Posts Tagged ‘beauty’

After toy shopping and entertaining the in-laws, you’ll be very ready for a night out — and a babysitter. Considering you haven’t seen the inside of a restaurant (or had a haircut!) since summer, you’ve saved up for a small holiday splurge.

To treat yourself to a little pre-dinner primping, hit up Xac Anthony’s unconventional Friday night happy hour. The salon and spa hosts a weekly “Tequila Sunset” event from 5 to 9pm that includes groovy tunes and free cocktails with your scheduled blowout or brow shaping. The evening can be part of your mom posse bonding, or a pit stop before date night with your DH.

Think of it as beauty junkie multi-tasking.

140 West 19th St., 212-929-5430, xacanthony.com.

Your only chance at “me time” happens after 11pm or before 6am. Too bad that’s when the city that never sleeps actually takes a cat nap.

But the new Hairparty24 offers 24/7 services, for those in need of a midnight manicure or a blow dry before dawn. If you’re not into at-home highlights, the Korean spa will get you polished, waxed or pedicured in time to have breakfast with the kids or a late-night dinner date with your DH.

That is, if you can find a sitter.

77 Madison Ave. at 28th St., 212-213-0056, hair24hours.com.

High-maintenance hairdos are a thing of the past when pregnancy or toddler patrol sets in during the summer. But you still need to look chic, should a last-minute rooftop cocktails invite come your way.

We checked in with Suki Duggan of the Donsuki Townhouse Salon for some low-maintenance summer styling advice. Below are her tips for time-strapped tresses:

• Grow out your hair during pregnancy, and for fun add long layers around the face — it will not only shape your glowing skin but make you look thinner as well.
• If your hair is fine and straight, try giving your locks more oomph by using a mousse or gel product on damp hair. From the bottom tips of your hair scrunch it in an upward movement and then loosely blow dry.
• The messy side ponytail is very popular this summer. After volumizing your straight hair or soothing your curly hair, pin back the top crown section of your hair, and tease it in a gentle forward manor with a bristled brush. Then take the bottom portion of your hair and loosely pull it back in a low ponytail to the side.