🎁It’s Official: These Are The #DamnGood, Non-Boring Holiday Gifts Of The 2025 Season, According to Us

Breaking Beauty Podcast

Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins

Jilldunn, Arts, Beautyeditors, Style541811, Beautyexpert, Beauty, Carlenehiggins, Fashion, Society & Culture, Magazineeditors, Fashion & Beauty

4.7 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Santa, baby! We’re here to deliver the #damngood gifts of the season that the beauty lover on your list will *actually* want - no snoozefest presents in sight. Watch, and subscribe to this episode on YouTube!

You’ll hear about:

The makeup musts we’re swooning over (a luxury blush trio, lip gloss “stacks,” and a palette fit for Celine Dion)
A makeup-meets-indie jewellery collab that’s sure to spark conversation at any holiday party
A chic AF bar soap gift set that’s giving us major flashbacks to a coveted childhood stocking stuffer
The high quality hair clips that not only hold up the thickest hair, but that are also the hottest style accessory of the season
A French-girl approved advent calendar that doesn’t skimp out on beauty goodies
A limited edition version of a 100-year old fragrance that’s been updated for the vanilla lover on your list! (And the insider tip for how you can personalize it.)
One of the most-searched for beauty gifts of the season, revealed (this one might surprise you!)

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:08.1	Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty.
0:14.0	We're your host, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins.
0:28.3	Welcome back to Breaking Beauty podcast, everyone. I'm your co-host, Carleen Higgins. I'm here with the fabulous Jill Dunn.
0:37.8	Hey, Carleen. And we are two beauty editors turned podcasters here in your feed every single Wednesday chatting about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. And this is a very special episode when we look forward to every single
0:43.4	year. And it's our hashtag damn good holiday gift guide. And these are always like just so fun
0:50.7	to put together for everybody. Yes. Because beauty gifts, they bring joy.
0:55.0	Let's be honest.
0:55.8	And especially with this timing that we're doing this episode, it's like right before the holidays officially start, Black Friday, Cyber Monday.
1:03.6	And the theme of today's episode is these are the hashtag damn good, non-boring, non-boring beauty gifts of the season, according to us,
1:12.5	every price point. So we have something for everyone. I think it's more exciting this year.
1:17.1	I'm really excited. And so I think it's the perfect time to talk about unboring gifts,
1:22.2	because who really wants that, honestly? Given that we are beauty editors and we've been doing
1:27.3	this for 20 years, we always say that we've beauty editors and we've been doing this for 20 years,
1:28.4	we always say that we've seen it all and swatched it all. So we have a pretty high standard for
1:33.3	what would be considered unboring. I think we can safely say that. Yeah. So I definitely have a few
1:38.9	things today that like a wearable jewelry piece that is beauty. I think that's so exciting. A Celine Dion approved
1:48.0	palette for your face that I'm really excited about. A lip gloss that's three different colors.
1:53.8	I mean, who wouldn't like in the same tube, guys? It's like a stacked set of colors. Who wouldn't be
1:59.3	excited to try that? A very French girl-inspired Advent calendar, the cool girl hair brand, hair clip, stocking stuffers galore. So without further ado, we should get into this. And I do want to make mention that we are on YouTube as well, Breaking Beauty Podcast, and we have all of the gift sets in front of us. If you want to watch this episode, please join us on there. Yes, then you can see all of the beautiful products for yourself.
2:22.6	All right. Jill, we are getting into our gift guide. What, this is the first time we've seen
2:28.5	what each other has chosen as unboring gifts. So I'm going to ask you, looking at my spread, what catches your fancy?
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