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Gift Like A Star: The Aquarius Wishlist

January 21 | 4 minute read

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Words by Kerri Gordon

It’s someone’s birthday every day - and don’t MECCA Beauty Loop know it! For the duration of 2025, we’re swapping physical birthday gifts for MECCA Gift Cards; a little something special from us, so you can get closer to the big-ticket beauty on your wishlist.

If you’re not already a Beauty Loop member, this very special gift is just one reason (of many) to sign up, stat. We spend a lot of time contemplating, deliberating and mulling over the gifts we share - because gifting, after all, is an artform. It’s about finding that one thing that feels truly personal and considered, and, when it comes to beauty, will be loved and used to the very last drop. To ensure our gift recommendations tickle the psyche and feel hyper personal, we’re looking to the stars. First up: Aquarius. 

With both the Sun and Venus in Aquarius right now, the individuality, eccentricity and authenticity of our aquarian loved ones is illuminated. As innovative, forward-thinking people - often with a keen interest in science, technology or the avant-garde - you’ll never go wrong with a gift that veers into the weird, the wonderful and the one-of-a-kind. Just ask famous Aquarians Harry Styles, Yoko Ono, Willy Wonka and Neo (of The Matrix). 

 

Shape-Shifting Scents

Science-driven synthetic notes and trending ‘skin scents’ make for an aquarian delight, and as fail-proof a fragrance gift as possible. Ingredients like aldehyde and ambroxan engage with your personal body chemistry to create a scent completely unique to you. 

There’s the inventor of the category, Escentric Molecules’ Molecule 01, formulated with just one molecule known as Iso E Super. It has a light cedar scent that immediately transforms with the warmth of your skin. Other favourites include D.S. & DURGA’s striking layering scent, I Don’t Know What, Tsu Lange Yor’s Luca, a fizzy date night scent with a lid so beautiful it could be the gift alone, and, of course, Glossier’s debut where-it-everywhere fragrance, the aptly named ‘You’.

 

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Science-Forward Skincare

Always on the forefront of tech (often with a hefty dose of scepticism regarding whether latest is greatest) Aquarians are either the type to get the new iPhone the day it comes out, or the type to debate - in the affirmative - that androids are eons ahead. There’s no in-between. 

Therefore, science-backed skincare formulas and devices created with a high level of detail, technical elegance and efficacy make an easy gift that appeals to their interests, while boosting their complexions. You can’t go wrong with anything from Allies of Skin or 111SKIN - the former, a collection of change-your-skin-overnight innovations created by a meticulous biomedical and pharmaceutical science graduate, and the latter, a series of surgeon-made formulas that leverage NASA space science (a not-so-fun fact for astronauts; skin ages faster in space due to cosmic radiation, requiring an advanced regime of supplements and skincare to counteract). 

 

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Other top picks include the sci-fi-y NuFace device, which works to help lift and sculpt your face with microcurrent stimulation (it’s a true beauty gamechanger), Sunday Riley’s Good Genes Lactic Acid Treatment, a MECCA team favourite serum for brighter, more refined skin overnight (use it the night before a big event for makeup that sits on your skin infinitely better), and a set of Dr. Jart+ sheet masks, for the ultimate American Psycho/Patrick Bateman experience. We’ve been loving the Dermask Soothing Hydra Solution Pro set for unmatched hydration and its ability to soothe sensitised skin.

 

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Eccentric Makeup Vessels

Self-expression through fashion and beauty comes naturally to many Aquarians, unafraid to experiment by blending cutting-edge newness with a more eccentric, nostalgic aesthetic. This makes luxury and legacy makeup staples the perfect gift, particularly those with packaging that doubles as art. 

Byredo is the makeup brand to gift for its sculptural chrome and neon Frank Gehry-esque packaging design. The Scandi brand blends simplicity with avant-garde in such an effortlessly cool manner - you won’t go wrong with a lipstick, mascara or eyeshadow palette

 

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Honourable mentions include Ellis Faas, the wildly underrated insider-secret makeup brand artists sweat by globally - not only for their creamy textures and high-pigment colour, but for their compact, travel-friendly chrome ‘bullets’ (your entire makeup routine can fit in one of these cases) - and M.A.C’s Y2K icon, Squirt Plumping Gloss Stick in shade ‘Like Squirt’, a ‘brat’ green that transforms into a sheer honey sheen on the lips.

 

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What to choose? Well, that’s up to you! If you’ve got your Beauty Loop Birthday Gift Card at the ready, don’t forget to pop it in at checkout, and if you’re out of the loop, here’s your reminder to sign up!

 

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