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SCOOP DRINK Upgrade your hydration CACTUS WATER £1.69 for 330ml, True Nopal (boots.com) The latest trend from LA, this is packed with antioxidants and rumoured to cure a hangover’s dry mouth and nausea. Made with prickly pear puree (which grow on cacti) then blended with filtered water and natural flavourings, a Stylist staffer described it as tasting like “weak pineapple juice”. Not unpleasant, but not enough to rival the trusty old tap. PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE AS BAMBOO WATER FLEABAG: WELL IT’S MARGINALLY £2.17 for BETTER THAN RATBAG TELEVISION 250ml, Sibberi (vitaminbay.com) TUNE IN TO BRITAIN’S Having already introduced birch water to the UK ANSWER TO GIRLS market last year, Sibberi have now BBC3’s new series by 31-year-old Phoebe Waller- calamity that sex and dating, family added bamboo Fleabag is a proverbial Bridge (the lead character’s name and friendships can bring, it also water to their fold. comfort blanket to is based on her childhood reveals what those relationships Bamboo can’t be tapped like the car crash many nickname), who also wrote and sometimes can’t fix – loneliness. a tree as you would for birch of us call our 20s starred in Channel 4’s hit sitcom Grief. And holes in hearts that are water, so the cane is pressed to Crashing and appeared in the patched up with little more than release its juice. It contains high It’s 2am on a Tuesday night second series of Broadchurch, it’s bravado. levels of silica, which helps in London, 2016. After a call a peek into the searingly honest, Most of all, it feels fitting that support healthy skin, hair and from a fling asking to come often rude, often unlikeable mind Fleabag is only available on the nails, so is being tipped as a over, a woman in her late of a semi-single, skint, dry-witted, BBC’s online channel – because natural anti-ager. It’s refreshing, 20s has spent the last hour cafe-owning feminist who watches it’s undoubtedly the only sitcom that with a slight green tea flavour. constructing the façade that porn and masturbates over Barack will make you feel wholly validated she didn’t spend the evening Obama on the news. watching it in bed, wearing an ex’s MAPLE WATER alone, in bed with her laptop. Born out of Waller-Bridge’s T-shirt while swigging questionable £2.50 for 250ml, She shaves, gets dressed, critically acclaimed, Olivier- white wine from a mug. And if Drink Maple applies make-up, and downs nominated one-woman show of that’s not something to celebrate, (planetorganic. half a bottle of wine. He arrives. the same name, the series boasts we’re not sure what is. com) They have sex. “After some a dream cast, with Outlander’s Bill Essentially maple pretty standard bouncing,” Patterson as her widowed father, Episode one of Fleabag is available sap – the clear she explains, “you realise he’s and fellow Broadchurch alumna on BBC3 from 21 July at 10am liquid that flows edging towards your a**hole. Olivia Colman as her curt naturally through But you’re drunk and he made new stepmother. FLEABAG WITH ON-OFF maple trees the effort to come all the way BOYFRIEND HARRY – maple water is (HUGH SKINNER) over here so you let him. And DARK COMEDY refreshing, sweet and a whole he’s thrilled.” While it won’t be to lot lower in sugar than maple This is the raucously funny everyone’s taste, Stylist syrup (although not quite so yet achingly inappropriate world couldn’t help relating to good on pancakes). It contains of Fleabag, your new anti- Fleabag and the almost 46 different nutrients, including heroine and the star of BBC3’s imperceptible calcium, malic acid to help fight new eponymous six-part series, undercurrent grounding tiredness and more manganese hailed as the British answer to the gags. Besides seeing than a cup of kale. WORDS: ZOË BEATY, JENNY TREGONING PHOTOGRAPHY: BBC.CO.UK TREGONING PHOTOGRAPHY: JENNY BEATY, ZOË WORDS: Lena Dunham’s Girls. Written the funny side of the STYLIST.CO.UK 13.