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Pampering
What does the word mean to you? To me, it implies pleasure.
Not, say, ritual humiliation, which is my main experience of "beauty treatments."
A hot bath and a big chocolate cake and a really good Wodehouse or Heyer - that's pampering myself. Having to pick tickly bits of hair out of my jumper for days, or spending two books-worth of money on nailpolish applied by someone who can't believe I don't push my cuticles back? Not pampering.
Not, say, ritual humiliation, which is my main experience of "beauty treatments."
A hot bath and a big chocolate cake and a really good Wodehouse or Heyer - that's pampering myself. Having to pick tickly bits of hair out of my jumper for days, or spending two books-worth of money on nailpolish applied by someone who can't believe I don't push my cuticles back? Not pampering.
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A stretch of time where I can put my feet up and get lost in a good book, or listen to opera. Or getting up early, getting out my bike to go for a long, hard ride, letting the body work hard and leaving everything behind.