The Landing
After the water. Hair, face, rest.
The water stops and most routines fall apart right here. You stand in a cooling bathroom holding a towel closed with one hand and doing everything else with the other. This is the part we built for.
Wrap and fasten — three walnut buttons, so it stays where you put it and both hands come back to you. Hair goes up in the towel, buttoned at the nape, and you forget about it for twenty minutes while it does the work a dryer would have done with heat.
The headband holds the hairline. The small face brush takes the sides of the nose and the chin, the medium one takes everything else, and neither needs pressure — the bristles are doing it, not you. Cool water to finish, which you feel in your jaw.
Then the mask. Clay beads, evenly weighted, lavender close to your face. Pressure across the brow, the way a hand on the shoulder works. Nothing else is asked of you.
Five pieces, one direction: down.
