Secure Favorite Child Status With These Mother’s Day Beauty Gifts (2025)

Last year on Mother’s Day, I learned a valuable lesson: Don’t buy the TikTok-viral guided journal for mothers and give your already busy matriarch excess work. It has since collected dust on her coffee table, serving as a teachable moment to stick to the status quo. What do you buy for the woman who gave you everything? Beauty is always a fail-safe way to put a smile on her face—and keep it there.

No one knows your mom or maternal figure quite like you do. You see her struggle to properly blow-dry and curl her hair, so upgrade her to a multi-attachment styling kit. Or maybe she’s always rummaging through your makeup bag looking for a volumizing mascara or foundation—well, we have just the perfect brands to build her kit from the ground up. Of course, we can’t forget to keep her skin care routine stocked with the latest and greatest formulas that smooth, brighten, and plump. These ELLE editor-approved picks will make her the talk of her friendship circle. Did she get Botox? No, but Lancôme’s latest retinol comes pretty darn close to fading those stubborn lines.

Whether your mom is new to makeup, a fragrance obsessive, or prefers her hairstyles low-maintenance and fuss-free, here are 24 beauty gifts to upgrade her routine, diligently selected by ELLE.com’s shopping-obsessed editors and honest online customer feedback. From bestselling massage guns to luxe moisturizers, shop our picks for the best Mother’s Day beauty gifts here.

Hands are more commonly susceptible to showing age. Keep mom’s money makers enveloped in the conditioning mix of jasmine wax and cotton extract, along with the petally notes from the J’adore eau de parfum.

Moms deserve the best–and the best is La Mer. This reparative skin care kit offers rejuvenated, smoother skin in four steps.

If she’s a fan of the OG YSL Libre perfume, the brand’s latest iteration arrives alcohol-free, meaning a stronger, long-lasting burst of citrus and lavender awaits.

She spent years attempting to create whatever style your heart desired. Return the favor by teaching her how to achieve a range of curls using T3’s interchangeable Switch Kit Wave Trio, which comes with three barrel sizes, nine different heat settings, and frizz-free technology for long-lasting results.

This perfume is fit for a queen, which makes it the perfect Mother’s Day gift. It contains notes of peony, bergamot, and vanilla for a scent as sweet as she is. Plus, the bottle is so beautiful that it basically wraps itself.

Even the most technologically challenged moms can navigate this light therapy mask, which combines anti-aging red and near-infrared light therapy to help eliminate wrinkles.

Transform mom’s home into a spa oasis with a soothing diffuser. This model can easily move from room to room, thanks to its sleek cordless design.

A grown-up twist on the original Daisy perfume makes the perfect spring fragrance. Notes of sweet strawberry, pear, and rosebud hearts are balanced by soft vanilla and green moss.

Your mom deserves the A-list treatment, and there’s nothing more A-list than Dr. Barbara Sturm. This pack of minis is a great way to familiarize her with the brand. Whichever product is her favorite, get her the full-size one for her birthday.

Signs of aging are just evidence of a life well-lived. As we age, our skin loses elasticity, but this retinol-based serum combines the star ingredient with peptides and vitamin C to improve texture and radiance.

A perfume is a surefire way to put a smile on someone’s face, especially this scent from Diptyque. L’Eau Papier is a soft musk that’s as refreshing as it is seductive.

For a burst of energy upon waking up, Sothy’s shower gel delivers a lemon and petitgrain one-two punch. Glycerin stars as the primary moisturizing ingredient, leaving you feeling and smelling good.

This styling kit comes with a smoother for sleek, straight styles, as well as a round and paddle brush for added volume, and a diffuser for curls.

Smooth, baby-soft skin isn’t relegated to the warm-weather months. In this conditioning body scrub, the sugar exfoliants swirl in a bed of an expansive blend of oils (amla, coconut, grapeseed, to name a few) and shea butter to restore and maintain moisture.

Mom’s beauty will stand the test of time, but here’s a brightening essence to enhance her radiance a touch more. Formulated with niacinamide and squalane for nourishment, as well as a fermented ayurvedic blend, this essence can visibly brighten and soothe the skin.

Whether she’s a workout buff or enjoys the finer things in life, give her the gift of one hour of muscle recovery, detoxification, and relaxation in the comfort of her own home.

Depending on your hair’s porosity, some products may require extra support to penetrate deeply into the hair shafts. Pattern Beauty’s latest hair tool brings the innovation, featuring a multi-pronged spout intended to make combing through the hair fuss- and tangle-free. Other attachments include a diffuser for those with thicker, curlier hair.

Mom should see herself as clearly as you see her. This makeup mirror lights up and has magnifying sections, which makes it easy to apply product, pluck stray eyebrow hairs, or simply admire your own beauty in its reflective surface.

Blood orange, primrose extracts, and tamanu and maracuja oils revive dull hair and seal cuticles in this giftable hair hero.

Elevate her self-care routine with a luxurious oil that works on dry, damaged, and color-treated hair.