November 2024

Shutterstock Makeup routines are the most important course on the TikTok viral “dopamine menu” trend, which divides mood-boosting activities into restaurant-style courses. Just after an intense election and getting ready to SAD season, as a dopamine menu suggests, replacing the overstimulation of doom scrolling along with your body’s “feel-good” hormone can add pleasure and motivation to your day by day routine. With over 19,000 posts on TikTok, appetizers are quick five to 10 minute activities. Meanwhile, entrees can reach 45 minutes or more; sides are practices you may multitask with. And dessert? A reward after a difficult task. “Dopamine is a neurotransmitter involved within the reward response to nice experiences and nice stimuli,” neuroscience, psychopharmacology and mental health professor at Reading University...