When it comes to cult beauty products, it’s not hard to find a worthy alternative at the drugstore. In fact, most of us have piles of drugstore empties, because they're just that good. But for holiday gifts, the thinking tends to be that only products and gift sets with high price tags will impress. Not true, it turns out. A low price and a pretty aesthetic aren't mutually exclusive.
This season, we’re crossing off our holiday shopping lists at the drugstore, which is currently filled with chic options for everyone. (And we can't complain about the convenience of stocking up on presents while picking up our birth control.)
See them, ahead.
This basket is stuffed to the brim with everything someone (Your mom? Grandma?) could need for an at-home spa night.
Natural Aromatic Bath Gift Set in Canvas Box, $9.99, available at CVS.
Treat your friends to plush socks. They can slip 'em on after lathering their feet up with the hydrating lotion.
Bodycology Cherish The Moment Fragrance Gift Set, $4.88, available at Walmart.
Bath salts are practical, but even more so when they're wrapped in a bucket you can store all your bathroom essentials in.
Dr. Teal’s Soothe & Sleep with Lavender Gift Set, $9.88, available at Walmart.
Foot-related gifts aren't the sexiest — unless you're giving Manolos or this cute set of balms and creams (which can be used on other body parts, too).
Burt’s Bees Tips and Toes Kit Holiday Gift Set 6 pc, $12.99, available at Target.
Because the holidays require a lot of polish changes.
Essie Holiday Mini Nail Polish Kit, $12.99, available at Target.
First Aid Beauty’s skin care always gets us excited; add a bow and we're racing to wash our face.
First Aid Beauty Cleanse & Exfoliate Kit, $16.99, available at Walmart.
This lotion, lip balm, and hand cream set will carry skin through winter and keep it smelling good, too.
EOS Lip Balm and Lotion Sets in Berry Blossom, $9.99, available at CVS.
Jennifer Aniston's fragrance smells just how you imagine she does: beachy and clean.
Jennifer Aniston Fragrance For Women, $19.88, available at Walmart.
Gifting fragrance can be tough, but we have yet to meet someone who doesn't love this clean, fresh, feminine scent.
Philosophy Amazing Grace Ornament, $18, available at Ulta Beauty.
This set is filled with just about everything you could need for last-minute travel plans — and it's all Drew Barrymore-approved.
Flower Beauty Flowerful Color Kiss Collection Gift Set, $9.88, available at Walmart.
Give someone the gift of beauty sleep with this powerful, regenerative skin-care set.
No.7 Beauty Sleep Collection, $20, available at Walgreens.
It's taking everything in us not to take a bite out of these fun bath bombs.
Ulta Beauty Macaroon Bake Shop Bath Fizzers Gift Set, $14, available at Ulta Beauty.
This palette is pretty enough to Instagram and is our pick for anyone who can’t go a day without watching a YouTube tutorial.
BH Cosmetics Carli Bybel 14 Color Eyeshadow & Highlighter Palette, $14.50, available at Ulta Beauty.
Calm your most stressed-out friend out with this set of aromatherapeutic scents.
Fruits 5 Essential Oil Sampler Set, $31.36, available at Walmart.
These glossy lip crayons work as stocking stuffers for everyone, since there's a neutral and a bright.
Hard Candy Lip Gloss Set, $3, available at Walmart.
If unicorns and rainbows aren’t your style, you’ll live for these makeup brushes adorned with slippery serpents.
Sonia Kashuk Holiday Brush Set 10 pc, $39.99, available at Target.
A rosy lip gloss, glowing cheek hue, and neutral cream shadow — this helpful trio will round out the most simple makeup routine, ever.
Vapour Organic Beauty Bon Bon Beauty Gift Set, $70, available at Target.
This romantic travel set features a fragrance, body wash, and body butter that smell like a bouquet of red roses.
Sonia Kashuk Red Holiday Promisia Travel Set, $19.99, available at Target.
This best-selling celebrity fragrance basically walks itself to the register.
Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds Fragrance For Women, $19.88, available at Walmart.
Your eyes are going to look so good at every party.
Maybelline Be Sensational Holiday Kit, $9.88, available at Walmart.
Every beauty novice should start the cosmetic journey with these sets. This one is loaded with every colorful shadow, blush, and lip color you could ever possibly need — and makes you feel like a total pro.
Ulta Beauty Make Today Pretty 72 Piece Collection, $17.99, available at Ulta Beauty.
Every essential for a baby-soft bod comes perfectly wrapped in this bright-pink box.
Soap & Glory Pink Twice Gift Set, $16, available at Target.
Why not split up this set of EOS lip balms and give one to every bestie?
EOS 2016 Limited Edition Lip Balm, $7.99, available at Walmart.
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