There are a lot of Tip Jar stories that I haven’t told you, either because they seem kind of run of the mill (yet another European facial on yet another middle-aged lady for yet another $5 tip) or because I’m just not quite sure how to explain the encounter or what conclusion we can draw. I’m solving all these problems by giving you this (not at all chronological) list of some of the latest, with the salient facts, but not much else. It’s like Choose Your Own Adventure day, only you can Draw Your Own Conclusions instead.
Entries Tagged as ‘Body Treatments’
June 17, 2010
More Thoughts on Skin (This Time, With Cellulite!)
I am not saying that every time you pick at a spot on your face, you’re hating on yourself. What I am saying is that it can go there. And at Beauty U, I see skin hatred in action every single day.
April 27, 2010
[Tip Jar] Seven, back for a salt scrub.
Seven is back. And she doesn’t seem to mind getting naked in front of me. So why am I so uncomfortable with it?
March 16, 2010
Salty goodness.
The salt scrub might be the one spa treatment that isn’t about perfecting you or fixing you in some major way. Sure, we’re getting off the dead skin so you feel soft and smooth, but that’s all, folks. We’re not making you skinnier or changing the shape of your eyebrows or using this as an opportunity to sell you wrinkle cream or tell you how clogged your pores are.
March 2, 2010
Getting hands on with body treatments.
It seems to me that the customer is really paying for us to touch them and act like we’re okay about it — even if they are far from okay with their bodies themselves.
February 23, 2010
Would you like your breasts included in this service?
I think we finally have a totally body positive message being imparted by the beauty industry! Your breasts and butt are part of your body. Be proud of what you’ve got. (And um, treat them to a nice $75 salt scrub… okay, but A for effort.)
January 27, 2010
Oils from the earth. On my jeans.
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 [...]
