HOW COMPANIES ARE HELPING PEOPLE SHIFT THE DIAL TO WELL-BEING DURING 2020 PANDEMIC.

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Companies are aiding us on our shift in well-being routines during the pandemic and putting the product and the know how into our hands.

 Oh these NAILS: Olive & Jane, luxury nail salon based out of L.A. has launched a home kit box that comes with everything you need to give yourself your own manicure – never had to give yourself a mani no worries check out their Mani Bootcamp, a three-week serious of daily tutorials on their IG Live and if you miss it, don’t fret check out their page for the tutorials.

For masculine looking kit that you can be mobile with we recommend Familife L01 11 in 1 stainless-steel leather case.

HAIR be gone - Flamingo, offer body waxing kit to a bare bundle that combines their best hair removal products that they offer that includes Flamingo Razor, post wax cloth and calming serum.  

For more proper manscaping grooming kit for head to toe hair we recommend Braun Multi Grooming Kit MGK3980 Black/Blue – 9-in-1 Precision Trimmer for Beard and Hair Styling

Those GRAYS – Cremo Company for men’s hair & beard Color - It’ ready to use and it’s design makes coloring your hair and beard super easy right from your own home. No mixing, No gloves.

Though after consulting with our friends who run their own salons the consensus is go natural until things are back to normal. This is a time to nurture not only yourself but your natural locks.

If you really can’t wait use a wash in color gloss at home that will temporally cover those grays and give you shine, Rita Hazan Ultimate True Color Shine Gloss Revives Color and Repairs and Restores hair, is perfect in between salon visits.

Want just tones of shine – ORIBE: Glaze . A high gloss topcoat for hair. This shimmering, conditioning glaze imparts intense shine, brightens color and highlights, and silken strands for hair that is luminous from the inside out.

For weekly hair mask we recommend Leonor Greyl Masque Fleurs De Jasmin for fine to normal hair and for Thick, curly or to treat frizzy hair use Lenor Greyl Masque a l’Orchidee. We love this luxry product because it is all natural and uses plants and natural ingredients. Truly where one of the pioneers of the “bio” trend before it became a big hit.

If you really itching to get your hair guided by a professional, we advise reaching out and booking a session with celebrity stylist Jennifer Brent @jennieredd that can give customized quarantine-friendly beauty and health consolations via zoom.

Make mindful movement a daily ritual, Alo Moves offers Ashtanga to Vinyasa you can join and have unlimited yoga and meditation classes online for $20 a month; go to alomoves.com. 

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Nike Training Club App is free app and NTC Premium is Free to all Nike Members that is expertly designed by professional trainers for you to access sessions for your fitness goals from smart phone. You got everything you need in palm of your hands.

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Fitbit Premium usually offers a seven-day free trail, recently increased that to 90 days, so now is a great time to explore everything the app has to offer along with hitting your sleep goals each night and even get guidance on managing your weight in a healthy way. 

 Regardless what fitness programs you choose. We encourage everyone to remember to move your body as this promotes circulation but more importantly it’s energetically healing – choose something you love – or mix it up, one day ecstatic dance – another day yoga 

 Art Therapy 

Our founder has background in Psych Counseling with concentration in Art Therapy – creating art as an adult is great way to put what your feeling on to paper – this also allows our inner child to come out and play giving us the mental permission to be free – not that we need any to do so but sometimes our subconscious needs extra encouragement  - if you have kids you can also work through these exercises with them too. 

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Make your mind, body and spirit sing through art therapy exercises:

1-     Draw or paint your emotions – in this focus entirely on your feelings and paint it.

 2-     Create an emotional wheel – using color this activity will have you thinking critically about your emotions.

3-     Make a stress painting - Choose colors that represent your stress and jab, scribble and paint your problems away. 

 4-     Make a sock puppet– Sock puppets aren’t just for kids. Make your own and have them act out scenes that make you upset.

 5-     Use line art – Line is one of the simplest and most basic aspects of art, but it can also contain a lot of emotions. Use simple line art to demonstrate visually how you're feeling. 

6-     Create a sculpture of your anger -you will never send- For this activity, you’ll make a physical manifestation of anger in your life.

 7-     Paint inside a heart – Using a heart as a pattern, fill in different parts of the hear with the emotions you’re feeling right now. 

Take time just to be and create space to release any feelings that may come up during your Quarantine your mental and emotional health is just as import to maintain as your physical body.

- stay postivite and safe from our heart to yours

FCD Team xoxo