by Bettina | Aug 4, 2026 | Hair care
Every September I have the same reckoning with my hairbrush. The tan is fading, the pool bag is finally put away, and my hair is sitting there pale, crunchy, and snapping at the ends like it’s holding a grudge about the whole summer. The first year it happened I...
by Bettina | Aug 3, 2026 | Hair care
A few summers ago I came back from a week at the coast with what I can only describe as hay attached to my head. My ends were pale and crunchy, my color had gone brassy, and the frizz started about four seconds after I stepped out of the shower. I’d spent the...
by Bettina | Aug 2, 2026 | Self-care tips
It started with a familiar Sunday-night feeling: exhausted, weirdly unsatisfied, and unable to remember where the day had actually gone. I’d “relaxed” all weekend, yet somehow I felt more drained than when I’d clocked off on Friday. When I...
by Bettina | Aug 1, 2026 | Astrology
I’ve been reading my own chart every August for years now, mostly because August is the month my life seems to insist on rearranging itself whether I’m ready or not. This year the sky has a genuinely good reason for that feeling: August 2026 holds not one...
by Bettina | Jul 31, 2026 | Food recipes, Recipes
Every year the same thing happens to me: the easy, lazy rhythm of high summer collapses overnight into the back-to-routine scramble of late August, and my eating is the first thing to fall apart. The August I finally got ahead of it — by spending a couple of hours one...
