Outer peace

August 10, 2020

Listen: Feel Like Doing Nothing by Kate Bollinger

This new Kate Bollinger track is a real vibe: summer laziness and procrastination packed into a floaty, yellow soundscape. If all you do today is listen to this, you’ll be right on-brand (you’ll have to pick yourself up in time for August 21, though, which is when she releases her EP,  A word becomes a sound).

Calm down @ home

For anyone thinking about a life change these days, I have a job to suggest: Labyrinth salesman. According my classmate to Laura Bliss at Citylab,  meditation mazes are blowing up among the landed, which should come as a surprise to no one. Everybody’s stressed right now, and the people who have the least to worry about are being fairly liberal with spending on things to make themselves feel better. As a result, people’s homes are becoming private meditation retreats. Maybe once their footpaths are installed, folks will meditate on making relief donations to everybody without a personal ashram.

Inner peace on your face

Whether or not you care to install a labyrinth in your yard, any industry can sell the idea of calm, and— spoiler— they’re all about to. Case in point: the emerging category of anti-stress skin care. Stress, of course, is one more thing that contributes to becoming ugly and dying (or are they one and the same), and the brands who fear we’ll stop spending our spare cash are here to cater, as ever, to our insecurities. Ressource, a new line from Givenchy, promises to mitigate the appearance of “psychological fatigue,” and B3 Adaptive SuperFoods purports to do roughly the same. Meanwhile, Francisco Tausk, M.D., a psychosomatic medicine professor who’s currently working as a hired gun for a startup called “LOUM Beauty of Calm” admits that “the brain-skin connection is so tight that I’ve had patients able to clear their psoriasis with a placebo.” This of course means you could just cast a spell on some aloe and call it a cure— or simply do the emotional work required to keep calm. But isn’t it fun to buy stuff?

Products with a purpose $

At Thrive Causemetics, an actual cause is built into the name: for every product sold, the company donates to nonprofit organizations that help women thrive through cancer, homelessness, civilian life after military service, and domestic abuse. And their customers love their products as much as their mission: just as an example, their Liquid Lash Extensions Mascara™ has over 7,000 five-star reviews. Check them out here. 

SERENITY NOW

Margot

 

PS If you need to hire an artist for anything, Lorem reader Sara is ready to help out on projects!

 

 

$ = sponsored