Ever notice that one woman you know? The one who always looks ten years younger than you, but she was ahead of you in high school? What does she do? Chances are she goes to a day spa. You don't need Botox injections or plastic surgery. You can come out of the spa looking and feeling younger, and a few visits a year will maintain that fresh, young look for a very small investment of time and money.



Day spas specialize in rejuvenation and skin treatments. If your goal is to look younger, make an appointment to talk to the day spa staff about what they can do for you. You'll have a chance to explain your needs, and they can show you the various techniques they have at their disposal to make you look more youthful.

Some of the procedures day spas offer will remove dead skin from your face, which gives you a youthful glow and can make far more difference than you would expect.

Other procedures can help your skin make more collagen, so you have firmer, younger-looking skin.

Facials and skin treatments and rejuvenation techniques are only part of youngifying yourself at a day spa. While a massage may not seem like a way to make you look younger, it really can.

How do you feel at the end of a day? If you're like most people, you are exhausted, your back hurts, and you can barely get through the evening, because you're so wiped out.

Having a therapeutic massage on a regular basis can change that. When your muscles are loose and relaxed, your body feels better. And when you feel better, and you're not tired you look better. So a massage can actually help you look younger.

Regular visits to a day spa can keep you looking great and, yes, younger. But try to consider this something you do for yourself because you love the way you feel and look not in a competitive way to look younger than her, whoever she is.

Remember that one of the main goals of a day spa is to help you relax and let go of your stress and worries. It's hard to do that when you're focusing on looking younger, right? So don't undo a lot of the work the day spa will do, by wrinkling up your face and concentrating on competing to look young.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to look great, and looking younger isn't something to be ashamed of. But the goal needs to be feeling and looking great as you are, not on trying to be something you're not.

That is worth thinking about, because not everyone thinks this through, and some people make themselves miserable trying to look younger so they can be happy. The only way to really be happy is to let yourself be happy whatever the circumstances. Then, if you want to go to a day spa, you can be happy while you're there and enjoy your new look when you leave. Happily, of course.