Articles about: gifts
Quirky but cool Gift Guide. Irish made: but don’t worry, there isn’t a shamrock or a shillelagh in sight!
Now, I know that when it comes to presents and the words “quirky” and “Irish”, it can immediately set off diddly-eye alarm bells and conjure up images of leprechauns and other such twee nonsense, but fear not! For the following …
Christmas Gift Guides: Stocking Stuffers For Under A Fiver
ARGH!!! Feck knows how it happened, but Christmas is just four weeks away! But don’t panic Beaut.ies cos we’ve got your back – all this week we’ll be bringing you our favourite festive picks. You might spot the perfect gift for your sister, …
Wish Lists, Hints or Surprises: What’s Your Gift Requesting Style?
Just two more sleeps until Christmas Day! That means it’s time to start relaxing and winding down, yes? Er, not for me: it’s a good bet that, even as you read this, I’m scrambling around the shops, trying desperately to …
Beaut.ie Wonders: What’s The Worst Present You’ve Ever Given?
In the past, we’ve cried laughing (and sometimes just cried) about the absolute crap that we’ve been on the receiving end of at Christmas time. That might sound nearly as ungrateful as Jemima Khan is about scented candles, but it’s …
Scented Candles as Gifts: Offensively Unimaginative or Fragranced and Fabulous?
At some stage last week, I read something that caused my mind to boggle and my world to wobble on its axis. Jemima Khan complained in a magazine feature that receiving a scented candle as a gift from someone you’re close …
The pussy purse: Purssey the perfect present for the woman who has everything
Oh jesus – the childish part of me laughed my ass off when I saw this handbag essential. Anatomically correct it has all the bits displayed to scale and in the right places. So now there’s absolutely no excuse for …
Swit-Swoo Gift Time worth €130 at Harvey Nichols, Dundrum
Should you happen to be in Beyond Beauty at Harvey Nichols in Dundrum on March the 15th, laying down a not-insubstantial amount of cash on, say, oohhh, some Eve Lom or that divine Trish McEvoy Python makeup planner, then I’ve …
Psst: Lancome are Doing an Exclusive Gift at Brown Thomas!
OH YESSS! There’s a rare thing we like more than a delicious bit of something for nothing and here’s some nice news to start the week off: if you head to the Lancôme counter at Brown Thomas from today until …
Come On Now, Admit it: Do You “Recycle” Unwanted Christmas Gifts?
Jumbo boxes of “The Colour Institute” make-up. Lavender-scented soap. (Or worse, talc.) Drawer liners. Candles that would give you a headache from rooms away … even when unlit. Completely hick ornaments that you wouldn’t even hide away in a cabinet, …
Fantasy Gift Guide: Jordan
Yesterday Phil Mitchell got the Beaut.ie Fantasy Gift Guide treatment and today it’s the turn of Jordan/Katie Price/Jordan/I’m a boob-flashin’ cage fightin’ dancer-dater-style wild thing/I like horses/SOB Pete Please Come Back!/Jordan/boobs/I can’t keep up with her multiple personalities and am …