Gifts Sets Are The Key to Saving Big During Sephora’s Savings Event

43 editor-approved sets in makeup, fragrance, skincare, and haircare.

Product collage of Make Up For Ever Mini Artist Color Pencil Lipliner & Eyeliner Kit, Phlur Best Sellers Mini Deluxe Perfume Trio, Tower 28 Beauty Sos Rescue Bestsellers Kit, Laura Mercier Enchanting Shimmers Mini Caviar Stick Eyeshadow Trio overlaid a gradient background with red ribbon border
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The holiday season is quickly approaching, so it's time to stock up on beauty gift sets for your makeup, skincare, hair care, and fragrance fans. Whether you're looking to gift (or restock!) a brand you know and love or test out something new—say, an editor-tested mascara or 2024's buzziest perfume—now is the time to buy at a discounted price. Sephora's Savings Event is here, and your budget could not be more thrilled.

If you're unfamiliar with the twice-yearly sale, here's the need-to-know info: It starts on November 1 and runs through November 11. Sephora Rouge members can access the sale starting November 1st and earn a 20 percent discount. Sephora VIB and Insider members can start shopping on November 5 and earn 15 percent and 10 percent discounts, respectively. As a little treat, everyone earns free shipping, and Sephora's in-house line, Sephora Collection, will be 30 percent off during the sale. Just use the code "SAVINGS" to earn your respective discount. Not a member? Don't worry—it's free to sign up.

There's a dizzying number of gift sets to choose from (over 800, to be exact), so I did the hard work for you. Keep scrolling to shop my curated list of the best beauty gift sets from Sephora's Savings Event, broken down by category for easy shopping. (The prices below reflect the full price before the discount is applied.) I've also found the best winter skin picks to shop if your routine is need of an upgrade.

Best Sephora Gift Sets at a Glance

Best Makeup Gift Sets

The best makeup gift sets come from several editor-favorite brands. Our picks include full and travel-sized versions of products that are probably already on your shopping list, like Laura Mercier's Caviar Stick Eyeshadow and Summer Fridays's Lip Butter Balm.

Best Fragrance and Bodycare Sets

Sephora has a ton of fragrances and bodycare gift sets for every kind of scent preference. Our favorite sets include cult-favorite buys like Sol de Janeiro's Brazilian Crush Cheirosa ’62 Spray and L'Occitane Cleansing and Softening Shower Oil.

Best Skincare Gift Sets

The best skincare gift sets we're shopping from Sephora are stocked with top-notch products. There's the Dr. Dennis Gross DRx SpectraLite™ FaceWare Pro in a set and Elemis's Pro-Collagen Makeup Melting Cleansing Balm (my favorite ever) in a can't-miss bundle.

Best Haircare Gift Sets

You can save big on editor-favorite haircare brands by shopping gift sets. They include both full-size and travel sizes of my personal hair heroes like Fable & Mane's HoliRoots Pre-Wash Treatment Oil and Virtue Hydrating Healing Hair Oil, as well as bundles on the best-ever dry shampoo, a.k.a. Living Proof's Perfect Hair Day Advanced Clean Dry Shampoo.

Best Beauty Advent Calendars

What's better than a gift set? A gift set that surprises you over the course of up to 24 days. Beauty advent calendars are the best way to get to know a brand, such as La Mer of Crème de la Mer fame or Dr. Barbara Sturm, known for its Hyaluronic Serum among other luxury buys.

Brooke Knappenberger
Associate Commerce Editor

Brooke Knappenberger is the Associate Commerce Editor at Marie Claire, where she specializes in crafting shopping stories—from sales content to buying guides that span every vertical on the site. She also oversees holiday coverage with an emphasis on gifting guides as well as Power Pick, our monthly column on the items that power the lives of MC’s editors. She also tackled shopping content as Marie Claire's Editorial Fellow prior to her role as Associate Commerce Editor.

She has over three years of experience writing on fashion, beauty, and entertainment and her work has appeared on Looper, NickiSwift, The Sun US, and Vox Magazine of Columbia, Missouri. Brooke obtained her Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri’s School of Journalism with an emphasis on Magazine Editing and has a minor in Textile and Apparel Management.