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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Maddy Mussen

Packed your aromatherapy roller and Korean pear juice? How gentle Gen Zs are hacking festival wellness

When 26-year-old Liv Cox goes to bed at a festival, she doesn’t just crawl into her sleeping bag and call it a night. Oh no. She applies her undereye masks to prevent dark circles, takes out her daytime Loop earplugs and puts in her sleeping earplugs. She pulls on her silk eye mask and downs some water laced with the contents of a hangover prevention sachet.

If she can’t sleep, she uses an aromatherapy roller ball on her wrists and takes a whiff to help her nod off. When the sun comes up, she takes her supplements (“magnesium, 5HTP, turmeric,” she says) and washes them down with either a ginger shot or a glucose shot. For good measure, she also dons a sheet mask which she thinks helps repair her weary skin barrier.

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