Let’s have a manicure party!

What do you do on a rainy grey Sunday afternoon in January? Have an “at home manicure party” with your friends of course!

My hands post renovation clean up. I left them for the big party!

I was so excited when Sarah invited me, Karen and Hinna over to spend an afternoon drinking tea, eating sweet treats and getting beautiful manicures with hand scrubs and massages last Sunday. It was a lovely way to spend an afternoon catching up.

Yum!

Want to throw a manicure party? Here’s what you need to make this fun afternoon happen:

• Cookies, chocolate and another sweet treats- ask everyone to bring one thing!
• Many pots of tea.
• A great play list on the IPOD
• Tea towels or hand towels for hand drying, and for catching all the hand scrub that falls off during the massage/scrub.

Pretty colours.

• Nail polish, nail files, nail polish remover and cotton balls
• Homemade hand scrub! (Use this recipe but use brown sugar instead and add a few drops of your favorite essential oil.)

Soak away the afternoon!

• Little bowls of soapy water for hand soaking
• Your friends of course!

A lovely scrub.

After much catching up and eating, we took off old nail polish, soaked our fingers in little bowls of warm soapy water, filed our nails and then gave each other hand massages with the homemade hand scrub! It was heavenly and my skin was so thankful.

Steady hands!

The next step was choosing the polish and taking turns painting each other’s nails! Sarah chose a pretty pale opalescent for me!

Much better!

We wrapped the manicures with a bit of hand cream and a promise to do it again soon. Next time it will be a hair party! Hinna is going to show me how to do those lovely French braids that wrap around the top of your head that are so popular these days! I can’t wait!

Thanks to Sarah, Hinna and Karen (and Lila the cat) for a beautiful afternoon!

FYI- I lost my camera in a pile of clothes so these pics came from my phone!