Apr 082011
 
Good Hair Week

The spa / salon I fell in love with when I got my massage a couple of weeks ago runs same-day specials of 25% off if you book last-minute, which puts their prices in the range I’m comfortable paying. So on Tuesday, I got one of the best haircuts ever, and she used fantastic products on my hair, and she did an amazing job of blowing out my hair afterwards: That’s what inspired me to do the robot video on Tuesday (as well as a blackmail / humiliation / lingerie tease video that I haven’t released yet), because my hair looked too fabulous not to photograph. At the end of the evening, I got on cam with a caller, and he wanted me to take [read more...]

Mar 232011
 
Who's That Girly Girl (Part 3)

After writing yesterday’s Girly Girl blog post, I remembered that I had $100 in SpaFinder gift certificates from a caller. Apparently, at his job, when you do awesome above-and-beyond things, they reward you with these points that you can cash in for gift certificates — he used his to get me SpaFinder for a post-move stress-release massage. Please, by all means, continue to be awesome at work on my behalf! Turns out, the place nearest to me that accepts those gift cards also has an exfoliating massage followed by a “Vichy Shower” which looks like this: That’s SEVEN shower heads. I was lying on a rubber mat (which totally made me want to go down a water slide) on a steel bed in a completely [read more...]

Mar 222011
 
Who's That Girly Girl? (Part 2)

As I mentioned in Who’s That Girly Girl?, I was more of a tomboy growing up than a femme girl. Although I always enjoyed dressing up for special occasions, I didn’t keep my nails painted, and I valued luxurious food with good friends over luxurious pampering (my first manicure ever was the day before my first wedding – I was 25). But since I was 30, I’ve had a tradition with two college friends to go off for a girls’ weekend of pampering and relaxation. Every year, someone needs something specific (a brass candle snuffer, a tall thin vase to balance the mantle, the perfect chunky necklace for someone’s birthday…), and we all hunt together amidst funky shops to find it. This year, I wanted [read more...]