Contents. Beauty - Issue 1
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Pill-popping surgery. Kind explores the future of the health supplement industry.
Thank you Kind readers, we hope you love reading this zine, as much as we’ve loved creating it!
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Follow our number one rule and allow your inner beauty to reveal itself.
...And Relax Kind have curated a set of very special face masks, especially for our readers!
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Refresh and destress. Recreate this aroma with simplistic ingredients you’ll find at home.
Bare-faced beauty. Be kind to yourself and embrace your natural beauty.
FU TU RE Pill-Popping Surgery
Envision a world where you’ll never encounter a bottle of hair dye again, a world where you’re able to prevent your hair greying, simply by ingesting a pill. In future years, growing numbers of us will dabble in the rapidly evolving world of supplements. Have you ever conceptualised a future when your daily cocktail of pills, can promise more aesthetic benefits? What we consume is now equally as important when striving to achieve cosmetic perfection, welcome to the world of digestible cosmetics…
Stimuli for the trend, stems from society’s increasingly incredulous behaviour over what we consume and our infatuation with longterm mental and physical wellbeing. Modern day culture is obsessed with pursuing organic alternatives to address cosmetic concerns. Broadening societal acceptance of embracing beauty from within, has resulted in the fusion of nutritional and cosmetic industries. Innovators of the nutricosmetic trend, desire a holistic inner and outer bodily experience and are leading the vanguard in this emerging market area. This trend is manifesting
from a growth in communal knowledge of living a holistically healthful lifestyle, as well as a rising rebellion against the convenience economy. Society is abandoning quick-fix culture and we are beginning to embrace the ethos of slow living. Although instant cosmetic contentment may be appealing to the mass market, early adopters of the emerging trend, are investing time in nourishing their inner selves to successively nourish their cosmetic canvas. Retail sectors are predicted to thrive, as consumer willingness to experiment increases and →
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digestible beauty arrives into the mainstream market. The new generation of supplements blurs the line between dietary and cosmeceutical industries. Products have intelligently evolved to complement the consumer’s active lifestyle. Future ingestibles will take the form of beverages and confectionery, that can be conveniently consumed at any time. The millennial generation is regaining control over their health and are on the quest in search for a heightened sense of well-being. According to global marketing analysts, the demand for nutricosmetics is projected to reach £7.4 billion by 2020, driven by a preference in oral nutritional supplements for appearance maintenance. With medical expenses rising, nutricosmetics are forecast to become an extremely popular alternative for cosmetic manipulation in ageing markets. Society is predicted to reject sharp slicing scalpels and surgery, preferring to adopt the mentality of prevention rather than repair.
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be confident Don’t be afraid to peel away those outer layers and reveal your true inner beauty.
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...And Relax! Avocado, yoghurt and grapefruit cleansing mask.
Play your favourite record, dim those lights, sit back and enjoy these three all natural skin saviours!
What you will need... - 1 avocado - 2 TBS of greek yoghurt - A squeeze of grapefruit juice Step 1. Smash up a ripened avocado Step 2. Add the avocado into the yoghurt mixture and stir well, until all of the ingredients are combined Step 3. Add a splash of grapefruit juice to leave you smelling super sweet!
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Honey lemon and oat facemask. What you will need... - 3 TBS of honey - 2 TBS of dried oats - 1 TS of fresh lemon juice Step 1. Grind down the oats until they’re super soft and squeeze the juice of half a lemon Step 2. Mix everything together in a small bowl, feeling extra fancy? Heat your mixture for an extra indulgent treat!
Coconut and brown sugar exfoliator. What you will need... - 4 TBS of brown sugar - 2 TBS of coconut oil - 2 TBS of olive oil Step 1. Begin with mixing the brown sugar and coconut oil together into a smooth paste Step 2. Stir in extra virgin olive oil until the mixture turns creamy. Voila! You’re done, easy right?
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Relax and unwind with this simmering Refresh and de-stress as the therapeutic water and adding lavender. Breathe in aroma of infused lavender washes the fragrant soothingover aroma and you. Boil water and add a stem of dried lavender to create a relaxing fragrance.
Bare-faced Beauty Imagine living in a world where you wake up, get dressed and walk straight out the door, without spending 30 minutes applying makeup? Kind dares you to go bare-faced tomorrow. Enjoy the feeling of the outside air caressing your bare skin and feel your confidence soar.
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