It's ok to splurge once in awhile, your mental/emotional health is as important as your other bills....and sometimes pampering is just the ticket.
Massage schools sometimes offer free massage. Massage therapists have to donate x amount of time.
If you do most of your own mani/pedi, salons can paint them for you for $5/$10 depending on if you want color or french.
A wonderful relatively cheap mask, (I figured this one out after looking at the ingredients of an aveda mask)....buy a small tube of CLEAR aloe vera, and a bottle of glycerin....or bottle of glycerin and rosewater. (If you just bought glycerin, and have a few extra dollars, buy a bottle of rosewater or orange flower water (my favorite)). Mix a dollop of aloe vera gel with an equal amount (or less) of glycerin....add the waters if you want.....smooth on your face for about five minutes, rinse off.
Glycerin and rose or orange water makes an awesome moisturizer...it's unique because it will feel like water, just pat it on. It's a humectant, so it draws the water out of the air to moisturize.....glycerin is the basis of most popular lotions.
Mary Kay, BeautiControl, Aihu, and others will give you one on one demonstrations and freebies.
Ayurveda practices really teach you to care for yourself. You don't betray your Christianity to do them: Yoga. Body brushes. You can google those practices....especially morning and evening routines. What's more important than what you actually do is that you do them.
Your H and this other W are pretty indulgent in a sense in the same way....reaching out to these other spiritualities....nurturing their own deeper level needs.
Your taking exceptional care of yourself could lure him back.
sg Love is PATIENT, love is KIND, LOVE never fails / DB since 2001
