Pampering

[ailbhe]

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.

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[zinecure.livejournal.com]

Pampering.....someone watching my kid, a hot bubble bath, a glass of red wine and a good romance novel....and two hours to enjoy it all...that is pampering. However, my husband sent me to a deep tissue massage and that was pure heaven;)