Win a trip to SPA…CE!

We are always encouraging the benefits of taking a trip to the spa to get away and take your mind to a faraway place, but sometimes you have to think even further outside the box. And by outside the box, we mean outside the atmosphere. You may be currently spacing out at work right now but would you want to really space out?! There are actually online contests granting the far-out dream to win a sub-orbital space flight. Can you imagine getting the chance of a lifetime (how many lightyears is that?) and getting to travel into the void that surrounds our own existence? Thinking about outer space blows my mind, but on my friend Charlie’s mind is the possibility of actually going. Charlie is on the homestretch for Metro’s Race for Space to win an outta-this-world trip, but he needs help! Your support for my spacey friend would be one small click for you; one heck of a vacation for him. Houston, we need votes!

If you you’re looking for an easier way to get away from life on earth, take a shorter trip to the spa-space during Spa Week.

Travel Tuesday: Jacuzzi Bicycles in Paris

My girl Viv over at LiveFastMag.com  just returned from a month-long joie de vivre around Europe. I envied her vivid trail of euro-Instagram fun (displayed beautifully on her tumblr, if you’re curious) and her many adventures. Notably, she came back with this interesting explanation of how French women don’t get fat: Bathtub bicycles. The first ever workout jacuzzi. Read all about the Waterbike on Live Fast. Filed under spa-ish.

Waterbike, aquabiking individuel. from Water Bike on Vimeo.

One Fish, Two Fish, Manicure-ish! Happy 108th Birthday Dr. Seuss

Today would have been Dr. Seuss’s 108th birthday. In honor of this literary legend and the wonderfully weird childhood stories that never got old, we’ve compiled some of the  schloppity-schloppiest and zizzer-zazzer-zuzziest manicures from around the web. Red fish, blue fish, which one do you wish?

Theodor Seuss Geisel aka Dr. Seuss

The Lorax

“I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” (via www.nailnerd.com)


“UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” (via ww.makeupwithdrawl.com)

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish

From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.” (via www.daily-nail.blogspot.com)

The Cat In The Hat

“Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun. But you have to know how.” (via www.nailsadored.com)

How The Grinch Stole Christmas


“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’tcome from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!” (via www.chitchatnails.com)

Oh The Places You’ll Go!

“And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)” (via www.nailpolishrehab.com)

Hey Jude, Spa Style

Na, na, na, na-na-na, SPA! If there’s one way to take a sad song and make it better… that would be listening to it during a long, luxurious spa treatment. (Preferably one that you only paid $50 for.)

If you know a thing or two about me, you know that my alter-ego is a Beatles hippie child, by blood. Why do you think I was named Michelle? And my middle name, Joni? After John Lennon, of course! A little Google search lead me to this beautiful, massage-worthy version of Hey Jude, THE PERFECT marriage of my facial-fiending, spa-lebrity self and my deeply rooted love, love, love for the Fab Four.

Sit back, relax, press play and don’t make it bad… the weekend is here! Tell us: Would you request a Beatles spa soundtrack in your next spa treatment?

Highly Skilled Kitty Gives Pug A Swedish Massage

If I wasn’t deathly allergic to cats and had no morals when it comes to stealing… I would steal this cat.

Watch as this kitty tirelessly gives his sleeping canine friend Toby a Swedish massage with mind-blowing therapeutic talent! He’s using distinct modalities including forms of petrissage (not to be confused with pet massage), and even digs his forearms (forefront-legs?) deeply into Toby’s back to relax muscles and get the circulation going.

Dontchya think it’s rude that Toby’s snoring? Well, true massage therapists take it as the greatest compliment when their client falls asleep mid-treatment – remember that! Maybe the Pet Spa at Harrods is hiring?


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