Gift Guide #8: Your Gorgeous Friend Who Periodically Texts You the Chick Emoji to Make You Smile.

A winter hair kit: the anti-frizz shampoo you’ve loved for years, $16, and a pretty clip, from $35.

Banana bread made from a grandma’s secret family recipe, $20.

The book that blew people’s minds this year, $15, with a bookmark tucked in.

Dachshund salt and pepper shakers, $35, to brighten up her dinner table.

A gyoza sampler, $19, with 48 delicious pieces!

Set of two bracelets telling her how you feel, $15.

A needlepoint kit to do while watching White Lotus, $98. (These are fun, too.)

A subscription to a Substack newsletter you’ll both want to read and discuss, $50/year. Recommendations: Hunter Harris’s Hung Up for pop culture analysis; Wallflower Chats by Thao Thai for personal essays and book recs; and Culture Study featuring Anne Helen Peterson’s think pieces on politics, bodies, marriage, friendship, all of it.

Splurpy noodles, $12, or a bucatini box with all the fixins, $150…

…and a hat, $40, to make her laugh.

Gel nail polish, $19, or a wildly popular one to cheer up the winter, $11.

A donation in her name to abortion funds.

Letterhead set, $12, with this poem written on the first page.

Dinner together, just the two of you, since that’s what she wants most anyway. xo

P.S. The 2021 gift guide for friends, the 2020 gift guide for friends, and the 2019 gift guide for friends.

(Gyoza photo by Michelle Moy for Thrillist.)

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