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Gesi Lloyd

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Wellness

Why Living in urgency mode is not productivity

You wake up and the day is already moving. Meals get rushed. Texts get answered immediately. Relaxation feels like something that needs to be earned rather than taken. By the time evening arrives, you cannot quite explain why you feel depleted when nothing dramatic happened. Psychotherapist Erica Schwartzberg describes this as urgency mode, a…

ByGesi LloydMarch 28, 20260Comments

Lifestyle

The 60 budget products that keep showing up in people’s carts

Spending more does not always mean getting more. Some of the most useful products in people's daily routines cost almost nothing, and the gap between a thoughtful budget find and an expensive version of the same thing is often smaller than the price difference suggests. The 60 products below cover home organization, kitchen convenience, beauty,…

ByGesi LloydMarch 28, 20260Comments

Dating

Gen Z women on submission: it is not what the headlines make it sound like

A global study of 23,000 people found that 31% of Gen Z men and 18% of Gen Z women believe a wife should defer to her husband, figures that researchers found striking when placed alongside those from older generations. Among Baby Boomers, only 13% of men and 6% of women held similar views. The inversion…

ByGesi LloydMarch 27, 20260Comments

Music

Chappell Roan sparks a debate that goes well beyond one hotel breakfast

The incident began on March 21 at a hotel in Brazil during Lollapalooza Brasil, where Chappell Roan was performing. According to Jorginho, the former Chelsea and Arsenal midfielder who is married to singer Catherine Harding, his 11-year-old stepdaughter spotted Roan at the hotel breakfast and smiled at her from a distance. What followed, he says,…

ByGesi LloydMarch 27, 20260Comments

Wellness

Finding calm in the chaos starts with three habits

The mental health toll of sustained exposure to crisis-driven media is not anecdotal. Research consistently links prolonged news consumption to elevated stress, worsening anxiety and diminished emotional resilience. For healthcare workers, students and the general public alike, the effect compounds over time, particularly when social media keeps the stream of distressing content moving without interruption…

ByGesi LloydMarch 26, 20260Comments

Music

Cardi B’s Little Miss Drama Tour hits New York with surprise guests

Cardi B opened the first of two sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday, March 25, bringing her Little Miss Drama Tour to the city where her career began. The show was the kind of homecoming that could have coasted on goodwill alone. Instead, she built something more deliberate, a nearly two-hour set that…

ByGesi LloydMarch 26, 20260Comments

TV & Movies

Anne Hathaway drew a line on body standards during ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ production

While filming Devil Wears Prada 2 in Milan during Fashion Week last October, Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep attended runway shows together as part of production. What Streep observed in the front row stayed with her, and what Hathaway did about it became a story worth telling. Streep recounted the moment in a Harper's Bazaar…

ByGesi LloydMarch 26, 20260Comments

Hair

Healthy hair advice is leaving out what dermatologists actually know

Walk into any beauty aisle and the messaging is consistent. Sulfate-free. Silicone-free. Paraben-free. Clean. The implication is that the products containing those ingredients were doing something wrong, and that the newer, purer alternatives have finally fixed it. Dermatologists and trichologists largely disagree with that framing for hair care, and the evidence they point to is…

ByGesi LloydMarch 26, 20260Comments

Entertainment

Megan Thee Stallion turns the Moulin Rouge into her own stage

Megan Thee Stallion made her Broadway debut on March 24 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in New York, stepping into the role of Harold Zidler in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. With the casting, she became the first female-identifying performer to play the character in any production of the show worldwide, a distinction that extended beyond…

ByGesi LloydMarch 25, 20260Comments

Entertainment

Laurie Hernandez trades the balance beam for the Broadway stage

Laurie Hernandez grew up in Old Bridge, New Jersey, close enough to Manhattan that Broadway was practically next door. But between homeschooling and the all-consuming demands of elite gymnastics, the theater world stayed out of reach. She describes the love she eventually developed for it as something she had to pursue independently, without the institutional…

ByGesi LloydMarch 25, 20260Comments

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Why Living in urgency mode is not productivity

The 60 budget products that keep showing up in people’s carts

Chappell Roan sparks a debate that goes well beyond one hotel breakfast

Finding calm in the chaos starts with three habits

Cardi B’s Little Miss Drama Tour hits New York with surprise guests

Anne Hathaway drew a line on body standards during ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ production

Healthy hair advice is leaving out what dermatologists actually know

Megan Thee Stallion turns the Moulin Rouge into her own stage

Laurie Hernandez trades the balance beam for the Broadway stage

Hairline microblading is solving thinning hairlines one pigment stroke at a time

The queer films worth watching before the summer is over

Five steps to makeup that won’t melt off your face this summer