Easter for many is waking up to a pile of chocolate eggs from the Easter Bunny, but in recent years, beauty fans have been lucky enough to receive beauty eggs filled to the brim with their favourite makeup and skincare buys.
There are drugstore to boutique brands featured in some of the more popular eggs this year, which for those wanting an affordable haul, it's as simple as buying an egg to uncover masses of reduced price products (some even full sized too).
Much like how beauty advent calendars have grown in popularity in recent years, many retailers have now revealed their twist on an Easter egg with skincare, haircare and make up bestsellers from the likes of LookFantastic, Glossybox and L'Occitane.
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Three popular brands have released their 2023 Easter offerings already, with one costing £40 with 10 products included (one of which is worth £98 alone). We have picked out our favourites from this years' launches, comparing them on price, value and contents to help you find which one is perfect for you this April.
Here are the top six beauty Easter eggs you can buy in 2023:
LookFantastic
For six years running, the LookFantastic beauty egg has wowed shoppers for its value for money and luxury contents, and has sold out each and every year.
Designed specifically for Easter, the large tin egg contains seven full sized makeup, skincare and haircare products , making it the ultimate beauty alternative if you’re not so keen on chocolate eggs.
Inside the lilac and gold speckled egg, the contents are worth more than £200 , but shoppers can snap up the shell and everything inside for just £60.
And the brands inside are some seriously big names, as well as products that have gone viral online, including Color Wow, Sol de Janeiro, Elemis and Sweed Beauty.
One of the products - the Elemis Superfood Glow Priming Moisturiser - is worth £44 alone, which is almost the entire retail price of the egg, with the Sol De Janeiro Bum Bum Cream coming in at £20, the rest of the items are essentially free.
Here’s everything you’ll find inside the limited edition LookFantastic beauty egg:
Color Wow Speed Dry 150ml (Full Size) - worth £21.50
Sol De Janeiro Bum Bum Cream 75ml (Full Size) - ;£20.00
MZ Skin Hydra Lift Gold Mask (Full Size) - worth £20.00
Elemis Superfood Glow Priming Moisturiser 60ml (Full Size) – worth £44.00
Sweed Mascara 8ml (Full Size) - worth £22.00
Dr Jart Ceramidin Cream 10ml - worth £6.40
Nudestix Mini Magnetic Luminous Eye Colour in shade ‘Dew Wap’ 2.5g - worth £21.41
Iconic LDN Triple Precision Brow Definer (Full Size) - worth £22.00
Grande Cosmetics Lip Plump (Full Size) - worth £24.00
Glossybox
Ahead of Easter, Glossybox brought back its popular £40 Easter Egg , filled with high end beauty products. Containing 10 products with a combined value of £204, there’s no wonder it’s already sold out.
The budget beauty egg is packed with 10 beauty treats, which are made up from five full-size and five deluxe-minis from big name brands including Elemis, Liz Earle and Revolution.
The standout hero product inside the £40 GLOSSYBOX UK Easter Egg 2023 is the Avant Deluxe Hyaluronic Acid Vivifying Face & Eye Night Cream, which is worth £98 on its own - more than three times the cost of the entire box.
Another hero product inside the GLOSSYBOX UK Easter Egg 2023 is a pot of Elemis Pro-Collagen Marine Cream - worth £35.
The full list of products inside the Glossybox Beauty Easter Egg for 2023 is as follows:
Avant Deluxe Hyaluronic Acid Vivifying Face & Eye Night Cream (Worth £98)
Elemis Pro-Collagen Marine Cream (Worth £35)
Revolution Forever Limitless Allure Palette (Worth £20 )
Hair Syrup The Original (Worth £13.95)
Barry M Lip Liner (Worth £3.49)
Ciaté Bamboo Bronzer (Worth £8)
Hawaiian Tropic Golden Paradise (Worth £6)
Vita Liberata Gradual Tanning Lotion (Worth £6)
Liz Earle Smooth + Glow Exfoliating Tonic (Worth £6)
Frank Body Lucky Dip. Rose Gold Shimmer Scrub OR A-Beauty Scrub (Worth £15.95 or £7.99)
Rituals
One of the cheapest beauty eggs you can buy this Easter comes from the luxury bath and body brand, Rituals . Priced at £37.50, there are three different eggs to choose from, which offer a fun twist on the annual Easter egg hunt.
Each egg - pink, yellow or grey - contains an indulgent body care routine for the Spring season.The three sets are scented in some of Rituals’ fan-favourite fragrances , including Ritual of Sakura (rice milk and cherry blossom), Ritual of Mehr (sweet orange and cedar wood) and a Sport collection, infused with charcoal and mint.
The limited edition gift sets each contain three products, and all three offer a foaming shower gel, while some then contain hair and body mists, body creams, body lotions or perfumes.
Here’s what’s in each one:
Ritual of Sakura - foaming shower gel 200ml, body cream 100ml, hair & body mist 50ml
Ritual of Mehr - foaming shower gel 200ml, hair & body mist 50ml, body cream 100ml
Sport collection - foaming shower gel 200ml, body lotion 100ml, eau de parfum 15ml
The shower gels usually cost £9.50, while the hair and body mist is £19.50, and the full size body cream (220ml) is £22.50, so the total value of the egg is around £40 in total.
MAC Cosmetics
Boots shoppers will be able to get their hands on this MAC Easter Egg for FREE ahead of the bank holiday. Worth around £45, the limited edition gift, housed in a celebratory tin, is completely free when you spend £60 on MAC on the health and beauty retailer’s website.
Inside the MAC gift, shoppers will find everything they need to create the ultimate fresh-faced spring makeup look, including the new Hyper Real Serumizer, a mascara, a lipstick and a setting spray.
The offer launched on March 29, and will run until April 12 or until stocks last.
Here’s what’s inside the tin:
Mini Hyper Real Serumizer
Mini MAC Stack Mascara
Full sized lipstick
Mini MAC Fix and Stay Over Spray
But, if you don’t want to spend £60 to get the gift for free, you can also pre-order it on the LookFantastic website here .
Myvitamins
For something a little different, there’s the beauty Easter egg from Myvitamins, which comes in at £19.99 . Designed to meet all your beauty needs ‘from the inside out’, it contains a host of hair gummies, collagen shots and vitamin infused treats all tucked inside a pink metal egg.
Myvitamins said: “Our busy lives can sometimes mean we don’t prioritise our health. Myvitamins Beauty Easter Egg is a delicious way to try new products to support your hair, skin, and general wellness needs.
“Whether you are already a loyal user of our beauty products or wanting to try something new, our Beauty Easter Egg is a tasty and convenient helping hand for your health and the perfect gift to a friend or yourself.”
Here’s what’s included:
A month's worth of blueberry Hair, Skin and Nails Gummies
Glow Bites - 1x Lemon Drizzle Cake & 1x Salted Caramel Almond
Pineapple and coconut Collagen Beauty Shot
Plant Collagen, Orange, Pineapple & Grapefruit
You can shop the £19.99 Myvitamins egg here .
L’OCCITANE
Featuring a selection of products from L’OCCITANE’s iconic Almond range, this luxury egg costs just £17.50. Inside, shoppers will find a trio of products to nourish and soften the skin, leaving it scented with almonds.
Worth £20.50, this body indulgent set includes :
- 75ml Almond Shower Oil
- 50g Almond Delicious Soap
- 10ml Almond Delicious Hands
The indulgent Almond Shower Oil transforms into a light, milky foam that gently cleanses the body, while he Almond Delicious Soap and Almond Delicious Hands cleanse and nourish hands, leaving the lingering, subtle scent of sweet almond blossom.
The brand is also stocking a cherry blossom Easter egg, which comes in a pink tin, as well as four mini Easter gift sets for £28, worth £34.
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