If I leave this house, it will be in handcuffs. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden – My Review
And with her growing attraction to Nina’s handsome husband Andrew, she’s not even sure she’d wanted to.īut offers that seem too good to be true are usually exactly that, as Millie is about to discover. Still broke and homeless, Millie is not exactly in a position to quit. The groundskeeper who looks at Millie as if he is pitying her but refuses to say anything concrete. Nina’s demands growing more and more ridiculous.
The fact that the doors to her room only lock on the outside. When she gets a job offer by Nina Winchester to be a housemaid in the Winchester’s beautiful home, she is more than happy to overlook all the small issues that come with the position.īut once settled in, the piling mess of all the things that don’t add up are getting harder and harder to ignore. Millie is desperate to get a decent job, and fast. As I follow Andy up the staircase, I stay close to him. It’s dark, and the stairs creak with every step. I don’t have any crazy phobias about attics, but the staircase leading up there is kind of creepy. Still I felt much lighter - both on my scalp and in my mind.The Housemaid by Freida McFadden – Book DetailsĪ huge thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC of The Housemaid by Freida McFadden in exchange for an honest review. So even if your favorite TikTok head spa practitioner is miles away, you may be able to find a treatment at a nearby J-beauty spa.Īfter my service, I went back to the real world, the one filled with hot concrete and steaming subways and impending deadlines. "Just like how all salons offer cute, blowout, color, or keratin, pretty much all Japanese salons have a head spa on their menu, too," Borges added. Borges tells me that a head spa "can be found in almost any Japanese salon," so I might shop around and try other treatments. But if I had Upper West Side money, I'd go every month.
MYMIND REVIEW FULL
We finished it up with a simple blowout, and I was out the door.Īt $220, the service is a little cost-prohibitive to regularly maintain on my editor's salary (yes, I paid for it in full - no writer freebies here).
MYMIND REVIEW SKIN
I could feel smoother skin on my scalp, and you could have probably seen your reflection in my hair, that's how shiny it was. My head felt clean - maybe the cleanest I've ever noticed it. Once again, Borges showed me the camera-view of my follicles, and the sebum we'd noticed just an hour before vanished. But once the treatment was over, my scalp told a different story. I woke up with a full layer of drool around my lips. Just before the end, my hair marinated in a mask Borges made especially for my scalp from a mixture of mahogany wood and organic sage, which she often uses on guests with oily scalp, as the ingredients help to rebalance sebum. Bhansuali, he advised people skip the head spa and head straight to a dermatologist if they are experiencing unexplained hair loss, persistent scalp itch, growths on the skin, and rashes that do not respond to over-the-counter products or spa treatments. It should not be mistaken for a medical treatment for diseases of the scalp and hair." Like Dr. It is similar to a facial, but for the scalp and hair. "There is a cultural element to a lot of these practices and while we doctors and scientists evaluate based on the science available to us, there are generations of experience in other countries around many of these, or similar practices," he says.īrendan Camp, MD, a board-certified dermatologist also based in New York City, adds that "A head spa is a pampering treatment. Bhanusali, MD, had not heard the term "head spa" before I reached out, after some TikTok research he answered a few of my questions. Though New York City-based board-certified dermatologist Dhaval G. "This sounds like snake oil," one dermatologist, who's name I'll keep out of this story, said when I asked her to comment. TikTok may have fallen in love with the head spa, but some in the medical establishment are not so sure. What usually follows this interest is appropriation, so I'm so thrilled that this time head spa is gaining a lot of attention as an Asian-rooted practice." "The way we do things in Asia is often popular here in the West - look at jade rolling, facial Gua Sha, etc. "Many Asian healing traditions are often enticing and alluring to a western audience that has not seen or experienced it before," she explains. Chiu adds that the head spa has become popular on TikTok and Instagram because westerners see it as "an intriguing foreign novelty."
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