G D & H bought me a Mothers Day voucher for the local Spa so I went yesterday, for 3 or so hours, and got pampered.
Much as I love the results, I don't actually enjoy being there all that much. I know that's sad and as a female I ought to enjoy my time being looked after, but it is honestly fairly tedious.
First off, I got a massage. The Spa has recently extended and expanded and the new treatment rooms are in the basement. Being boiling hot outside, they had the air conditioning going full blast and of course that meant the basement was bloody freezing. Which is not ideal when you're half naked. The massage itself was OK, not as good as my proper massage therapist, but OK. If you could ignore the freezing coldness and the strange head-scratching thing she did. Not very relaxing when you're freezing cold either.
After the massage I had to remain half naked & get a facial treatment. She put a towel over me but it was honestly so cold that I was shivvering. I asked for another, which I got, but it wasn't much help. Facial treatments are half nice and half awful. Nice is having your face massaged with various lotions and potions. Not nice is the 15 mins of hot steam they angle at your face which you have to inhale. Makes me feel very claustrophobic and as though I can't breathe properly and I end up gasping for air. Not nice also is when they dig out all the blackheads and various blocked pores that accumulate in ones skin between these sessions. Bloody hurts.
Following the facial was a pedicure... and when you've got REALLY TICLKLY FEET like I do, those aren't all that much fun either! The nails look lovely though. And finally I had a manicure, and being a nail biter there wasn't a whole lot to do but they look nice and pretty now.
The other thing I hate about going to these places is the inane questions they always ask. They're not interested in the answers. I'm not interested in telling them. But it's an endless round of 'so where do you live?' 'Do you work?' blah blah blah.
That said, all in all great results, despite being fairly unenjoyable at the time.
Posted by katie at June 7, 2005 11:21 AM