My 600-hour adventure in esthetics school. Read about the project or catch up with weeks 1-10. This, for the uninitiated, is a paraffin foot dip. At Beauty U, we keep blocks of paraffin wax constantly melting in a warmer, which looks like a large, rectangular crockpot, circa 1978. When someone wants a paraffin dip, we [...]
Entries from January 2010
January 25, 2010
[Beauty, Overheard]
From a proud grandmother, pondering whether her granddaughters, ages 9 and 6, are beautiful: “Sometimes Tabitha looks terrible, sometimes Aurelia looks lovely — it’s really too soon to say. But you do wonder, what will they be?” [Have you heard something pretty unbelievable about being pretty? Send your quotes to beautyschooledproject [at] gmail [dot] com [...]
January 22, 2010
Pretty Price Check (01.22.10)
The Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty last week. $735: The price of Clive Christian No. 1 Pure Perfume, which Bella Sugar says is the world’s most expensive fragrance — and continue to sell well, despite the recession and it’s weirdly Renaissance Faire-inspired packaging. 2013: When Europe bans [...]
January 21, 2010
More thoughts on chemical peels.
My 600-hour adventure in esthetics school. Learn about the project or catch up with weeks 1-9. Stephanie and I are talking about how she did just fine with Monday’s alpha hydroxy acid peel, while I cried like a little tiny girl. For starters, she’s had more experience with peels because one of her best friends [...]
January 19, 2010
(Not) hooked on a peeling.
My 600-hour adventure in esthetics school. Learn about the project or catch up with weeks 1-9. Here’s how Milady’s explains a chemical peel, which is where an esthetician paints your face with glycolic acid (a kind of alphadydroxy-acid derived from sugar cane) to exfoliate away your dead skin cells, from page 384: These light peels [...]
January 15, 2010
Pretty Price Check (01.15.10)
Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty last week. 10: The number of plastic surgery operations that reality TV star Heidi Montag had in a single day, according to her “Addicted to Plastic Surgery” interview with People Magazine. Um, you think? (Via DoubleX.) $40: How much it costs to [...]
January 14, 2010
Try the Kool-Aid, it’s delicious.
An excerpt from our packet on “People Skills:” WHY CUSTOMERS QUIT 1% DIE 3% MOVE AWAY 5% OTHER FRIENDSHIPS 9% COMPETITIVE REASONS 14% PRODUCT DISSATISFACTION 68% QUIT BECAUSE OF ATTITUDE OF INDIFFERENCE TOWARD CUSTOMER BY SOME EMPLOYEE. REMEMBER, YOU REPRESENT THE COMPANY. YOU MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. KEEP A GOOD ATTITUDE, SO WE CAN KEEP OUR [...]
January 13, 2010
Spas — the new harems?
Hey, remember last week, when I was talking about the weird prostitute vibe that comes up when a female esthetician works on a male client? A new women-only spa is opening in Marrakesh, calling itself Harem. Here, a few tidbits from their press release: The Harem is a sanctuary for women who yearn for – [...]
January 12, 2010
Deconstructing facials.
My 600-hour adventure in esthetics school. Read about the project or catch up with weeks 1-9. I think we’re all getting itchy about facials. It feels like we’ve been doing them for 100 weeks (reality: about five) but we have to perform over 75 before we graduate, so the empty pages in our blue books [...]
January 11, 2010
Are you green, glam and gorgeous?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jan/08/miss-earth-2010
