‘I trust my own body’: The rise of the

5 Aug

Mainstream wellness is predicated on the belief that the more data, the better. More and more of us are tracking glucose, monitoring sleep quality and logging every run on Strava. It’s no longer enough to wake up in the morning and know whether we’ve had a good night’s sleep based on how tired we feel; now we’re encouraged to rely on a device-calculated sleep score. And yet, a revolt is underway: a growing cohort is rebelling against optimisation and moving towards something more intuitive, embodied and carefree. Where the industry largely sees data as king, the “unquantified self” movement deems feeling the ultimate metric. Its adherents still train in gyms and live in chaotic cities, but want to align themselves as...

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20 Feb

The rise of tech neck: can looking at your

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The rise of tech neck: can looking at your

We are all aware that we need to curb our smartphone addiction. Not only does excessive use worsen our anxiety and the blue light from our screen disrupt our sleep cycles, now there’s another problem: looking down at screens could be responsible for developing neck wrinkles. Dubbed “tech neck,” constantly craning our necks down to look at our screens is reportedly doing us no favours. The skin on our neck is particularly delicate and is constantly fighting against gravity as we move our heads around in daily life. The result of this is often the loss of volume in the underlying tissues. Genetics, sun exposure, excessive smoking and drinking, weight fluctuations, and even hormonal changes can all play a role in...

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17 Aug

The rise of ‘mirrorless’ hair salons

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Unless your job revolves around Zoom calls that are much longer than needed, for most of us, the hairdresser is where we spend the longest time staring back at ourselves in one sitting. Salon and barbershop mirrors are a part of the experience that has become normalised, but we rarely question it – and why would we? Hairdressing is a practice that is physically out of our hands and concerns our appearance, so surely we’d want to keep an eye on how someone is altering our hair, for better or for worse. However, for some people the constant presence of the mirror can be daunting, even distressing, which is leading to a growing number of salons removing them from the...

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5 Mar

2025 Horoscope: It’s the grand finale before the rise

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2025 Horoscope: It’s the grand finale before the rise

Grace McGrade is an intuitive astrologer and priestess based in Los Angeles. She is the host of the podcast Bitchcraft: Spirituality for Bad People. For more astrology, read her guide to rising signs and moon signs. 2024 led to unmistakable Aquarian fashion: with drones and celestial anomalies spotted across the skies, growing discourse about aliens beneath the ocean, and the glorification of Luigi Mangione, a romanticised murderer with a noble, collective cause. A surrealist cultural and political landscape lies ahead, as Pluto has barely begun his journey through essentially the most unusual of the air signs, preparing to pervade the realms of humanity and technology by shock. 2025 is the yr for locating your mission. While it shouldn’t necessarily involve murdering any...

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