Gift Guide #2: Your Best Friend Who Reads a Book a Week and Does Your Eye Makeup Before Parties.

As someone who reads a book every two weeks and does my own eye make up before parties (sometimes), I can confirm these are all great gifts.

OMG the title of this post is EVERYTHING! Love what you selected.

Not trying to be too picky here, but my best friend is a very masculine guy, and these all seem to be very feminine gifts. And I’m still desperately searching for something for him. Will there be anything coming our way to help with best friends who aren’t necessarily feminine?

Hoping my bff is also reading this post because I want *everything*.

I am so so grateful for your holiday lists each year. Truly! You have no idea…. thank you :)

Just ordered the necklaces. Loved mine as a teen, hope my bff loves them now.

My sister must have seen those kitty socks here, she sent them to me yesterday!! So cute and look just like my Ernie. I am totally curious about Marrying Mr. Darcy. Such a funny sounding game! I think I already won though because I married my Mr. Darcy. My sister and mom would love this! ;)

http://www.shessobright.com

pedicure date!

The ice cream idea sounds great! But $12.00 a pint? That is just too expensive.

Thanks for the great ideas. I immediately placed an order for the friendship necklaces. I loved friendship necklaces as a child and from time to time over the past couple of years, I’ve been looking for a more “grown-up” version. So happy that you found what I have been looking for for years! I cannot wait for my friend to open hers!

I love that you included Jeni’s Ice Cream! I live in Columbus & she is very active in local community causes & supports local businesses. I had the pleasure of meeting her last year, on a flight to DC for the women’s march. She is friendly & so down to earth!

P.S.: my family sends out 3-4 pints of her ice cream as family gifts. Black Cat Intelligentsia, Churro, & Whiskey w/ Pecans were the biggest hits. IIRC, Jeni’s has a flat shipping rate for the continental U.S.?

I love all of these, and wanted to share a super cute, fun mug I’m planning on buying all of my badass friends this year :) Your tote reminded me of it!

https://emilymcdowell.com/collections/mugs/products/patriarchy-refill-mug

Given my feels about my skin at age 37 (with a newborn), I purchased the glow mask (and cleanser) in approximately 30 seconds flat upon reading this guide. I don’t have time to wait for a gift. I NEED ALL THE THINGS FOR MY FACE NOW. RIGHT NOW. On another topic, I’m pretty confused by all things Korean Skincare. If CoJ has any primer links to get me up to speed, my fine lines, starting-to-sag eyelids, bags under my eyes, uneven texture, and general dullness would surely appreciate it.

LOVE the boobs stamps! :D that would look pretty funny to use everywhere!

Amazing gift ideas! The Watermelon Glow Face mask looks so good!

Allegra xx

Love everything about it! The boob stamps are hilarious :-)

Hahaha I think that there is a little obsession with boobs on this blog
Anyway I love the ideas, my bbf lives on the other side of the country and we see each other twice a year. I met her last week (she came as a surprise to visit her family) and I exploded in tears when I saw her. I do miss her a lot.

My best friend has like a thousand life milestones coming up all at once and I’ve been wracking my brain on what to get her and now I’m just gonna order basically everything from this post and turn it into a giant best friend care package/confetti extravaganza. THANK YOU!

Woohoo! Your guides are great. I love them every year but In the past I’ve always finished my shopping by the time they were up so I’m excited they are earlier this year. Thanks for the great ideas CoJ team!

Omg that board game! I love it.

Love love love these guides!! So thoughtful and original. I’m loving the laneige sleeping mask from your recommendations – do you like the watermelon one as much? Mine is almost up and I am about to pick a new one or decide to stay the course.

I love this guide. I’m the type ignored friend that some wine or coffee with a pair of leggings are my ideal gifts lol though I give nice gifts.

You are too funny. I just did the eye make up for my bestie before a gala dinner. Me in sweats, her in a gown….

My about-to-be-sister-in-law works for Jeni’s so that ice cream link made me smile :) Plus, these “best friend” lists are my favorite part of the CoJ gift guide every year–because they always conjure up this sweet image of an alternate universe in which there’s as much time and fun-money to lavish on basically creating elaborately lovely opportunities for me and my best girlfriend to watch tv and chat as I could possibly want (what I want is infinity of that…!). And as much as I adore my partner and family, my friend is the person I really LOVE getting gifts for. Lately I’ve been secretly thrilled every time I see her knowing that there’s a pink beret coming her way this year, ha!

+1 to the pedicures. my friends and i use nail treatments as our excuse to get together without husbands or kids. we really just want to get together but the side effect is that our toes are always perfect ;-)