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Summer Self-Care Recs
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items Here are twelve basic steps to starting your summer self-care routine! Self-care is so important, especially after a long day at the beach, hanging out with friends or spending your day at work. Let me know if you have any ideas or any other recs to ...
Step one: grab your favorite face mask to help you relax and unwind
Face Masks | Facial Masks
Step two: put on a cringey (but great) reality tv show for ultimate summer enjoyment. Bonus points for being extra cringe.
Love Island USA (@loveislandusa) • Instagram photos and videos
Step three: find a good meditation or breathing exercise to help ground you when anxious. Calm has a bunch of great free meditations!
Calm
Step four: Take some time to reflect with some journaling! Writing is a great way to process your emotions and help you externalize any life stressors. Here’s a fun (and funny) one to get you started!
Let That Sh*t Go: Journal for a Happy Life
Step five: Cool down with some restoring eye masks! Summer is all about relaxing and enjoying the sun, but we all need time to pamper our eyes too. These eye masks help you feel bougee on budget plus they’re purple too.
grace & stella Under Eye Patches Retinol 24 Pairs
Step six: Grab your favorite body scrub to make your showers more enjoyable and help exfoliate your skin. With all of the extra time we spend outside, we deserve to treat our skin with extra love this season. Here’s one of my favorite brands of body ...
Tree Hut Peach Sorbet Shea Sugar Scrub 18oz
Step seven: Find a cute headband and armband set to help prevent your clothes/hair getting wet during your skincare routines! This set has helped me not have water dripping down my sleeves every time I wash my face at night. Love it!
WSYUB Black Spa Headband & 2 Wristbands
Step eight: Need I say less about how cute this cover is? Reading is one of the best ways to take time to focus on ourselves and find new ways to prioritize our mental health. Check out this cute self-help book!
The Little Frog's Guide to Self-Care & Affirmations
Step nine: Soak away stress and anxiety with this creative writing activity! This helps you work on identifying different perspectives on your anxiety and helps you wash away any worries you have by writing them on paper soap. Such a cool idea!
Two Sage Sisters Water Kit - Stress Relief
Step ten: Arguably the most important step for self-care is drinking enough water! We get especially dehydrated during the summer with taking trips to the beach and being exposed to the sun, so find a cute water bottle that gets you motivated to drin...
Owala FreeSip Insulated Stainless Steel Bottle 24oz
Step eleven: Start a new hobby or activity you love to decompress from a long day at work! I’ve been loving diamond art recently and making coasters has been so satisfying. Plus, they’re functional after you make them!
Vcekract Cat Diamond Painting Coasters Kit
Step twelve: Hydrate your lips! Something about summertime always makes my lips chapped. I love this lip balm and I always feel more put-together when I’m wearing a lip product.
Lip Butter Balm, Vanilla