For Spa Madness!, Beauty Is Within blogstress Maria headed to Transcend Spa to experience microdermabrasion with organic ingredients. It was her first experience with micro and she wasn’t quite sure what to expect…but the fabulous treatment, luxurious organic products, and relaxing massage left her on “cloud nine” (her words – would we make this stuff up?)
Luckily for all of us who aren’t Maria and didn’t get to indulge right along with her, she made a video of her visit. Check it out at Beauty Is Within – and book your own relaxing hiatus at Transcend, because they’re extending Spa Week until the end of the month!
For Spa Madness! we sent Carissa of Hooked On Beauty to experience the 70 Minute Swedish Massage at Orange Skye Day Spa in Denver, CO. She described the treatment as a combination of much needed relaxation and deep pressure since her shoulders were in a constant state of stress. Carissa’s back and shoulders weren’t the only body parts being relaxed as she nearly fell asleep during the treatment. After the massage she tried the Infrared Sauna which helps you burn up to 900 carlories in 30 minutes! To read more about Carrisa’s sleep-inducing massage click here.
Signature! Meaning made especially just for you. Spa Week is more than just running away with incredible $50 treatments, we want to jump start your lifestyle of taking great care of yourselves inside and out. For Spa Madness, Sabrina Newman of A New Mode went to check out the Aqualia Spa Signature Facial at the Aqualia Spa in Manhattan. She sat back and got into the groove of a 75-minute pressure point facial massage, then neck and shoulders, extractions, a customized skin mask, and moisturizer for a radiant glow. After that she trumped up the deal with the Derm Renewal Clinical Peel- a professional deep exfoliating treatment designed to promote skin renewal and moisturization. That’s how Spa Week treatments work– so good you won’t want to leave. A week later and she still looks like she just left the spa!
Read more about her radiant experience on A New Mode.
Just admit it. We all want them, need them and gotta have them. It’s something about the eyes that draws a person in and that allure topped off with striking lashes is a deal sealer for many. The proof is in the pudding, according to WWD, lashes lead sales growth and have become the fastest growing sector of the beauty industry. Sales of false eyelashes have shot up 6.2 percent in the US alone this year, making $44 million. Wowzers! We can probably credit the surging trend to such beauty queens as Beyonce and Lady Gaga who never leave home with out their lashes! Normally, eyelash extensions can run up to $300 or more but during Spa Week you can extend your blinkers for just $50. As part of our Spa Madness we sent Alexis Wolfer of the Beauty Bean to Albina’ SPA in New York and Mary Jo of the Planet Eye Traveler to the All Star Lake Spa in Seattle and they got all the deets of the luxurious treatment. No gunky gluing involved, each eyelash is separately blended into your own one by one. Aside from the 2 hour process for full lashes, and 1 hour for partials, the treatment was virtually painless.
Spa Week! It’s the most wonderful time of the year… and if you’re the kind of person who likes getting excited for things to enjoy them fully (birthdays, Christmas, vacations)… you probably have a few rituals you do. Picking out your outfit, using 12 different colored markers to schedule it in your day planner, making a toiletpaper countdown (so retro but always fun)… it’s all in the name of building excitement and allowing the enjoyment to last longer. We’ve got a few ideas to help you get (even more) excited for Spa Week. It’s one week away, April 12-18! WOO!!! And if you couldn’t tell… WE are shamelessly, explosively excited.
1. Watch spa videos. We’ve got some on our YouTube channel, including some Spa Week offerings and the SPA CRAWL video below. Imagine yourself experiencing a full week of relaxation, rejuvenation, beauty and bliss.
2. Read some spa posts from our Spa Madness bloggers. We sent bloggers around the country to experience the $50 Spa Week treatments in order to take you inside the spa (and get you excited).
3. Enter our $1000 Spa Week Gift Card sweepstakes. Can you even imagine the improvement in your quality of life if you were forced to exhaust $1000 at the spa this year? Start imagining, because that will get you pumped for next week guaranteed… whether you win or not.
4. Browse the Spa Week directory. Forget about booking… just read. Say the names treatments out loud. “Any Style Massage including Hot Lava Shell and Thai Yoga”… “Seaweed Alga Facial or European Purifying Facial with Alpha-Beta Exfoliating Treatment”… within minutes you’ll feel like a kid in a candy store. If gummi worms are massage oils and and chocolate covered pretzels are exfoliants.
5. If you have a blog or website… post the Countdown To Spa Week widget. How many minutes to go?
6. The ultimate? Book YOUR Spa Week appointments. Sorry, we just had to say it. There could not possibly be a better way to get excited than to have your very own spa treatment or 5 to look forward to next week. Imagine how much nicer your calendar will look with the words 60 MINUTE MASSAGE slathered across it!
Or… if you’re more of the I-don’t-get-excited type, just sit there and wait it out. We won’t be mad.
For Spa Madness!, Beauty Is Within blogstress Maria headed to Transcend Spa to experience microdermabrasion with organic ingredients. It was her first experience with micro and she wasn’t quite sure what to expect…but the fabulous treatment, luxurious organic products, and relaxing massage left her on “cloud nine” (her words – would we make this stuff up?)
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Signature! Meaning made especially just for you. 
Just admit it. We all want them, need them and gotta have them. It’s something about the eyes that draws a person in and that allure topped off with striking lashes is a deal sealer for many. The proof is in the pudding, according to 
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