Want to Create Your Own Spa Party at Home?

1. Spa Parties work best with small intimate groups. Save the huge blowout party for another celebration and have your teen pick her 3-5 best girlfriends for an afternoon or evening of pampering.

2. Use your favorite photo editing software to create a super fun invitation. Have your daughter wrap her hair up in a towel, put on a fun facial mask with two slices of cucumbers on her eyes and snap a shot of her face and then put all the party info onto the photo as your postcard invitation. She can mail them or hand them out.

3. Serve the snacks in spa-like fashion. Have a small table near where you'll be doing your pampering with a glass pitcher of water with lemon slices or your daughter's favorite beverage of choice. Have chocolate dipped strawberries, tea sandwiches and other finger foods for them to munch on throughout the afternoon or evening.

4. Encourage the girls to wear light clothing (shorts and t-shirt) and throw a robe on to help with the atmosphere.

5. Deck lounge chairs work great as spa facial chairs!

6. You can make your own spa products or use purchase products. You can use some great home spa recipes straight from items you probably already have in your kitchen.

7. Have peaceful music playing in the background during the spa time. You can purchase the individual songs for your ipod or to download to your computer.
~Annette Yen

Here's a Banana-Honey Facial Mask Recipe:
Mash a banana with 1 tsp. of honey
Apply the facial mask to cleansed face and neck, avoiding the eye area.
Leave on for 15 minutes and rinse with warm water.