The Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty this week. Twelve Hour Work Days (and sometimes, as little as $8/day in take-home pay) are the price for Romanian immigrants selling department store cosmetics in the UK. A Tax on Tanning is under discussion in the Senate. As in at [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘week 6’
December 10, 2009
Scott’s Beauty Business Sense.
My 600-hour adventure in esthetics school. Click here to read about the project, or catch up with Weeks 1-5. Tonight we’re summoned over to the cosmetology classroom to find out exactly what Simon Scott was up to the other night when he promised that we could earn $100,000 a year — if only we had [...]
December 9, 2009
(Ingredient Watch.) And you thought placenta was weird.
(Well, except Chandler who pointed out that it’s ultimately just medical waste. Estrogen-containing — and thus most likely breast cancer contributing — medical waste.) Chickens, that was just the beginning. And now that we’ve started down this rich-people-will-put-anything-on-their-faces road, I feel more or less honor-bound to tell you that Mom Logic rounded up some other choice options, [...]
December 8, 2009
Don’t read this if you’re squeamish about skin, Part 1.
My 600-hour adventure in esthetics school. Click here to read about the project, or catch up with Weeks 1-5. We’re continuing to practice our cleansing and toning, so tonight I work on Meg, who is wrestling with two milia that have erupted on her face. We’re taught never to say pimple or zit, at Beauty [...]
