TODAY I WILL:  

Be fully present for the little moments that usually slip by.

From serious hope to social overload, we’re processing it all—plus sneaking in a little Bridgerton fantasy.

• The never-ending search for closure.

• The American Cancer Society is giving us hope.

• TikTok is over that relationship opinion.

• Are parties getting out of control?

• Microdosing Bridgerton content until the season release.

Physically Finding Your Way to Calm.

When anxiety hits, many people’s first instinct is to push through. But sometimes, the best thing you can do is step away and take a moment to realign. It’s tough, but there are specific yoga positions that can help and give you an action for these moments. 

First, yoga, even in small doses, can be a great reset. These motions combine stillness, breathing, and movement that help to center you. One of the best poses to do this is the hero pose. Here’s how to do it:

1. Start in a kneeling position with knees together and feet apart (tops of feet should be flat on the floor). 

2. Place your hands on your thighs and sit back so that you land between your ankles. Tip: You may want a yoga block. 

3. Find stillness with a straight spine and open your chest. Breath evenly for up to five minutes. 

Try this today: When you need a break (overwhelmed or even just stuck in your head) find a place that feels comfortable and get into hero pose for two minutes.

Less Sting, More Soothe

The era of stacking exfoliants, acids, and retinoids is officially cooling off. Skincare is swinging back toward calm. After years of chasing results through intensity, people are dealing with irritation and fatigue, opting instead for routines that protect the skin barrier rather than constantly pushing it.

Why Everyone’s Pulling Back

Over-exfoliation finally caught up to us. Redness, tightness, flaking, and sensitized skin have made it clear that more actives don’t always mean better skin. Add in seasonal dryness, stress, and inconsistent routines, and suddenly, gentle skincare feels like the smarter move.

Barrier repair is about sustainability. Skin that can tolerate what life throws at it.

What Barrier-First Routines Look Like

• Fewer products overall, with more focus on consistency

• Creamy cleansers instead of foaming or stripping formulas

• Moisturizers that prioritize ceramides, glycerin, and lipids

• Actives used sparingly, not nightly

• A “pause week” mindset when skin feels off

The New Status Skin

Healthy skin now reads as calm, even-toned, and resilient. Not glassy. Not tight. Not tingling. A strong barrier makes everything else work better, from makeup application to long-term results.

Some brands are born in boardrooms. Discothèque was born on the dance floor. 

In 2022, best friends Jessie Willner and Hanover Booth launched a fragrance house based on one idea that intoxicated them. Scent, like music, has the power to transport you instantly—back to a moment, a feeling, a version of yourself you almost forgot. The fragrances, which have become favorites to many, each reference a place and evoke the emotional residue of a perfect night. 

From scents inspired by fleeting eye contact to the magic of founding a company with your best friend, their brand is a love letter to joie de vivre. In our conversation with the duo, we dove into the friendship that sparked the brand, how memories from dark rooms and late nights become bottled stories, and why the tension between sunny LA and moody London keeps their creativity unpredictable.

What was the "aha" moment that sparked the idea for Discothèque?

Jessie: Discothèque started as a kind of love letter to our friendship, cemented by years of discovering parts of the world together through different dance floors. Scent felt like the perfect medium because it can pull you back to a specific moment in a way things rarely can. We thought: what if you could stash these memories away in something that brings you right back to them when you smell it? And vice versa, creating something that inspires you to live the great moments of your life when you wear it.

You've described the brand as inspired by "the beat of a song in a dark room." How do you translate that feeling into scent?

Hanover: It's never literally what a club smells like. It's about the atmosphere, the emotion, the slightly hazy and cinematic memory a night leaves behind. Sometimes we start with the world itself: the year, the club, the city. And then build the fragrance around that story. Other times, a scent comes together so naturally that it already feels like a memory before it even has a home. We translate those impressions through layers of notes, creating something that captures what we feel that moment would have been.

Discothèque is split between two cities with totally different energies—sunny LA and moody, magnetic London. How does that duality influence the brand?

Hanover: I think the split between both cities gives us this incredible range to pull from. We've always said the dance floor is the great equalizer; it's where icons, misfits, and everyone in between come together. That spirit of inclusivity is at the heart of club culture and of our fragrances—they're made for everyone. Each scent is made for wherever you are and whoever you want to be. The process is totally fluid and instinctive, and going between both cities means we're never stuck. It keeps everything feeling a little unpredictable.