Weekend Notes: Online Orders, Bobbi Brown, and Why My Face Hurts

... plus a new CBD Oil I'm obsessed with.

This Weekend Notes newsletter includes:

• Everything I ordered online this past week: makeup, shoes, clothes

• Links to Substack pieces and others across the web I think you’ll enjoy

• A glimpse at a new facial technique I trained in

• Some thoughts about a bucket list call with the one and only Bobbi Brown

• … and the two products currently saving my anxiety-riddled brain.

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Links and what I’m reading on Substack.

This excellent, though-provoking listicle from Laura Kennedy: 37 Lessons For Being Alive in This Absolute Mayhem.

And this one by Catherine Shannon on entering the void of ironic detachment.

Some obvious but nonetheless helpful tips on successfully decluttering your home.

And finally, Angharad Jones’ brilliant guide to trousers.

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Half dead after the first day of training.

I spent a few days in London last week training with the incredible Sophie Perry at The Natural Facelift Academy. It’s an approach I've wanted to train in for quite some time, as it involves deep muscular massage, fascia release, lymphatic drainage and buccal (or intra-oral) massage.

It was an intense couple of days, and my jawline, shoulders, and skin haven’t quite recovered yet. Much of the technique involves using your own body weight against the client, so for many moves, I’m almost in a full squat behind the treatment bed while lifting and sculpting the client’s upper body (watch some of the moves here).

We carry so much tension in our upper bodies, especially in the shoulders, jawline, cheeks, and eyebrows - so I’m hoping to incorporate some of these techniques into the clinical facials I administer to make them more all encompassing.

Also, Sophie has written an excellent book about how you can introduce some of her techniques at home to release tension. You can pick it up here.