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Holiday Shopping Guide: Top Beauty Gifts for Women

The holidays mark the perfect time to update your look, your scent, or simply to protect the skin on your back. We rounded up the top luxe beauty gifts this season that will be a joy for anyone on your list to play with and experiment with. Help your friends and loved ones ring in the new year with a gift that will last well into 2011.

Sensai Cellular Lifting Series Set

The first name in Japanese skincare, Sensai, has earned a named synonymous with rich, moisturized skin. Whether dealing with harsh winter conditions or drying sun, nothing works better to moisturize and heal delicate skin. A new limited edition set ($245) features two of the most popular products from Sensai's new Lifting series, Lifting Cream and Lifting Essence, and a revitalizing Lifting Radiance 3D Mask. Featuring a near entire bottle of the Sensai Lifting Radiance Concentrate, formulated with Sensai's Natural Musculifter and Golden Camomile Extract, the mask guarantees a fresh, youthful face by New Year's through its trademark energy activation of muscle cells and microcirculation of the skin.

Sensai has another Limited Edition Gift Set from the Cellular Performance line ($130), which features Cellular Performance face and eye countour cream, inflused with Koishumaru Silk and Shilan Extract to protect against wrinkles and discoloration. The special box set also includes the Total Lip Treatment, which Scarlett Johannson calls her "favorite thing in the entire world...feels like a million bucks."

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Luxist Giveaway: Two Bobbi Brown 'Beauty Rules' Books and Makeup Palettes

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Beauty Palette for 'Beauty Rules' by Bobbi Brown

It's not every day we get to do a Bobbi Brown giveaway! The fabulous makeup artist whose natural-looking products we love has given us two of her brand new Beauty Rules books and corresponding makeup palettes (above) to give to you.

Bobbi Brown's Beauty Rules

You may remember Teenage Beauty, which Bobbi Brown released ten years ago and which became a New York Times best-seller. This new book is geared at the younger set again and aims to help them with the boatload of new dilemmas the information age presents, like Facebook photos. There are tips on everything from beauty and makeup to eating right and exercise, and advice on being a good friend.

From Bobbi herself:

"I wanted to use real girls in this book because I wanted girls to be able to pick up Beauty Rules and be able to find themselves in the book, no matter what body type, ethnicity, age, etc. It is important for girls to see realistic portrayals of beauty and to recognize that no matter what they may think, everyone is beautiful and has at least one feature that they can play up and enhance."

The corresponding makeup palette is a fabulous collection of fresh eyeshadows, luscious rouges, balms, glosses and a creamy black eyeliner pencil. You can purchase it separately at BobbiBrown.com for $45.00.

But wouldn't it be more fun to get it for free? Here's how:

**UPDATE** This giveaway is now closed. Winners will be notified by email.

* To enter, leave a confirmed comment below.
* The comment must be left and confirmed by October 26, 2010.
* You may only enter once (multiple entries will be deleted).
* Two winners will be selected in a random drawing.
* Two winners will receive both a Beauty Rules book by Bobbi Brown and the corresponding makeup palette, a prize valued at $69.95 each.
* Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 years of age or older.

See full giveaway rules here.

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The Nominees for Best in Beauty

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Best Men's Skincare Line

The first nominee has a straightforward name as well as no-nonsense naming and simple packaging, while the second nominee was launched high in the mountains of France nearly 50 years ago by an intrepid biologist. The third nominee offers one of the most extensive lines for men while the fourth is known for its longevity and expertise in men's skincare. The final nominee lives by its logo that says "be healthy and look great".

Anthony Logistics for Men
Biotherm Homme
Clinique Skin Supplies for Men
Lab Series Skincare for Men
MenScience Androceuticals

Best Cosmetics Line

The first nominee was created by a makeup artist who wanted to create a natural-looking makeup line that would allow a person's true beauty to shine through while the second one was started by a painter who later became a celebrity makeup artist. The third nominee is a favorite of runway artists and film stars alike while the fourth is an eponymous beauty brand known for highly pigmented products, cleverly slim and sleek compacts, and a fearless selection of shades for people of all colors. The final nominee first became famous for its revolutionary makeup brushes, followed by its innovative cosmetics.

Bobbi Brown
Laura Mercier
M·A·C Cosmetics
NARS
Trish McEvoy

Best Fragrance

The first nominee has been the scent of choice for sophisticates worldwide since the 1930's, while the second nominee has been synonymous with opulence for generations. The third nominee is an elegant and sophisticated octogenarian while the fourth nominee is a unisex newcomer that is packaged in perhaps the most innovative vessel ever created for a fragrance. The final nominee is immediately recognizable due to its famous logo.

Acqua di Parma Colonia
Bulgari's Eau Parfumée au Thé Blanc
Chanel No. 5
Voyage d'Hermès
Polo Ralph Lauren

Best Bodycare Line

The first nominee is a Japanese line that was developed with the knowledge of Oriental herbal medicine while the second one has been concocting beautifying elixirs in New York City since 1851. The third nominee takes a scientific approach to beauty and the fourth makes distinctively aromatic concoctions that are handcrafted from fresh and organic fruits and vegetables. The final nominee is an upbeat, uplifting company with a product line that attempts to inspire its customers to live a better life by being better to themselves.

Kanebo's Sensai
Kiehl's
La Prairie
Lush
Philosophy

Best Skin Cream

The first nominee is made from a combination of natural ingredients including special sea kelp harvested twice a year off the coast of California, while the second nominee focuses on the inner balance and harmony of the body and soul. The third nominee uses two key ingredients: a natural extract derived from the root of the Shilan orchid as well as Koishumaru silk extract. The fourth nominee prides itself on understatement while the final nominee was launched by a Harvard-trained, board-certified dermatologist who's single product contains all the necessary ingredients to fight anti-aging.

Creme de la Mer
Darphin
Kanebo's Sensai Skin Care
Philosophy
37 Extreme Actives

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Bobbi Brown: Makeup that Looks Like Skin, But Better

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Bobbi Brown is the beauty line and namesake of celebrity makeup artist Bobbi Brown, and a nominee for a Readers' Choice Award in Best Cosmetics Line.

Bobbi Brown worked her way up to makeup stardom through the freelance scene in New York City, gig by gig, in the kind of environment that makes most young hopefuls throw in the towel. Her seven-year perseverance paid off with a Vogue cover featuring supermodel-to-be Naomi Campbell shot by Patrick Demarchelier. She was immediately established as one of the freshest voices in the industry, and the jobs started pouring in.

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Bobbi Brown 24-Carat Luxe Brush Collection

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Makeup master Bobbi Brown's 24-Carat Gold Luxe Brush Collection could be construed as a monument to your own vanity if bought for yourself. Bought by someone else, however, it implies that your face is a masterpiece deserving to be painted on by only the finest of tools. The collection includes 10 brushes hand-crafted with 24-karat gold accents and ebony handles. The set comes in collector's edition box crafted in genuine leather and includes a portable leather case for travel. It sells for $650.

[via Times Online]

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Bobbi Brown Chocolate Collection

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Chocolate plus cosmetics? It brings to mind childhood and Bonne Bell lip glosses but with makeup magician Bobbi Brown and Vosges Haut Chocolat involved, this is a treat for grownups. WWD has the details on Brown's new limited-edition fall color collection which was inspired by chocolate. Bobbie Brown also has created a dark milk chocolate Beauty Bar. The $6 bar will be on sale starting in July at Neiman Marcus, Bergdorf Goodman and four freestanding Vosges stores. The bar includes one of the "it" ingredients of the moment, matcha green tea which is supposed to speed up the metabolism. Brown's chocolate-themed makeup includes an eyeshadow palette, Chocolate Cherry nail polish, blushes and lip duos and also goes on sale in July. Alas, they are not flavored.

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Bobbi Brown Beauty Trunk

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I tend to buy makeup an item at a time but I've often though I would be better off just tossing it all and starting over. Neiman Marcus has the answer for anyone who has ever felt the same way, a whole Bobbi Brown makeup kit packed into a faux-crocodile case. The Beauty Trunk also has pockets for tools. The kit includes lipstick, lip liner, lip gloss, multiple eye shadows, blush, eyeliner, face base and more. The trunk sells for $475.

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Bergdorf Goodman Beauty Offers

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There are some great beauty offers going on at Bergdorf Goodman to tempt you to the cosmetics counter. A $150 purchase of any fragrance or cosmetics gets you a Lulu Guinness roll bag filled with samples from La Prairie, Amore Pacific and Awake. A $185 purchase from Chantecaille gets you a sample size of biodynamic lifting cream and an eye shadow in a pink pouch. A $250 purchase from Sisley Paris rewards you with sample sizes of an express flower gel mask, a botanical eye and lip contour balm, a Sisleya-Elixir telespray, a Sisleya anti-aging cream, a mini-lip liner, a Hydra-Flash body treatment sample packet, and a Phyto-Teint Eclat No3 sample packet in a denim cosmetics bag with brown leather sawtooth trim and golden studs.A $250 purchase at La Prairie earns you a sample sizes of%uFFFD purifying cream cleanser, essence of Skin Caviar, Skin Caviar luxe cream, Skin Caviar Ampoule Treatment, a miniature Cellular Luxe lip color and a sample of Silver Rain fragrance all in a metallic silver bag. Bobbi Brown isn't offering samples in a bag but for any $150 purchase you do get to take home a lipstick and blush.

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