24 Luxury Beauty Gift Sets That Are Totally Worth the Investment
It’s almost holiday gift-giving season, and if that leaves you wondering what to buy for friends and family members (as well as a little something special for yourself), there’s no reason to freak out and resort to a gift card. Instead, shop our expertly curated list of the best luxury beauty gift sets that are sure to please anyone who receives them. Some are so good that you’ll want to stock up on two or more—one to give and one to keep to indulge in yourself.
Shop the Best Luxury Beauty Gift Sets
1. Best of Dermstore: 12 Days of Beauty
The ultimate luxury beauty gift set that anyone on your holiday shopping list will be happy to accept is this 12 full-size piece expertly curated set chock full of the essentials for beautiful, healthy, and youthful hair, skin, and makeup. With something for literally every part of the body head to toe, the full and deluxe-sized favorites include best sellers from major beauty players, including Virtue, SkinCeuticals, Medik8, Tarte, and more. Valued at over $800, this is a major must-have for all your beauty-obsessed friends and family.
2. Dr. Dennis Gross Faceware Bundle
Bring the dermatologist home with a red light therapy mask and skincare essentials kit. Perfect for boosting the skin’s radiance while reducing redness and inflammation, and for tackling stubborn acne, this safe-for-all-skin-types set is the ultimate must-have when healthy, glowing skin is a prerequisite.
3. Shark Beauty CryoGlow Under-Eye Cooling + LED Anti-Aging & Skin Clearing Face Mask
Inspired by innovative med-spa treatments, this LED-powered acne and anti-aging mask works while you sit back and relax. Powered by deep-penetrating infrared and high-energy LED technology, with a cooling feature, you can set the mask to one of four treatments based on your skin’s needs.
4. Dr. Diamond's Metacine InstaFacial® Plasma Duo Bioactive Growth Factors
Treat the skin to a double shot of Dr. Diamond’s Metacine best-selling growth-factor-rich serum, which supports the skin for healthy cellular rejuvenation. Whether you keep one at home and use one for travel, or keep one for yourself and gift the other, the plasma-rich formula is sure to make your skin gleam and glow.
5. Jillian Dempsey Repair...I Swear! Kit
If sculpted, lifted skin and ultra-hydrated eyes sit high on someone’s holiday wish list, then this kit is the perfect luxury beauty gift. Replete with makeup artist Jillian Dempsey’s 24-karat Gold Sculpting Bar, which can be used anywhere on the face to contour saggy features and give a sculpted look, and her Hydrating Eye Mask, which strengthens the skin barrier and soothes, nourishes, and plumps the delicate skin under the eyes, this game-changer is sure to make anyone who receives it smile bright.
6. DERMAFLASH Luxe+ Advanced Sonic Dermaplaning and Peach Fuzz Removal
Give the gift of the smoothest skin ever with this advanced dermaplaning tool, which creates professional-level results in the privacy of your own home. Thanks to the brand’s sonic technology and specially crafted blades, dead skin, peach fuzz, and dullness become a thing of the past, allowing the skin to properly reflect light while makeup glides on perfectly.
7. Grown Alchemist Hand Care Set Chrome Edition
By far the chicest handset we’ve ever seen, this chrome-outfitted version makes for the perfect holiday gift. Both the hand wash and hand cream restore lost moisture to the skin, leaving it soft and supple without stripping it of much-needed natural oils.
8. NuFACE Trinity+ Complete Set
LED red light tools are making a name for themselves, so why not up the ante with this FDA-cleared facial toning device that also features advanced microcurrent energy? Just a few minutes is all it takes to lift and tighten the skin, improve contours, and blur away the look of fine lines and wrinkles—there are even special lip and eye attachments to hone in on those areas and activators—making this the perfect luxury beauty gift set for anyone who wants to defy the hands of time.
9. Eminence Organic Skin Care Moisturized Glowing Skin Bundle
Glowing skin can easily be achieved with the right skincare products, and that’s the goal that this trip offers. Layer on the vitamin-rich oil, the hyaluronic acid-packed moisturizer, and the lightweight powder sunscreen to impart a healthy glow while improving the condition and health of the skin.
10. BIOEFFECT Imprinting Hydrogel Mask
Nothing elicits a response like, “OMG! I can’t believe I got this!” quite like finding a set of high-end face masks in your stocking stuffer. These skin-soothing hydrogel masks are designed to be used alongside the brand’s serums to visibly plump the skin while combating dryness. Bonus points for the two-piece mask’s cooling effect and ultra-hydrating benefits, thanks to a blend of moisturizing hyaluronic acid and skin-softening glycerin.
11. LYMA Skincare Serum and Cream Starter Kit
Luxury beauty gift sets don’t get any more luxurious than this two-piece kit, which features a highly active skincare serum and cream. Promising visible results in just 30 days, these clinically based products support eight mechanisms of skin aging thanks to epigenetics to improve the skin’s appearance and functionality. Encased in refillable hammered copper vessels, a unique blend of peptides, powerful antioxidants like MitroPrime and Quercevita, anti-inflammatory agents like Levagen, humectants, and hydrators like hyaluronic acid work together to increase skin hydration, reduce the size of pores and leave the skin smoother, softer, and far more vibrant.
12. Augustinus Bader The Renewal Essentials
The Augustinus Bader brand has become synonymous with luxury anti-aging skincare, and this three-piece set, which features the viral The Rich Cream, The Eye Cream, and The Serum, is the perfect luxury gift set for that special someone in your life looking to get familiar with the brand. Powered by the brand’s TFC8®, Trigger Factor Complex TFC, skin emerges more hydrated, renewed, and glowing with every application.
13. T3 Switch Kit Curl Trio Interchangeable Curling Iron
The convenience of having a curling iron with interchangeable wands at your disposal is just oh-so luxe. Rather than having to switch between different size barrels, which involves letting the iron heat up, too, this three-in-one multitasking curling iron makes it a cinch to swap back and forth between creating large, loose curls and tighter ones. It also features advanced heat precision via nine different temperature settings, so you don’t have to worry about damaging your hair.
14. Perricone MD Cold Plasma Plus+ Power Duo
Let this vitamin, peptide, and omega-packed face serum and eye cream work its magic to transform your skin. Both powerhouse formulas promote healthy skin that looks and acts more youthful while improving common skin issues like loss of radiance, uneven tone and texture, and redness and discoloration for a noticeable difference that will have everyone asking you your secret.
15. Avène SOS Skin Barrier Recovery Routine
Perfect for compromised and sensitive skin, this soothing and healing kit is the perfect way to support healthy barrier function. The three-piece set is based on the Avène Thermal Spring Water, which is clinically proven to cool, soothe, and calm skin while restoring its natural balance. Gift this skin must-have to that special someone who will really appreciate its ability to help soothe and restore the skin.
16. LightStim for Wrinkles
Beautiful, youthful skin can easily be had this holiday season with a skin-rejuvenating handheld tool like this one. Perfect for reducing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles while improving the skin’s overall appearance, this light-based energy device plumps the skin and helps improve its health for the skin you want and deserve.
17. Aesop Resurrection Duet
There’s something so unique and personal about gifting the perfect hand duo, and this set doesn’t disappoint. With its beautiful citrus-meets-woody aroma and a skin-nourishing, deeply hydrating formula, we love how this hand soap and hand cream look by the sink.
18. Act+Acre Scalp Relief System
One of the best luxury beauty gift sets to give (and receive) is the gift of thicker, fuller, stronger hair, which is exactly what this system achieves. Developed by a trichologist and perfect for targeting changes to the hair, like thinning and hair loss, everything in this scalp-boosting trio balances the scalp's microbiome to restore the scalp's hydration levels and remove any excess build-up or flakiness so you can maintain a healthy scalp.
19. Natura Bissé Diamond Extreme Duo
Thanks to supercharged ingredients like retinol, niacinamide, and peptides, Natura Bisse is always a go-to for luxuriously tackling aging. This effective duo features two of the brand's most favored Diamond Extreme products to tackle aging skin, dullness, and dark spots: the Diamond Extreme Rich Cream and Diamond Extreme Mask, both of which deliver impressive anti-aging benefits.
20. RéVive Skincare Fermitif Chin and Neck Duo
Tech neck be gone. Chances are, someone on your shopping list longs for a firm, contoured, tighter chin and neck. So, if a neck lift isn't in the cards, this set from ReVive is. The cream and mask work to tighten, smooth, and firm the chin, neck, and decolletage so they're contoured and sculpted, taking years off your appearance.
21. Jan Marini Rejuvenate and Protect Antioxidant Daily Face Protectant SPF 33
Don’t let sun damage stand in the way of good skin. Instead, protect the skin from the sun’s harmful UV rays with this anti-aging duo that promotes more radiant skin. The C-ESTA Serum works to undo the signs of discoloration, wrinkles, and a loss of collagen with a potent blend of vitamin C and DMAE, while the Antioxidant Daily Face Protectant SPF 33 safeguards the skin from the sun and other environmental aggressors that can cause photoaging and premature aging.
22. Best of Dermstore: Healthy Skin Edit
This is the perfect luxury beauty gift set for the girl focuses on her skincare routine. Valued at over $730, this healthy skin edit features curated dermatologist-approved essentials to treat and protect your skin. Included are all skincare must-haves from acne-safe sunscreen to treatment serums and more.
23. U Beauty The Index Set Vol. II
This cult-classic skincare set is a must for instituting a complete day-to-night routine that the skin can reap the benefits of. Formulated with peptides, hyaluronic acid, vitamin C, and hydroxy acids, each travel-sized product in the collection allows for good skin on the go and wherever else life may take you.
24. PCA SKIN The Acne Control Regimen
Treating acne can sometimes feel like an uphill battle, but that’s not the case when you are armed with an arsenal of proven skincare products for oily and combination skin. The perfect gift for someone who struggles with constant breakouts, this two-month acne regimen relies on benzoyl peroxide, salicylic acid, niacinamide, and retinol spread across four products to get skin clean, clear, and under control.
The Bottom Line
There’s no denying the fact that holiday shopping to find the best luxury beauty gift sets can be stressful, but when you’re armed with a curated list of the best of the best, it makes the entire process that much easier. No matter if our picks make it into your hands as a way to honor yourself this season (yes, you deserve something special, too!) or if you buy them as gifts for your friends and family, gifting beauty is the reminder that we all sometimes need that it is essential to take care of the skin, hair, and feel beautiful every day of the year.
Elise Minton Tabin is an award-winning beauty journalist, editor, and beauty expert with more than 16 years of experience. She previously held the title of Executive Beauty Editor at NewBeauty magazine, where she reported on beauty, plastic surgery, anti-aging, health and wellness. She was also instrumental in the launch of the beauty supplement brand Hush & Hush. A self-professed beauty junkie and retinol and sunscreen pusher, Elise knows what’s new, what works and who’s the best to go for every procedure under the sun. Follow Elise on Facebook, Instagram, and on her beauty blog, elisetabin.com