The Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty last week. $55-58: How much you’ll pay for the new Spanx for Men undergarments line. Dudes, read Broadsheet’s helpful tips on navigating shapewear before you buy, so the extra ten minutes you’ll need getting them off to go to the bathroom [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘week 14’
February 18, 2010
Selling on up. And making it up as you go.
Here’s the secret to have a successful salon or spa in one word: Upselling. Our goal, as soon as you walk in the door, is to convince you that hey, actually, a more expensive facial would be more beneficial for your skin than the bog-standard European facial you signed up for, or that in fact, [...]
February 17, 2010
[Beauty Overheard] Another fine reason to go Team Jacob.
Well here’s Robert Pattinson on surviving the cover shoot for the March issue of Details: “I really hate vaginas. I’m allergic to vagina. But I can’t say I had no idea, because it was a 12-hour shoot, so you kind of get the picture that these women are going to stay naked after, like, five [...]
February 16, 2010
The other kind of Brazilian beauty.
Last week, I had my first brush with a Brazilian bikini wax. Well, let’s face it, I just overheard other people learning how to do one and I pretty much broke out in hives — but don’t worry, my turn to wield the wax is coming up in a few weeks, and you’ll get every [...]
