A Comprehensive Guide to the Best Skincare Gifts You Can Give This Year

Byoma Brightening Starter Skincare Kit (£15)

If your friend is just starting to dip their toe into the world of skin care, you can't go wrong with the Byoma Brightening Starter Skincare Kit. Available at Target, this trio of products will help them unlock their brightest, most glowy skin yet. Inside is the Creamy Jelly Cleanser, Brightening Serum, and Moisturising Gel Cream, designed to even tone and support the skin's moisture barrier.

Glow Recipe Fruit Babies Bestsellers Kit (£35)

Shopping for someone who can't get enough Glow Recipe in their life? You have to get them the Fruit Babies Bestsellers Kit. It contains mini versions of the brand's five bestselling products, and they're all winners. Whether they want hydration or exfoliation, this kit has everything they'll need for their skin-care concerns. It's travel size as well, so they can always have their favourites wherever they go. Find out more about the best Glow Recipe products here.

Laneige Besties Skincare Discovery Set (£30)

Know someone always complaining about dry skin? Gift them a skin-care routine with extra hydration with the Laneige Besties Skincare Discovery Set. It comes with the mini bestselling lip sleeping mask, hyaluronic-acid-based serum, moisture, and cleanser, ideal for those with drier skin types, and a thick sleeping mask. It's gentle enough for all skin types to use, especially those who lean sensitive.

Innisfree Hydrate and Glow Face Care Set (£30)

K-beauty fans will be thrilled to get this Innisfree Hydrate and Glow Face Care Set this festive season. The three-piece set contains the Green Tea Hydrating Amino Acid Cleansing Foam, Green Tea Hyaluronic Acid Serum, Glass Skin Refining Serum, and Dewy Glow Jelly Cream. The travel-friendly routine is the key to glass skin.

Sacheu Gua Sha Starter Kit (£50, originally £60)

If you know someone just now dipping their toe into the world of skin care, start small with your skin-care gift. This Sacheu Gua Sha Starter Kit includes a metal gua sha tool that stays cool and is easy to glide across the face and pressure points. The included facial oil is loaded with lipids that provide the ideal slip for the gua sha while giving skin a healthy glow.

First Aid Beauty FAB Faves Trio Kit (£26)

If you're shopping for someone with sensitive skin, you can count on First Aid Beauty. The brand is known for its sensitive-skin-friendly formulations that are effective yet gentle. The set comes with everything they need for a brighter, smoother complexion, including a cleanser, a hydrating moisturiser, and a body exfoliator.

Peter Thomas Roth Multi-Masker 4-Piece Mask Kit (£70)

As they say, variety is the spice of life, and anyone who applies this motto to their skin-care routine will especially appreciate the Peter Thomas Roth Multi-Masker 4-Piece Mask Kit. It comes with every kind of facial treatment you could want, including the Cucumber Gel Mask to soothe redness, Water Drench Hyaluronic Cloud Mask to hydrate, Pumpkin Enzyme Mask to brighten, and 24K Gold Mask to make anyone feel really f*cking fancy.

Summer Fridays The Skincare Set (£65)

If you're shopping for someone who's a big fan of flat lays, chances are they love Summer Fridays — which is why this set is sure to impress. It has editor-backed products from the brand like the full size of the bestselling Jet Lag Mask, a mini version of the CC Me Serum, which is a gentle vitamin C serum, a mini Aura Eye Cream that helps with brightening and hydration, and a mini Lip Butter Balm in vanilla. It's perfect for those with drier or duller skin types.

Dr.Jart+ Mask Multipack Gift Set (£29)

Shopping for the sheet mask lover on your list? Treat them to this K-beauty-inspired set from Dr. Jart. It comes with 6 different products to treat a wide range of concerns, whether it's hydration, brightening, firming, calming, purifying, and more.

Tatcha Mini Favourites Set (£71)

You can't go wrong with this bestsellers kit from Tatcha. The brand is known for its effective yet gentle Japanese-inspired formulations, utilising ingredients like green tea, red algae, and rice bran. This set comes with the calming cleansing oil, a rice-based cleanser, a resurfacing cleanser, a refreshing toning essence, a hydrating cream, and a lightweight moisturiser. It's perfect for those with sensitive skin as well. You can read our guide to the best Tatcha products here.

Sunday Riley Morning Buzz Vitamin C Trio Kit (£84)

Everyone should be using vitamin C in their skin-care routine, and Sunday Riley's products are cult favourites for a reason. Inside this gift set are minis of the Afterglow Brightening Vitamin C Gel Cream, the C.E.O. 15% Vitamin C Brightening Serum, and the C.E.O. Glow Vitamin C + Turmeric Face Oil, which will all help brighten, protect, and plump your skin.

Nuface Mini+ Petite Facial Toning Device (£244)

The Nuface Mini+ Petite Facial Toning Device is a microcurrent tool they can use to target puffiness and lines to visibly tone their face. With consistent use, they'll notice a lifted appearance and firmer skin. It comes with a hydrating gel primer and a creamy primer that will help the device glide along their skin. They can use it up to five times a week to begin with, then two to three times per week for maintenance.

Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare Light It Up FaceWare Pro LED Device Kit (£434)

The Light It Up FaceWare Pro LED Device Kit comes with a hot pink version of the DRx Spectralite FaceWare Pro as well as eight of the editor-backed retinol peel pads, a full size of the retinol intense wrinkle cream, and a sample of the retinol eye serum.

Aside from the fact that the LED mask will make the user look like a sci-fi movie character (a perk for any Star Wars fans out there!), the underside of the mask contains a total of 100 red LED lights, which help reduce the signs of ageing, and 62 blue LED lights, which help kill the bacteria that can lead to breakouts. It's like gifting a professional facial treatment. Plus, this gift set costs as much as just the DRx Spectralite FaceWare Pro retails for, so you're basically getting the retinol products for free.

Our editor says the gadget is a worthy investment due to its FDA stamp of approval and how the mask fits on the face. "It perfectly conforms to your forehead, cheeks, and chin, and is secured with an adjustable strap behind the head so you can use it just as easily laying down as you can while walking around the house," she says.