🌕 The Last Full Moon of Summer: A Letting Go Ritual for Radiance

In honour of the August Sturgeon Moon (August 9, 2025)

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.” — Lalah Delia

August brings the ache of beauty. The cicadas hum, the sun lingers a little less, and the air starts to whisper of endings.

The Full Sturgeon Moon — the final full moon of summer — rises swollen with insight, holding everything the season stirred up: joy, exhaustion, connection, overstimulation, heat, memory. It invites us not to keep hustling, but to pause, reflect, and release.

This is the moon of thresholds. Of transition. Of choice.
And just like your spirit, your skin needs space to exhale.

🌾 The Moon, the Skin, and the Hormones

As estrogen and progesterone begin their late-summer dance, your skin might show signs of imbalance:

• Heat-triggered inflammation

• Hormonal breakouts

• Sensory overload

• Dehydration from sun, sweat, or emotional burnout

But just like the moon pulls the tides, it also nudges your inner rhythm — asking not for more effort, but for surrender.

At Hipbees, we craft skincare for this very moment — when your skin reflects not just what’s happening outside, but what’s shifting within.

🌿 Your Letting Go Ritual: Skin as a Sacred Mirror

Let’s build a ritual for the Sturgeon Moon. A sensory practice. A hormone-safe surrender. A moment to come back to yourself.

✨ Step 1: Cleanse the Day (and Season) with JOMO

The Joy of Missing Out Moisture Mask is a full-body exhale in a jar. Created for moments like this — when your skin is overwhelmed, overstimulated, or just over it.

Key Ingredients:

• Colloidal Oats – soothe inflammation and itchiness

• Raw Honey – hydrates + nourishes without stripping

• Lavender Essential Oil – calms both skin and nervous system

💫 Apply generously to clean skin. As you mask, name one thing you’re letting go of. You don’t need to solve it. Just name it. That’s enough.

✨ Step 2: Anoint with Groovy Glow

Once your skin is rinsed and ready, press in Groovy Glow — our plant-powered serum designed to support hormonally sensitive, sun-fatigued skin.

Hero ingredients:

• Rosehip Oil – rich in natural vitamin A, supports repair and glow without photosensitivity

• Evening Primrose Oil – deeply balancing for hormones and inflammation

• Hemp Seed Oil – non-comedogenic, omega-rich, a blanket for reactive skin

• Frankincense & Ylang Ylang – support parasympathetic activation (hello, rest-and-restore)

🌕 Massage Groovy Glow into your face, jawline, and chest — the places where tension and emotion hide. Breathe deeply as you do. Let the plants hold you.

🕯️ Full Moon Practice for Body & Spirit

Here’s your invitation to honour more than just your pores:

1. Set a space — candle, journal, quiet.

2. Cleanse — skin, mind, heart.

3. Apply JOMO — give your face a soft place to land.

4. Reflect — What are you ready to leave behind?

5. Rinse, then nourish with Groovy Glow.

6. Repeat this mantra: “I am not who I was at the start of summer. And that is sacred.”

🌼 Why It Matters

We believe skincare is not separate from soul care. Your glow is not just about exfoliation or hydration — it’s about resonance. Hormones, emotions, seasons, cycles — they all show up in your skin.

This full moon is not just a sky event — it’s a chance to clear your inner landscape, to soften your edges, and to let your skin speak.

💌 You’re allowed to release what no longer serves.
Your skin will thank you for the softness.