The 10 Best Gifts for a Stylish Friend
Every year, TIME's editors and correspondents work together to compile a collection of the most interesting and groundbreaking new products and innovations for the Best Inventions list. As holiday season approaches, the TIME team has pulled out a selection of 10 best beauty items from the list that would make a perfect gift for the always chic trend-setters in your life. —Hugo Yu for TIME Skaura…
For stylish friends, the TIME editors and correspondents have curated a list of ten top beauty items from their Best Inventions list, perfect for holiday gifting. Hugo Yu introduces Skaura One, a manual razor that reimagines the handle instead of focusing on blades. The weighted, ergonomically balanced handle with a finger rest aims to reduce irritation, nicks, and ingrown hairs.
Interchangeable blade cartridges cater to the face, body, and delicate areas, backed by a lifetime guarantee. Nina Derwin highlights K18 FutureIQ, a serum designed to address hair aging issues. Combining biomimetic peptides, a root-anchoring complex, and antioxidants, the treatment showed 100% less hair fall and 70% fewer visible grays after 12 weeks.
Shark Beauty introduces the FlexStyle IonCurl styler, an all-in-one hair tool that dries, curls, and defrizzes hair simultaneously, using negative ions to keep strands silky without heat damage. AORA México, the first plastic-free cosmetics brand sold at Sephora, offers entirely eco-friendly makeup in vegan-friendly packaging made from recyclable materials like tin, aluminum, and wood.
Co-founder Nour Tayara emphasizes their commitment to closing the plastic loop. Emma Barker Bonomo shares the Lifx SuperColor Smart Mirror, a vanity that mimics natural light with 1200-lumen LED brightness, near-infinite color display, anti-fog feature, and warm dim light for night-time use. Nina Derwin also covers iPolish, a digital nail technology that allows users to change colors in seconds via an app and accompanying wand.
Emma Barker Bonomo highlights Nori Cloud Max, a steamer designed to prevent steam burns on delicate fabrics by using soft vacuum suction to hold the fabric in place and pull it taut. Emma Barker Bonomo also features the Shark FacialPro Glow, an at-home hydro-facial system that uses water and suction to clean pores, extract oils, and boost circulation.
Hugo Yu concludes with Dyson CameraJet, an electric toothbrush with a built-in camera to detect tooth gaps and food scraps in real-time, deploy flossing jets as needed, and allow users to view their dental health via a connected app or send footage to their dentist.
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