Our Holiday Gift Guide 2012 continues with Best Gifts for Your Family.
Best Gift for Your Mother: Mothers are always on their feet and there’s nothing more soothing after a busy day than a relaxing bath. Gift LUSH Cosmetics’ Christmas Bathtime Favourites, a tin full of eight Bath Bombs that not only smell divine but have hidden surprises that are sure to make her smile. These bath treats fizz, pop, multi-layers, mini explosions, special soap paper inside or spread like confetti!
We also recommend The Body Shop’s Body Butter Lollipop. A 5-pack of fruity, floral and nutty flavors, this product does wonders for dry skin and the lollipop packaging is a great conversation starter.
Or, if your Mom loves to cook (or simply loves Buddy Valastro), we are certain she will be thrilled to receive Cooking Italian With The Cake Boss, the latest cookbook in the television star’s series. In this book, Buddy shares his family’s special recipes.
Best Gift for Your Father: Beatles in Comic Strips features a collection of about two hundred cartoon strips dedicated to the Beatles, many of which are extremely rare and now inaccessible. Although it has been forty years since the band broke up, they are still a fan favourite, especially among baby boomers. Definitely a gift to put a smile on your father’s face.
Best Gift for Your Brother: Ed Hardy has a very cool new fragrance for men out titled Skulls & Roses and surprise, surprise, the bottle is a black skull holding a rose. Made in partnership with Elizabeth Arden, this scent features bergamot, cardamom, violet, lavandin, geranium, amber, sandalwood, moss, musk and ozone. It is a gift that’s cool and manly.
Best Gift for Your Little Sister: Taylor Swift’s Wonderstruck Enchanted is the second fragrance from this wonder gal and it is sugary but not too sweet. It has a blend of wild berries, pink poppy and passion fruit. Heart notes include peony blossoms, sugar-glazed champaca petals and white freesia. White musk, hypnotic vanilla and blonde woods make up the perfume’s foundation. The charms on the bottle are also rather lovely.
Or, if she prefers bath products, we highly recommend Philosophy’s Strawberry Angel Food Cake, a collection of shampoo/shower gel/bubble bath and high-gloss, high flavor lip shine in some seriously gorgeous packaging with a little angelic girl on the cover!
Best Gift for Your Big Sister: BCBG Maxazria’s bon chic eau de parfum was developed by perfumer Stephen Nilsen and features notes of black raspberry, Asian pear, mango, peony, violet, orange blossom, soft woods, vanilla and cashmere musk. The name derives from the brand’s acronym, which stands for “bon chic, bon genre” and it can be a fabulous accent for a sophisticated woman.
Best Gift for Your Partner: If your man likes a suave scent and style, the ideal gift is Crabtree & Evelyn’s West Indian Lime Travel Set. Not only does it have the sexiest scent for a man you could imagine, it is a very practical, easily portable 4-pack of cologne, shave cream, after shave balm and body wash.
If he’s hockey mad, then the gift you gotta get him this year is The Great One: The Complete Wayne Gretzky Collection by Sports Illustrated. Sports Illustrated followed the Hockey Great’s career from 1978, when Gretzky was playing for the Soo Greyhounds, right through the ups and downs of his career, making this a powerful and insightful read.
Best Gift for Your Niece or Little Girl: Olivia and the Fairy Princess by Ian Falconer is a true gem. Olivia likes to stand out and is frustrated that all around her the other little girls – and it seems even some boys – want to be princesses. This children’s story book is cute, fun and sure to be beloved by all, especially little girls – and even some boys.
Best Gift for your tech-loving tween or teen cousin: Definitely Apple iPad mini. It has pretty much everything that is in the iPad, but smaller. Compatible with over 275,000 apps. Nuff said. Of course, this could also be a gift for anyone else in your famil
Next week, Best Gifts for Everyone Else.
