
When you’re buying your holiday gifts, there’s no shame in slipping a beauty treatment in the metaphorical cart for yourself. An hour or two of luxury can recharge your batteries for the season’s more stressful moments, whether that’s carrying a whole (heavy!) turkey around or repairing a roof damaged by reindeer hooves.
What’s more, a bit of pampering can be easy on the wallet—especially if you try out our favorite budget beauty treatments, which we’ve organized from smallest to splashiest splurges:

The typical Groupon price: around $40
Pro tip: At a Korean bathhouse, at least, everyone is naked in much of the facility. So you should forget looking cute and come prepared to do nothing, as we suggest in our six things to know before you go. Shop bathhouse experiences.

The typical Groupon price: around $45
Pro tip: There are a lot of different massage styles—including Thai massage, Swedish massage, and others not named after countries. This handy chart breaks down seven different massage styles, helping you pick the one that’s right for you. Shop massages.

The typical Groupon price: Around $50
Pro tip: Basic facials can clear away unwanted buildup of oil or dead skin, but estheticians can also create custom facials to target problems like acne or aging. Use this flowchart to find the best facial to give as a gift … to yourself. Shop facials.

The typical Groupon price: around $80
Pro tip: As you’ll learn in our first-timer’s guide to eyelash extensions, most salons attach extensions with glue that needs to stay dry for 12 hours. That means no showering, no working out—and no guilt about any of it. Shop eyelash extensions.

The typical Groupon price: from $99– $150, depending on the treatment areas
Pro tip: It’s not super painful. At least, it wasn’t for Favin, who tried it out for her underarms. “To feel the laser at all, I had to focus, and even when I did, all I could sense were some faint pinpricks,” she said. Shop laser-hair-removal services.
The typical Groupon price: Around $50
Pro tip: According to our beauty expert Favin, who tried it herself, in a float tank “it’s hard to tell where you end and the water begins!“ (Until you get out of the water, that is.) In the video above, the co-owner of a Chicago float club describes the experience to a first-timer as, "relaxing in a pool of water that's heated to the temperature of your skin and that's been saturated with a thousand pounds of Epsom salts." Shop float-tank treatments.
