Night of Beauty

I have written before about Ardyth's birthday gift to me--an "Activity of the Month." For March, the activity was a beautification event--facials, manicures, pedicures. But we thought it would be good to include the other females in our family, so our "Night of Beauty" was organized for last evening. Everyone gathered at my house about 6 p.m., bringing what beauty products they had, as well as a family staple: FOOD!

First, the food was set out. We had Taco Soup, a great green salad with homemade dressing, chips, crackers, dips, bread chunks with Spinach dip, Raspberry Strippers, homemade baking powder biscuits with garlic butter, peanut butter bars, and probably other things I'm not remembering. With this family, food seems to be all-important at family gatherings.




Once dinner was out of the way, we set out the tools of beautification.




For facials, the steps included:
1. Cleansing
2. Facial scrub to remove dead skin
3. Steaming, to open the pores
4. Applying the facial mask to deep clean the pores
5. Removing said facial mask
6. Appreciating the softness of our skin when this process was done

On to pedicures or manicures. We have a massaging foot bath that was used by those who were patient enough to wait their turn, otherwise there were bowls of very warm water to soak feet in. The massaging foot bath felt very good. There were foot creams, then time to trim and paint toenails. Mine are a nice shade of purple. Too early for sandals in this part of the country, but if I am barefoot for any reason--they do jump right out at you.




All the tools were available for a manicure, including emery boards and nail buffers, orange sticks, cuticle creams, nail polish, etc.



We enjoyed the evening, it's always fun when just us girls get together. We have periodic "Girls Nights" or "Days," just not often enough. Heffalump even came down for this one. Can't wait to see what we do next!