The Lust List: Gift Yourself

Forget manufactured holidays. Every day should be a celebration. With that in mind, we say: gift yourself. You deserve it, don’t you? We’ve rounded up fourteen of our favorite fashion and beauty items (both big and small) to add a little bit of luxury to your everyday routine.

—Lindzi Scharf

CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN

The beloved footwear designer launched seven unisex fragrances last year and has since expanded the line, Loubiworld Eau de Parfum Intense, with three new scents. Each glass bottle features a deep burgundy with an orange-gold decorative cap.

Louboutin’s three latest offerings include: LOUBICHARME, which has notes of geranium, incense, and patchouli and is representative of good luck thanks to its cap which features a royal beetle with Louboutin red soles for wings; LOUBIPRINCE, which includes a stiletto-headed serpent with notes of cistus, sandalwood, and tonka bean elixir; and LOUBILUNA , a woodsy fragrance that showcases a sun engraved with Christian Louboutin’s initials. Its scent features fig milk, cedar wood, and papyrus.

Each 3oz scent is available for $335 at saks.com.

CAROLINA HERRERA

The fashion house recently released Herrera Beauty — its very first cosmetic line — created in collaboration with the label’s Venezuelan founder Carolina A. Herrera as well as its creative director Wes Gordon and make-up consultant Lauren Parsons. The new line includes a series of lip products including its Satin Lipstick, which comes in twelve shades with decorative caps, bangles, charms, and tassels of your own choosing sold separately. Added bonus: lipstick refills are also available — making the fashionable lipstick a more sustainable choice.

Lipstick shades are available for $32 (+$23 a custom cap) at macys.com.

GUCCI

The Italian label’s Vernis à Ongles Nail Polish in goldie​ red is a vibrant shade that provides the perfect pop of color. The plant-based lacquer is available in nine additional colors, but this is our personal favorite as it’ll never go out of style.

Available for $30 at sephora.com.

CHANEL

The French fashion house and beauty brand has entered the eco-sphere in a major way with the launch of its new N°1 DE CHANEL collection. The line marks a new chapter for the brand as N°1 is a holistic anti-aging line made of sustainably developed formulas for skincare, make-up, and a fragrance mist. N°1’s most prominent ingredient is red camellia extract, which is noted for its revitalizing power. According to the brand, N°1’s products improve the quality of skin, diminishing the appearance of wrinkles by 25% with the skin feeling 54% more radiant.

The new line includes a variety of products including the Red Camellia Revitalizing Foundation ($70), Red Camellia Revitalizing Serum ($120-$160), Red Camellia Revitalizing Cream ($95-$110), Red Camellia Revitalizing Eye Cream ($75), Red Camellia Powder-to-Foam Cleanser ($55), Red Camellia Revitalizing Lotion ($60), Red Camellia Revitalizing Serum-in-Mist ($95), L'EAU ROUGE Fragrance Mist ($110), and Red Camellia Revitalizing Lip and Cheek Balm ($45).

The entire N°1 DE CHANEL collection is available at ultabeauty.com.

LOUIS VUITTON

The French design house’s Be Mindful Headband is an upcycled piece made using house-printed silks and a monogram canvas. The fashion-forward hair accessory adds a bit of glamour to any Zoom meeting.

Available for $445 at louisvuitton.com.

TIFFANY & CO.

The iconic jewelry retailer’s Tiffany Eternity 28 mm Round Watch features 18k white gold with diamonds and a black grosgrain ribbon strap. Inspired by a series of Tiffany & Co. advertisements from the sixties and seventies, the watch dial showcases an assortment of twelve different handset diamond cuts including a round brilliant diamond, a baguette diamond, a cushion-cut diamond, a Tiffany True diamond, a marquise diamond, an Asscher-cut diamond, a heart-shaped diamond, a pear-shaped diamond, an oval diamond, an emerald-cut diamond, a triangular diamond and a princess-cut diamond. Make it a happy birthday, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Christmas, Hanukkah, and every celebration in between by treating yourself to this heirloom in the making.

Available for $27,000 at tiffany.com.

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN

The London label’s Graffiti 54MM cat eye sunglasses in red and black are effortlessly chic and eternally in style. Throw them on to dress up any look. Even second day pajamas or sweatpants.

Available for $315 at saks.com.

BOTTEGA VENETA

Made in Italy, the label’s Mount handbag in chalk is made of calfskin leather with lambskin lining. The simplistic design features a gold chain, which adds a modern twist to this otherwise classic handbag. The Mount is equally gorgeous in almond.

Available for $3600 at bottegaveneta.com.

JONATHAN SIMKHAI

The beloved Los Angeles-based designer launched his first line of footwear; so slip out of your everyday sneakers and into a design that will immediately elevate your mood. Our favorite styles include the Colorblocked Square-Toe Boots ($550) in egret tan, which are made with a smooth leather and feature a square toe and stacked heel, as well as the Square-Toe Leather Mules ($465) in black, which are classic yet edgy thanks to its cinched vamp detail.

The footwear collection is exclusively available at saks.com.

JAMES BANKS DESIGN

Founded by designers Heidi Nahser Fink and Adam Shulman, the San Francisco-based jewelry company’s Baby Asterope necklace in silver with rose bronze tips is one of its more accessibly priced pieces. So if you’ve been lusting after James Banks Design’s Code Collection, Lightkeepers, or more one of their more elaborate Butterfly designs, this piece is just as intricately made, but it won’t break the bank. Handmade in their Marin County studio using recycled materials, the necklace is a perfect everyday piece that represents transformation, change, hope, and life.

Available for $440 at jamesbanksdesign.com.

KATELIN GIBBS

The Topanga Canyon-based jewelry designer’s Cycle Ring is handmade with 18k recycled yellow gold. Inspired by her experiences as a mother and what she calls “the search for balance through life cycles,” Gibbs created her Cycles Collection to reflect the nuance of parenthood and the full spectrum of experiences. While push presents have become common day, we say — honor yourself instead as Gibbs’s cycle ring is meant to represent everything from giving birth to adoption, IVF, and any past or present parenting experience in between. Ten percent of each ring’s profits will be donated to Kindred Space, a blacked-owned birthing center in Los Angeles founded by Kimberly Durdin and Allegra Hill, two midwives working to address systemic racism in Black reproductive healthcare.

Each ring is $1670 at https://www.katelingibbs.com.

DRU JEWELRY

Created by designer Thea Miller, the Los Angeles jewelry company’s classic chain Antique Link Bracelet features a diamond clasp set with six white diamonds. The piece is great when paired with a crisp white shirt and jeans — or evening attire.

Available for $1585 at drujewelry.com.

JENNIFER MEYER

The Los Angeles jewelry designer’s Pearl Flower Studs are handcrafted in a 18k yellow gold with a diamond at the center of the design. It’s a beautiful everyday piece when worn solo or stacked with other earrings.

Available for $1050 at bergdorfgoodman.com.

TORY BURCH

Encased in glass with gorgeous brass fretwork, the New York designer’s Normandy Rose Candle is made of a hand-poured soy-wax blend with floral notes include rose petals, cassis buds, rose absolute, green violet, pink peony, ebony woods, peach nectar, and tree moss. The candle is as practical as it is a great addition to your home’s decor.

Available for $68 at toryburch.com.