The Trophy Wife Triathalon

So yesterday was my spa day, also known as my day off to attend to the exhaustive business of grooming myself. One of the sad things about Valdosta is that we have no actual hammam here, which is a wonderful sort of Middle Eastern spa where they scrub the bejesus out of your skin until you bleed, remove every speck of offensive body hair still existing afterward, massage you with exotic oils, and then feed you tea and a restorative hookah pipe before sending you back to your husband all smooth and beautiful. However we do offer every other sort of service, so I just had to make do.


First there is always the issue of body hair. We have two places that do actual below the waist waxing here; Anthony & Company Day Spa, and the one I work at, Lemongrass Day Spa. Needless to say my experience months ago at Anthony's was awful, the spa is nice, but the waxer needs training in how to actually remove hair. For $85.00 plus a huge tip, I shouldn't have had to go home and finish the job. But I could not bring myself to lay on the dirty sheets she had on the table a moment longer. Lemongrass also offers a Brazilian wax, but here is the problem: I work with these folks. Enough said. Would you let a co-worker do this to you? So I DIY'ed my post winter foliage the best I could and will set up an appointment in Tallahassee for the next time.


Next to hair. Though I wasn't impressed with the waxing at Anthony's , their hairdressers are wonderful and I have gone to Jan Brasher for a while. We decided to go a little different that morning, so I gave her my ideas. I personally loved Christina Aguilera's old short bangs that everyone made fun of so much. So that's what we did, as well as going a bit redder in the highlight area. Here's a picture, though I cannot promise today when I do my own hair it will look like this:

Obviously that is not me, despite the nose piercing. Hopefully I will be able to do this style later or I'm going to end up looking like a five year old that got a hold of some safety scissors, which is actually what I do look like when I cut my own bangs. Did I ever mention I'm a cutter before? There should be a 911 for home hair cutters to reach out to trained stylists that could council you to put down the scissors before you hurt yourself. So the first leg of the triathalon was over by 10 am. and I raced up the road to Dr. Moore's House of Beauty, aka Azalea Center for Plastic Surgery.

Kelly worked on my Silk Peel next. This was my second one, so let me explain a silk peel. A silk peel is like a basic microdermabrasion, but after they have gently sanded off your old cruddy skin the esthetician infuses your skin with micro-nutrients blended just for your skin type, whether you need extra moisture, or in my case brightening. I tend to get dull, muddy skin because of the excessive oil I suffer from, so I get a lot of cellular debris build up on my face. I normally do this every two weeks, but with the economy the way it is I have had to go to every three weeks. I am still using Obagi products, but the salon I work at uses primarily Repechage,
so be looking for new posts on their products as I begin testing them out.

Next and final leg of the race was to the manicure and pedicure portion of the day. I've been with my nail artist Kim for two years now and would follow her to hell if she relocated her business there. Luckily she hasn't moved that far yet, but is at Bebe Nails on Bemiss road. Bemiss road is sort of like hell at 7 a.m. and 5 a.m, it's the closest thing we have in Valdosta to Atlanta traffic, so note not to be around the area if you have to at these times. The salon is new and gorgeous, plus the owner Michael can do fantastic card tricks, as he showed us yesterday. I did mention I was OVER black nail polish, even though it keeps cropping up in all my Spring fashion guides. I did a really fun and bright OPI red, " A Oui Bit of Red" as I am going for a more pin-up girl look this Spring and doing a bright red lip as well.

After all of this pampering, I had a water and protein bar to tide me over for the gym. Then it was off to the doctor for our monthly fashion chat, I get caught up in the new magazines while I wait in the examination room. I managed to lose seven pounds this month, and that always makes me happy, so I ate another protein bar in celebration. After a few hours at the gym, it was back to the house for a huge class of wine and a good night's sleep.

Next mission: The new Spring fragrance. I'm in the market and nothing is hitting me right yet. I'm trolling the perfume blogs and ordering samples this week, so this could take a while.