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New Orleans' Belladonna Day Spa Pledges to be Kind-Hearted on Behalf of Tsunami VictimsEdited By Madelyn Miller, the travellady For the months of February and March, Belladonna Day Spa will be focused on raising funds to benefit the victims of the Asian tsunami disaster. They have named their focus “Be Kind-Hearted.” Be Kind-Hearted will be donating money raised from product sales, service sales, and special events to Unicef for tsunami relief.
They hope to bring more awareness to clients, staff and community about the tsunami that wiped away homes, schools, and health facilities while demolishing thousands of kilometers of roads, bridges and power lines and irrevocably altered the lives of millions of people. Over 157,000 people were killed, 27,194 missing, and over 1 million people have been displaced. Staff will be wearing white tee shirts and lapel pins with the Be Kind-Hearted logo. These tee shirts and pins will be available for purchase for the months of February and March. They have chosen products throughout the spa around which red ribbons will be tied. We will donate 5% of the sales of these products for the months of February and March to tsunami relief. Clients can contribute by purchasing these red-ribbon products. Special services were for these Be Kind-Hearted months and the spa will donate $5.00 to tsunami relief for each of the special services received. Be kind-hearted spa servicesBe a chocoholic: the choco-palooza
Body deluxe
3 hours $225.00
For those of you who have that never-ending fascination with anything chocolate, Belladonna Day Spa has developed this sinfully delicious service just for you. You start your Chocopalooza in a serenely romantic still bath, laced with chocolate and raspberry sprinkles filled with nourishing almond oil, exquisite salts, and healing extracts while you listen to one of the Be on the Right Track Romance CD’s. You can feel yourself surrender, especially after one of our scrumptious chocolate truffles. You are then escorted to one of our treatment rooms, where your massage therapist will begin a light exfoliation using a raspberry scrub, rich in vitamin B and aloe vera. This gentle scrub will enhance the appearance of your skin and prepare you for your Chocolate Surrender Body Treatment, a chocolate body mask rich and soothingly smooth, and great for any skin type, especially after a hard, cold winter. Relax while you are cocooned in the mask and your therapist massages your face, neck and scalp. You follow this service with a shower. Returning to the table, your therapist utilizes “raspberry syrup” to massage the remaining stress from your body. We apply our infamous Relief Gel to get at those extra difficult spots in your back and then apply a decadent chocolate paraffin to melt away those stress and strains. Then enjoy a 50 minute massage utilizing our chocolate syrup massage oil to complete your Choco-palooza. Mini choco-palooza
90 minutes $125.00
Not all of us can be THAT indulgent time wise, but who says you can’t do the abbreviated choco-palooza. In a mini version of the previous service we do a scrumptious exfoliation using our raspberry scrub to enhance the appearance of your skin and prepare for the Chocolate Surrender Body Treatment, the chocolate body mask rich and lusciously hydrating to winter dehydrated skin. You shower and return to the table for our Chocolate Stress Relief utilizing a chocolate whip crème, a silky moisturizer rich in willow and aloe vera, and calorie free, our Relief Gel, and then the chocolate paraffin. A massage application of our chocolate whip crème follows. Manicure au chocolat
1 hour $40.00
Treat yourself to an indulgent chocolate raspberry manicure. Enjoy our chocolate truffles while your hands are completely pampered in chocolate and raspberry products designed to treat and repair your hands. The chocolate nutty scrub is a luxurious way to smooth away dry flaking skin, and allow the rich avocado oil, vitamins and nutritious meadow foam seed oil to do their thing. Then enjoy a massage using “raspberry syrup,” rich in antioxidizing vitamins and extracts. Submerge your hands in the utmost of decadence, chocolate and raspberry paraffin, known for its ultra hydrating benefits. You end your manicure with an application of Chocolate Whip Crème and polish. All are calorie-free except the delicious truffles. Enjoy!! Pedicure au chocolat
1 hour $55.00
The sweetest treat for your feet, the spa presents their pedicure au chocolat, utilizing the utmost in decadent chocolate products. We gently soak the feet in chocolate sprinkles, which will raise anyone’s spirits and relax the mind. We then exfoliate rough dry skin with our Chocolate Blizzard, a natural sea salt scrub infused with rich oils and extracts to assist in revitalizing dull skin. A delicious cocoa aroma enhances the whole experience. Raspberry syrup enticingly caresses the feet and legs to surrender all remaining stress. We then apply the Chocolate Surrender Mask that is utterly and deliciously soothing to the feet. Enjoy your chocolate truffles, fantasize to the Be on the Right Track Romance CD and indulge in the chocolate whip crème application to finish such an enticing treatment. S.W.A.K facial
1 hour $95.00
The S.W.A.K. Facial, developed to help clients address the damage a harsh winter can wreak on our skin, from fluctuating temperatures, to dry heat, and flaky skin. The S.W.A.K. Facial is the most gentle of all our facials using all natural ingredients known for their hydrating and rejuvenating benefits. Yogurt, honey, and essential oil of rose are used to gently exfoliate away dry, flaky skin while drenching the skin with much needed restorative emollients. Following a relaxing pressure point massage they apply a powerful DNA skin repair complex that helps speed cell renewal, tighten pores and dramatically increase your skin’s moisture level. Top that with a super hydrating rose, oat, and honey mask and seal it with an intensely hydrating pure collagen blanket infused with soothing extracts of aloe vera, and your skin will be supple and totally transformed. Spring is not far away. Be rubbed the right way
2 one-hour sessions including oils, lotion, and a book - $125.00
Belladonna introduces this special package for couples who want to learn “how to” properly massage each other, with the guidance of a licensed professional massage therapist and all the right products. The package consists of everything one needs to learn about how to make that special person in your life feel great and totally pampered. Bottles of Belladonna’s own provocative Sensual Blend Massage Oil, therapeutic Muscle Therapy Blend Massage Oil, and Vanilla Massage Lotion are included as well as a copy of The Book of Massage, an informative, illustrated book on massage techniques from basic to the more advanced. The cherry on top is a gift card for two one-hour sessions of “hands on” training by one of Belladonna’s licensed massage therapists. Be together
4.5 hours - $375.00 for 2
This popular couples package is a regular feature on Belladonna’s extensive menu of services. It includes the choice of a whirlpool or sauna, an indoor or outdoor massage for two, foot and hand care treatment, followed by lunch and a split of champagne served in the tea garden. Luscious lagniappe is a take-home gift of chocolate body paint and paintbrush. Be naughty. Be in love
4.5 hours/$475.00 for 2
Romantic trist for 2: the Aztecs were the first to document the use of chocolate as an aphrodisiac. Centuries later, Belladonna has taken their ancient wisdom and created a romantic chocolate experience, enhanced with beautiful roses and champagne. Immerse yourselves in a bubbly jacuzzi scattered with rose petals in our outdoor tranquility garden. Give yourselves to our body therapists who will rub and scrub both of you with our fabulously delicious chocolate nutty scrub, followed by an enticing massage for two with our special chocolate syrup on rose scattered massage tables. Lunch together leisurely in the tea garden while sipping champagne while the waterfalls whisper sweet nothings. Your hands and feet are next to be indulged in chocolate heaven. Using all delicious chocolate products we perform our chocolat manicure followed by the luscious pedicure au chocolat while listening to Andrea Bocelli’s Romanza cd. End your day together by taking home a jar of our famous chocolate body paint, complete with brush. Instructions are on the jar. Hint - be naughty. 2900 Magazine Street
New Orleans, Louisana
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Access New Orleans
HarperResource/Access Press
www.harpercollins.com For More Chocolate IdeasMore Fantasies for Chocoholics
Chocolatier Magazine
Great way to get your monthly chocolate fix Bittersweet
Recipes and Tales from a life in Chocolate
By Alice Medrich
Artisan Books
www.artisanbooks.com The Everything Chocolate Book
By Laura Tyler Samuels
A chocolate lover’s dream collection of cookies, cakes, brownies, candies and confections. Over 300 recipes
Adams Media Corporation
www.everything.com Bake and Freeze Chocolate Desserts
By Elinor Klivans
120 recipes to make now and enjoy later
www.bdd.com All About Chocolate
The ultimate resource for the World’s Favorite Food
By Carole Bloom
McMillan USA
www.mgr.com Chocolate Crazy
By Slvia Balser Hirsch
The celebrated Miss Grimble presents more inspired Desserts—all chocolate
MacMillan Publishing Company Mr. Food Simply Chocolate
Think chocolate goodies are hard to make? Not when you make them Mr. Food’s way
William Morrow and Company, Inc. The Chocolate Lover’s Guide To the Pacific Northwest
By Bobbie Hasselbring
Wordsworth Publishing Chocolate From the Cake Mix Doctor
By Anne Byrn
Workman PUBLISHING
www.workman.com 365 Great Chocolate Desserts
By Natalie Haughton
Harper Collins Publisher The Totally Chocolate Cookbook
By Helen Siegel and Karen Gillingham
Celestial Arts Chocolate
The Consuming Passion
By Sandra Boynton
Workman Publishing
www.workman.com The Little Book of Chocolate
By Katherine Khodorowsky and Herve Robert
Published by Flammarion
Distributed by Rizzoli through St. Martin’s Press Cinnamon Mornings and Chocolate Dreams
By Pamela Lanier
Lanier Publishing
www.travelguides.com Good Deeds With Chocolate
Chef Hilly Blondheim has put his culinary skills to good use and turned a simple boyhood treat into a life-saving instrument in the fight against breast cancer. Whether its sprinkled on top of fruit or ice cream, to enhance the flavor of coffee or a smoothie, blended into waffle or pancake batter, used in a chocolate martini, sampled as fondue, or simply to make the best cup of hot chocolate you have ever tasted, the possibilities for this gourmet chocolate mix are endless.
www.chefhillyskitchen.com Chocolate Travel Opportunities"The Chocolate Society café and shop at 36 Elizabeth Street, SW1 London. A mecca
for the chocoholic. Celebrating chocolate as a gourmet delicacy, there are handmade truffles, biscuits and all sorts of other chocolate-based goodies.
The shop is open from Monday to Saturday - for more information call 020 7259 9222." Great Chocolate Mousse Festival
New Brunswick, Canada Sutton Place Hotel weekend chocolate buffet
Toronto, Canada Hershey, Pennsylvania Norwegian Caribbean Lines afternoon chocolate buffet Chocolate tea buffet
Mark Hotel, New York Chocolate Festival
Poconos Manor Inn and Golf Resort
Pennsylvania The Lofts Hotel in downtown Columbus, Ohio is now offering chocolate lovers the opportunity to enjoy the ultimate chocolate experience, while indulging in the luxury of The Lofts. Featuring everything from a chocolate body massage and a lesson in how to make luxurious hand-dipped chocolates to a souvenir DVD copy of the movie “Chocolat”, the Pure Imagination Chocolat Lovers Package is a sweet escape. The Pure Imagination Chocolat Lovers Package starts at just $349 per couple and includes: Deluxe overnight accommodations at the incredible Lofts Hotel Two consecutive 30-minute chocolate massages The Pure Imagination Chocolat Experience: private chocolate making lesson with renowned chocolatier, Daniel Cooper, teaching the couple how to make hand-dipped chocolates. Guests will take home four hand-dipped chocolate-covered strawberries and a gift package of European hot chocolate Dinner for two (a $50 value) Nightcap of a bottle of champagne and fresh, hand-dipped truffles Breakfast for two in bed Souvenir DVD copy of the movie “Chocolat”
To top off this romantic getaway, couples can have a photo and a sweet message placed on the jumbo 18’x 32’ ADTV (Arena District Television) screen, located just a block west of The Lofts in the Arena District. Guests can even have a proposal or “I love you” message strategically timed for unveiling to a loved one. The cost of ADTV is $35 Madelyn's Favorite Chocolate TreatsDoubletree Hotel chocolate chip cookies
THE VERY BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES IN THE WORLD
http://www.travellady.com/Issues/February04/WheretoGettheVeryBest.htm Fairytale Chocolate Brownies 800-fairytale www.brownies.com Chocolate Cowboy Crunch from Bumblee Bee’s Baja Grill. 505-820-2862, Santa Fe, New Mexico. You can buzz through and buy them for $2.50 per package. Other irresistible treats are the Cowgirl kisses made of white chocolate and Espresso Brownies. Madelyn's Favorite Chocolate DessertsFrozen Hot Chocolate at Serendipity in New York Lollipop Tree at DavidBurke and Donatella in New York (okay, it is not ALL chocolate but it is so wonderful I am making an exception) Chocolate Hotel
The Hyatt Regency in Dallas, Texas offers a chocolate replica of its signature location at Reunion Tower. The Landmark Tower is a decadent dessert filled with Berry-chocolate ganache and Champagne Mouse on a sea of mango sauce and berries. At $13 it is a lot better deal than downtown real estate. This stellar sweet is more than enough for two serious chocoholics and worth every penny for the WOW factor Total Body Chocolate Experience
The Golden Door Spa in Carefree, Arizona offers the Chocolate Champagne Body Wrap. This Valentine's Day-inspired treatment teases the senses with tantalizing aromas while rejuvenating the skin. The treatment begins with a double exfoliation using chocolate, Ayurvedic herbs and natural fruit acids. An anti-oxidant mask of vitamins, green tea, chocolate and fruit of choice is then applied to the body and spritzed with champagne or healing vanilla water. The guest is wrapped like a delectable morsel while the active elements begin to renew and restore the body. Following a light shower, the body is caressed with an intensive hydrating cream. This unforgettable sensory adventure concludes with the guest's choice of custom-made chocolate in the same taste as the body treatment. Chocolate DrinksThe Chocolate Jacuzzi Martini
Balcony Club 1825 Abrams Rd @ La Vista Dr. Dallas, TX 75214-
6617 214-826-8104 Most Erotic Chocolate OpportunityTodos Santos in Santa Fe, New Mexico offers a chocolate kama sutra set. Since I visited right after Valentine’s Day, they were sold out. Not surprisingly, they cost $69. They can ship them anywhere with a weeks notice. I am sorry I could not photograph them to give my readers a titillating preview. Another interesting offering is “after dinner saints”. You could also use them after any sin. Saint boxes cost $28 for a box of four, $56 for a box of eight and $84 for twelve saints. I wonder what sins you commit would need a dozen saints for redemption? Todos Santos Chocolates and Confections, 125 East Palace Avenue #31, Santa Fe, New Mexico (505) 982-3855 Back to TravelLady Magazine |