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10 Super High-Tech Beauty Gadgets To Gift This Season

Impress everyone on your list.

by Elise Tabin

Updated: Feb. 20, 2024

Originally Published: November 14, 2023

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The Look Of The Holidays

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While gifting a viral lip oil or always-sold-out perfume is nice (rest assured, no one would turn down a hot-ticket product), picking out a beauty tool or device for those on your holiday shopping list lends a personal touch. Perfect for that special someone who spends more time at their dermatologist’s office than they do at their desk, these high-tech gadgets, which keep becoming more cutting edge than the previous generation, do everything from amping up how skin care products work to zapping zits and tightening skin and beyond. And these innovations aren’t limited to one category. There are hair tools that aim to speed up the styling process while causing minimal damage and even makeup gadgets that let you create your own shades.

While some gift-givers see high-tech beauty gadgets as the next best thing to professional in-office treatments, others like that they’re a bit sci-fi and a good way to wrap up 2023. Because, what better way to spend dead week, those days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, than doing an LED face mask or an esthetician-level skin care routine? No matter the reason for gifting one of these beauty tools, these are the best to choose from.

BondiBoost

Aloe-Infused Flat Iron

$119

Flat irons are a known hair offender. Go one step further than a traditional heat protectant with this aloe-infused straightener, which nourishes the hair while you style it. Within the ion-infused ceramic-coated plates is aloe — it’s also the first ingredient in all of the viral BondiBoost formulas — to hydrate the hair and leave it healthy and shiny. Even though the iron heats up to 480 degrees Fahrenheit in 90 seconds, there’s no need to worry about burning or damaging strands, no matter how fragile it may be.

RIKI LOVES RIKI

Miracle LED Patch

$105

Unlike your typical pimple patch, this ridiculously cool device melds in-office acne-fighting technology of red and blue light therapies (red light decreases inflammation while blue light reduces acne-causing bacteria) with the convenience of at-home skin care to shrink and heal breakouts. Apply the reusable, biodegradable silicone patch to the skin, turn it on, tap it, and let the patch work its magic in six minutes flat to zap away zits and prevent future ones.

Custom Rx Treatment

$58

$43

Customized products that cater to your specific needs is what skin care dreams are made of. This prescription formula, which you can get straight from your phone or computer, is crafted to address your most pressing concerns, thanks to a blend of dermatologist-selected ingredients following a virtual visit with a Ro-affiliated healthcare provider. Depending on their evaluation, your product may contain tretinoin, azelaic acid, niacinamide, tranexamic acid, or more.

JTAV

The JTAV Glow-Pro LED Mask

$495

LED face masks continue to trend, and this new one from celebrity esthetician Joie Tavernise lets you bring the med spa home. The portable, lightweight silicone mask relies on a mix of red and blue light therapy to improve the skin’s tone, decrease redness, jumpstart collagen production for fewer lines and wrinkles, and even make your daily topical products work that much harder. The more often the skin is treated with the mask, the healthier it becomes.

YSL Beauty

Rouge Sur Mesure Custom Lip Color Creator

$350

This gadget is revolutionary for anyone whose dream lipstick color doesn’t quite exist. Mix and match the pigments to create the custom shade you’ve always envisioned yourself wearing. The final product has a soft velvet matte finish that wears comfortably without any cracking or flaking.

Opulus

Brightening Vitamin C+ Concentrate

$105

Like a single-serving Nespresso for skin care, Opulus Beauty consists of individually packaged, preservative-free treatments that transform from a solid into optimally warmed skin care with the touch of a button. Repeatedly opening traditional products with lids can cause the formulas to lose their potency with time. Instead, this system delivers a single-dose serving of fresh, active ingredients with each application into the skin. Whether used on its own or in tandem with others products in your routine, there’s also less waste and carbon footprint when your skin care is made on demand.

Mesolyft

Rejuvenating Gloves

$199

Skin care enthusiasts know that the hands aren’t immune to the effects of time. Perfect for anyone looking to improve the tone and texture of the skin on their hands, these innovative gloves rely on infrared heat to improve discoloration, reduce inflammation and oxidative processes, and enhance cellular metabolism, resulting in smoother, more youthful appearance with each 10-minute treatment session.

Consider this science-centric skin care line like a revisit of high school chemistry class. The science-centric skin care brand, which relies on effective anti-aging formulas crafted with proven natural alternative ingredients — adaptogens, nootropics, and neuropeptides — for optimal skin renewal and health. Whereas traditional brands sidestep proven mood enhancers, these bundles (there are three to choose from) embrace them and incorporate experiential textures, helping to calm, brighten, lift, and firm the skin. Talk about weird science.

Medi Lift

Medi Lift Essential Mask

$400

Perhaps the most bizarre-looking mask we’ve ever seen (it’s giving Hannibal Lecter vibes), this hands-free wearable device targets mid and lower face muscles with electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) to tighten them for a plumper, more youthful-looking appearance. While the effects of EMS technology are cumulative, treating the face with this mask helps boost circulation while contouring the jawline and lifting the cheeks for a more sculpted look.

Medicube

AGE-R Contour Body Shot

$530

The body deserves plenty of love via high-tech tools, too, and that’s where this contouring treatment comes into play. Perfect for smoothing and tightening the abdominal area, arms, butt, love handles, and thighs, this 10-second “shot” device emits a potent dose of radiofrequency and medium-frequency energy with suction at once. Think of this treatment like body care at home, with two different modes and five different levels to choose from that boost collagen in targeted areas. And there’s no need to worry about overheating the skin while you work your way to ideal elasticity and firmness since the device is outfitted with an automatic temperature sensor that checks in 500 times per second.

This article was originally published on November 14, 2023