SMOKE+MiRRORS

Question:What are Mental Essentials? a gang of oil characters reflecting a spectrum of moods and emotions,guiding and simplifying your wellness journey. Each character represents an oil, a country, a culture and a mood and are dressedin clothes from around the world. Lavie wears a simple dress similar to the ones worn by girls in Provence, in the south of France. Lems' paisely print tights reflect her Indian roots, while Berg's clothesare inspired by a Renaissance painting. The characters range in age; seven year old Mandi is the youngest, while Patch, the only one sitting down, stopped counting her age years ago. Each...

Text thumb was our worst discovery of 2017. We were in pain. We were hurting. Our poor thumbs were experiencing some serious joint pain, and we knew our social media addiction was at the root of the problem. We were completely addicted to Instagram, soaking up all the new features like Stories and Instagram Live, while fighting off carpal tunnel syndrome. Between scrolling, hashtagging and endlessly sharing memes and viral videos, our hands were paying the price.   We weren’t ready to give up our social media addiction though. We called it “research” and being on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook helped...

Birthdays are always wrapped up in emotions. Sometimes you want to celebrate and sometimes you want to lay low and ponder every decision you've ever made in life. But if you're going to be having a fete to celebrate the day you came into this world, then you're going to want to look like a million bucks on your birthday. Especially if all of your family and friends will be insistent on snapping as many selfies as possible and documenting the entire day’s (or night’s) events on their respective social media accounts in a race to see who can get...

The summer scaries are here. The summer scaries are that sinking feeling in your soul when you realize that it's the end of August and the last few weeks have been punctured by notes of "I can't believe summer's over" and "it went by so fast!". If you're a student then you're probably most affected, as August begins to feel like one long Sunday as you lament replacing free time with study time, and returning full throttle into a hectic semester. Even if you've worked, as many of us have, all summer long, back to school mentality is a shared...