🍵 Not your average Goop girly

One thing I learned last week? You ladies LOVE a wellness gift. The response to the referral rewards programme since it launched last week has been incredible. The fact that so many of you want to share Daily Rituals with your girl’s group chat or with your work bestie, honestly, it makes me so happy.

I’ve loooved sending your gifts out to you all this week. Some of you have already bagged yourself the ESPA Discovery Set after bringing 30 (yes 30!) women into the Daily Rituals community. 

I started Daily Rituals a few months ago after feeling pretty lost at my corporate 9-5. It was my way of a way to infusing my day-to-day with abit more passion & purpose (the usual). My goal, to be totally honest, is to make Daily Rituals my new 9-5. And the crazy thing is, if we keep growing like we are currently, that may actually be possible.

So thank you again for your support on this very new journey. & if you haven’t yet told your wellness-loving friends about Daily Rituals yet, just use the referral link at the bottom of the email to start earning your gifts. 

In your weekly dose:

• ✏️ I’m designed that way, okay: The viral new wellness-meets-astrology trend everyone is going to be talking about.

• 🔍 The Wellness Web: We all fell for the pyramid scheme that is laser hair removal but this £80 at-home device actually works, the North Yorkshire spa that’s giving Estelle Manor a run for it’s money, the mac blush that TikTok is going crazy about, and much more.

• 🤫 London’s best kept secret: Korean glass skin facials are surprisingly hard to come by in London. Here’s the DL on who’s worth booking.

• ❣️Ask Daily Rituals: “Can you review the Omnilux Contour please? Is it better than the Current Body mask?”

• 💄The DL list: Editor’s weekly wellness favourites.

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Turn up the woo woo

I’m not your average goop girly that’s into her star signs or full moon meditations. Sure, I’m all for a new wellness trend but I’m also well aware that there’s SO much BS out there (cough: skinny tea, waist trainers, the list goes on). But since it’s kind of my job to dive into this stuff with an open mind (and then declare if it’s utter BS or not), I did exactly that. 

What is it?

When I first came across Human Design, I wasn’t sold.

It’s the latest wellness-meets-astrology craze going viral online, with celebrity fans including everyone from pilates queen Bryony Deery to Gwenyth Paltrow herself (absolutely no surprises there). Like astrology, it takes your birth date, time and place to reveal your human design profile.

It’s part-spiritual, part-scientific (ish) way of ‘calculating’ who you came here to be. The idea is that your energy and aura were locked-in at birth. & by decoding this, your human design profile can apparently offer insights into your personality, strengths, weaknesses, and – you guessed it – your life’s purpose.

Who started it?

Here’s where we turn up the woo woo, so bare with me. 

Human Design was “created” one sun kissed evening in Ibiza back in 1987, by a Canadian ex-advertising exec named Ra Uru Hu. 

The story goes, and this is where you’re going to really need to bare with me, that he heard “the voice” and spent the next 8 days writing it out exactly into a 400-page book. The usual way to spend your evenings on holiday. 

Ru was clearly tripping into another dimension, but, what he wrote over those 8 days not only created a new industry (of Human Design Guides, Courses, Classes, you name it), it somehow appeared to have some substance.

I know, just writing that, I realise it sounds nuts. 

How do I know this? Well, I got my own design chart and put it to the test.

Your Human Design Chart

There are plenty of Human Design chart generators online, but the MyHumanDesign app is by far the simplest & easiest to understand. All I needed to do was add my birth date, time and place (side note: that led to a fun conversation with my mum about her birthing story), and my results were revealed.

The DR Verdict

Now, as you know, I went into this as a skeptic. But when I tell you that this app somehow seemed to just understand me, at my deepest level, I got pretty emotional. 

Granted, it could be an absolute fluke that what’s in my chart aligns with who I feel I am. But, it’s crazy that out of the 12 sections that make up my chart, they all resonated. 

The overall idea of Human Design is to help you live in alignment and I can see how it could help with that. You know those moments when you’re completely engrossed in what you’re doing, everything just flows & you feel a little lighter about life? Human Design aims to help you bring more of that harmony into your life. It’s also handy for decision-making. Apparently, not everyone gets a “gut feeling,” but some of us do (myself included, which is ironic considering I’m always eating).

The trick with Human Design is to use it as a high-level guide instead of step by step instructions to living out your purpose. Give it a try, and let me know if your chart resonates (or, alternatively, if you think I’ve fully lost my marbles).

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“Should I buy the Omnilux Contour or the Current Body LED Mask?”

I recently did a deeeep dive into all things LED masks and I learned A LOT.

If your set on buying a mask, these two are up there in the top 3 to consider.

For an LED mask to actually work, the specs need to live up to the marketing. Both mask’s have the irradiance (strength of the lights) and wavelengths that are proven to be effective, so thats a great start. They both have the same dose too (10 minutes a session).

The irradiance of the Omnilux Contour is slightly higher than the Current Body (worth noting, neither are as good as the Dennis Gross mask (35 vs 60 mW/cm2), which is more expensive, but you get what you’re paying for).

The Omnilux is slightly more expensive than the Current Body at £329 vs £299.

So for the extra £30 and better irradiance, go for the Omnilux mask. Not the women’s mask though - I’d actually opt for the men’s mask. It’s the same price but also has near infrared light (NIR) wavelengths that work a treat at targeting deep lines & wrinkles at-home. There aren’t any studies that suggest women shouldn’t be exposed to NIR wavelengths (in fact, plenty of women’s masks and panels include them), so it’s kind of strange Omnilux didn’t include them in the women’s mask IMO. My guess is it’s purely for marketing so they can say their men’s mask “penetrates deeper” through thicker male skin.

If you’ve got a Q or want my hot take on something before you pull the trigger, just reply to this email & I’ll try feature it in next week’s Ask Daily Rituals.

THE WELLNESS WEB:

• 🌵 Freshly mowed lawn: Forking out for laser hair removal seems to have been one of the beauty industries biggest cons. Perhaps we’d be fine with it if they hadn’t all advertised it as permanent. Anyways, this TikToker is using a £80 at-home device instead.

• 🧖‍♀️ Frazzled to dazzled: All it takes is a night at the serene Middleton Lodge in North Yorkshire. Whether you choose a shepherd’s hut or hot room room, make sure to add on spa access to up your zen time.

• 🇪🇸 Pilates & paella: The team behind Core Connexion really know how to retreat. Just take a look at this room tour from their latest retreat in Spain - heaven.

• 💎 Turn up the frequency: If you’ve ever wondered how to use a high-frequency wand to zap blemishes, watch this.

• 💄 That MAC blush: it may have been around for over 10 years but this video sold out MACs dreamy Coppertone blush. Everywhere. You’ll catch me on the re-stock waitlist.

• 👭 Play dates: This central London art cafe & bar is the most wholesome Friday date night activity.

• 👀 Lemme hear the tea: Poosh isn’t stocking Kortney’s Lemme supplements anymore & we’ve got questions. It could because they had $4m of their Lemme Burn stock stolen in a Grand Theft Auto style heist. Drama.

THE DR LIST

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With love,

Jasmine