Mirror! Mirror! on the wall!

Beauty. It’s one of those things as women we have all thought about at one time or another. Some of us think about it more than others. Some of us think about it too much! But one thing is sure—little girls and women relate to beauty in some way, so it does make a good theme from anything to little girl birthday parties where they play dress up to big girl parties where we have makeovers, do each others nails, and all those things.

Beauty Party Event Ideas

As Christians, our ultimate goal is to be like Christ. That is where our true beauty comes in. One spiritual application of this is on looking deep to see if we are reflecting Christ in everything we say and do. Be sure to check the “Spiritual Applications” section below. I have tweaked the whole theme, but have listed several more items in that section especially. (June 2020)

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Beauty Event Concept

—Originally Posted May 01, 2002 as “Reflections of a Lovely Lady”
—Updated links June 2020

The event themes on the website can be used for showers, parties, women’s ministry retreats and activities, or church functions. Each theme will have one or several possible spiritual applications. I give you lots of info and ideas—You pick just a few to enhance your event. More ideas can be used for showers and parties, but less is always more for ministry events.

Theme Title Ideas

  • A Beautiful Life
  • A Meek and Quiet Spirit
  • A Woman of God
  • Beauty for Ashes (Isaiah 61:3)
  • Beauty in Action (love, kindness)
  • Beauty Queens (little girl birthday party)
  • Beautiful for Thee
  • Beyond Skin Deep
  • Dress Up Party (little girl birthday)
  • Fab & Gab (makeovers and fellowship)
  • Fabulous
  • Faith Lift
  • Fashion Show Party
  • From Head to Toe
  • From Sleeping Beauty to Waking Beauty (coming alive in Christ—Romans 6)
  • Girls Rule!
  • Glamour Party
  • Glamorous
  • Glow
  • Go Glam!
  • Glitz and Glam
  • Into the Looking Glass
  • It’s a Beautiful Life
  • Let’s Get Glamorous
  • Makeup Party
  • Makeover
  • Manicures and Pedicures. Oh My!
  • Manicures, Makeup, and Macaroons (serve macaroons of course! Or even attempt to make them as an activity.)
  • Mirror! Mirror!
  • Mirroring Faith
  • More Than a Pretty Face
  • Picture Perfect (See the Photography Theme)
  • Prayer Lift (Needed more than a face lift)
  • Reflecting Christ
  • Reflections
  • Reflections of a Lovely Lady
  • Shimmer & Sparkle
  • Something Beautiful (You could use the Bill Gaither song as an inspiration for this one)
  • The Woman in the Mirror
  • True Reflections

Spiritual Applications

  • Focus on taking a deep look at ourselves and seeing how much we reflect Christ.
  • Focus on waking up to our true beauty in Christ (Romans 6:11)
  • Focus on being beautiful through our love and kindness.
  • Focus on our true beauty within.
  • Focus on letting our beauty shine by taming the beast of the flesh.
  • Focus on the beautiful thing that God can do with broken,”ugly”, and messy lives.
  • Focus on having a “facelift” by changing our attitudes, outlooks, and dealing with our grumpies and what is in our hearts.
  • Focus on eating more fruit for beauty. In turn, concentrating on having more fruit of the Spirit in our lives on a daily basis.

Theme Verse Suggestions

“Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.”   Proverbs 31:30 (KJV)

“Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.” 1 Peter 3:3-4 (KJV)

“As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.”  Proverbs 27:19 (KJV)

Devotional Starters and Workshop Ideas

Simple Decorating

  • Tray of lovely and girly items
    • Line tray with a floral fashion scarf or lace.
    • Set a small flat mirror in the bottom of the tray.
    • Mirror on easil or small upight makeup mirror
    • Small vase of flowers
    • Feminine hat
    • Beauty products (makeup brushes, etc.)
    • Perfume bottles
    • Embroidered cloth handkerchief

Icebreakers

Discussion Starter Questions

  • What do you think are signs of physical beauty?
  • What do you think are signs of spiritual beauty?
  • What is your one must do beauty ritual?
  • What is the one beauty product or cosmetic that you cannot live without? (By the way—If I had to answer that question, it would be mascara!! I can’t live without mascara because I look dead without it!)

Dress the Model

  • Give attendees supplies such as rolls of toilet paper, throws (small blankets), scarves, belts, etc.
  • Give them a time limit to “dress the model”.
  • Give a small prize to the “models”.
  • Use this icebreaker as a discussion starter that God accepts us just as we are and He is our way to Salvation.  We can’t add anything to our lives (no accessories) that will make a difference.  There is nothing we can do to take ourselves to Heaven.  We just have to accept that Christ bore our punishment for sin and He is the only way.

Music

  • I Surrender All
  • Living for Jesus
  • Remind me Dear Lord (Gaither)
  • Soft classical music for background
  • Chorus: Beautiful For Thee  (not sure of author)
  • Favorites
    • If used for a Mother Daughter Banquet, you could gather up all the favorite hymns of the mothers/daughters and put them together on one long playing tape or cd.
    • Play it during your function.
    • Have a list of the names of the songs and the names of the ladies whose favorites they are typed up somewhere in your program bulletin or a handout so as they are played everyone can see whose favorite song it is.

Favor Ideas

  • Small hand mirrors or compact mirrors – Dollar stores are a great source for them.
  • Embroidered hankies – Dollar stores are a great source.  The 99Cent store carries them periodically.
  • Individually wrapped makeup wipes
  • Make-up or perfume samples
  • Facial Masks. My favorites are the Nature Republic ones. I got them first at the Nature Republic at the Korean Store in Sacramento a few years ago, but since, I’ve been buying them from the online Nature Republic through Amazon. They usually have a good deal on the value pack where you get them close to $1 a piece.
  • Lip gloss or balm
  • Small hand cream tubes or bottles.
  • Make up homemade beauty products ahead of time or make it an activity. I’ve shared some possible containers from Amazon, but do a search. There are so many container possibilities!
  • Small make-up bags (the small type that zip)
  • Identification Tags or ID Key Chains. Make up a form and make them look like identification tags.
    • Name: leave blank for them to write their name
    • Effective date: leave a blank for them to write their salvation date
    • Gender: Godly Lady
    • Height: On wings as eagles (Isaiah 40:31)
    • Weight: 0 – Gave my burdens to Jesus
    • Eyes: Compassionate
    • Hair: Numbered (Luke 12:7)
    • Race/Ethnicity: Family of God
    • Expiration Date: Eternal
  • You can also—–use the points above in the “identification” tags to make your own devotional by working up some info on each point.

Door Prizes

  • Gift certificates (restaurant, department store, ice-cream shop, etc.)
  • A dress pair of gloves
  • Perfume
  • Scarf
  • Face or feet beauty treatment masks
  • A make-up mirror
  • Package of makeup wipes (Check Marshalls. You can usually get good deals on pretty packaged ones there)
  • Package of lip gloss in various scents/flavors
  • Gift certificate to a local flower shop
  • Gift basket – Fill with lots of feminine things; bath salts, stationary, hair brush and hair doodads, nail polishes.

Just for Fun

Beauty Activity
Give each other beauty treatments. Be sure to have all the items you will need ready ahead of time.

  • Manicures
  • pedicures
  • Makovers

Group Craft
Be sure to give clear directions and have all your items needed ready ahead of time. Don’t forget glue or glue guns!

  • Do a mirror craft.
  • Get the hand mirrors from The Dollar Tree (the ones with handles) and decorate with stick on jewels, ribbons, silk flowers, etc.

Invitation Wording Ideas

  • Join us for some fun and get your makeup done
  • A fabulous time is waiting for you—get your makeup done and your nails painted too
  • Mirror Mirror on the wall—a fabulous time will be had by all
  • Join us to Glam it Up for ________________’s birthday party (girl’s birthday party)
  • Join us for a Makeup Party in honor of the Birthday Queen (girl’s birthday party)

Food and Serving

  • Serve fruit and dips
  • Have a Ladies Luncheon or Tea.

Photo Sources

  • Want the photo used for the page title of this theme?  Find the original at Unsplash here.
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Thanks for stopping in.  Please leave any extra ideas for this theme in the comments.  Or if you have used this theme, let me know!  Love hearing from you.

Creative blessings,
Julia

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