Romy Raves

Last week, I spent a glorious balmy spring day poolside at the swanky Mr. C Beverly Hills Hotel for the Victoria’s Secret What’s Sexy Now Summer Spa Day

Enjoying this fabulous poolside soiree with Bren & Jenn

I adore this type of fun and girlie event because it totally gets me in the mood for summer. This was a beautifully organized event where we sipped deelish fresh fruit juice cocktails, were pampered with Bombshell hairstyling

Bren & I rockin’ our Bombshell Hair

Got make-up touch ups with the latest VS glow worthy products and indulged in relaxing mani’s & pedi’s–I opted for a FAB foot massage instead

Posing with the adorbs Jenn after my relaxing foot massage

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Being a Brand Ambassador for AVON has it perks as you might imagine, and using my influence to bring joy to others is truly what makes my heart smile. So I had an inspired idea that I brought to AVON a month or so ago, that I would like to select a handful of women who are mothers and are very special to me, and gift each of them with their own personally curated assortment of my favorite Avon products in honor of Mother’s Day. I especially like the idea of gifting AVON products because they have such a vast selection of amazing products that are very affordable and high quality.  Fun idea right?

So here is a glimpse of the lovely gift bags I sent out

And here are some of my favorite AVON products that I included in these special gift bags:

ANEW GENICS Treatment Cream ($38)

ANEW GENICS Eye Treatment ($36)

ANEW CLINICAL Resurfacing Expert Smoothing Fluid ($38)

Foot Works Beautiful Marine Salt Hydrating Balm ($5)

Jillian Dempsey for Avon Professional Perfect Eyes Kit in Smokey Eye ($9)

OUTSPOKEN by Fergie Eau de Parfum Spray ($30)

And who are these special women and amazing mothers that I sent these wonderful gifts to, you ask? Well, of course my own amazing mother, my two sisters-in-law whose mothering I respect and admire, my very dear friend who recently became a mother for the first time after 40, my dear cousin who is an amazing mother and recently got divorced and one of my favorite mommy bloggers whom I respect and admire.

I wanted to wish these special women a spectacular Mother’s Day and wanted them to know how special they are to me and how much I respect and admire each and every one of them as women and for being the beautiful mothers that they are.

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY TO ALL

THE AMAZING MOTHERS

ENJOY & CELEBRATE!

Disclosure: I wanted to extend a special thank you to AVON for being such an amazing brand to work with and for allowing me to send out these wonderful gift bags to the special women in my life!

For the last ten years or so, I’ve had a weekly ritual that every Sunday night is my pampering night. With few exceptions, every Sunday after my son goes down to sleep, I spend a couple of hours indulging myself in beauty treatments. I always do some sort of face exfoliation, a face mask, a hair mask and sometimes a big yummy bath with intoxicating oils that relax and transport me. Whether it’s one treatment or five, I always make sure I get some ‘me’ time on Sunday nights to unwind and prep for the upcoming week.

So that you can partake in a DIY Spa Ritual of your own, I have created a list of some of my favorite homespun spa treatments and rituals that you can easily do yourself at home. Take a look at my list, see what inspires you and share some of your DIY spa rituals and beauty routines too!

ROMY’S FAVORITE AT HOME SPA RITUALS

• Make sure to carve out a regular weekly or monthly time slot to pamper and indulge yourself, you won’t regret it!

• Start with an aromatherapy or a detox bath. I love using the refreshing yet relaxing combo of orange and lavender essential oils in my bath, ahhhh! And, when I want to detox, I use a minty essential oil of some sort and a few cups of Epsom salt to pull out the impurities

• After your skin is soft and warmed up, it’s time to break out those loofah gloves baby! You can find them at your local drug store
• When I get out of the bath and my skin is moist, I love to spritz my skin with a hydrating cocktail of water mixed with a few drops of my favorite fragrance or essential oil to keep my skin supple and smelling yummy
• Make sure to put on an oversized soft and snuggly robe, so that you can truly emulate that at-home spa experience

• Create the perfect canvas for product absorption with regular exfoliation. I always make sure to exfoliate my face on my pampering nights with either a microderm scrub, an enzyme scrub, or a peel

• Sometimes I add a lip scrub into the mix (you can easily make one by combining brown sugar, a dash of cinnamon & oil) or use a dry toothbrush on your lips

• I follow-up my face scrub with whatever type of mask my skin needs, which usually is a hydration mask of some sort

• There are so many great recipes online to guide you through how to create your own fresh masks at home or visit your neighborhood drugstore for effective and affordable options
• While my mask is doing it’s thing, I like treat my eyes with sliced cucumbers to reduce puffiness or just a fun mask to block out the light

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