Need to relax? Rejuvenate? and Reconnect with your girlfriends? Then, you need a spa trip with your favorite female friends!

Recently we interviewed Spa Home lifestyle guru (and a great girlfriend!) CANDY SILVASY. (Listen to the interview! It’s very inspiring and shares lots of great girlfriend advice on making your home more spa-like as well as recommendations for girlfriend spa trips, etc.)

Candy also kindly shared the following guest blog to inspire you that ‘Girlfriend Pals make the Best Spa Gals!’

Who doesn’t love spa time? Whether to pretty up that puss, de-knot sore muscles with a massage or just chill, we all crave it.  But spa doesn’t have to be a solitary endeavor.  In fact, pampering with our pals can power up friendships.  So how does Spa spell Friendship?

Spa

Spa may seem like a solitary endeavor.  But, what’s more de-stressing than hanging out with your beautiful buddies?  Combine the two and you have the ultimate way to soothe body and soul (and soles if you have pedicures!)  What is it about putting on a robe that signals us to relax and let down any issues that may be creating strain between us? Revitalizing friendships – that should be on spa menus everywhere!

And, no matter what your budget, you can find a spa experience to share with your “Spa Sisters”.  Splurging?  Consider a long weekend at a destination spa like Canyon Ranch.  Scrimping?  Try a local day spa.  Some spas even offer mini services at reduced prices.

No matter what venue you choose, a few things to consider:

-  Be sure they have a relaxation room or lounge where you can all hang out together and that they can do the treatments there.

-  Do they offer group or girlfriend packages?  Are there snacks, can you bring cocktails?

-  Mix treatments you can enjoy together like manicures/pedicures with more individual ones like body wraps.

Party

But you don’t have to go to a spa to reap the rewards – why not invite the girls over for a spa party?  Pampering with your posse on your own ground can be even more fun than going to the spa.  First, you can really let down your guard without strangers milling around.  Second, you can have fun mixing up your own beauty concoctions.

My clients have really taken to my Beauty Buffet - a table with bowls of beauty ingredients like yogurt, oatmeal, lemon juice, olive oil, epsom salt & mud.  Give each guest a bowl, a brush for mixing & application and let them be their own mad skincare scientist.

Ramp up your get together with a theme.  This makes it easier to focus the food, treatments, entertainment and gets guests more involved.  Here are a few we’ve done:

-  Mediterranean Mavens – Greek/Italian food and beauty.

-  Spa in the Pink Party – All pink treatments, food, etc.

-  Spa Flick Fridays – Combines chick flicks w/spa time.

-  Sunrise Yoga Morning – Bring in a yoga teacher or use a dvd to have a yoga class followed w/ a healthy spa brunch.

Attract

As many of you know, I recently moved and I’ve found yet another way that spa connects you with your girlfriends.  It helps attracts new friendships.  For instance, the other day I went to a nail spa.  The spa is designed in an L with sofas and comfy chairs to curl up in.  While having my nails done, I chatted with the other girls getting polished.  I got restaurant and salon advice and even swapped phone numbers with one!

Remember the friends that spa together stay together!

Candy Silvasy is a spa expert & author of Art of the Spa.  Her website, Spa Around the World,  is devoted to providing a daily spa escape combined with lifestyle tips.  She has traveled to over 90 spas in 8 countries and has been profiled in print, on radio & PBS, FOX News & ABC TV.  She created spas for the Sundance Film Festival and does technical advising related to spa. Candy’s new book SpaHome – Live. Love. Lounge. will be released in January 2011. As a part of her dedication to healthy living, Candy also founded Spa4Diabetes, a non-profit that works with the United Nations to raise money and awareness for Type 2 diabetes.

Read the Blog: www.spaaroundtheworld.com

Spa on Twitter: http://twitter.com/artofthespa

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Need to relax? Feel rejuvenated? Reconnect? Well, plan some girlfriend spa time soon! And come back here and share it with Girlfriendology!

Thanks Candy for your great girlfriend advice and inspiration!

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