Everything Team STELLAR Is Loving This Week

We’re well and truly into November.

So much so that December is almost upon us. Mad.

Anyway, here’s everything the team has been loving this week. Enjoy!

… Wonder(ful)lights

Christmas is well and truly on its way, and with it comes an array of festive light-based events.

One of the country’s best has got to be Wonderlights in Marlay Park, Malahide Castle, and Fota House. With three million lights, hydro-screens, and a 25 foot whale, these events aren’t messing when it comes to the spectacular.

Team STELLAR went along to the Marlay Park event this week, and it was nothing short of gorgeous.

Between the lights, the music, and the ferris wheel at the end, a stunning, festive time was had by all.

Get your tickets here. 

… A Christmas feast

 

Okay yes, you can go see some Christmas lights this festive season… but you can also go for some Christmas dinner.

From the comfort of your own home, nonetheless.

Tesco Ireland’s Christmas range is here, and as a vegetarian they’ve got some seriously impressive bits.

The team tried some of them out at a beautiful lunch in Dublin’s AMAI by Viktor, as well as a selection of the gorgeous wines and champagnes available to buy now.

The pouilly fumé is particularly good.

… A Normal shop

@stellarmagazine Korean beauty and Monster on the same aisle? We’re listening 🫶🏼 #fyp #dublin #normalstore ♬ CHANEL – Tyla

There are plenty of shops out there at the moment… but are any of them Normal? 

If you’ve been around Henry Street this week, you’ve probably seen the snaking queues of people awaiting entry to Normal, the new Danish retailer that recently opened its doors.

Normal is different because there’s no deals and there’s no slashed prices. There’s just reasonably priced everyday items from brands you know – and a few you don’t.

Highlights included K beauty brands, snacks, hair care, drinks, makeup, cleaning products, pet food… pretty much everything you could ever need in the one spot. Obsessed.

… Gorgeous eye cream

If you’re anything like me, you’ll be more than familiar with the trials and tribulations of under eye bags.

They’re deep, they’re dark, and they’re sometimes impossible to shift.

That is, unless you’ve got a seriously good eye cream. I’ve been using Shiseido’s Vital Perfection Uplifting & Firming Eye Cream for a week or so now, and it’s been a gorgeous addition to my skincare routine.

Created with VP8 complex and 4MSK, the cream promises brighter, radiant skin as well as a reduction in the appearance of age spots and those dreaded bags.

The formula is super thick and creamy, and used with the brand’s under eye cooler roller, it’s a little moment of self care first thing in the morning and the last thing at night.

… A big bag

A ludicrously capricious bag? In this economy?

Well yes, because Joanne McNally’s brand Anxious Preoccupied recently landed in Brown Thomas, and the pieces are (in case you weren’t aware) stunning.

The Oversized Gold with Orange is designed in Ireland, and handmade with metallic vegan leather outside, and lined with a bright orange vegan leather inside.

If this bag is simply too oversized for you, there’s The Micro, The Clutch, The Mid, and even The Barrel.

They’ve thought of everything, haven’t they?