50 Pricey Spa Treatments You Can Do At Home

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DIY beauty is great for anyone on a budget or whose schedule is just too busy for a trip to the spa. And just because you’re out of extra funds and extra time doesn’t mean that you have to sacrifice the relaxation and indulgence of a spa treatment. Below are 50 treatments you can do in the peace and comfort of your own home.

Manicures and Pedicures

Learn how to do your own mani pedis, including French manicures and pedicures, here.

1. DIY Manicure Tips: Get tips on correctly removing old polish, trimming nails, soaking hands and more.
2. DIY Pedicure: Use Epson salt, a callus stone and your own homemade scrub mixture for a DIY pedicure.
3. Do It Yourself Manicure: Marie Claire shares tips for giving yourself an impressive, inexpensive manicure at home.
4. Your Nails: The At-Home Manicure: Learn how to treat cuticles, apply a base coat and more.
5. Ten Steps to Give Yourself an At-Home Manicure: This easy guide shares tips for quickly drying nail polish.
6. How to Do French Manicures: Watch this video series from Expert Village to learn how to give yourself a French manicure.
7. Pedicure Spa: Treat yourself to a spa pedicure at home with this guide.
8. DIY Pedicure: Learn how to shape, smooth and polish your toenails.
9. Give yourself a perfect pedicure: Learn how to whip up your own homemade foot scrub for your pedicure.
10. 10-Step Home Pedicure: This pedicure guide features at warm water soak.

Hair Treatments

From deep conditioning treatments to cutting your bangs, these DIY projects can save you a lot of money at the salon.

1. Deep conditioner: Get a recipe for an avocado and mayonnaise conditioning treatment here.
2. Easy Home Recipes for Natural Shampoo: Use vegetable oil for moisture and liquid Castile soap to cleanse.
3. Aloe and Olive Oil Shampoo: This at-home spa treatment uses olive oil, aloe vera juice, dried flowers and liquid soap.
4. Making your own homemade hair dye: Learn how to make your own natural dye here.
5. DIY Salon-Style Blowouts: Watch this video to learn how to do your own blowout before a party.
6. Celebrity Hair How-To: Holidays: Learn how to do your hair like celebrities Lindsay Price, Blake Lively and others.
7. At-Home Hair Color to Look Like a Star: This slideshow and guide shares tips for doing your own hair color.
8. Deep Conditioning: How to Feed Your Hair: Learn which products to use and the steps to take during a deep condition.
9. Super Duper Deep Conditioning: All you need for this recipe is mayonnaise, olive oil and egg yolks.
10. How to Trim Bangs: Trim your bangs in just 10 minutes when you follow this guide.

Self Massage

You don’t need a professional to help you relax. Take time out at home to give yourself your own massage.

1. How to do self massage: Livestrong.com’s guide to self-massage can relieve insomnia and tension headaches.
2. Learn the art of self-massage: This guide shares tips for hand massages, rub downs and even a belly massage.
3. Self Massage: Learn tricks for torso massage, feet massage, jaw massage and more.

Aromatherapy

Make your own aromatherapy candles and bath salts by checking out these guides.

1. How to blend and use aromatherapy oils: Watch this Expert Village to get tips for combining oils.
2. How to make aromatherapy bath salts: Make your own soothing bath when you read this guide.
3. How to make aromatherapy jar candles: Instead of buying expensive candles, make your own aromatherapy spa candles here.
4. What kind of aromatherapy do you need?: Learn how to pinpoint which aromatherapy you need and how to select the right scents.

Makeup

This list features article that tell you how to put on makeup like a professional and how to make your own cosmetics.

1. Backstage Beauty: Get tips for copying the runway beauty looks from New York, London, Milan and Paris.
2. Make up recipes: Here you’ll find recipes for making foundation and lip color.
3. Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Cosmetics: Watch this ThreadBanger video to learn how to make your own cosmetics and skincare products.
4. Eye Openers: Read Cover Girl’s professional makeup tips for glamming up your eyes.

Waxing

Get tips for waxing eyebrows and legs yourself here.

1. How to wax your own legs: The Budget Fashionista gives suggestions for finding the right products and waxing your own legs.
2. Waxing Eyebrows, the DIY at home instructions: Waxing your eyebrows can be tricky, so be sure to read this guide carefully before taking the plunge.

Facial Treatments

Give yourself a facial or make your own face mask with one of these recipes.

1. Oily skin face mask: Whip up your own milk of magnesia face mask to reducing shine and spot treating blemishes.
2. Sensitive Skin Oatmeal Mask: Learn to make an oatmeal-egg mask here.
3. 10 Minutes to a Clean Face: Learn how to properly clean, exfoliate and moisturize your face.
4. DIY Have a Steam Facial: Here you can get directions for setting up and enjoying a steam facial at home.
5. Make your own homemade face mask: Find out which face masks are best for different skin types here.
6. How to Make a Milk, Cucumber and Honey Mask: This yummy face mask makes your skin glow.
7. The DIY Facial: Get tips for exfoliating, cleansing and massaging your skin.
8. Homemade Skin Care Recipes: Face: Here you’ll find recipes and ingredients for face masks, including oatmeal, eggs and more.

Skin Treatments

For tips and recipes for exfoliating scrubs and more, turn to this list.

1. Homemade exfoliating body scrub: This fun treatment is also good for minimizing stretch marks.
2. Make Basic Bath Salts: Treat your whole body when you make these bath salts.
3. Make your own exfoliating scrub: Scrub off dead skin cells and dry skin with your own homemade exfoliating scrub.
4. Seaweed wrap: This lengthy article has lots of tips for giving yourself an at-home spa weekend, including making your own seaweed wrap.

Miscellaneous

Here you’ll find even more DIY spa treatments that are much less time consuming and less expensive than going to the salon.

1. DIY Beauty: Find great recipes for egg masks, banana facial masks and more.
2. The 10 Things You Need for Your Home Spa: Find out which books, guides and beauty products are the best to keep in stock at home.
3. jammies: Wear these hydrating therapy socks for a cozy, at-home moisture treatment for your feet.
4. Cucumber: Vegetable Drawer Beauty: This article shares all the ways cucumbers can be used for beauty treatments, including as an astringent and in a facial mask.
5. Detox Home Spa: Detox spa trips are incredibly expensive, but this article tells you how to set up a detox system by yourself.

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Home Manicure Tips: How to Polish, File, and Buff Nails Like a Professional Nail Salon

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Are you tired of spending thousands of dollars each year at the nail salon? If you’re like most of the country budgets are tighter than ever. To compensate for high gas prices and the rising cost of food, tanning and massages salons are seeing a decline in customers due to the economy. In addition, many women are forgoing their weekly trip to their professional nail technician and are doing their nails at home. However, knowing how to properly buff and prepare their nails can be a challenge. If not done correctly, you can actually damage your nails. So, take a look at these easy steps and learn the correct way to buff nails.

Use Salon Products and Tools

There are thousands of nail products on the market today and knowing which tools you need to properly buff your nails can be tricky. However, if you visit your local beauty store you will need to pick up only a few products. First, a handheld nail buffer is essential on your list of supplies. These look similar to emery boards; however they have several different colored panels and appear more like a foam block. You may also want to grab a few bottles of colored polish or OPI polish in French white if you’d like to give yourself a French manicure.

Before Filing or Buffing…..

Before you start filing away at your nails, there are a few things you should do first. Be sure to remove all old polish with a gentle finger nail polish remover. Look for those without acetone for the gentlest results. After getting rid of the polish, soak your hands in warm soapy water for ten minutes. This will soften your nails and skin to allow you to not only buff your nails better but also remove the unwanted cuticle areas. You can make your own homemade hand spa by filling a large bowl with warm water and adding a small amount of scented bath oil to the water. After soaking your hands, be sure to dry them completely.

Buff Nails the Right Way

To begin, grab your nail buffer and file your nails as you normally would (rounded, square or oval). With the roughest side of the buffer, start to buff your nails. Use a gently side-to-side motion when doing this. The main purpose of this phase is to smooth out any major ridges your nails may have. Next, use the next roughest side of your buffer and repeat the process. This will further work any ridges out of your nail area. To finish the buffing phase, utilize the smoothest part of the buffer to polish your nails until they shine.

Be sure not to be too rough when you are using the first few sides of the buffer. These are meant to only be used gently on the nails. Being too aggressive can lead to a split or chip in the nail, which is almost always difficult to repair properly.

Tips for Professional Salon Results

After you’ve successfully buffed your nails, consider taking your homemade manicure to the next level. Grab your favorite lotion (with or without sun block) and a pair of clean cotton gloves (socks will work if you don’t have gloves). Lather your hands in the lotion, put them into the gloves and wait for ten minutes. When you pull your hands out, wash and dry them well. You will find they are incredibly natural and soft! Be sure to wipe your nails well, apply a top coat of polish and begin painting them in your desired color. Allow the first coat of polish to set and apply another thin coat. Finish with a top coat and allow it to dry.As you can see, getting beautiful nails doesn’t necessarily require an expensive trip to the salon. So, instead of spending money on artificial acrylic nails this season, consider taking the natural route and doing your nails and toe nails yourself at home!

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What You Can Do To Help Prevent The Onset Of Age-related Disease

 

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1. Get Your Vitamins
Something as simple as Vitamin B could be all you need to restore that youthful energy.
“A lot Of People are simply vitamin B deficient,” say Dr. Elstein

2. Get The second Opinion
Age related fatigue caused by hormone imbalance, can e misdiagnosed as depression an anti-ageing specialist can detect and correct imbalances.

3. Get Some Sleep
Late nights can throw off your body’s production of cortisol, the hormone that gets you out of bed in the morning. This can lead to imbalance of other hormones.

4. Get some exercise
“One of the ways you can slow down ageing is to eat less and exercise more,” says Elstein.

5. Get Unstressed
“Hard work won’t kill you but stress will,” says Dr. Goldman. When the immune system is under siege from stress, it makes you more susceptible to disease.