss and roller ball perfume set and gold clutch.

Lancome Holiday Color Design Eye & Face Palette, $52.50, Macy’s, Dillards, and Saks Fifth Avenue. A glitzy compact full of five neutral eye shadows  and two blush colors that you can pop in your handbag for your office party or New Year’s festivities.

OPI Holiday in Toyland Shades, $8.50, salons across Cincinnati. OPI’s holiday colors make a great stocking stuffer. Twelve new colors, including silver (Sheer Your Toys!), red (Red Hot Rudolf), beige (You’re a Doll!) and black (Baby, It’s ‘Coal’ Outside). Pick up a couple for you and a couple for your Secret Santa pals.

 LUSH’s Supernatural Holiday Kit, $59.50. Macy’s Kenwood Town Center. This vegan kit of bath additives create a relaxing environment for you (or a friend!) to forget about your worries for a little while. It’s pre-wrapped, too! This includes bath ballistics to soften your water and soap to wash away your Holiday cares. Too Faced’s Naughty or Nice Kit, $29.50, Ulta, Deerfield Town Center.

This kit contains colors to take you from day to night, naughty to nice! Six eyeshadows, six lip colors, and brushes make this a great kit to keep in your desk at work or in your purse for quick-changes and last minute holiday get-togethers.
 

Keep in mind the beauty of the season and don’t forget to take time to pamper yourself!

PHOTO CREDITS
Photo: Neysa Ruhl Photography
Location: Macy’s Fountain Place

Model: Malinda Marshall of New View Management Group, Inc.

Makeup Artistry: Rebecca Long

Hairstyling: Shay Mendenhall, of Posh Salon, (513) 821-8999