Remember how Christmas mornings used to be spent playing with your toys? A desperate scramble of packaging and parts while you got to grips with your new gifts? That kind of magic gets a little lost as you get older, but if there's one thing that's going to rival that level of joy, it's one of the best beauty gifts.

Few things beat the excitement of methodically working your way through a beauty gift set. Carefully applying a new lipstick is the grown-up equivalent of painting by numbers, popping on a face mask is essentially playing dress up with added skincare benefits, and lighting a seriously fancy candle is as satisfying as surveying your latest LEGO build.