First Time: Spa Day
For the celebration of my 27th year of life, my mother decided to treat me to a spa day. My spa package included a 1/2 hour massage, a facial, and a mani/pedi.
The day of, my mom showed up with balloons and a card and decided that she would stay until the massage was about to start. Unfortunately, being the newbie that I am, I couldn’t figure out how to get onto the massage table. Um, duh, Tayo, just get on it, right? Well, it was more complicated than that, I had to figure out what that pillow at the foot end of the table was for… Well, let’s just say that in the moment, I was utterly confuzzled about it.
This is what I looked like... I assume...
Before leaving, my mom made sure the masseuse know that she needed to take a picture of me during the process. And promptly handed the masseuse a Kodak disposable. So, the incriminating evidence is on a camera that’s probably in my mom’s purse as we speak. If I ever see it, I’ll screen the picture to see if it’ll ever see the light of day again. Didn’t have the forethought to get the massuese to take a picture of me with my cameraphone, so you guys have to miss out on that pic of me with green goop on my face that I know you came here looking for (ha!!).
The massage felt good but I was cold so that tempered the warm tinglies that I was getting from it. The facial was good, but it was not as in depth as I thought it would be (I mean, c’mon! No cucumbers!!) And though I was “dewy” for a couple of hours afterwards, the effect disappeared sooner than I would have liked.
Next up was the mani/pedi. I have a confession that may forever scar your view of me. I hope we can still be friends after this. I hadn’t gotten my feet done (aside from a quick swipe with the pumice stone in the shower) in 3 months. Yeah, I’m hanging my head in shame. The pedi wasn’t the same as I was used to in the typical nail salons (with the bubbling foot spa); it was all manual! I felt sorry for the girl doing it! She was working it tho, and my feet was baby soft and smooth by the end. Fortunately, we bonded over Passions and other soap operas, so I didn’t feel so bad exposing my shame, lol. (BTW, stories of the roughness were greatly exaggerated for entertainment purposes <– covering my a$$!).
So anyway, after all was said and done, I had a great experience and I shuffled/duckwalked to my car to enjoy the rest of my day.
(P.S. The reason why I can’t have nice things: I removed the nail polish from the mani within a day or so… I’m weird like that…)
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ruthie January 7th, 2010 at 1:39 AM
Hahahah… oh Passions. My sister and brother were both into that. Not I though. As for the overdue pedi… hmm… I will not speak about myself.