Your Best Bet to Getting Through Long Days at the Office
Say goodbye to tired eyes.
Long days. Long nights. It’s a routine inevitable in any job, and one many of us are used to. While we certainly don’t recommend doing it a lot (for your mental and physical health), sometimes, you gotta do what you gotta do.
For those inevitable moments when you have to pull long hours but still have to perform and stay on your game, there are five ways to help keep your mind and body fresh.
1. Stay Hydrated
Yes, coffee is very appealing when pulling long hours (hello lovely Nespresso machine!) but coffee also dehydrates you, which makes your eyes tired... which, is the worst thing ever. Make sure to counterbalance any cup of coffee (or shot of espresso, amen) with a glass of water. It will also keep you fresh
2. Take A Walk
Long hours, often comes with long sitting spells. And if you haven’t heard to saying “sitting is the new smoking”. YIKES! We suggest taking a quick walk, preferably outside. Not only will this get your blood flowing and help you up your steps for the day, it will also clear your head and give you a mental breather. Sometimes, stepping away from the one thing you’ve been looking at ALL. DAY. is exactly what you need to reignite your inspiration!
3. Eat Up
We’ve all heard the term “brain foods,” but it’s not just a buzz phrase. There’s actually merit to the notion that certain foods can help you focus longer and harder. If you suspect that you’re going to have a late night in the near, plan ahead! Stock up on blueberries, avocados, nuts, seeds, and if you’re feeling really adventurous, some salmon (known for its Omega-3 fatty acids).
4. Practice a Little Self Care
If you’re anything like us, you probably have the tendency to neglect yourself when stressed or slammed with certain assignments. But there are always some quick things you can do to zoosh your spirit and self. And your eyes are one of the first giveaways that you’re feeling tired. The perfect antidote for long hours? A buildable, lightweight eye cream that will keep your eyes looking and feeling fresh into the wee hours of the morning. Origins A Perfect World Age-Defense Eye Cream with SPF 20 will brighten the under eye area and will prevent premature signs of aging (damn you, computer screen), and will protect you from harmful UV rays. Just dab some on throughout the (seemingly endless) day to protect the delicate skin and look refreshed.
5. Wash Your Face and Moisturize
Seems simple, but splashing cold water on your face and dabbing an antioxidant-rich moisturizer on mid-day can feel like a cup of coffee for your skin. Origins A Perfect World SPF-40 Age Defense Moisturizer with White Tea is clinically proven to instantly boost hydration levels by over 60%. Super-charge your skin and then super-charge the rest of your day while protecting it from environmental stressors.
Have tips you feel like divulging? Share in the comments below!
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Quick & Easy Spring Must Haves for On-the-Go Women
You're busy. So we got you.
Spring is officially here! And we’re sprung. But we’re also crazy busy with work travel plans, meetings on meetings on meetings, and still trying to make time to get out in the sunshine.
And since we know you’re busy too, here are three quick travel tips for on-the-go women.
1. PROTECT THE SKIN YOU’RE IN
You need to put your best face forward but lets face it, tons of travel plus an onslaught of environmental aggressors can leave your skin a little worse for wear. So, while it’s hard to have it all IRL, you can at least have it all when it comes to your moisturizer.
Enter: A Perfect World collection from Origins. This line is designed to provide the most comprehensive protection against environmental stress, including new skin damaging stressors like infrared rays (IR) which makes up 50% of all light and penetrates deeper into skin than UV to cause protein damage, oxidative stress and free radical generation, all leading to accelerated aging.
"It's hard to have it all IRL, you can at least have it all when it comes to your moisturizer."
Our favorite (And what we gave away to the amazing speakers at #CreateCultivateSXSW): A Perfect World SPF 40 Age-Defense Moisturizer with White Tea, which is Origins highest SPF moisturizer. It’s a super-charged, oil-free moisturizer that delivers instant hydration with SPF 40 for broad-spectrum UVA/UVB protection. Better yet, the essential oils within eliminate any kind of traditional SPF odor. Need it!
Even better? It doesn’t feel like a sunscreen either! Goes on smooth and lasts all day, harnessing the powerful benefits of Silver Tip White Tea, Edelweiss, and White Birch to help protect skin on multiple levels and create a barrier that defends skin from harsh environmental stressors you can’t control, like pollution and UV. Helping you prevent premature signs of aging before they start. After all, it’s not a perfect world, but at least your skin can live in one!
If you want to radiate this spring, A Perfect World should be your go-to.
2. TRAVEL IN STYLE
Up in the air is part of the job nowadays. Thank goodness for in-flight wifi! Also, thank the travel gods that our favorite luggage ladies at Away teamed up the women at Pop & Suki to create this Away suitcase in Pop & Suki’s signature pink with contrasting black accents. No one will mistake their bag for yours ever again!
With all the traditional perks of Away: 360-degree spinning wheels, a scratch-resistant shell and even a built-in USB charger. The suitcase caters to the needs of all travellers, coming in four different sizes.
Quick reminder: YES! You should even wear SPF when up in the air. Airplane windows don’t filter out the sun’s UV rays. Especially if you’re a frequent flier clocking 20k+ miles per year. Think of it this way: the higher you go, the closer you are to the sun. Moisturize before and during your ride if it’s longer than three hours.
And if you feel like snoozing on the plane, you can rest easy knowing that A Perfect World SPF 20 Age-Defense Eye Cream with White Tea, Origins first-ever SPF eye cream, will hydrate, brighten, and help protect against environmental stressors even while in the air. Plus, with a universally flattering hint of tint, you know you’ll wake up looking refreshed and ready to go. That’s what we call pulling overtime.#professional.
3. THE GAME-CHANGING HAIR DRYER
From the company that actually managed to vacuum your dog’s hair out of your couch, comes a hair dryer that’s even more impressive (and small enough to pack in your carry-on). Dyson re-thought the hair dryer, giving the trusted tool a much-needed 2017 update.
The Dyson Supersonic is fast-drying (a must for busy ladies), protects your hair from damage with tech that measures the tool’s temp 20 times per second, is engineered for balance so it won’t weigh your arm down, and did we mention it’s sound is inaudible? Yes, it’s virtually silent. So you can dry your hair just about anywhere. It’s a futuristic hair tool for right now.
What are your spring 2017 #travelhacks? Share in the comments below!
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The Origins of Work/Life Balance & How To Achieve It
It's not a myth, and it can be achieved with 4 small steps.
Work/life balance is the unicorn in every bedroom, kitchen, and desk of the modern working woman.
It is a term used indiscriminately that powerfully affects how we approach day-to-day tasks. How do we find it? Where is it hiding? Is it possibly beneath this desk I want to nap under? (No, it’s not there.)
Most Millennial women report that such a concept is a myth. Or at best, the out-of-key piano soundtrack to our lives that we can’t figure out how to tune. But work/life balance is no whisper campaign that effectively targeted and exploited a vulnerability-- even if it feels as such at times.
We all have the desire to buy into this concept as possible and the want to improve our quality of life. It makes sense that this groundhog day concept keeps appearing.
So how do we reconcile our relationship to work/life balance? How do we make quantitative decisions about what is right for us? How do we, as working women, scale balance?
Our friends at Origins created a new post-workout products that help us refresh after the gym and continue that zen a little longer, and it inspired us to nail down 4 keys ways that help us approach the elusive work/life balance.
REMOVE ONE APP RIGHT NOW!
In an almost astonishing way technology has changed the way we work. But it’s a double-edged sword because we’ve come to rely on said tech in ways that hinder our ability to balance.
If you know that the phone is an issue in your life stop relying on apps to solve all problems. Learn to rely on yourself again.
“Learn to rely on yourself again.”
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Remove one app from your phone right now that you rely too heavily on. You know what it is. It’s disguised as convenience, but has made you all the more entrenched in the work crunch. I.e. Food delivery apps that have made it all the more simple to order lunch straight to our desks. Delete it and walk to lunch tomorrow.
UNBLUR THE LINES BETWEEN WORK AND HOME
One person’s approach should not be another’s. In fact balance is idiosyncratic. Create & Cultivate keynote Rachel Zoe said that when she’s at work, she’s present and when she’s with her kids, she’s present. Which means she’s not scrolling IG at the dinner table. There is separation in her life and it’s important to her well-being and productivity as an entrepreneur.
Create a routine that’s not about work.
INCORPORATE A WEEKLY WORKOUT INTO YOUR ROUTINE
Working out is one of the best motivators, confidence boosters and is proven to increase productivity. But while we often think about pre-workout-- which is often rushing from the office to a class-- and the benefits of the workout itself, there’s also a chance to slow down, and take that post workout high time for yourself. You don’t have to sprint from the gym home. Instead take a little extra “balance” time for yourself and try the following:
Post-sweat session use Origins Shower Off™ Exfoliating Body Wash, a refreshing post-workout scrub cleanser designed to refine and deeply purify the skin by removing perspiration and dirt. Likewise, Origins Warm Down™ Warming Lava scrub, a water-activated heating lava scrub addresses three key needs after a workout – it detoxifies and exfoliates skin, while also promoting relaxation for sore muscles. Activated in the shower, it warms up on contact to help comfort sore muscles, while volcanic ash deeply purifies skin by removing dirt, sweat and perspiration.
You should also take a moment to replenish the skin. An average person sweats the equivalent of two large sports bottles per hour during rigorous exercise. Which means your skin is losing moisture too. With Origins new Hit Refresh™ Cooling Moisturizer with Hawaiian Mineral Water, you’re instantly replenishes skin’s hydration post-workout.
These products leave skin smooth and refreshingly clean, while your brain and body feel balanced and calm.
WHEN YOU GET HOME POST-WORKOUT, PUT YOUR PHONE IN A DIFFERENT ROOM
Check your email and answer anything pressing on the subway ride or walk home. Or if you commute, answer before you leave the gym.
You can make the choice to not let your work cross the threshold with you. When you arrive at home, place your phone in a different room. It’s a simple spatial barrier that will help you break a habit that is detrimental in your quest for W/L. (I.e. checking your email or Insta every five seconds while you enjoy an end of day glass of wine or cup of tea.)
You should also put your phone in a different room when you finally hit the hay, that way you’re not checking your email or putting out fires FIRST thing in the morning.
Simple adjustments allow you to be proactive about your day, instead of reactive, and aid in your desire to find balance.
Simple adjustments allow you to be proactive about your day, instead of reactive, and aid in your desire to find balance.
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And remember: you get to day 500 of balance by starting with day one.
Maskimize Your 2016: How to Put Your Best Business Face Forward
We got face masks in our bag, swag.
It’s the night before a big business meeting and you’re stressed. It’s totally normal, but do you know what happens when you have a mini-freak out? Your skin often has a mini flare up. Research shows that people are more likely to respond positively to good skin, so we asked our friends at Origins how to make sure we’re all putting our best business face forward this year. Their advice? Mix and mask your way to glowing success – and skin!
To maximize success, Origins just released a totally new innovation in masking to obtain even greater high performance results. Maskimizer™ Skin-Optimizing Mask Primer is the first-ever mask primer to prep, prime and hydrate skin, leaving it more receptive to the high performance benefits of Origins masks. Just a few spritzes of Maskimizer on clean skin before mask application enables you to mask and relax.
Next, choose one of Origins Single-Use Mask Pods, which are also perfect for carrying in your purse or stashing in your desk if you’re on the go. There are so many fan-favorites to choose from, but here are our favorite combinations!
Don’t Fret Before a Meeting with a Potential Client: Use Out Of Trouble™ 10 Minute Mask To Rescue Problem Skin
When you’re meeting one-on-one with a new client, your face is front and center, but nerves and stress can make you red and blotchy. Get “Out of Trouble” before your meeting with an easy ten-minute mask. This super absorbent mask redefines texture and wards off future outbreaks. That way, you’re securing your future by emphasizing your business know-how, and not your problem skin.
Go Into That Job Interview with Gusto: Use Original Skin™ Retexturizing Mask with Rose Clay
Glowing skin is like a great hair day, it can give you the confidence boost you need before meeting with a potential employer. After all, you want them to focus on what you’re saying, not any skin issues. Show them how you’re a true “Original” by outlining your best traits and what you can add to the company. Your glowing and radiant skin is a bonus.
Ask for a Raise with Confidence: Use Clear Improvement™ Active Charcoal Mask To Clear Pores
A meeting with the boss can be stressful, even to employees who are in good standing. But if you’ve shown “Clear Improvement,” that’s the mask you should use. This active charcoal mask clears your pores, absorbs environmental toxins, and dissolves impurities. Which means, while you’re outlining the progress you’ve made as an employee and giving your boss reasons to give you a raise, your skin is working for you as well.
Before Flying In for a Meeting: Use Drink Up™ Intensive Overnight Mask
Hopping on a flight to pitch a new client can seriously dehydrate you. So what’s girl boss on-the-go to do? Before you take off, opt for the “Drink Up, Intensive Overnight Mask.” The avocado and apricot kernel oils instantly quench compromised moisture reserves and help build a reservoir for tomorrow— which you’ll need once you’re up in the air.
And remember the best way to leave a killer impression in any meeting, is to be yourself. The best you is the one that’s comfortable in her skin— we’re just helping you give it some major glow.