What to give a friend for her birthday?

Birthday is the main holiday of the year for every person. Every year we think about what kind of gift would be appropriate for our loved ones, relatives and friends. But what if we are talking about the closest and dearest friend? This article will look at the best gift options for your best friend, as well as tips for choosing such gifts.

When choosing a gift for your best friend, you should rely on key principles that will help you get a more complete picture of her interests and desires. Based on this, you can choose the perfect gift. So, follow these guidelines in choosing a gift.

• The choice of a presentation should be thought out in advance. The more time you have before your birthday, the more carefully you can approach the selection. Time will give you the opportunity to book trips, subscriptions or vouchers for convenient dates, an extra month will definitely come in handy when ordering a gift in an online store - everyone knows how long parcels can sometimes take. If the gift is bought a couple of hours before meeting with a friend, you can be sure she will notice it.
• When choosing a birthday present, consider your friend's age. So, for an 18-year-old girlfriend, a gift in the form of a set of pots or a set of sleeping accessories will look absolutely inappropriate. Young girls tend to prefer romantic and beautiful things. At the same time, for a friend over 40 years old, it is worth buying a practical rather than a beautiful and decorative thing.
• Evaluate your friend's lifestyle, analyze her hobbies, everyday activities, interests. What is her lifestyle, does she like to spend time away from home, or does she prefer relaxing walks in a cozy home environment? Pay attention to the things that surround her - clothes, appearance, decoration of the apartment and room. This will certainly lead you to some thoughts about potential gifts.
• Relatives, close acquaintances, and friends are often aware of the things your friend needs at the moment. Do not hesitate to ask your friend's boyfriend about the same gift (if any), perhaps together you can buy and give something more global and valuable.
• If your friend is seriously engaged in some hobby, make a start when choosing a gift from the items and things that are associated with it. Look on the Internet for information about this hobby, evaluate the accessories that you may need for it.

Choosing a gift is as much dependent on your friend's current hobbies as it is on her age. With age, needs, interests and outlook on the world can change significantly, therefore, sympathy for a particular type of gift can change. The date is of great importance in choosing a gift for a friend - if it is round, this automatically means that the gift should be more significant and creative than last year.

• If the girlfriend is between 15 and 20 years old. At this age, girls do not really think about the practicality of individual items, so this is the best time for decorative and romantic gifts. This includes various bijouterie, accessories, clothing items. Young girls live with new impressions, and therefore gifts-impressions, which will be discussed a little later, can be perfect here. Some girls at this age, on the contrary, prefer to highlight their age with all their might, to present themselves older than they are. In this case, you should not give cosmetics, soft toys or accessories - the girl will be able to buy all this on her own and to her liking.

• If a friend is between 20 and 25 years old, at this age, most girls pursue one goal - the pursuit of harmony in appearance. For gifts for this occasion, sets of expensive cosmetics, good perfumery (if you know your friend's preferences) are great; a gift of a subscription to a beauty salon would be a good option. Small items of clothing and accessories can also look good here: straps, clutches, handbags, shawls, hats. You can give a more serious item of clothing - for example, shoes or a dress, but only if your friend has repeatedly expressed her desire to purchase just such a model.

• If the girlfriend is between 25 and 30 years old. Girls at this age, as a rule, already have everything they need: a family, a well-furnished apartment, a bunch of jewelry and cosmetics. A gift for such a friend should be extremely practical. This can be a useful attribute for the home, a set of quality kitchen utensils (if a friend loves to cook), a set of beautiful towels, a comfortable and warm bathrobe, or fun pajamas.

• If the girlfriend is between 30 and 40 years old. At this age, girls need not so much practical gifts as care. Most often these are women who are tired of everyday life and family responsibilities and need a moment of peace and relaxation.As a gift, various elements can be suitable to simplify cooking: a double boiler, a multicooker, a microwave oven, a barbecue grill, a blender. These gifts do not make your girlfriend spend more time in the kitchen, but only simplify the cooking process.

Adult women at this age already look at jewelry and jewelry with different eyes, they are no longer narcissistic and frivolous young ladies who are ready to put on everything. These are respectable women who are critical of any new thing. To minimize changes in your friend's usual appearance, you can buy a minimalistic necklace, a gold or silver chain, a classic ring or a bracelet that matches her image. Such a gift looks solid and does not radically change the bow, only emphasizing the successful features of its owner.

And remember that age for a woman is not a sentence. Your friend can travel at 40 or at 50, go to make-up and decoupage lessons, and actively spend time outside the apartment. When choosing a gift, give preference initially the hobbies of a woman, not her age.

To make the choice of a gift as successful as possible, you should divide all gifts into preference categories. This list should help you choose a gift for your girlfriend. It will depend on how she prefers to spend time and what hobbies she has.

For sports and active girls, gifts that relate to an active lifestyle and leisure in nature will be preferable. These can be sets of sports shoes, accessories for a certain sport, comfortable sportswear, travel kits, if a friend likes to spend time on hikes. It makes no sense for such girls to give presents designed to decorate the inner comfort and decoration of the house, just as it makes no sense to buy gifts related to cooking, cleaning or washing.

For girls, for whom the main thing in life is their hobby, gifts connected especially with this hobby are suitable. For example, a friend who lives on culinary delights and is constantly improving her cooking skills will prefer kitchen items to all other gifts.

If your friend is an avid chef or a real sweet tooth, it makes sense to buy some exquisite sweet gift. You can order a specially designed delicious cake or make a gift from sweets on your own. It can be all kinds of gingerbread houses, cookie baskets filled with fruits. An original gift will be handmade cookies with fortune-telling and warm wishes.

For girls who spend most of their time at home working or looking after children, things designed to provide family comfort. For example, a friend who loves to spend all her free time in a relaxed atmosphere with a cup of tea and watching her favorite TV series is unlikely to be happy with a gym membership. For such girls, it is logical to buy items that will only improve the comfort of home: sets of dishes, beautiful linen, sets of kitchen utensils.

When it comes to your best friend, you should know her preferences as yours. Analyze in advance the situation with the reaction to a particular gift. Remember that taking into account individual preferences, lifestyle and hobbies is your main point at the stage of choosing a gift.

There is a widespread and fundamentally wrong opinion that for pregnant women there is only one passion in life - taking care of their child. However, if your friend is a responsible, attentive person and a good mother, she probably already took care of buying everything you need. You should understand that during pregnancy, the mother's body is exposed to great stress and requires more rest and nutrition.

Therefore, the ideal gift option here will be various restorative drugs: natural cosmetics for skin and hair care, a set of medicinal tea with a tea set. Since a pregnant woman is not able to actively move around, it makes sense to donate natural sleeping items: comfortable slippers, a bathrobe, warm blankets and a blanket.

Often pregnant girls themselves say what they would like to buy for their unborn child. You can take advantage of this knowledge and go to any baby store. The choice of gifts should be reduced to the elements of clothing: undershirt, bodysuit, romper, overalls. It is worth giving these gifts together, as individually the gift will look cheap and not very solid. You just have to find out exactly at the beginning what gender the future child is, in order to choose clothes of a suitable style and color.

As they often say, it is not necessary for the gift to be expensive or huge. A small gift can hide much more meaning and benefit (a ring, a necklace, a subscription, a set of cosmetics) than a large, but inappropriate one (a large toy that will collect dust and nothing more). The main condition for any gift is that it is bought and presented from the heart.

Such gifts usually do not have a high price and unique design, however, they are memorable and symbolic. The modern world is full of gifts of this type, the choice depends only on your imagination and the relevance of the presentation. Only a short list of the most successful gifts will be presented below.

• A set for cutting vegetables or fruits (in other words, carving). An original gift for every hostess who loves to decorate the table with beautiful and delicious dishes.

• Oscar statuette with the words "Best Friend", "Best Mom" ​​or "Best Hostess"... You can come up with the inscription yourself, it all depends on what exactly you value your girlfriend the most.

• Magic ball - a decorative and funny thing for a lover of conspiracies and mystical stories.

• An originally designed housekeeper or a safe for storing keys. A small, capacious and useful thing in every home. With her, your girlfriend will never lose her keychains.

When people talk about inexpensive and budget gifts, they often mean handmade gifts. Such gifts are valued especially highly, since not money was spent on them, but your personal time, which is much more expensive. Let's immediately divide such gifts into several categories: accessories, clothing items, decorative items for the home, culinary delights.

• Accessories: handmade jewelry and jewelry - bracelets, pendants, necklaces, rings.

• Clothing items: knitted sweater or dress, scarf with gloves, if birthday in winter, knitted hat, scarf, shawl, belt.

• Decorative and semi-decorative elements: an embroidered towel, healthy soap, a handy notebook or book, a blanket, a blanket made from clothing items, pillowcases or pillow covers with a print, a bathrobe with funny embroidery. Purely decorative: a flower or tree in a pot, a photo frame decorated in a creative way, a set of scented candles and oils, a beautiful jewelry box or box for cosmetics, a commemorative sign or medal "For the years of faithful friendship."

• If we are talking about your beloved and best friend, then you probably have accumulated a lot of joint photos. Choose the best photos and place them in a frame decorated with your own hands. Or order on the Internet a print of the best photo for some T-shirt, blanket or pillow. Such gifts will look cute and soulful at the same time.They will be especially valuable if a friend uses them regularly.

• Culinary delights: cake, eclairs, cakes and other sweets prepared by you. You can buy an ordinary chocolate cake, and then with your own hands using cream or paste, paint on the surface the name of your friend or the words of congratulations.

All of the options listed above are quite cheap and available for a limited budget and look cute rather than practical. Such a gift is appreciated not for the cost, but for the time spent on the creation and the originality of the idea.

Do not forget that the success of such a gift largely depends on the correct design. It can be either a classic box, decorated with a bow with a postcard, or something completely creative - you can organize a small surprise, where the gift could be found only by hints hidden throughout the apartment.

For a creative person, only creative and unusual ideas are suitable. As a rule, all gifts of this kind will be associated with your girlfriend's hobbies.

• If she is a photographer, then she can be delighted with tickets to a photo exhibition or a subscription to master classes of her favorite photographer.
• If your friend is an artist, then the task is even easier. Painting is a costly procedure; a professional artist has a constant shortage of suitable paints and oils. Treat your girlfriend with a selection of quality fine art accessories. It can be paints, oils, easel, brushes, canvases. Alternatively, you can book an art gallery ticket for your best friend.
• If your friend's creativity consists in sculpting and creating things from glass, clay and wood, then a subscription to a master class from an experienced craftsman will certainly come in handy for her.
• For a friend who is fond of music or dancing, a ticket to a concert or a performance of her favorite singer or actress will be a real gift. As a rule, such concerts bring a lot of pleasure and are remembered for a long time. Also, the purchase of a record or cassette of your favorite band will be an ideal musical gift for a music lover.
• If a friend loves informal hobbies and prefers to decorate not the canvas with paints, but her body, or has shown a desire for this, it makes sense to buy a certificate for a tattoo session. Of course, it's not worth choosing the time to meet with the master, as well as the sketch itself.
• Kits for creativity for other interests. If you do not know what to buy for a friend who is, for example, drawing in the sand - just find out more about this hobby, read about this hobby on the forums, ask your friends. This will surely give you some fresh ideas.

Often, a positive feeling is much more valuable than a standard material gift. Any things are very quickly forgotten and lose value, while memories and impressions will remain in the memory for a long time. Such a gift will be especially memorable if certain impressions and emotions are experienced by your girlfriend for the first time. Before turning to the choice of such a gift, you should understand that every gift-impression carries a share of extreme and potential danger. Contact only trusted firms when ordering tickets for such events.

• A subscription for horse riding lessons or a ticket for a regular horseback ride. It is difficult to find such a person who would not admire the grace and grandeur of horses. A ride on a tamed horse calms, relaxes and allows you to look at the world around you with different eyes, as if you were in the era of beautiful princesses and knights. The danger of such an event is that any horse can behave unpredictably with each new rider.Please ensure that you are accompanied by an experienced manager during such a walk. He will be able to calm or pacify the horse if something does not like it. Also, casually check with a friend if she is allergic to horse hair.

• If your friend has a strong psyche and a desire to conquer the whole world, you can turn to more extreme types of gifts. For example, contact a company that deals with cornflying, skydiving, or skydiving. But here it is worth paying attention to two points, which have already been discussed in the article: such a gift carries a potential danger to health and psyche; contact only firms with an impeccable reputation (if somewhere a parachute fails, a rope breaks or an aircraft breaks during the flight, cross out these organizations immediately).

• Depending on the season. If your birthday is in summer, choose an outdoor fun gift. This can be jet skiing, jet skiing, pinball or laser tag with your mutual friends. If your birthday is in a cold season, then you should turn to the hobbies within the walls of entertainment centers and venues: take care of ordering tickets for bowling, billiards, ice skating, and the quest room.

An impression gift does not always have to be extreme. As an option, you can give your friend a subscription to visit the spa or massage parlor.

It is worth taking this seriously and also choosing a company with the best reputation, you should not spare money for this, the quality of service will differ significantly. Depending on your friend's hobbies, you can give her a ticket to a Chinese painting lesson, sand painting or a beading workshop.

There are gifts that, due to their practicality and versatility, will be relevant even after decades. Such gifts rarely look exclusive or unusual, however, they have everyday significance. These gifts include: cosmetics, accessories, electronics, clothing items, small but useful accessories (notepads, rare pens, mugs, cutlery sets, sets). Next, we will consider successful examples of such gifts for a best friend.

In order to choose the right cosmetics as a gift, it is worth considering several key factors: your friend's skin type, favorite lipstick color, hair, preferred brand of cosmetics. Also it is worth paying close attention to the correspondence of cosmetics and the external image of a friend - so that it does not happen that you bought red or purple lipstick (even if you like it) for a friend who prefers calm and natural shades.

There are two types of beauty products: make-up and care products. Decorative cosmetics are used to emphasize facial features and to form a successful hairstyle.

The following products are used as decorative cosmetics.

• For face: foundation, powder, concealer, micellar water, eyeliner pencils, mascara, blush, bronzer, highlighter, eyeshadow, lipsticks and lip glosses.

• For hair: foams, wax and varnish for styling and shaping hairstyles.

Cosmetics for the care of the appearance.

• Gentle washing soap.
• Body gel, facial foams.
• Dermatological milk for moisturizing and softening the skin.
• Facial cleansers: scrubs, tonics, decoctions, lotions.
• Creams for the care of the face, skin of the hands, head and feet.
• Hair care products. It can be balms, regenerating masks, nourishing decoctions, hair shampoos.

Each of these items can serve as a potential gift for a girl.It is advisable to buy natural cosmetics from one manufacturer, since cosmetics from different ones can "conflict", which will negatively affect your friend's skin. That is why it is preferable to buy not one element of cosmetics, but a whole set, if funds allow. There are several benefits to buying a whole set.

• If your girlfriend only uses your kit, there is no chance of a makeup mismatch. And this means the absence of acne and rashes, allergic reactions.
• In any case, the set looks more solid than any one element of cosmetics. The only exceptions are high-value single products, such as lipstick from Chanel or mascara from Dior.
• The danger of buying a single piece of makeup is that it may simply not be suitable for your girlfriend. If you bought a whole set, then something from it will probably be useful.

In the current information age, it is impossible to live a day without functional gadgets and devices that facilitate communication and communication. That is why electronics is and remains a necessary and relevant gift. The list of successful digital gifts of this kind includes: a smartphone, a capacious flash card, a Power bank, bluetooth headphones, an e-book, a selfie stick, good headphones with a microphone. Each of these gifts looks solid and original. This gift will look even better if you place it in a beautifully designed box.

Electronics is not only a phone and a computer, but also kitchen utensils for cooking, which were already mentioned in the article, as well as accessories for photographing: flashes and a lens, for example. Some of these gifts will require a significant budget.

Clothes and accessories are those gifts that will always be relevant for a woman at any age. When choosing such a gift it is worth knowing the exact size of your girlfriend, as well as her approximate taste.

In order for the gift to have a minimal chance of failure, it is worth choosing clothing items that only partially complement the bow. These include: sweater, golf, pullover, jacket, jacket, bolero, shirt, polo. Refuse to buy whole sets of clothes, it is likely that at least one of the items will seem unsuitable for your girlfriend.

Try to match the item of clothing to your friend's appearance. Some tones and styles will certainly age her, while others will add mystery, mischief and rejuvenate the figure.

A gift in the form of an accessory will almost always delight a girl if it looks solid and appropriate. The only exceptions are those cases when a woman absolutely does not wear any attributes, preferring a natural bow. Successful accessories include:

• handbags with different designs of handles, clutches, roomy but fashionable wallets;
• large or, conversely, minimalistic jewelry and accessories like massive pendants and earrings;
• leather or velor gloves;
• beautiful and original leather straps;
• scarves, shawls, shawls;
• beads and bracelets, chains.

When choosing accessories, you should decide on the color type of your girlfriend. For the "winter" color type, silver and platinum accessories would be ideal; for the summer and spring color type, gold and copper jewelry would be more suitable. When choosing clothes and accessories, be guided by the appearance of your girlfriend. You shouldn't buy clothes or accessories in bright, flashy colors and coloring for a girl who prefers calm and classic colors.

Half of the success of a gift depends on the packaging and how it was presented. Thus, even the cheapest gift can be presented in such a way that the very process of receiving will be remembered by your girlfriend for a long time. When choosing a presentation method, you will be limited only by your imagination and the appropriateness of such a presentation in a particular situation.

Methods of registration.

• The method includes the classic gift design: put the gift in a suitable size box, wrap it with gift paper or paper with an interesting pattern, on top you can decorate the box with a bow, ribbons, artificial flowers or beads. There are many design options for such a box, it all depends on you.

• Matryoshka design... A small gift is placed in a small gift container, and then into an even larger one. All this is done until you have a large, but very light gift in your hands. Small but expensive and significant things are suitable for such gifts - for example, rings, earrings, bracelets, expensive cosmetics.

• Place the gift in a larger but less significant item. Imagine how surprised your friend will be if you present her with a box from a frying pan, and upon opening she will find there a charming accessory or a trip to the sea.

Presentation methods.

• Courier delivery. In this case, the gift to your friend's apartment should be delivered by a person dressed as her favorite character or in the image of her favorite singer, a superhero. This idea is difficult to implement on your own, however, some companies are engaged in this.
• Pretend you forgot your friend's birthday, and yourself agree with her relatives, boyfriend or loved ones and arrange a surprise for her at home with cake, balls and garlands. A festive mood will be provided.
• Make sure that your friend can receive a gift only after completing a certain quest or solving a riddle... This will add excitement and intrigue to the donation process. Just don't try to be too smart with riddles.
• Visit your friend with a chocolate bar and a bunch of balloons. At the same time, place some small or flexible object (decoration, voucher or certificate, accessory) in one of the balls. When a friend decides that you are not going to give anything essential, as if by chance burst one balloon. If a friend reproaches you for clumsiness, invite her to burst all the remaining balls, referring to the fact that it may be beneficial for her. This is an extraordinary but simple surprise that everyone will appreciate.

There are a number of classic mistakes you can make on the road to finding the perfect gift for your girlfriend. The following is a list of basic guidelines for choosing such a presentation.

• Don't go too far with the originality of the gift, the thing should be not only creative and unusual, but also practical, useful in everyday life. Girls have a positive attitude towards decorative household gifts, however, it will be much more pleasant for you and your friend if the gift can be used regularly.

• The biggest mistake giving gifts for a girlfriend - the choice of a widespread and well-known presentation. For example, in your city now some new brand of bags or perfume is being actively discussed. Such things are usually heard by everyone and are not perceived as a serious gift. The exception is popular, but expensive, elite accessories and accessories (expensive watches, exclusive perfumes, handbags, hats, necklaces). The problem with these gifts is that you may not be the first to give them.In the end, your friend will have to decide what to do with two or three of the same watch or perfume.

• Avoid a gift that will be used solely as a dust bin... This includes useless figurines, figurines, table clocks or stands. Such gifts will only look good if they are related to your friend's creativity, hobbies or hobbies.

• A fatal mistake in choosing a gift is the desire to donate a thing that you personally consider useless. You probably told your friend about such a present, although you may have forgotten about it.

• Inappropriate and commonplace gifts Is the next item you can cross off on your list. As an example, you are giving a set of dishes or pans for a friend who is actively involved in sports and spends most of the time outside the home. This is as inappropriate as giving a ticket to a strip club in your city for a married woman with children.

• A gift in the form of money looks at least dismissive - as if you want to get rid of your girlfriend and the responsibility in choosing a gift. However, money can come in handy for a married woman and will look appropriate on an anniversary or as a gift for a round date.

• Regardless of the age of your girlfriend, you should not give items that are related to health. It doesn't have to be magnets, blood pressure monitors, or myostimulants. Exceptions are items-relaxers, massage rugs, for example. Also, a good option would be to buy a ticket to a sanatorium or a health center. Such a gift is perceived more as a concern than as a hint of poor health.

• Avoid the thought of buying intimate lingerie. Even if you know about the approximate preferences of your friend, such a gift may simply not fit in size, be too tight or too frank. The same goes for the selection of clothes - there is too great a chance to be mistaken with your girlfriend's preferences.

• Even if she has repeatedly expressed her desire to buy a pet, you should not immediately run to the nearest pet store. Perhaps right now, a friend is not ready to care for the same guinea pig, turtle or cat. The exception is small pets like fish, hamsters, parrots. The main thing is that such a gift does not look burdensome.

• You should not give things that can hint to your girlfriend about some internal or external flaws. These include creams and masks for skin care, books and diet workshops, sports equipment such as jump ropes, a gymnastic circle or dumbbells, and the most controversial gift - a weighing scale.

We hope that with the help of all the tips listed above, you will be able to find a beautiful, original and, most importantly, useful gift for your best friend.

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