Femstreet’s last minute holiday gift guide
The holidays provide the perfect excuse to try new D2C brands popping up on your Instagram feed. Though time is quickly running out, here are some last-minute gift ideas. 80% of the gifts are created by awesome women in tech and there are no affiliate links in this post. Enjoy your shopping tour!
Clothes
ADAY aims to simplify wardrobes with a line of durable, technical and chic womenswear. The ADAY Something Borrowed Shirt (£115) is stretchy, wrinkle free and stylish for any occasion — order the shirt here.
For Days offers a clothing subscription model that helps the company save worn-out products from the landfill. You love simple and organic cotton tees?When you buy a garment from For Days, you’re not buying a single item of clothing. You pay a monthly fee, then whenever your clothing wears out, gets stained, or rips, you exchange it for a new version. Choose your package: either one, three, six, or ten new T-shirts, for £35, £100, £200, or £320 per year, respectively. Not sure? Read the review on Thingtesting here and then get it here.
Heist has a simple mission: to build the underwear brand of the future, starting by reinventing the humble pair of tights. In the first 12 months, the business has sold over 100,000 pairs of tights from its UK base, and has been growing at 25% month on month — Shop the tights (from £19) here.
Beauty & Wellness
Sunday Riley’s CEO creme is the perfect instagrammable present for your CEO friend. It contains high-potency, advanced vitamin C to address visible signs of ageing and pollution exposure. Buy it here for £20 for a small one and £60 for the large one.
Seed is a new company with some big names behind it, is about to break into the $38-billion probiotics industry with a product that is designed to improve your digestion and health based on scientific research. Read the thingtesting review and buy it here for £44.99/month.
Sniph is a subscription service for perfume (for women and men). Sniph sends you a 7ml vial of different scent every month — if you fall in love with it, you can buy a full-size bottle via the website. Sniph is built around two major beauty trends: personalization and experimentation. Start today from £9/month.
Seasonly is a Paris-born natural skincare line, personalized according to your lifestyle and evolving with the seasons. Get it here for £30/month (2 months supply)
Books and productivity
Elad Gil’s High Growth Handbook: Well known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Instacart, Coinbase, Stripe, and Square as they’ve grown from small companies into global brands. Across all of these break-out companies, a set of common patterns has evolved into a repeatable playbook that Gil has codified in High Growth Handbook. Buy it here for £13.
Factfulness, Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Bill Gates says it’s one of the most important books of 2018— buy it here for £9.
Shoe Dog, A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE. It highlights the individuality of each company’s way and how much it depends on circumstance and luck, but also how much it can grow with the right people and their dedication. Buy it here for £15.
The Self Journal is a proven goal setting system, gratitude journal, and daily planner in one. Get it here for £32 and make sure that your loved ones finally achieve their goals.
Other gifts we like
Away is the direct-to-consumer luggage company that everyone is watching. This £225 carry-on suitcase can charge your phone and only weighs 7 pounds and it’s just what modern travelers need. In case you have a higher budget, buy it here.
Intelligent X claims to have created an AI-brewed beer, the recipe for which changes based on customer feedback interpreted by an algorithm. The system is hidden behind a Facebook Messenger bot, which takes feedback from customers and sends it onto human brewers who change recipes accordingly. 🍺 Get it here.
Tech Will Save Us has a brilliant DIY Gamer Kit to help kids learn several digital skills — electronics, soldering and coding. (Age 10+, £89.99) Buy it here.
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