Welcome to the gifts we can’t wait to give this year:
For the Health-nut Who Needs A Day Off
Nobu Go Facial, Caesars Palace (Las Vegas)
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Launched to celebrate Nobu Hotel Caesars Palace’s five-year anniversary, the 100-minute Nobu Go Facial combines five luxury spa experiences in one over-the-top treatment. Meaning “five” in Japanese, the Go Facial starts with a VR meditation experience (yup), then moves into a hydrating facial treatment that includes a gold face mask and topical Botox called the “Cinderella Lift”, followed by masks on hands and feet, and finishing with a full-body moisturizer application.
Ultra-Fractional Treatment, Skin Laundry (Multiple Locations)
Source: Skin Laundry
Best known for its signature, no-down-time, 15-minute laser and light facial, Skin Laundry has stepped it up this month with a high octane (but still no down-time) Ultra Fractional Facial. The new laser facial is a non-ablative fractional resurfacing laser that does all the things we like lasers to do: target pigmentation, reverse sun-damage and improve texture through stimulating collagen. Post-laser, medical-grade serums customized for skin type are applied.
Balance Wellness Package, Four Seasons Westlake (Westlake Village)
Source: Four Seasons Westlake Village
The Four Seasons Westlake Village property is just outside of LA city limits, but feels like a far-flung resort. The spa itself is adjacent to a full-scale medical wellness clinic that shares the grounds with the hotel, so naturally its treatments are going to pamper in a clinically sound way. A 225-minute Balance package includes a 50-minute Tranquility massage, a 50-minute Signature Facial, a 50-minute Ginger Lime Sugar Glow scrub and a 30-minute Classic Manicure and 45-minute Pedicure.
Sugar Peppermint Scrub and Wrap, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel (Los Angeles)
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This 90-minute, signature Sugar Peppermint Scrub and Wrap is basically the Beverly Hills, 60-minute spa version of Christmas. Starting with a cooling, whipped sugar peppermint scrub, a hydrating peppermint butter wrap is applied to the body, followed by a scalp massage and application of a rich, firming body lotion.
For the Hostess
Natural Wine Subscription, Dry Farm Wines
Source: Dry Farm Wines
For those of us who drink, nothing beats a delicious wine that happens to be llow-sugar, toxin-free and naturally made. All of the wines included in Dry Farm Wines’ subscriptions are biodynamic, organic, sustainably produced and small-batch. Gift a monthly subscription that include monthly shipments of six wines, selected from small producers around the world.
Champagne Eric Philippe Extra Brut, Tayson Pierce Estate Wines
Source: Tayson Pierce Estate Wines
The Champagne Eric Philippe is produced by renowned single-estate producer Tayson Pierce Estate Wines, and contains 93% less added sugar than most commercially available extra brut bottlings. As far as calories go, it can take two glasses of dry Champagne to equal of the calorie count one glass of non-sparkling wine, perfect for making room for a second slice of pie.
For the ‘Always on the go’ City Dweller
Grocery Delivery Gift Card, Hungryroot
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The best non meal-kit-meal-kit of them all. Why? Each meal takes only ten minutes to prep, sauces come prepared (and nearly all are vegan-friendly), and there is so much less packaging than those guilt-inflicting, first-wave kits. Each week, depending on the size of subscription, Hungryroot curates a selection of meals and snacks or desserts for the week ahead. Upon delivery, you can visit the site to review recipes and in ten minutes be treated to super-easy, healthy and yummy meals for two.
Healthy Meals in a Cup, Daily Harvest
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Daily Harvest’s single-serve, meal kits in a cup range from superfood smoothies to warming soups to hearty grain bowls. All meals arrive frozen, with meal ingredients prepped and ready to be warmed or blended into filling vegan meal on-the-go. This season’s new items include a limited edition Chocolate and Peppermint CBD Latte, and a new, gift-able ‘Gift a Nine Box’.
For the Beauty-obsessed
Carte Blush Membership, Blushington
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Blushington’s unlimited makeup application service is called Carte Blush, and includes your standard full-face makeup application, plus decadent add-ons including airbrush foundation and lashes at no charge. The Carte Blush membership now also includes dry hairstyling, making it the handiest beauty hack since DryBar launched.
UFO by FOREO
Source: Foreo
We are obsessed with FOREO’s crazy combination of Korean sheet mask and infrared light therapy. The UFO device is a hockey-puck shaped little device, inside of which can be placed a series of single-use, mini Korean-designed sheet mask formulations. The FOREO app reads the mask and determines which combination of red and blue lights, heating and cooling cycles and T-Sonic pulsations are most appropriate for that type of mask, then it starts whirring away and 90 seconds late, DIY spa treatment complete .
For Anyone
A Massage at The NOW
Source: The NOW
LA ‘everyday-luxe’ massage studio The NOW offers the best way to chill out, in a jiff. For anyone on your list who is not within stone’s throw of The NOW studios, the brand now ships their dreamy, chill Cali vibes candles, new body oils and lotion nationally. This is the gift of turning a home bathroom into a chic little LA sanctuary.