The Sunday Digest 008
Wow, your skin is really glowing this morning.
Welcome to The Sunday Digest — a free Sunday newsletter featuring long (and some short) reads, original columns, things I’ve saved over the last week, relaxing playlists, episodes releases, exclusive product drops, and more. Yes, you can reply to this email. I’d love to hear from you. Or, if podcasts are more your speed on Sundays, we’ve got that too.
Sunday Read: Can You Give Yourself an At-Home Face-Lift?
by Holly Burns for The New York Times
While I’ll discuss this more at length during this week’s upcoming episode of Retail Therapy, I can confirm that I’m on a mission to revamp my previously-nonexistent face routine.
For the first 35 years of my life, I’ll admit that I’ve done very little for my skin outside of using SPF 50 tanning oil and an occasional smattering of Weleda post-steam shower. Yes, I’ve been blessed with low-maintenance skin.
Recently, however, I’ve become deathly scared of wrinkles which is why I’ve turned 2022 into my own personal skin journey. This recent column from The New York Times felt like the perfect place to start.
But what if you could skip the cosmetic surgery — which costs, on average, $8,005 — and sculpt your face from the sofa instead? Social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram are rife with beauty tutorials offering ways to achieve a more lifted look through facial massage, at-home micro-current devices and even face tape. (Yep, it’s exactly what it sounds like. Tape. On your face.)
Get your skin routine right by reading the entire breakdown here.
The Sunday Haiku
Am I hungover?
Or am I just really tired?
Guess I’ll just lie here.
Things I Saved This Week
New Episode: Weekend Paralysis, The Five Stages of Texting A New Friend, and Calming Work Playlists
Some reasons why you may not be as active or social on weekends when you have free time, the anguish you go through when trying to text a 'new' friend for the first time, and four relaxing Spotify playlists that are perfect to work to.
Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are found.
Sunday Follow: Frog and Toad Bot
Truthfully, I’m not sure if I ever actually went through a Frog and Toad phase as a child, but I do know one thing — this is my new favorite Twitter account and it’s not even close.
Every tweet sends me into a nature-filled world of animals conversing with each other in the chillest way possible.
Fingers crossed that Toad trimmed his wick before doing so.
Shop: Sunday Scaries Scented Candles
See you next week.
— Will