To ask you for gift ideas

[TreesAr3Green]

for a 12 year old girl?

Sorry posting here for traffic. My neighbour and her daughter unexpectedly passed me a gift this morning for DS's Christmas. All my neighbours are lovely and I have bought a few tins of sweets/bottles of wine which ill will give out to households in the cul-de-sac but I do want to get something specific for 12 year old too.

Looking at a budget around £15, I dont know her all that well, she does chat away when i see her but its just idle chit chat really. Shes quite outgoing, loads of friends (all nice kids) and always leaves the house immaculately put together.

Can anyone help a girl out xx

Can you get to Claires Accessories and look at things there?

Are you near a lush store? If not something from the boots gift range (3 for 2), make up brushes, a hair care set etc. New look do some nice gifts for that age as well. Or smiggle stationery?

Christmas thread may be better for this type of question. Those people are gift giving ninjas

Firstly, the Christmas forums on MN are intense but there is SO MUCH GOOD ADVICE on there for this kind of thing. But if you can't face that, Jack Wills something, cinema vouchers or a book or journal like the Alfie Deyes Pointless books.

I bought this for a friend off DD's recently, and it went down very well. It comes in a nice shiny blue box so looks suitably gifty.

I'd avoid Smiggle for secondary school aged pupils. It's popular with a slightly younger age group, and there's a risk you'll widely miss the mark

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Make up, perfume, jewellery, hair accessories, something by Zoella, nail varnish etc. Anything like that should be good.

Thank you for all your replies, lots of brilliant ideas that I think she will like. DS is with his gran tonight so I will head in to town after work and see what I can source. Off to check out the Christmas forums, wish I knew about these sooner lol xx

That surprises me about smiggle saucyjack. The year 7-8 girls at the school where i work are all crazy for it!

Your answer is Smiggle stationary.they love the stuff. Or lush bath stuff.

Well, they're all different ManchesterGin- plus all schools have different trends. The OP's neighbour may well still love Smiggle and Claire's.

But basing it on my own DDs (Y8) friendship group, it would definitely be seen as something that would be babyish or naff at their advanced years. It's all black, black and more black- with the odd bit of galaxy print.

My Y6 DD can't get enough of Smiggle still.

Thanks again everyone, nipped into town center last night and picked up some Zoella pencils (her mum and I had talked about the Zoella advent calendars) and a mermaid tail blanket that was quite cool. Fingers crossed it hits the mark.

Pretty sure she'll love those Trees