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Lifelines is harnessing the ability of sensory immersion.
The brand, founded by Melissa Bernstein, is aiming to offer stress relief via the six senses: sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste and the mind’s eye. The concept for the brand got here to life when Bernstein, who also founded toy company Melissa & Doug, was on a walk seeking to destress after testing an array of relief techniques that left her more stressed.
“I used to be in my head and at one point, the breeze blew the hair back from my face,” she said. “I instinctively put my head up and felt that lovely sunshine on my face and the breeze and it dawned on me that I had, right away,...
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CHAPTER 1 The innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care,The death of every day’s life, sore labor’s bath,Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,chief nourisher in life’s feast.— William Shakespeare, Macbeth EXITING THE SWEET SAFETY of the shadows for the hotter, softly lit solidity of the bedroom I shared with October was, as at all times, something of a shock. She pushed against my chest to be released and I let her go, staying where I used to be and watching as she stepped away to catch her breath and brush the ice from her hair, remaining within sight. We were each, I feel, too shaken to maneuver very removed from each other.She shot me a glance, wearily...
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Blame it on the millennial pink marketing or the sweeping success of products like Balm Dot Com — few beauty brands catapulted to near-household name like Glossier within the mid-2010s. Marisa Meltzer’s “Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier” peels back the pastel curtain to uncover the minimalistic beauty brand’s meteoric success. And now, the Latest York Times bestseller is slated for an upcoming series, as Amazon MGM Studios has reportedly acquired the rights to the book.
Director and screenwriter Lindsey Anderson Beer, who’s notable projects include writing and directing “Pet Sematary:...
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