[ChuppyGirl]

Once a week my pampering/beauty routine is as follows:

1) Dry rasp my heels and soles (sometimes at this point I put on hair deep conditioner)
2) Short or long soak in the tub with bubble bath depending on how much time I have

3) Shave legs and underarms (of course I also do this one or two more times during the week too)

4) Use a nail pumice stick on my fingernails and toenails

5) Use a Dr. Scholl foot pumice on the bottoms of my feet to remove callouses. I do it after every shower, I like it when my foot looks pinky like babies foot!

6) Scrub my body with bath gel wearing those scratchy woven gloves (my favorite!!!)

7) Rinse off and get out

8) Apply tooth-whitening gel for 3-5 minutes. I'm thinking of doing it at a pro. dental care centers and ohh girls do you have this in the states like they glow a diamond in one of your front tooth I WANNA DOOOOOOO IT!!! it's so sexy!!!

9) At the same time apply masque to my face, neck and chest for 10-15 minutes

10) In the meantime apply lotion to the rest of my body

11) File fingernails and trim and file toenails if necessary (you can put 1-2 coats of polish on your nails too)

12) Rinse teeth and face and apply face cream


Be more creative and tell me about your ideas....

[fr1endly2]

SOUNDS like wonderful routines!
HOW you manage to juggle all these pamerpings
and motherhood and work is a blessing!
YOUR a wonderful dynamic gal!
IM lucky if i find 10 mintues to flip thru a
magazine .......hard with 3 kids.

hugzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[freebird]

I don't have children so i have lots of free time. I do most of my pampering when Roo's not home though. (Don't want to scare him so soon). I'm famous for two hour baths. (We only have a shower here so once a week i go over to my moms house for a good long bath.) When i did have a tub i filled it with bubbly hot water or bath salts, lit 3 of 4 candles, poured a glass of wine and put on soft relaxing music, (i love relaxation music with nature sounds, but sometimes i'd use my christian tapes or jazz or classical depending on my mood). Of course the water doesn't stay hot for 2 hours so i constantly drain and refill the tub to keep it just right.
About once a week i do a face mask. I always use a face scrub, like apricot is my favorite right now, in the shower every day.
I am lucky and only need to shave my legs once a week. under my arms gets done every day.
i do my nails when they need it, file everynight before bed to keep them from getting edges that could catch and break. (For special occasions i apply fake nails, myself no beauty salon, just too expensive, i buy them at the drug store and they last for at least two weeks before i have to take them off.) Old nail polish removed and reapplied as needed, usually in the evening.
I like my toenails polished in the summer but have a hard time doing them myself because of the weight, but Roo did them for me a few weeks ago. I told him that i had to get ahold of my cousin and see if she was up to a girls evening of pampering and that one of the things i wanted to do was put nail polish on my toe nails and he volunteered to do them It was so funny because he was so proud of the job he did. And i have to say he did an excellent job. Just last night i had my legs stretched out on the couch and he grabbed my feet and looked at them very intensly and then said "well, it's time for me to do your toenails with polish again. What color this time?" (My Roo's the sweetest guy i've ever been graced to know).
I do face cream every morning and night. and do the body cream thing after each shower.
I have been thinking of buying crest whitestrips to whiten my teeth. Haven't heard of the diamond thing before, that's kind of neat.
Oh, my hair. How could i forget. It gets washed and conditioned every day. I use a hot oil treatment once a week to help keep it soft and shiny. It gets cut once a month to keep dead ends and frizzies down. I also dye it a deep burgandy every second month to hid those nasty grey hairs that keep appearing.
One of my favorite pampers is to light incence, (usually vanilla or lavendar), put on that soft music, light some candles, turn out the lights and just sit and listen to the music and let my mind wander.

[DocSanae]

Mmmm, the only pampering I do is use perfumed soap when bathing, and the full body line, moisteners, firming lotion, perfumed lotion or body creams. I would like to try out the esthetic salon my gym has, or a relaxation massage, but with work and housework and all, I don't have the time.

Originally Posted by freebird

Of course the water doesn't stay hot for 2 hours so i constantly drain and refill the tub to keep it just right.

Then you are going to love the kind of bath tub and hot water system most homes have here. The water heater's automatic, and the hot water is constantly cycled to keep the bath at a preset temperature. The only hitch, you can't use bubblies in the tub, since the bubbles may get stuck in the heater resevoir.

Which reminds me, I would love a relaxing weekend at any of the many hot spas we have all over Japan. We have volcanos and earthquakes, but without them, no hot spa.

[xsmith95]

Isn't that such a great feeling to have all that done. I wish I had enough hours in the day to do all that. By the time I get off work and get home, cook dinner, throw a load of laundry in, do the dishes, it's time for a quick shower and off to bed.

I think I need to find some time for me so I could do such awesome things for myself.

[xsmith95]

Originally Posted by DocSanae

Then you are going to love the kind of bath tub and hot water system most homes have here. The water heater's automatic, and the hot water is constantly cycled to keep the bath at a preset temperature. The only hitch, you can't use bubblies in the tub, since the bubbles may get stuck in the heater resevoir.

Oh doc would I ever love that. Sounds great. I love a nice hot/warm bath just to relax, especially if it would stay warm.

[DocSanae]

Originally Posted by xsmith95

Oh doc would I ever love that. Sounds great. I love a nice hot/warm bath just to relax, especially if it would stay warm.

Oh, yeah...the one and only gripe I have whenever I visit the US is, no bath stays warm enough, long enough for me.
Oh, yeah, I do have another gripe. The portions so many of your eateries serve it just too much, they will last me a couple of days or so.

[ChuppyGirl]

woowww you're imagination is way beyond me I should try your pampering ideas.

I'm known as the bling bling girl so the teeth diamond is my next adventure I'll do it after I whiten my teeth. I should probably do it before Sep. coz it will be a crazy time for me!

Thanks for sharing your lovely ideas, I just had couple of new ones today

Swimmed for and hour but I mostly enjoyed the acrobatic movements like I stand head down on my hands and legs up then roll over I felt like an 11 year old girl I used to stand on my head Gosh my nech used to hurt me hehehhehehe

Then I stayed at the hot tub (Juccuzi) for around 20 minutes hydro massaged my back and hips.

Had a cold shower after that...

Then went to the Sauna, gossiped with a lady we drizzled the yellow water (i'm not so sure what is it) from the wood bucket on the burning stones or coals I dunno...

Dressed up, went back home. Blow dried my hair, applied facial and body cream. Had lunch at daddy's house.

Then went my sisters to the beauty salon to fix my eye brows and removed my facial hair..

I wanted to do Pedicure and manicure but we were out of time! next week inshallah hehehhe

[Pillows]

Hanadi...we refer to the diamonds in your mouth as dressing up your grill...here it is common for hip hop music artists to buy interchangeable custom made "grills" to cover their teeth with gold, platinum, and diamonds. There is even a music video entitled Let Me See Your Grill that shows them getting it done. I prefer the straight diamonds grill to the formed gold ones, but that is my preference. As far as pampering goes, I used to have a nice jacuzzi tub in my house with a ledge by it that we built to put your drink, the phone, and a book or lotions, while we also had some dim mood lights put above the faucet. This was my fave place in the house if I wasn't feeling good, and I have only taken one bath here since we moved because the tub only allows the water to be about 2 1/2 inches deep...no lie. I miss my house with it's wonderful tub so much. I also used to do an occasional honey facial with just plain honey on my face...plus it was yummy if it accidently got licked in the meantime. It naturally exfoliated and made my skin feel soft. I just did a pedicure the other night and was pleased with how much easier it is becoming for me to reach my own toes...lol. Right now they are kind of a shiny reddish pink color. I also use the Mary Kay Satin Hands set to do manicures and pedicures, and enjoy doing the Mary Kay Microdermibrasion when I want to feel special. I hope that when they build new housing here they build better tubs here too...lol.
Janae