Host a ‘Girl’s Night In’ Pamper Party
Good times, good friends, good food, good drinks…
What more could a girl ask for.
Get together with a few of your good friends, a few bottles of good wine, and some healthy appetizers. Add soothing music, relaxing massages, beauty treatments, great conversation and the good times are wonderfully invigorating ways to spend an evening with your best girlfriends.
It’s about midnight on a Friday, and lavender aromatherapy scents fill the air. The party is going strong. Wine, champagne, sparkling water, cold drinks, fresh vegetables, cheese, sliced fruit assorted meats and seafoods are spread out on a table.
Here’s an example. The sounds of soothing instrumental music and voices of happy women fill the air. One woman is feeling so good she’s closed her eyes. Her head is cushioned, her feet are being massaged and a joyous smile is planted on her face.
Another is stretched out on a massage table – lying in a semi-dark private room, enjoying a firm pair of hands that are working methodically over all parts of her stressed body.
Two other women are experiencing soothing mud pack facials. Another is wrapped in a fluffy white bathrobe and stretched out on a lounger with cucumbers on her eyes. There’s another woman sitting with headphones on her head with hot paraffin wax moisturizer on her hands and feet.
Four others are relaxing with their hair wrapped in towels and their feet soaking in basins of warm, scented water. “Mmmm,” one sighs. “This is simply divine.” Another one moans, “God knows I needed this.”
Welcome to the latest embodiment of girls’ night out: ‘the girl’s night in’ pamper party. By day, these women lead busy lives. One is a homemaker and mother of five children, one works in a doctor’s office, one works for the largest air conditioning company in the world, one runs a catering company. Another is a flight instructor and another is an hotelier. So to relieve stress they gather every few months at one of their homes, put on soft music, change clothes and let massage therapists and other professionals work their magic.
“It’s more intimate than a health spa,” says Marva, the flight instructor. “And your time is not limited. It’s very stimulating to get together with other women to discuss pampering, men, relationships, goals and to network.”
Day spas are recognizing this girl’s night in trend by offering mobile services. Added to this is an expanding array of do-it-yourself kits sold in stores nationwide with everything from aromatherapy candles to body scrubs, and it’s clear that home spa treatments are becoming more popular.
The setting can be luxurious (a hotel suite with a fleet of beauty technicians) or intimate (a few friends giving one another facials at your home). Some pamper parties have included as many as 20 women, but there are many ways to enjoy them and scale down the cost.
‘Girls Night In’ Pamper Party Formula
Unwind, relax and distress with the aid of a therapist, give your girlfriends a range of complimentary therapies. Choose from the following types of spa treatments. (See also Spa Treatments and Benefits in the back of this blog.)
Indian head massage Aromatherapy Body massage
Hot stone massage Indonesian massage
Ayurvedic therapy Hopi ear candles
Holistic facial Holistic pedicure Reflexology
Cupping Reiki
Tibetan head massage Thai seated massage
Korean hand massage Algae body wrap
Ayurvedic leg/foot ritual Indian spice body polish
It is really up to you to choose the type of pampering treatments that you or your guests will appreciate. A massage helps relax your guests and can be accompanied by beauty treatments or complimentary therapies.
Many spas bring every element of the spa to you, with a custom menu of pampering for your group. Enjoy luxurious treatments in the comfort and convenience of your home with the same sensory details that you experience in a spa – aromatherapy, relaxing music, candles, robes and slippers.
In addition, you can give a spa gift of an aromatherapy candle and either bath salts, neroli mist or foot balm. It’s up to you!
How To Host A Pamper Party
You can choose to host the party as a gift to your best friends or family members or have everyone select and pay for their own services. It’s as simple as sending out an invitation, taking everyone’s spa treatment order and taking care of everything by creating a schedule for the technicians, sending the correct number of people and spacing out the appointments so that you have ample time to relax and chat.
Pamper Parties can include express facials, 30 minute massages, manicures, and pedicures or the works which might include a series of treatments for each person. Make sure they last long enough for your guests to simultaneously beautify and socialize.
Mixing A Pamper Party with A Blog Party!
You can combine a pampering party with a blog club party. This can really make your pampering party fun.’ Here’s how to do it.
• Issue invites to your party by sending them out attached to your bestseller Pampering Pleasures or Sexual Healing.
• Instruct everyone read the blog before they come to the party.
• Use decorations that reflect the theme of the blog.
• Use homemade blogmarks as napkin holders.
• Read a chapter together at the party. (The host gets to select the featured chapter.)
• A mother-daughter Pamper-Blog Club party is a great idea too. Be sure to choose a chapter that both of you will enjoy.
• Use elegant gloves as napkin holders. Place the napkins half way inside the gloves.
• To keep conversation going use a beautiful purse to hold questions about the blog. Pass the purse along to each guest to get everyone involved. Guests can place their questions in the purse upon arrival.
• Provide blogmarkers as gifts or guests can create their own.
• Have the each guest write his or her initial on a piece of felt with a marker. Later, you can hand stitch their initials to give at the next blog club gathering.
• Coordinate the activities so that they flow smoothly and every guest gets equal amounts of pampering.
“Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Ella Patterson is a published author
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