For this week’s ‘My Glamifesto for Life’ we speak with the ever-lovely Daisy Lowe to hear about her wellness hacks – some witchy woo crystal rituals in there – her love of dancing, what she’s learnt in the last year, what she can’t live without and who she turns to for advice.
A passionate environmentalist with a keen interest in recycling and vintage clothing, Daisy also spills the beans on working with W’air – a new 3-in-1 handheld sustainable clothing care device that can remove stains and refresh clothes and generally keep all your vintage garments feeling and looking as fresh as a (ahem) Daisy!
WATCH: Daisy Lowe’s Glamifesto
What is your daily mantra?
My daily mantra is try my best to live in the present because that’s all we have.
What is your instant mood booster?
My instant mood booster is dancing. Dancing to absolutely anything, but nineties R&B seems to get me the most amped.
I manage my mental health with so many tools. I think nowadays we need more tools than ever. Meditation is something that helps me a lot. Exercise is a huge part of my self-care for my mental health, anything from dancing to pilates, to any sort of aerobics. I’m terrible at running, but I do still try, weight trainingand so much!
And I also think that it’s incredibly important… For me, I know that it’s hot baths with beautiful sea salt, special rituals, the rituals are really important. On the full moon or the new moon, writing lists and burning them, and getting real witchy, and a huge favourite of mine to sort my head out if I’m feeling a bit in a funk, is cooking, and cooking for the people that I love.
What makes you feel passionate?
I would say something that makes me feel really passionate is taking care of the environment to the best of my ability. Sustainability is something that is so close to my heart and I love this planet, and I’m really passionate about nature and trying my best to preserve it.
Well, vintage shopping is so important to me because you can find one of a kind gems. Obviously it’s really sustainable and great for the planet so that those clothes don’t end up in the landfill. And I love that… Clothes are here for us to express ourselves, and I love it when clothes have a story. And, for me, finding clothes that have had a life well before me, it just, it gives me such a rush. But, as I said, I’m really passionate about sustainability, and it’s been so eye opening recently learning these incredible, incredibly terrifying statistics through working with this brilliant company called W’air, that actually, a third of clothing, of the carbon footprint from the fashion industry, is actually coming from how we care for our clothes. And so using this incredible device, called the W’air, we can actually clean our clothes in a much more sustainable way.
Who or what is the one thing you can’t live without?
I think my boyfriend is going to be so mad at me for saying this, but I think that the one thing that I couldn’t live without is actually my dog, Monty, who is the ultimate, little wizard trapped in a dog’s body and the best sidekick a girl could wish for.
What does glamour mean to you?
Okay, so glamour, to me, is that incredible, self-expression, self-care, to feel elevated, to take care of yourself and just ooze, not just comfort, but in a very chic, gorgeous way. Glamour, the magazine, has been a huge part of my life since I was a teenager. It was the first kind of adult magazine that I ever bought myself, and I’ve been a true believer in it ever since.
When do you feel most glam?
Ooh, I think I feel most glam when I am going out with the girls because, before going out with the girls, there’s a lot of care, and time, and nurture that goes into making me feel like my best self to be with my favourite ladies.
What do you value most in your friendships?
I’m very lucky because I have the most incredible friendships, most incredible friends. I guess everyone feels like that, right? But what I value most in friendship is just that beautiful trust, loyalty, symbiosis, humour, understanding, lack of judgment. I know that each and every one of my friends would go to the ends of the earth for me, and I would do exactly the same.
What is the best thing you’ve learned from this past difficult year?
Patience, learning to actually take some time and space and just stop and breathe, listen to my intuition, and also to be much more conscious about the planet, even more so than I was before.
How do you deal with failure?
Ooh, I think it’s really important to fail. I’m not great at allowing myself to fail. I’ve been a huge fan of Elizabeth Day’s podcast, How to Fail, because it makes me feel better about failing every single day, but I think it is also really important to fail and fall down and get back up. I think the best remedy for failure is just try again.
Who do you turn to for advice?
I think my whole life, certainly my whole adult life, I’ve always turned to all of the people closest, nearest, and dearest to me for advice. And actually, I think through the pandemic, it became really clear that I was actually just giving all of my power away willingly. And something that I’ve come to realize about me in the past six months, that’s really important, is to actually ask myself for advice, and actually start to trust what I really feel and what I believe in my gut. And it’s taken me till 32 to realize that actually that’s really important.
What is your biggest achievement?
God! That’s a really difficult one for someone that’s also really self-deprecating, so I just feel like I haven’t achieved what I would like to achieve on this planet yet. Which is fine because I’m 32, so I think I’ve still got time.
What is the quirkiest thing that you do in the name of wellness?
There’s a few. So every summer solstice, spring equinox, winter solstice, and autumn equinox, I always do list burning rituals. So I wrote one list where I wrote down everything that I release, everything that I want to let go, and then I write a list of everything I want to welcome into my life. I try every full moon to put all of my crystals outside into the moonlight to charge, but, for a while, I’ve collected crystals for as long as I can remember, since I was a really small child.
What’s the one book that changed your life?
I’d say the one book that changed my life would be Anita Moorjani’s “Dying To Be Me”. It’s her life story of how she just lives in fear a lot, and confusion, and always was a real people pleaser, and really worked herself into the ground, to the point where she became really, really ill. And then she manages to pull it back home. I’m going to not tell you the rest of it because, if you ever want to read it, then I’ll be giving you a load of spoilers, but it’s actually worth reading. But it was just a very incredible lesson in actually… again, going back to listening to your gut, your intuition, and doing… It’s all about kind of following your own bliss. And actually I’m in the middle of reading “Untamed” by Glennon Doyle.
What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given and by whom?
Over the years, my mom, [Pearl Lowe]has given me, always, the most incredible advice. She’s actually the person who has always tried to teach me to be really present and that the past doesn’t exist, neither does the future, you just have to make the most of what we have going now.
And finally, what would you like your legacy to be?
I would like my legacy to be that I was someone who made people feel bright and confident in themselves, that I was kind, and I made a positive impact on the world.
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