The snail unit discusses the evolution of self-care from activist motto to marketing slogan.

canceling plans is ok. staying home to cook is ok. disappearing for a bit to get your life together is ok. resurfacing in a foreign country with a new name 10 years later is ok. it’s called self care

— Kevin Farzad (@KevinFarzad) January 13, 2018

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What we’ve been up to

• Fiddy is now Director of Marketing at Beautytap


• Cat got a puppy!!


• Tracy is a journalist


• Chel has released new Holy Snails products and shaved her head

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Links

• Chel’s scalp massager


• “But ultimately, choosing instant gratification has proven catastrophically destructive.” comes from “The rise of Donald Trump demands we embrace a harder kind of self-care“


• Chel and Fiddy’s Snailcast episode on motherhood


• Fiddy’s essay on how skincare helped her with depression


• Cat and Tracy on kbeauty shopping research


• “Women and people of color viewed controlling their health as a corrective to the failures of a white, patriarchal medical system to properly tend to their needs.” comes from “A History of Self-Care“


• “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” comes from A Burst of Light: and Other Essays


• McDonald’s self-care hashtag campaign mentioned in “The Politics of Conspicuous Displays of Self-Care“


• College Humor satirical video on self-care


• Tracy on the lipstick effect in Racked


• Pat McGrath lipstick, Tom Ford lipstick


• The Holy Snail wine


• Lifehacker’s How I Work series


• CVS bans photoshopping beauty product ads


• The Hairpin’s self-care column: “This column has a singular purpose: to talk to women about navigating a world where they are their own savior.”


• Where to find The Tub in Philly (King Spa Room)


• “Overextending myself is not stretching myself. I had to accept how difficult it is to monitor the difference.” Quote by Audre Lorde from A Burst of Light: and Other Essays.

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