Benefit Cosmetics features some of the best makeup kits and collection. Benefit makeup sets are always unique and creative, and the quality of the makeup is very good. This makes them one of the best holiday makeup gifts around.

Below are a selection of items from the Benefit holiday collection and selections from their regular line that would make great gifts.

Smashbox has some cute holiday wish kits in their Smashbox Holiday Wish Collection. They also have some cute makeup bag kits that are great for holiday or Christmas gifts.  The Smashbox Wish Eye Palette is a particularly good deal.

The Lancome Limited Edition Holiday Beauty Box is a great deal at $52 with any $36 purchase:

The Lancome Holiday Beauty Box  contains:

- Creme Radiance Clarifying Cream-to-Foam Cleanser (2 oz.).
- Rénergie Microlift R.A.R.E.™ Superior Lifting Cream SPF 15 Sunscreen (0.5 oz.).
- Full-size Bi-Facil Double Action Eye Makeup Remover (4.2 oz.).
- Cils Booster XL Super-Enhancing Mascara Base (0.07 oz.).
- Full-size Hypnôse Custom Volume Mascara in Black (0.22 oz.).
Compact of Color includes:
- Nine best-selling Color Design Eyeshadow shades (0.12 oz. each).
- Two best-selling Blush Subtil shades (0.13 oz. each).
- Two Color Design Sensational Effects Lip Colors in All Done Up and Trendy Mauve (0.14 oz. each).
- Color Fever Lasting Radiance Sensual Lip Color in Prune Drama Girl (0.14 oz.).
- Two Juicy Tubes Ultra Shiny Lip Glosses in Magic Spell and Simmer (0.28 oz. each).

I am very pleased to announce that Beauty and Fashion Tech and Girl Gloss have joined OpenSky as a shopkeeper!

OpenSky connects readers and shopper with experts and the products they love and use.  At OpenSky, you can browse the shops of experts in fields such as beauty, cooking, gardening, health and fitness, fishing, and more. These expert “shopkeepers” recommend and stock their favorite items.  So, you as a shopper can avoid wading through the junk and find the gems by browsing the OpenSky shops. It is a great concept and I am very excited to become part of it.

Open Sky is also a great place to find some unique and interesting holiday beauty gifts. For example:

From my own shop, Marc Jacobs Cucumber Splash is a wonderful fragrance that is light and neutral enough that it would suit most fragrance fanatics, and the designer label lover will enjoy it for the brand as well.

Kits always make great gifts, and in the MakeOver Mama Shop, you can find this fun kit: The Too Faced Fantastic Plastic Kit.

For the bath and body lover, Palacinka Beauty has the Fresh Brown Sugar Body Polish, an item that I too happen to love.

Open Sky is a fun site and it it provide a unique shopping experience. Please come and check it out! You can view my own shop here: Beauty and Fashion Tech on OpenSky.

Too Faced has three different makeup kits for the holidays this year.  Each is fun and comes in a cute package, just like all Too Faced items do. Any of these would make a great Christmas of other holiday gift.

• The Too Faced French and Fabulous Palette, has six eye shadows, highlighter and a bronzer.
• The Queen for a Day collection offers an Eye shadow Quad, Snow Bunny Bronzer (winter bronze), Lip of Luxury Lipstick in Free Love (pale pink), Shadow Insurance (translucent beige), Mini Lash Injection Pinpoint (black), and a Flatbuki Brush.
• The Glamour Revolution Kit is a limited edition collection packed full of eye shadows, bronzers and lip gloss.
• The Glamour to go kits are fun holiday palettes with eye shadows, lip glosses and a blush.

You can shop the Too Face Holiday Collection items below.

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Elizabeth Arden makes some great skin care items. I particularly recommend the Prevage line. Elizabeth Arden cosmetics are also always good quality, and they have some nice fragrance sets as well. Below is a selection of good holiday gifts from various Elizabeth Arden lines.

Below are some stocking stuffers or affordable small gift ideas for the makeup and cosmetics lover. There are a lot of lip items in here because lip glosses and such always tend to make great holiday stocking stuffers.

Clinique has some cute holiday sets and kits. Clinique Happy is also always a good fragrance gift choice.  From now through December 17, 2009, Clinique is offering a promotion for a  Shimmering silvery tote, free with any $49.50 clinique.com purchase. Use offer code TOTE at checkout.

Also, be sure to check out this limited edition Clinique Holiday Makeup kit: The Classic Favorites Limited Edition Kit . You can also see a wide variety of online exclusive holiday kits by Clinique at their Clinique Holiday Gift Set Page .

Below are also shopping links for some of the best Clinique holiday gifts. If you are out braving the stores on Black Friday, be sure to check the Clinique counter in the department stores, along with other cosmetics counters, for special sales.

Lancome has a couple of cute holiday makeup kits and there are also some items from the Lancome general collection that would make good Christmas or other holiday gifts. My favorite is the limited edition Lancome Holiday Eye Palette with 6 pretty eye shadow shades and a blush in a mirrored case.

Lancome also has a three lip gloss limited edition holiday set that has very nice shades. Lancome lip glosses and Lancome Juicy Tubes are particularly good for stocking stuffers or affordable small gifts.

This Stila Holiday Bag Set includes a Convertible Color Duo in Marigold, Smudge Pot in Golden Noir – black with 24kt gold shimmer, Mini Lip Glaze in Pink, Eye Shadow Trio, and an Exclusive black clutch.

Stila always has quality items and this would be a great gift set!  I am particularly interested in the smudge pot. I am a fan of those in general and gold shimmer mixed in with the black sounds particularity neat. It would make for a great party look when used with some gold eye shadow.