Time Out New York
Annual Spa Issue
"Relax to the Max!"
Feb 26 - March 4, 2004
By Billie Cohen

Please ease me. Find your bliss with these ultra relaxing treatments: Orange Splash Pedicure, Sweet Lily Nail Spa & Boutique. I know orange juice. I've drunk it. I've spilled it. It's not something that called out to me as a relaxing foot soak, but I was wrong. And I knew I was wrong about five minutes after I dipped a toe into a tub of the stuff - the main ingredient in Sweet Lily's Seasonal Pedicure ($55)- because that's when the tingle started. That was the natural alpha hydroxides doing their business. OJ is packed with 'em, and the warm, aromatic bath of fresh squeezed juice, sliced fruit, mint sprigs and essential oil of oranges not only energized my senses it also helped slough off the rough patches on my winter worn tootsies. My technician Wendy's gentle buff and file ministrations only added to the ahhh factor, and when she massaged my legs with an exfoliant of jojoba, orange and peppermint oils mixed with sugar, and followed up with a citrus- lotion rubdown, I would have plotzed - if I hadn't already been so relaxed.