From Australia, With Love: Beauty Gifts to Send Abroad

Not your traditional Christmas cracker, these are filled with mini beauty treats! This year, MECCA has teamed up with Aussie brand Slip to bring us a bundle of three 100% silk hair scrunchies. Born on an Aussie sheep farm, Lanolips is our secret to soft hydrated lips: the 101 Delicious Holiday Lip Duo Cracker includes two limited-edition holiday-inspired flavours of their award-winning 101 Ointment – Glazed Donut and Raspberry Shortcake. Yum! 

The best skincare gifts are the ones that suit all skin and can be slathered on with minimal thought. It’s why we always choose MECCA COSMETICA’s Gel Cream, an oil-free, fragrance-free moisturiser loaded with niacinamide and squalane for plumping hydration – a top choice for anyone in the Northern Hemisphere battling the winter elements. And this year, to add to its appeal, it’s swathed in spectacular artwork from MECCA’s Holiday artist. No one does impossible-to-mess-up skincare quite like Go-To, the brainchild of former Australian beauty editor Zoë Foster Blake. She makes skincare a no-brainer (for the gifter and giftee) by including a full routine in each of her holiday sets. You can’t go wrong with these: Nice ‘N Nourished, Pumped Up or Clean And Clear.    

Don’t forget their bod! We always look forward to Frank Body’s festive drop and this year the collection is full of puns, innuendos and of course, body care that means business. Slip them the I’m Hot & Active, Cool, Calm, Collected or perennial favourite Scrub Snack Pack featuring the coffee scrub that put the brand on the map. It’s fun (and smooth skin), delivered.

It instantly feels more special to gift a scent they can’t find where they currently live. If you thought Go-To just did good skin, think again. Their three new perfume oils smell exactly how you’d imagine: delicious, addictive and a little cheeky. There’s a cosy, boozy, amber blend (perfect for a Northern Hemisphere winter) called Into The Woods. Into The Garden is their take on a floral with tuberose, ylang-ylang and freesia. Into The Bakery smells like a rich chocolate biscuit, hazelnut and toasted coconut. The slender, roll-on format is very mail-friendly, too!  

Meanwhile, co-founded by Australian singer, songwriter and creative genius Troye Sivan, TSU LANGE YOR’s evocative scents will leave them feeling homesick (in a good way). Created in Carlton, some scents tell a story of Sivan’s favourite local haunts, from summer at the Carlton Baths (Pool EDP) to the wild beauty of the Dandenong Ranges (Sassafras Candle). We suggest this mini wardrobe of TLY’s personal fragrances, packaged in a keepsake wooden box.