Lifestyle

Category: Beauty Professions

  • Spas

    Spas

    The  term  spa is commonly thought to  be  derived  from  the  name  of the  town of Spa in Belgium,  where  a natural hot  springs has  been  a site of healing  since before  Roman times.  Evidence of human visitation to hot  and  cold  springs can be traced  to prehistoric times,  and  many  people  worldwide have  believed …

  • Models and Modeling

    Models are generally  divided  into  groups based  on the  type of work they do; the most  common types of models are fashion, glamour, fine art, and body part models. While  modeling has a reputation for consisting solely of tall, thin, exceptionally beautiful women, the  industry actually  encompasses both men  and  women with a huge  range …

  • Male Models

    While  the  profession of the  male  fashion and  underwear model  is a relatively recent invention, men  have  served  as models for centuries, primarily  in artists’ studios and  academies. In  the  18th  and  19th  centuries, formally  trained artists regularly  conducted studies of  frequently nude, living  models, both male  and female.  Artistic  institutions, in  this  period, especially …

  • Manicurists And Nail Technicians

    People  who work at nail salons are usually  called manicurists. But when  it comes to  more  skilled  manicurists engaged in  some  complicated and  refined  method of manicuring, they  are  often  called  nail technicians. Although manicurists have worked  in barbershops and  beauty  salons  since the early 20th  century, they typically served  only  the  well-to-do. However, by…

  • Labor

    The fashion industry’s association with a world of glamour and haute couture has been contrasted with the issues of sweatshop labor, including child labor, unregulated factories, below subsistence-level wages, and forced labor. This dichotomous view of work and production in the beauty  industry becomes even more  complex when not only manufacturing, but also beauty  sales…

  • Designers

    Paris,  France, has  been  the  center of the  fashion world  for  centuries, and  any fashion designer desiring fame  and  fortune went  there. Parisian fashion gained its foothold on  history during the  reign  of Louis  XIV, “The  Sun  King,”  in  the 17th  century. Skilled tailors  spent  hundreds of hours clothing the many courtiers as they flew…

  • Dermatology

    Dermatology, a medical  specialization that  deals  with  skin  care,  emerged from the  study  of venereal  diseases. The  first schools of dermatology were established in 18th-century France  and  early dermatologists specialized, for example,  in the treatment of diseases  such  as syphilis. In the United States,  the link between sexual  disease  and  skin  disorders such  as lesions …

  • Barbers and Barbershops

    Barbers  have had  an influence on the evolution of the American beauty  industry that  is disproportionate to their  numbers. As members of the  oldest  trade  in the beauty  industry, they have, until  the  1970s,  maintained a system  of occupational segmentation that  let them  serve the  most  lucrative customers. They  controlled the  hair  care  market through…

  • Avon

    Known  to many  as the  ding-dong company for its door-to-door sales approach, Avon began  as the California Perfume Company in 1886. Its founder, David  Hall McConnell, originally  a bookseller, started giving  out  perfume samples to  his book  costumers and  found that  they  thought the  samples were  more  attractive than the  literature. Avon’s products center on …