All about Beauty

It’s my birthday today, so I decided to get myself some pampering after hearing some suggestions from blogger friends. I went for rose and tea spa and a relaxing body massage.

Rose and Tea Spa

 I know that bath doesn’t look too nice, but it’s due to the tea. At least the nice scent of rose was very relaxing and I managed to catch a cat nap in the tub. After that, I was given a relaxing body massage. I wanted to get a Swedish massage initially, but the masseur suggested that I tried another massage which is more relaxing. Actually, it’s a bit painful as she concentrated more on pressure points and it seemed like Thai massage to me. But she’s right, I felt lighter and more relaxed at the massage.

So, did I shop? Yes I did, but of course I didn’t get an egg beater or any microwave ovens, ok? LOL! Sorry, I was joking to someone that I might just bake myself a birthday cake, but no, no cakes for me. I’m uploading the photos right now and once it’s done, I will blog about my shopping spree.

Coco Bean Scrub and Mud

Originally uploaded by shoppingmum on beauty products

It’s a lazy afternoon for me again. I’m enjoying my spa today and I’ve added a body scrub and body wrap session into it because I’m too lazy to do it myself this week. So let me enjoy myself now, ok?

Do you know what’s the best way of spending an afternoon, it’s spa. Just go for spa and 2 hours later, you will feel so good about yourself.

I was in a bad mood, so I went for my spa session today. No, not that painful hot stone spa, but the relaxing spa with tea and rose bath and one and a half hour of full body massage. The lavender massage oil did wonder in relaxing my tense and I almost fell asleep. Of course, the masseur was doing a very good job too.

After that spa, I felt a lot better. I did some shopping too, just to get the bra shaper and some tops. It’s great to be relax again and forget about all those things that were bothering me. To me, both spa and shopping are my therapies.

I have been asking hubby to join out the spa session with me since I have so many packages paid!!! I can’t possibly finish them all by the end of the year unless I am going every fortnight, without skipping. However, he has been giving me excuses that he is busy with his work, so a 3 hours spa is impossible. But bear in mind, he has 4 hours for golf!

So, I wonder when I can have a nice spa session with him? Anyway, if you are willing to try out, I found that the Veqish Spa at Summerset Resort looks really nice. I hope that we will have to try it out one day. Gee…I canceled my spa today, and I’m a bit regretted.

I don’t know how could I missed the newsletter but it was only last night that I saw the newsletter from Clarins. I haven’t tried their facial or body treatments before, but it seems very nice.

When I was pregnant, I wanted to try their prenatal massage, but it’s only available in KL. I couldn’t make it there even if I was in KL as the time was just not right for me.

But now, I’m eying on the body treatments that start at RM138. It includes silhouette from the Andes and firming from Guraya. I’m not sure what they are for, but I an excited about FIRMING! LOL!

I better call up Parkson Ipoh Parade for more info.

I went for hot stone spa again reluctantly. I told the spa center that it was very painful the first time, and the bruises took a week to heel. I had to choose my tops wisely not to expose my purplish back. But no point wasting the package, so I die die also gave it another try.

This time, the spa began with far infra red chamber where I was there for 20 minutes of sauna. It’s not the same as normal sauna as this sauna from Lucy Belle promotes some health properties too.

Far Infra Red Sauna

It’s nice to be sitting in there, reading a magazine and listening to nice music. But the heat really made me sweat, oh boy, hopefully I lost an inch after that session.

Then, I proceeded to ozone water spa for detoxification, but I felt that it’s really one good spa for dead skin cell removal. The masseur told me that most of the dead skin cell will be removed too, and I saw that dirty residue by the side of the tub once I was done. Ewww!

Ozone water spa

After that, it’s the session that I was afraid the most. I told her to be gentle as I have very low pain threshold. Here are the tools that will be used through out the body massage and the head spa sessions. I had blogged about the massage session in previous post, so this time I will only feature the tools.

• For body

The essential oils

The body scraper

Hot Stone Massager

• For Head Spa

Hair brush for patting on the scalp

A comb for head spa

After the massage, I had the bruises again. But this time, it was not as bad as the first spa. However, it has been more than 5 days, but it is still there. So, I still need to wait for a week before it clears out completely.

This thing about Bali is hubby cannot bring along his Golf Equipment. It’s a good news to all of us as I want him to get away from golfing for a few days. I have been persuading him to try the spa, but he said he would let me try it first. If we have time, then only he will do it.

He hasn’t tried spa before. He is not into all this pampering like I do. If I don’t go for spa, I will feel that something is wrong with my body. I need to have a body massage, and don’t ask me why. I just got to have it!

I went for salt spa yesterday. I don’t really fancy anything with salt, including salt scrub as I think it’s really messy. But since my spa package included a salt spa, I may as well try it out.

The spa began with a steam bath for 15 minutes.

But I didn’t stay in there for that long. I couldn’t stand the heat at 40 deg so I got out 2 minutes before the alarm went off. Then, I proceeded to the spa bath. I took some pictures when the masseur was preparing my bath. She mixed the water with herbal salt as shown…

Then  I was given laminaria salt for scrubbing too. I didn’t get the salt scrub package, if you get that, they will do the scrubbing for you. Anyway, I don’t fancy salt scrub unless I’m doing it myself at home. It’s really messy!

The water was so clear. It’s like nothing in it. But a salt spa bath will help to cleanse and disinfect our body, so it’s worth trying out once in a while.

Gee….I almost fell asleep. Maybe I was too tired.  After the bath, it’s the one and a half hour of body massage. I was very relax and tried to get some cat nap. The masseur did a great job of releasing the tension on my back. So shiok…

At first, I wanted to blog a long post about my spa experience today. But something bad happened and I lost all my photos. I am still very frustrated about it, but I have cool down a lot.

Today’s spa is a new package introduced by Relax Spa which costs RM460, but the introductory price is only RM99. I signed up 5 of them and got 5 free infra red therapy sauna sessions which I will use with my existing spa package.

Sorry, no photos provided this time, but I will take it again when I’m ready for this spa. It’s not a relaxing spa like I used to have and you will know why later.

Firstly, I was given a water spa with ozone treatment. Just imagine a tub filled with bubbling water and when you are in there, it’s a like jacuzzi. The main purpose of this spa is to exfoliate and you can burn some calories with it too. I felt like having a total body massage, but it felt kind of itchy before the 15 minutes session ended.

Then, I was given a body massage with a scrape, it’s “gua sa” in Chinese. I will take a photo of the scrape next time. It’s quite painful to me, so I was FULLY AWAKE and tensed. LOL! But since it brings a lot of health benefits like improving my sleeping problem, detoxification and slimming as well, I did my best to “enjoy” it.

After that, I was giving a head massage. I tell you, she used something like a hairbrush to hit on my scalp. LOL! But it was not that painful. In fact, I felt better after that. OK, PHOTOS are seriously needed to explain this spa session.

But before that, take a look at my back…

So, are you interested to try this out?

I’m going to spa later after putting my kids to nap. The spa center had been calling me to try their new spa package and I would like to see if the new package is worth it also. Anyway, it is just another lousy excuse to pamper myself. LOL!

Everyone needs some time out from our daily lives and rejuvenate ourselves if possible. If I cannot have any Hawaii vacations now, that doesn’t mean I don’t know how to relax myself. Of course, if money is not a concern, who won’t be surfing in Hawaii now? It’s one of the best tourist spots in the world, and don’t tell me you don’t like Hawaii! Maybe you haven’t collected as much Hawaiian tourist info as possible. Seeing those pictures and nice sunsets make me keen for a trip like that.

But never mind, let me daydream about it when I am having my body massage later.