diff --git a/app/views/layouts/notifier.html.haml b/app/views/layouts/notifier.html.haml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ab3ad44af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/layouts/notifier.html.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+!!!
+%html
+  %head
+    %meta{"http-equiv"=>"Content-Type", :content=>"text/html; charset=utf-8"}/
+    = render :partial => 'notifier_css'
+  %body
+    %header
+      = image_tag attachments['diaspora_white_on_grey.png'].url, :alt => "DIASPORA"
+    #container
+      = yield
diff --git a/app/views/notifier/_notifier_css.haml b/app/views/notifier/_notifier_css.haml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1c4154e5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/notifier/_notifier_css.haml
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+:css
+  body{
+    width:600px;
+    font-family:'Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif;
+    font-size:14px; 
+    color:#333;
+    }
+  #container{
+    margin-bottom:25px
+    min-height:400px;
+    padding-left:15px;
+  }
+  header{
+    background-color:#333;
+    padding: 15px;
+    margin-bottom: 25px;
+  }
+  p{
+    padding:5px;
+  }
+  p.small{
+    font-size:smaller;
+    color:#999;
+    font-style:italic;
+  }
+  a{
+    color:#107FC9;
+    font-weight:bold;
+  }
+  a:hover{
+    color: #22AAE0;
+  }
+  a:active{
+    color: #005D9C;
+  }
+  .large_text{
+    font-size:21px;
+    font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
+  }
diff --git a/app/views/notifier/new_request.html.haml b/app/views/notifier/new_request.html.haml
index bf964dbda..288b2efe7 100644
--- a/app/views/notifier/new_request.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/notifier/new_request.html.haml
@@ -1,59 +1,12 @@
-!!!
-%html
-  %head
-    %meta{"http-equiv"=>"Content-Type", :content=>"text/html; charset=utf-8"}/
-    :css
-      body{
-        width:600px;
-        font-family:'Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif;
-        font-size:14px; 
-        color:#333;
-        }
-      #container{
-        margin-bottom:25px
-        min-height:400px;
-        padding-left:15px;
-      }
-      header{
-        background-color:#333;
-        padding: 15px;
-        margin-bottom: 25px;
-      }
-      p{
-        padding:5px;
-      }
-      p.small{
-        font-size:smaller;
-        color:#999;
-        font-style:italic;
-      }
-      a{
-        color:#107FC9;
-        font-weight:bold;
-      }
-      a:hover{
-        color: #22AAE0;
-      }
-      a:active{
-        color: #005D9C;
-      }
-      .large_text{
-        font-size:21px;
-        font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
-      }
-  %body
-    %header
-      = image_tag attachments['diaspora_white_on_grey.png'].url, :alt => "DIASPORA"
-    #container
-      %p
-        = t('notifier.hello', => :name)
-      %p
-        = "#{@sender.real_name} (#{@sender.diaspora_handle})"
-        = t('.just_sent_you')
-        = t('.try_it_out')
-        %br
-        = link_to t('.sign_in'), new_user_session_url
-        %br
-        = t('notifier.love'), 
-        %br
-        = t('notifier.diaspora')
+%p
+  = t('notifier.hello', :name => @receiver.email)
+%p
+  = "#{@sender.real_name} (#{@sender.diaspora_handle})"
+  = t('.just_sent_you')
+  = t('.try_it_out')
+  %br
+  = link_to t('.sign_in'), new_user_session_url
+  %br
+  = t('notifier.love')
+  %br
+  = t('notifier.diaspora')
diff --git a/app/views/notifier/request_accepted.html.haml b/app/views/notifier/request_accepted.html.haml
index 9c4468916..c6de766e9 100644
--- a/app/views/notifier/request_accepted.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/notifier/request_accepted.html.haml
@@ -1,59 +1,12 @@
-!!!
-%html
-  %head
-    %meta{"http-equiv"=>"Content-Type", :content=>"text/html; charset=utf-8"}/
-    :css
-      body{
-        width:600px;
-        font-family:'Arial','Helvetica',sans-serif;
-        font-size:14px; 
-        color:#333;
-        }
-      #container{
-        margin-bottom:25px
-        min-height:400px;
-        padding-left:15px;
-      }
-      header{
-        background-color:#333;
-        padding: 15px;
-        margin-bottom: 25px;
-      }
-      p{
-        padding:5px;
-      }
-      p.small{
-        font-size:smaller;
-        color:#999;
-        font-style:italic;
-      }
-      a{
-        color:#107FC9;
-        font-weight:bold;
-      }
-      a:hover{
-        color: #22AAE0;
-      }
-      a:active{
-        color: #005D9C;
-      }
-      .large_text{
-        font-size:21px;
-        font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
-      }
-  %body
-    %header
-      = image_tag attachments['diaspora_white_on_grey.png'].url, :alt => "DIASPORA"
-    #container
-      %p
-        = t('notifier.hello', :name => @receiver.profile.first_name
-      %p
-        = "#{@sender.real_name} (#{@sender.diaspora_handle})"
-        = t('.accepted')
-        = link_to @aspect.name, aspect_url(@aspect)
-        = t('.aspect')
+%p
+  = t('notifier.hello', :name => @receiver.profile.first_name)
+%p
+  = "#{@sender.real_name} (#{@sender.diaspora_handle})"
+  = t('.accepted')
+  = link_to @aspect.name, aspect_url(@aspect)
+  = t('.aspect')
 
-        %br
-        = t('notifier.love') 
-        %br
-        = t('notifier.diaspora')
+  %br
+  = t('notifier.love') 
+  %br
+  = t('notifier.diaspora')
diff --git a/app/views/notifier/request_accepted.text.haml b/app/views/notifier/request_accepted.text.haml
index 334a68ddf..b0e9fa7a7 100644
--- a/app/views/notifier/request_accepted.text.haml
+++ b/app/views/notifier/request_accepted.text.haml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-= t('notifier.hello', :name => @receiver.profile.first_name
+= t('notifier.hello', :name => @receiver.profile.first_name)
 = "#{@sender.real_name} (#{@sender.diaspora_handle})"
 = t('notifier.request_accepted.accepted')
 = "#{@aspect.name} #{t('notifier.request_accepted.aspect')}\n" 
diff --git a/spec/mailers/notifier_spec.rb b/spec/mailers/notifier_spec.rb
index c0b3a4aea..608a129bf 100644
--- a/spec/mailers/notifier_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/mailers/notifier_spec.rb
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ describe Notifier do
     it 'has the name of person sending the request' do
       request_mail.body.encoded.include?(person.real_name).should be true
     end
+
+    it 'has the css' do
+      request_mail.body.encoded.include?("<style type='text/css'>")
+    end
   end
 
   describe "#request_accpeted" do