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Entries from March 2010
March 30, 2010
[Fun With Press Releases] Brooklyn Beauty School (And Beyonce, too!)
Check out this press release to see how beauty schools are capitalizing on the recession to bring in new recruits.
March 26, 2010
Pretty Price Check (03.26.10)
Bras, junk food, models and mud. Just another week on the Price Check. (Plus, don’t forget to submit your best posts to the Feminist Carnival. Deadline Monday!)
March 25, 2010
[Beauty Overheard] Nell Irvin Painter on race and beauty.
Nell Irvin Painter (author of THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE) talked to Salon about the intersection between race and standards of beauty.
March 24, 2010
[Tip Jar] Just saying no to peels with Client #4.
Four wants a glycolic peel, but tips me five bucks when I sell her a fancy anti-aging facial instead. I realize I’m learning how to upsell — and feel guilty about it.
March 23, 2010
Graduation Day (no, not mine.)
In case you still need proof that for-profit trade schools like Beauty U aren’t real schools — at least, not in any traditional, academic sense of the word — I give you this: Tonight, two of our senior students, Becky and Leslie are both scheduled to hit their 600 hour mark. We watched them take [...]
March 22, 2010
[Fun with Press Releases] Forget Stupak. It’s all about boob jobs.
Because sometimes, the beauty industry just goofs.
(Attention journalist friends: If you get a hilarious beauty press release, do send it to me at beautyschooledproject [at] gmail [dot] com. We’ll run them here with all names and contact info X-ed out to protect the not-quite-innocent.)
March 19, 2010
Pretty Price Check: Jessica Simpson Special Edition (03.19.10)
Let me tell you about the biggest sacrifice I’ve made for this project thus far: Sitting through all twenty minutes of Vh1′s season premiere of Jessica Simpson’s The Price of Beauty. This show is one hot mess.
March 19, 2010
Beauty Schooled on Crazy Sexy Life!
Hello and welcome to new readers coming over from my guest post on Crazy Sexy Life!
March 18, 2010
Join Beauty Schooled for the next Feminist Carnival: Beauty Edition! [Deadline March 29]
I’m so excited to announce that Beauty Schooled will be hosting Feminist Carnival No. 16: Beauty Edition on Wednesday, March 31. As you might recall, I participated in Feminist Carnival No. 11 over at Gender Across Borders back in January. It was so much fun that I decided to get in on the hosting action [...]
