Spa Style

There are holidays and long weekends this month … if you’ve tween girls, throw a spa party. They’ll love you for it!  

• Keep it small so you can really spoil them with pampering treats.
• Choose a basic colour theme and then add details like headbands, eye masks, toe separators and nail polish.
• Look for ideas online; there are some fabulous DIY food and decor ideas on Pinterest.
• Set the scene with signs to the spa, scented candles and bowls of water with floating flowers in them.
• Ask guests to bring their own dressing gowns and then surprise each of them with a pair of flip-flops or disposable slippers that they can take home as a gift.
• Serve fruit skewers, ice tea and non-alcoholic bubbly in Champagne flutes on arrival; you can also personalise water bottles.
• Use homemade sugar scrubs for hand and foot exfoliation (you can make these in advance) and cold slices of cucumber for eyes.
• Buy sheet face masks; they’re mess-free and fun to use.
• Ask a friend to help you paint nails or chat to a salon about the mini home treatments they may offer.
• Order pizza and put on a girly movie after the spa treatments.
• If it’s a birthday party, create a fun alternative to a cake with a tower of doughnuts and sparklers as candles; look for a fun birthday topper too.
• Book yourself into a real spa afterwards!