25 Bucks, 1 hour chinese style foot massage is just right behind that door…the one with the neon OPEN sign right on Chatsworth in Granada Hills. I’ve been hearing major buzz on these mini-spas popping up all over town (there is one on nordoff & de soto, and on devonshire & mason) so of course, I had to go check it out, especially since the weekly money mailer pack has $5 off coupons, so you’re looking at 20 bucks for 1 hour.

Ok so, I found parking right outside the front door, and when you walk in, you have to hush it, because you step right into a room full of massage chairs, with people sitting in them and massage therapists crawling all over them. I kid you not…

I am immediately shuffled into a chair - and being that I travel now with my ipod and audio book, I was glad to hide behind the earbuds and not hear the weird silence that was overbearingly loud. My therapist came out with a hot bucket of plastic-lined herb infused water and put my feet in it to soak, while she reclined the chair and started working on my scalp & shoulders. By the time she she got down to my feet, they were super soft from whatever was in the water, and I got an amazing reflexology foot massage with some sort of thick salve that my feet seemed to drink in. AMAZING! She reclined the chair all the way down to a full laying down position and asked me to flip over. The chair even had the face cut-out thing - dud where did that come from?? A fabulous full back massage (btw you are totally clothed during this whole experience) and when I woke up, I was hoping that they used some sort of disinfection process after the chairs because I was drooling all over that chair - lol gross!!

Anyway - for 20 bucks, my feet feeling like velvet and all my muscles loosy-goosy, I will totally be making this a repeat spot! Fabulous!

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Ok so the buzz word about town (at least here in Porter Ranch) is “Chinese Foot Massage” which is referring to the new herbal foot spa treatment that is at a few locations - which I intend on hunting down in the near future - for an hour for $20 bucks. What?? Must investigate!

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Q: “Hey Sylvia! Was wondering if you could recommend a good spa day place in the valley. The Fiance’s birthday is coming up and I’d like to treat him to a full day spa experience. :)”

A: my two favorites are burke williams on the pricier side - but the facilities are great -
http://www.burkewilliamsspa.com/

but surprisingly, the Valley Day Spa is an AWESOME korean style spa for a fraction of the price and you still get a really nice atmosphere even tho its in the middle of the valley and in a strip mall LOL.
http://www.valley-day-spa.com/home.htm

have a happy one!!
xo
syl

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omg.

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Something fishy is going on here…LOL omg I totally couldn’t help the uber-cheese factor in that line. But anyway, here’s the deal. As if people in Washington wasn’t stressed out enough, now a trend in the DC & Virginia area where fish eat old skin during your soak session pedicure.

Since you can’t get a good slough session these days due to totally gross public health sanctions, these Doctor Fish will gnaw off all your gross dead skin. Before the health department got involved, up to 8 clients at a time would soak their feet in a community type Fish Pool, some issues did arise: At times the fish would flock to the feet of an individual with a surplus of dead skin, leaving others with a dearth of fish, and if your paying 35 bucks for fish to eat your dead skin and all the fish are all over the gross person next to you with dead skin hanging off their feet - is that really fair?

Oh it gets better. John Ho, who runs the Yvonne Hair and Nails salon with his wife, Yvonne Le, said 5,000 people have taken the plunge so far.

In addition to offering pedicures, Ho hopes to establish a network of Doctor Fish Massage franchises and is evaluating a full-body fish treatment that, among other things, could treat psoriasis and other skin ailments. Now if that isn’t organic, I dunno what is.

Don’t forget that there are alot of nature’s beasts that offer alternative healing, umm, like the maggots that are used for infection, leeches for detoxing and Kirsty Alley’s favorite - tape worms for weight loss.. LOL. If you have gotten a Dr Fish pedicure, we would SO love to hear from you, because I don’t know anyone personally who could be convinced to give it a test run, for research purposes, of course!

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Be a part of the progress…all you do is call your local clinic and make an appointment for a 1-hour massage session for the day of our Massage for the Cure event. Instead of paying us for the massage, 100% of your donation for the massage goes to benefit the local affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Massage Envy works with local Komen affiliates so the majority of the money donated stays in your community, helping give back to our friends and neighbors. Locations from Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Phoenix and more - check the schedule for your city & eligible dates & relax towards a good cause!

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Ok, so I have sort of gotten used to the rare minerals night treatment, but I’m feeling a bit more dry than usual. The SA at the boutique said that it would be a few days to overcome the dryness - and today is glycolic peel day so I’m sure there’s gonna be even more dryness over the next few days - good thing I don’t have any major plans over the next few days in case I start to peel like a snake

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Ok so Dr. Marks had to go out of town so he postponed my second mesotherapy / lipodissolve treatment that I am undergoing for my double chin until mid-november. I had O take a pic of my side profile before the first treatment so that I could document the actual results, and the second is 2 weeks later. I’m not seeing too much of a difference yet, but then again I’ve had two people tell me that my face looks thinner, so I guess maybe its more obvious in the whole view rather than the side profile. I will take full front pics too- for comparison shots. Dr. Marks suggests 3-4 sessions to get the best results, spread over a series of 2 week intervals.

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Ok people, I’m not really sure if I like the Thai Yoga massage…and maybe because yoga is actually challenging to me, so I don’t really find a massage that incorporates any sort of flexibility and restrictive moves to be relaxing in any capacity. It’s hard enough to even undergo a Shiatsu massage for me, which I suppose is a red flag that I am either choosing to ignore or am going to have to address later on…but back to the TYM review:

I booked an appointment at one of my favorite spas Burke Williams Sherman Oaks. I took my shower, sat in the hot tub for a while and was waiting in the quiet room in my fluffy BW robe. When the therapist called for me, she was wearing a gi and a martial arts style headband. I kind of wondered why my therapist was rocking a teenage mutant ninja turtles motif, but then thought that maybe I was being completely out of line and politically incorrect and just sucked it up to being ignorant and followed her to the room. On our way to the room, she asked if I had ever experienced an ‘eastern style massage” before - answer: no. Her response was that it was very ‘interactive’ and that I needed to ‘work with her’ to make it easier. Hmmm….ok.

Continue reading ‘Thai Yoga Massage’

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Well, it’s actually a “Foot and Hand” spa according to the title, but is a fusion of a neighborhood nail shop and high end spa, with super affordable pricing.

The pedicure packages start at $22 for a basic treatment and go up to $45 for the ultra-delux (read: callus treatment, super scrub, hot towels, 10 minute massage, foot mask & hot towel treatment in addition to the basic pedi) but you also are pampered with an aromatherpy neck pillow, top of the line massage chairs that have the water part lined with a giant piece of plastic to elminate the germ-pool, complimentary beverage of your choice (I chose lime garnished ice water, but you can choose ice tea, hot tea, vanilla or mocha cappuccino, coffee, etc.) and a nice zen ambiance which is really hard to find in the neighborhood nail salon.

Plus in the month of October, PediSpa will donate $6 to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Awareness Fund from the signature pedicure line. Fabulous!!!

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Get $10 off $125 giftcard purchase

I’ve been seeing these cards at every grocery store checkout and other boutique-y type retailers but here is a $10 coupon off when you purchase through the site.  The way it works is you buy a giftcard, then log on to SpaFinder.com and do a search for participating spas in your area.

Save $10 at SpaFinder on orders over $125 through October 31st and get a Free Digital Subscription to Luxury SpaFinder Magazine!

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I want to go back!! I think that I was a bit overwhelmed from the Glen Ivy trip…yes, we had to drive through a trailer park to get there, yes, we had to pay almost $60 admission, and yes, the food was bland and overpriced, but I had FUN!!! From the stinky mineral baths that left a slimy residue to the dinosaur grazing clay bath, it was alot of fun…many thanks to my sister in law Tracy for the invite! It’s an outside destination spa in the middle of nowhere with no accomodations and a good 2 hour drive from Los Angeles, but I totally want to go back for another day at the Spa disneyland-land.

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My last LipoZap scheduled treatment with Dr Marks pissed me off. I got measured and I had gained an inch all over. ugh. granted, we had gone on a girl’s weekend to temecula for wine tasting, pechanga for gambling & drinks and then to the glen ivy hot springs so I’m sure I splurged a bit on the diet plan then, but dude 1 inch? And so I got mad and said I didn’t want to do it anymore because the pain wasn’t worth eventually gaining back the weight. So I booked an appointment for botox instead. 3 weeks later, I am shopping for fall clothes, and hotdamn I lost a whole pant size!!! I haven’t been a size 16 since college and el nino! So when I go back to my appointment with Dr. Marks I’m going to grovel and praise the lipozap for it’s painful effectiveness. It does work…but on me, it takes a few weeks to drain the stuff out. I am going to book an appointment to get my underneck gobble done next with the fat-shot. Keep ya’ll posted!

Check out Dr Mark’s before and after gallery on his super nice website and be sure to tell him that sylvia from Spa-View sent you!!

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I was desperate for a pedicure at the last minute and even though I totally did not want a mall - pedicure, desperate times call for desperat measures…BUT it ended up being a really good pedi!

Check it out: I went during a non-crowded time, the nail tech took her time with the treatment and the extra exfoliation was only a $6 add-on, not $10 like at all the other spots here in the valley. The place was clean, and finish polish was good. Total A+ treatment, and I might even return if I’m ever in another dire pedi situation (like I am now actually). Anyway, lessoned learned - don’t judge the mall-spa, it can work in your favor (sometimes).  The Red Persimmon is located on the downstairs section of the mall next to JC Penny’s just an FYI.

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