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Invite your friends for a day of relaxation and beauty! A day of facials, masks, manicures mingled with light refreshments in a dreamy relaxing environment - what else a girl can ask for?! Heat up things even more -let your guests participate in the creation of skin care products! Sound like fun to you? Then let's get down to work!
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Create an invitation using cut-out or drawn pictures of nail polish, cream, lotion and make-up. Your invitation can be a COUPON or a GIFT CERTIFICATE written in an official tone to add extra funny note to the idea. Whatever format you choose, indicate where and when the event will be held and what treatment your guests will receive. Example: "You are invited for a day of beauty and relaxation at "Katie Brown's Home Spa"-a newly opened, trendy spot no girl should miss! As a VIP guest you'll receive the following treatments: a pore cleansing herbal facial steam, a detoxifying clay mask, a hand softening manicure and a rejuventating foot soak. Refreshments and entertainment are included in the service. RSVP by June 1 2004."
Check out our SPA PARTY INVITATION template |
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Spa implies relaxation and beauty. Candles, soft music, sheer material, comfortable cushions, and flowers will help to create the right atmosphere. Remember, successful party does not have to be expensive.
Use your creativity, recycle items you already have. It's a nice idea to set a color-scheme for the room/rooms you are going to use. Pick your colors (calming pastels will work best in this case) and try to decorate everything in the room with those colors - towels, candles, even the food and drinks! Create a relaxing place to sit on the floor with a yoga mat if available and some pillows. Wrap the pillows in colored fabric and place theme colored candles, flowers and decorative stones around the room. Divide your room into several "beauty stations" - Facials, Manicure, Pedicure, Hair Dresser and a Lounge/Chill Out area. It's fun to orient your guests with printed or drawn signs with the name of the station. Prepare or ask your guests to bring their bath robes and slippers. If it's a sleep over party, instruct them to bring PJ's as well. Stock your "spa" with facial products, creams, bottles of nail polish, lots of make-up and tissues. Keep towels and paper towels handy.
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The length of your spa party will depend on the age and number of guests. It can be anywhere from 2-3 hours to a full blown sleepover event. Once you've decided on a comfortable length for your party, you can start to plan your party.
As your guests arrive lead them to the spa room. You can start by making the beauty treatments. Our Basic Clay Facial and Herbal Facial Steam kits come complete with everything you need to make rejuvenating facial mask for different types of skin and herbal face steam. Kits come complete with instructions on how to make them. Additionally. you can find recipe instructions on our web site
Basic Clay Facial Recipe
Herbal Facial Steam
Plan 45-60 minutes for this activity.
Once you are done with the product preparation, organize your guests in pairs and have each pair take a beauty station - manicure, pedicure, facial, hair. Apply facial mask, put cucumbers on the eyes and relax to the sound of soft music. Relax for about 10 minutes. Wash the mask off, apply cream if needed. Do manicures, pedicures. Then kick off with the hair-do's. Your guests can sit back to back and style each other's hair. Once it's done it's a time for fashion show. Let each girl demonstrate a new look. Excellent, if you prepare props - scarfs, harts, gloves. Take pictures or video tape the show! Later you can send the pictures out with a thank you note. Have an award for the best presentation. After the fashion show have a snack or treat your guests to a "posh" dinner, letting them choose their food from the printed menus you create in advance. Checkout our recipes for tasty snacks below. Watch a movie or the recorded fashion show - your guests will laugh their head off!
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Mango, Banana, Strawberry Smoothie
Treat your guests to this delicious drink while they are having beauty treatment.
Ingredients (makes 1 large or 2 small glasses)
- 1 mango, peeled and stoned
- 3oz strawberries
- 1 banana
- 5oz natural or soy yogurt or 3oz cold milk
Method: Liquefy all the ingredients in a blender and serve immediately. Tip: decorate the rim of the glass by dipping it into sugar. |
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It's a nice touch to give a goody bag for your guests to take home at the end of the party - nail brushes, sponges, miniature soap, small bottle of bath salt, herbal facial steam in a muslin bag, a bottle of clay mixture, travel size nail polish, lip gloss and a candy. Arrange all this in a gift bag or choose one of our gift baskets and put a name tag on each. If you have a Polaroid camera it's a great idea to include a shot from the party or a fashion show. Check out our selection of Bath Accessories and Packaging Items.
If making goody bags is not your style or if you're just short of time, you might consider purchasing our $5 or $10 gift certificates as gifts for your guests. Introducing your friends to Kits For Crafts would be the best gift you can give!
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Did you know that.. |
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Possible origin of the word SPA:
1) From the Latin words 'Espa' (fountain) and 'Sparsa' (from spargere = to bubble up).
2) "Sanus Per Aquam" [S P A] - meaning health by or through water.
3) "Solus Per Aqua" [S P A] Latin for enter by means of water. Other interpretation: "health through water."
4) “Salut Per Aqua” [S P A] Latin for health or relaxation through water. Found in graffiti in Roman baths.
5) Taken from the name of the famous mineral springs in Spa, Belgium.
From the History of Manicure
Believe it or not, people have been manicuring their nails for more than 4,000 years. In southern Babylonia, noblemen used solid gold tools to give themselves manicures and pedicures.
The use of fingernail polish can be traced back even further. Originating in China in 3,000 BC, nail color indicated one's social status -- according to a Ming dynasty manuscript, royal fingernails were painted black and red.
The Egyptians also colored their nails, using red to show the highest social class. It is said that Cleopatra's nails were painted a deep red, whereas Queen Nefertiti went with a flashier ruby shade.
In ancient Egypt and Rome, military commanders also painted their nails to match their lips before they went off to battle.
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