Today I got the chance to check out the pedicure at Nordstrom SPA in Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall. Once again as soon as I was escorted to the relaxation room I was relaxed.

Nordstrom SPA Relaxation Room Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall, Arizona

I met my Nail Therapist Victoria Brent and began soaking my feet in warm water infused with aromatherapy. Once the water cooled off I then moved to the the SPA room and for the first time I had my pedicure in a super comfortable recliner chair. My feet was exfoliated, scrubbed, massaged, wrapped in paraffin, and then toes painted to perfection. Then I sipped my herbal tea while waiting for them to dry. All in all my feet are happy!

Nordstrom SPA Scottsdale

…my herbal tea while waiting for my pedicure to dry

Nordstrom SPA Scottsdale located at: 7055 E Camelback Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85251, (480) 429-1670.

Hot Stone Massage at Nordstrom Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall is just what the doctor ordered. Try it you like it:) I normally go to Nordstrom for shopping and sometimes forget that there is a cool SPA there also. Basically the SPA reception you see as you enter the SPA is just the tip of the iceberg, as soon as you are walked into the SPA rooms it’s big inside.

Nordstrom SPA in Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall Arizona

Best Spas In Scottsdale Arizona

The staff is super friendly and my Hot Stone Massage started with a relaxing foot soak sitting on a comfortable chair with ambient lights and music. The Hot Stone Massage was super relaxing and I hear is also very good for athletes or if you like to work out, or anyone who like to treat their body. The hot stones retain their heat which is much more penetrating and effective this way to sooth aching muscles. So all in all, if you are out of town and visiting Scottsdale or just local looking for one of the best spas in Scottsdale check out Nordstrom SPA.

***My Hot Stone Massage at Nordstrom SPA was paid by Nordstrom SPA***

This post is because I love shopping at Nordstrom and these are a good selection of perfumes just in time for Mother’s Day or anytime.

Viktor & Rolf ‘Flowerbomb’ Mother’s Day Set

Full-bodied and opulent, Flowerbomb is a floral explosion, a profusion of flowers that has the power to make everything seem more positive. Set includes eau de parfum, body lotion and shower gel (1.7 oz. each) and a roller ball, (0.34 oz.). Notes include: bergamot, tea, freesia, jasmine, orange blossom, orchid, rose and patchouli. Price: $118 ($144 value);

Balenciaga Paris Mother’s Day Set

A lovely paradox. A demure violet with airy blossom and delicate peppery notes. A fragrance that is mysterious and fragile, yet leaves a lasting trail. Set includes eau de parfum (2.5 oz.), body lotion (3.4 oz.) and a deluxe mini eau de parfum (0.25 oz.). Notes include: pepper, violet leaves, violet, cedar wood, patchouli and vetiver. Price: $140 ($169 value);

Jo Malone Sakura Cherry Blossom Cologne

Celebrating one of nature’s most dramatic yet delicate displays, Jo Malone introduces the limited-edition Sakura Cherry Blossom Cologne, a scent inspired by those few precious days when the profusion of blooms paints pastel pink clouds onto spring’s bright blue skies. Delight in an exquisite interpretation of the airiness of blossoms fluttering on boughs. Notes include: cherry blossoms, rose, bergamot, musk and woods. Price: $105 for 3.4 oz and $55 for 1.0 oz.

BVLGARI ‘Mon Jasmin Noir’ Eau de Parfum (Nordstrom Exclusive)

A luminous and addictive new floral fragrance, cut like a gem with dazzling clarity and offering an undeniably modern and sensual femininity. Notes include: lily of the valley, sambac jasmine, musky nougatine and vibrant wood. Price: $105 for 2.5 oz and $80 for 1.7 oz.

On another exciting fragrance “note,” Bond No. 9 is opening in select Nordstrom doors in May 2011. Stores include: Downtown Seattle, Downtown Portland, Cherry Creek (CO), Mall of America (MN), The Shops at Mission Viejo (CA) and Fashion Valley Center (CA).

Available at select Nordstrom stores and online at Nordstrom.com

ARCONA natural skincare is proud to launch at Nordstrom Santa Monica Place this Friday, August 27, 2010!

For over 20 years, ARCONA has been known for its cult following among Hollywood A-listers, including Natalie Portman, Anna Kendrick, Zac Efron, China Chow, Kellan Lutz, Jessica Szohr and Emily Deschanel. LA-based ARCONA is thrilled to bring their highly efficacious products – and star-power – to Nordstrom! As celebs have known for years, the natural skincare formulas deliver flawless skin – that glows.

Nordstrom will carry the ARCONA line, including favorites such as Triad Pads, Magic White Ice and Wine Hydrating Mask.

ARCONA will also be launching at several Nordstom locations across the country,

Now through October 2010:

August:

Santa Monica, CA – Santa Monica Place OPENS August 27th!

Las Vegas, NV – Fashion Mall

San Jose, CA – Valley Fair

Newport, CA – Fashion Island

September:

Chicago, IL – Michigan Ave

Portland, OR – Downtown

Dallas, TX – NorthPark Center

Boca Raton, FL – Town Center at Boca Raton

October:

Portland, OR – Washington Square

Honolulu, HI – Ala Moana

Short Hills, NJ – The Mall at Short Hills

San Diego, CA – Fashion Valley

All products will be available for purchase on the Nordstrom beauty floor, as well as on www.nordstrombeauty.com.

July 16th through August 1st, 2010, shoppers nationwide will participate in what has been an annual ritual since the 1960’s, the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale. Vacation days are planned around it, lines form in anticipation of it – and it’s not only for the pre-season savings on fall fashion and accessories.

Nordstrom Anniversary Sale 2010 showing CLARISONIC Berry Mia’ Set (Nordstrom Exclusive) $149 ($189 Value)

During the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale, the Cosmetic department provides their devoted beauty customers the opportunity to scoop up unique limited-edition items from a wide variety of brands, which are only available during this time.

The Nordstrom team works closely with their fragrance, cosmetic, hair care, skincare and men’s grooming brands to develop compelling and one-of-a-kind offerings solely for this event. Some brands use this opportunity to preview fall product launches while others see it as a chance to get a little experimental with the product development process. It also allows brands to create value sets for their customers. This means sneak previews of next season, the chance to pick up something few others will have, and the prospect of finding great beauty deals.

This year, over 100 beauty brands are participating. Some highlights include MAC, Chanel, Juicy Couture, NARS, Kiehl’s, Laura Mercier, Marc Jacobs, Dior and Bobbi Brown. As of July 16th, 2010, the sale goes live and customers both in store and online can purchase the limited-edition Nordstrom Beauty Exclusives.

***GIVEAWAY***Hello beauties! Simply read the following Lancôme Définicils Precious Cells Mascara post and leave a comment telling TalkingMakeup.com why should we pick YOU to WIN your own Lancôme Définicils Precious Cells Mascara!! 1 winner. Go go go & good luck xo

Lancôme’s latest and greatest mascara, Définicils Precious Cells ($29), is now available exclusively at Nordstrom and Nordstrom.com. It’s Lancôme’s first mascara to regenerate the condition of lashes, minimize lash loss and, of course, make your lashes look fab.

It contains the nourishing apple lysate ingredient found in Lancôme’s Absolue Precious Cells skincare collection and thanks to the creamy new formula and helix-shaped new brush, it delivers defined lashes with lash-by-lash volume.

Définicils Precious Cells won’t be available nationally until August 2010, but you can get it at Nordstrom right now!!

Estée Lauder introduces NEW Pure Color Gloss a collection of 34 seductive shades in 3 brilliant finishes. The collection features their exclusive True Vision Technology that wraps pigments in a crystal-like coating to provide intense, brilliant color and shine to lips. And a custom collection by world-renowned makeup artist and Estée Lauder Creative Makeup Director Tom Pecheux. The Pure Color Gloss Custom Color Collection by Tom Pecheux features 6 high-performing shades – his secret weapon for creating runway looks from avant-guard to natural femininity.

The NEW Pure Color Gloss collection will be available at all Estée Lauder counters nationwide and www.esteelauder.com beginning mid-June 2010.

The limited edition Pure Color Gloss Custom Color Collection by Tom Pecheux will be available exclusively at Nordstrom stores nationwide and www.nordstrom.com beginning mid-June 2010.

The Latest Nordstrom Exclusive: Lancôme Définicils Precious Cells High Definition Amplifying Mascara.

If you crave lashes that are as captivating as A-lister, Julia Roberts, the celebrity ambassador of the collection, then look no further. This innovative mascara not only regenerates damaged follicles, but conditions deep within to deliver thick, rich lashes.

The secret behind the luxurious, impactful finish is the complex ingredients. Infused with Swiss Apple Extract, a revolutionary plant derivative that reinforces and protects lashes, this product can give you lashes that look healthy, strong and utterly resilient. This beauty breakthrough not only defines lashes beautifully, but uses a blend of five, triple-coated waxes to deliver fullness from root to tip.

It wouldn’t be a Lancôme mascara without a technologically-advanced, performance-driven brush. This new multi-faceted component was designed for flawless application. Short bristles deposits the formula along the lash base, while the flexible, longer bristles coat the entire follicle for dramatically glamorous results.

Beginning June 2010, the Lancôme New Définicils Precious Cells High Definition Amplifying Mascara ($29) will be available exclusively at Nordstrom and Nordstrom.com.

New Perfume for Summer 2010: Loving the new EAU MEGA Viktor & Rolf MINI MEGA eau de parfum ($50 for 20 ml). Flowerbomb fans I suspect you might be ‘on fire’ to find out how EAU MEGA smells in comparison. Well, EAU MEGA is not as musky and it has a bit of a zesty, fresh, and fruity notes to it. But it’s not that pure floral and pure fresh scent which I’m not into it, it’s much more complex and rounded. For day time use perhaps. If I like a perfume, though, I wear it day and night, so as always feel free to make that decision yourself. All in all, EAU MEGA MINI MEGA is a very lovely and very wearable perfume. It ranks on my top list of best perfumes of all time. A big responsibility I know, but I just love it!

EAU MEGA Viktor & Rolf MINI MEGA Perfume. Fragrance notes: basil, sandalwood, peony, musk, aquatic notes, cedar, cashmere wood, white musk, citron, pear, jasmine, violet leaf.

EAU MEGA is back with MINI MEGA. “A new super heroine is born. Her world of beauty and glamour becomes reality, she megafies the world.” Viktor & Rolf

When you open EAU MEGA Viktor & Rolf MINI MEGA Perfume packaging it reads: “Enter the world of Eau Mega, the fragrance larger than life”.

In designing their new heroine’s scent, Viktor & Rolf wanted to compose the score of a maximal fragrance with powerful charisma. EAU MEGA, the scent of seduction and femininity is now concentrated in a miniature bottle, like a precious vial that reveals the powers of an expectational woman; a woman of obvious glamour and extreme sensuality, whose grace and spirit are obvious at first and are incarnated in a vial that is discrete yet present, simple yet elegant, an accessory yet a must.

Where it is displayed, without limit or constraint, the power of MINI MEGA bewitches, as a dazzling demonstration that affirmation of strength and temper can be expressed in a refinement of an elementary paradox: MEGA can be contained in MINI, extravagance is expressed in the obvious, power is seen in its essence.

Available exclusively at Nordstrom.

Visit the Viktor & Rolf website at: www.VIKTOR-ROLF.COM

Nordstrom beauty exclusive, MAC’s OPULASH Mascara. With MAC’s New OPULASH MASCARA become the boldest, baddest gal in the joint. Cast a spell over the room with a sweep of MAC’s technologically advanced magic wand – a feat of beauty engineering that grabs the lash at the root to lift and holds on to exaggerate the lashes. The tapered tip makes inner corners sleeker to reach so never again worry about spider-web lash syndrome.

Pump up your look with an extreme volumizing formula that curls and separates for thick, dark, dramatics lashes. This beauty breakthrough could only be brought to you through the collaboration of the innovators of the industry, MAC + Nordstrom.

The MAC Opulash Mascara ($14) will be available exclusively in Nordstrom stores (and Nordstrom.com) on April 22nd, 2010, however true beauty addicts can pre-order (the link will go live beginning on April 12th).