plové zine: issue 01

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issue no. 01: your ultimate soft girl summer guide

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hi, hi.

if you're reading this, congratulations, you're early.
plové zine no. 01 is a love letter, a permission slip, and a list of things i'd rather be doing than refresh my inbox. a new one will land in yours every other friday, stapled together in spirit if not in fact, ideally arriving around golden hour, ideally while you're already slightly horizontal.

we're starting with summer because it's the season that asks the least of us. the slow yes. the long lunch. the season where we get to be a little stupid, a little sun-drunk, a little soft. so this one's a guide: call it a syllabus, call it a prayer, call it a series of suggestions whispered between best friends. eight rituals to make the next few months feel like the kind of summer you'll narrate later, in the soft past tense.

— x, the plové team

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01 — outdoor yoga
02 — a day at the beach
03 — glitter (and bedazzle) tattoos
04 — floral arranging
05 — mountain hiking
06 — reformer pilates with the girls
07 — sound bath
08 — the secret eighth ritual

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01 — outdoor yoga 🧘🏽♀️

some things are better felt barefoot, surrounded by green.

bring the mat into the park. spread it under a tree that's older than your grandmother. let an ant walk across your wrist mid-savasana and don't flinch. you're learning to be moved by small things again. (yes, a little dramatic. it's a newsletter. let me have this.)

we made the mat for exactly this. dusty pink. thick. very grippy, the kind that holds a downdog in dewy grass without sliding out from under you. i bring mine to the beach, to the mountains, to the studio. it goes where i go.

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02 — a day at the beach 🌊

let the water hold everything you've been carrying.

the brief: pack one tote. ice in a bottle. a paperback you've had for years and never finished. sunscreen (the good kind that smells like nothing). drive somewhere salty. lie down. lie there long enough that the salt crusts on your eyelashes and you forget what time it is on purpose.

we wear the bikinis under everything for this, linen shirt thrown on top. or the bellerine top, which doubles as a bikini for us, with the bellerine shorts. into the water, back into the studio the next day. activewear that doesn't know it's activewear.

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03 — glitter (and bedazzle) tattoos ✨

little details that catch the light.

ok, this one is the most fun. peel-and-stick rhinestones along your collarbone. a single biodegradable glitter butterfly on your inner arm.
a constellation between your shoulder blades that only someone you've let close will see.

think Sofia Coppola movies. think the inside of a music box. fairycore. think: i'm allowed to be unserious about my own beauty, and that's its own kind of confidence.

(no product to sell you here. just a vibe. the brand is called the gypsy shrine if you want to know.)

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04 — floral arranging 🌷

the softest form of self-expression.

go to the bodega flower bucket. take the strange stems, the ones nobody knows what to do with. add one orchid because she deserves to be the main character. arrange them in a juice glass, a teacup, anything that wasn't sold as a vase. take a photo. send it to one person without explaining why.

we'll teach you the thirty-second technique that changed my arrangement game forever in a longer essay later this season. for now, consider this a permission slip to bring something living into your apartment that didn't come from a delivery app.

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05 — mountain hiking ⛰️

find the version of you who lives at the top.

she's up there. the version of you who wakes up at 5:47 and isn't mad about it. the version who packed snacks. who stops at the lookout and doesn't reach for the phone for at least four full minutes. she exists. she's just at a slightly higher elevation than you currently are.

we hike in the same set we wear to pilates because girlhood is a 24-hour shift and we should be allowed to commit to a single outfit.
porcelain pink. misty taupe. the kind of soft that dries in the sun while you're at the top, eating an orange you peeled with your hands.

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06 — reformer pilates with the girls 🎀

in matching sets + matcha after 🍵ྀི

the unspoken rule: if you don't get matcha after, the pilates didn't count.

we made our grip socks specifically because the rental pair at our favorite studio kept losing their grip and we are nothing if not literal. the silicone dots are heart-shaped. the cuff is a scrunchie. the fabric logo sits at the ankle. they feel like small acts of love for your own arches.

book the class. text the group chat. wear the matching set. order the iced matcha with almond milk. take the mirror photo and don't apologize for it. report back.

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07 — sound bath 🫧

tune into the healing frequency.

for the days you cannot, in good conscience, hike a mountain. lie on the floor of a room full of strangers while someone strikes a crystal bowl. cry, maybe. don't cry, also fine. emerge an hour later as the new spring collection of yourself.

can't find one near you? youtube "528hz crystal bowl sound bath," lights off, phone in another room. close enough. wear something you can lie down in for ninety minutes and not think about.

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08 — the secret eighth ritual 🤍

permission to do nothing.

a whole afternoon. no tabs open. no someday list. no productivity in costume. just you, a window, possibly a peach.

this one is free.
this one we cannot sell you.
this one is the whole point.

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✿ before you go ✿

this issue's playlist — 2000s yoga mom playlist 

next issue (may 8) — the thirty-second flower trick + a longer essay on doing pilates alone (and why it might actually be the move).

we read replies. truly. it's just us over here. tell us what you're doing this summer, what you'd like more of, what should make it into issue 02. i'm reading every one, slowly, with iced coffee.

with love, glitter, and grass stains,
the plové team
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p.s. forward this to the friend you'd want to be sun-drunk with. that's how we grow. ✿

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