My Self Care Routine

Good music, a glass of your favourite drink, and an at-home spa day filled with all your favourite pampering routines—sometimes you just need a break from how busy life can be and wind down and enjoy a self-care day.

What’s your favourite way to unwind?

Ahead, we’ll look at why self-care is important, and how to build out a self-care routine, including some practices you might want to integrate into that routine.

Why self-care is important

Self-care has become more of a buzzword than a practice that leads to better mental health and boosts self-confidence. Rather than something dedicated to self-improvement, self-care encourages self-nurturing and nourishing. Self-care helps us down regulate from the wildness and ambiguity of life. It can be reading a book, drinking a mug of tea, yoga, finally dealing with an ingrown hair issue, or a combo of any of the above, and more.

More than anything, self-care is dedicated time to yourself for yourself, and that’s why it’s important.

How to build your self-care routine

Refining and finessing your skincare routine, habit swapping, or even reading 10 minutes a day can have huge benefits on your mental health and well-being.

Here’s a loose guide on how to incorporate specific practices and rituals into a self-care routine you can rely on to help you take a break and process this wild, beautiful world.

1. Start with how you feel in your body. For the most part, how our body feels, or how it holds pain, stress, or even happiness, is going to be the biggest tell for what a self-care routine will look like. Our bodies hold the answers to the many questions we have. If you’re energized, your routine will look a lot different than someone recovering from burnout and who might need slower, methodical practices to regulate.
2. Make a list of what brings you joy. What self-care means to you includes a lot of what brings you joy, and what you’d like to do. Write out a list. It doesn’t have to be detailed (or it can be) and see where and when you can reasonably accomplish these tasks or rituals.
3. Make time in your schedule. Carving out time in your schedule is one of the most crucial parts of building out and maintaining a self-care routine. Rituals like these ones need time and space to breathe and make a difference in your life. It doesn’t need to be like an obligation block of time in your calendar, but something you’re looking forward to doing.
4. Consider skincare rituals to include in your routine. A lot of folks find solace in physically taking care of their body, including applying skincare products and methodically massaging and maintaining, which can be quite rewarding. Some parts of a skincare routine coupled with self-care include face masks and reading a book, listening to a podcast while you go through the motions of applying your nightly moisturizers and oils, or taking a bath and using an exfoliant on your body before soaking in Epsom salts to let your muscles regenerate.
5. Make hair removal a part of your routine. Hair removal like waxing or using a hair removal cream*, can be part of your home self-care ritual. It’s taking time to take care of you.
6. Try setting a mood for yourself while you remove unwanted facial hair. (Hair removal for face)
   

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7. Make underarm hair removal part of your monthly go-to in your routine. (Hair removal for underarms)
   

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8. Before getting into the rest of your self-care routine, begin with removing hair from your legs. (Hair removal for legs)
   
   

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Self-care is a praxis, not prescriptive. It’s something you want to do, to nourish and nurture yourself as a means of actual care, not just performing something that will trick you into feeling better.

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