If you do not get a chocolate bar from your Valentine, don’t worry. He must be planning to surprise you with something more interesting. Take a case of Malay Dave, a communication professional at an MNC, who has gifted his wife Gauri a special gift – a dark chocolate bath.
Dave plans to spend Valentine’s Day (V-Day) working at his office which he is sure will irritate his wife. But, he has made plans for her to spend the day relaxing and rejuvenating herself. So that when Dave returns home at night, she is ready to receive him, smelling special for a memorable evening.
“I want her to relax and feel beautiful,” says Dave. Many like Dave have got hooked to this newer way of making their soulmates happy. Gifting a chocolate bar is ever green, but how about drenching your Valentine into a pool of chocolate or strawberry and cream this time. The latest V-Day gifting fad has caught the fancy of young lovers, who are buying each other precious time of ‘solitude’ that one can just spend alone relaxing.
“You can make your soulmate feel relaxed and happy, only if you are in the same frame of mind,” says Tanvi Godiawala-Shah, a noted cosmetologist. “The logic is to buy time of ‘perfect solitude’ for someone special and give space to revitalize,” adds Shah.
Similarly, Ashna Shah, an adolescent, has bought a fitness package for her mom. “I want her to take care of her health and this is my way of telling her to focus on being fit,” she says.
Arpan Sandilya, a counselor and nutrition expert, says, “We have sold gift coupons for tummy tuck, thigh reduction and hip reduction packages, which couples exchange. We also have young daughters wanting their moms to come down to us for a complete makeover and fitness regimes. They buy their moms gift coupons for fitness packages.”
The wives egging their husbands for a makeover have been buying out this V-Day cosmetic treatment sessions for turning their men into better looking better-halves, say cosmetologists.
