Best Home & Beauty Essentials for the Holidays 2017

Tis the season for holiday parties! Today I shared the best home and beauty essentials for the 2017 holidays on Fox 2 News in St. Louis (you can see the video here). Below are details on what I shared:

The Body Shop Limited Edition Seasonal Scents and Gift Sets. The Body Shop has wonderful limited edition seasonal scents to get you in the mood for the holidays and great gift sets that are perfect gifts to give to hosts at holiday parties (as well as to teachers, friends, family and co-workers):

• Holiday scents include Vanilla Pumpkin, Frosted Plum and Frosted Berries available in Shower Gels, Soaps, Body Scrubs, Foaming Baths, Hand Creams, Body Butters and Scented Candles (available for $2-$21 at thebodyshop.com)
• The Body Shop also has a seemingly endless supply of gift set options that are an amazingly good value (e.g., $15 worth of products for $10 and $74 worth of products for $50) in wonderful varieties like the seasonal scents listed above, English Rose and Almond Milk & Honey (available at thebodyshop.com)

Trish McEvoy Confidence To Go Collection. A deluxe portable palette for eyes and face is perfectly paired with four of Trish McEvoy’s iconic brushes. Each brush features a full-size luxury head with a mini downsized handle so you can travel light. An essential shadow trio plus Intense Gel Eye Liner enhances eyes for any mood while universally flattering Bronzer, Highlight and Blush warm and shape your face. Stylishly sized for your on-the-go ($99, available at nordstrom.com)

Includes:

• Portable Beauty®Laser-Cut Case
• Brushes: Mini Kabuki, Laydown, Angled Eye Lining And Tapered Blending
• Deluxe Portable Beauty® Face And Eye Palette, which includes:
  • Eyes: Eye ShadowPebble, Glaze Eye Shadows Raisin And Cream
  • Intense Gel Eye LinerDeep Aubergine
  • Face: Dual Resort Bronzer, Blush Perfect 1

Too Faced White Chocolate Bar. Inspired by the success of our White Chocolate Chip palette, we’re bringing you a full-size White Chocolate Bar of 16 cocoa powder-infused, soft and sugary shades in matte and shimmer finishes. Indulge in a confection of powdered sugar pastels, creamy nudes, and a pop of black sugar that smells like chocolate. Rich, highly pigmented shadows offer true color payoff. ($49, available at toofaced.com)

Too Faced ‘Tis the Season to Sparkle Set. Glitter is Always a Good Idea. Shimmer it up with this glitter eye set that will take any festive look to the next level. We combined four glittering Glamour Dusts with a deluxe-sized Glitter Glue Glitter Eye Primer to lock down glitter and prevent messy fallout for party-perfect eyes that last all day and night. ($24, available at toofaced.com)

Too Faced Under the Kissletoe Liquified Lipstick Set. Melts On. Makes a Statement. Melt your heart out with a clutch-size collection of Melted Liquified Long Wear Lipsticks in our bestselling Melted, Melted Matte, Melted Chocolate, and Melted Latex shades. Our innovative formula comfortably coats lips in bursts of intense, high-impact, saturated color that lasts for hours. ($25, available at toofaced.com)

Nest Festive Candles. Nest has amazing fragranced candles for the holidays ($16-$64, available at nestfragrances.com).

• Birchwood Pine. The aroma of a majestic winter forest is created by blending white pine, fir balsam, and birchwood over a base of rich musk and amber.
• Sugar Cookie. The aroma of a freshly baked sugar cookie is created by the warm flavors of Tahitian vanilla bean and bourbon-infused caramel mixed with delicate threads of sugarcane crystals and a rich essence of golden amber.
• Hearth.The aroma of a wintertime fire is created by combining rich oud wood with frankincense and hints of smoky embers.
• Holiday. The aroma of a sparkling holiday season is created by blending pomegranate, Mandarin orange, pine, cloves, and cinnamon with a hint of vanilla and amber.