Category: Beauty Treatments
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Whitening, Brightening, and Bleaching
The obsession with all things bright and shiny, from hair to teeth, from face to body, inspired the beauty industry to take on the vintage, sepia tones associated with age and ripeness and offer beauty products and treatments that could offer a clear, blank, and often brightened slate to celebrities and regular consumers alike. Although…
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Waxing
Waxing is a semi-permanent hair removal process that pulls hair out by the root. A solution of wax is applied to the skin over the hair and removed in the direction of the hair growth. Hair does not grow back for 2–8 weeks, depending on the area of the body being waxed and the individual’s…
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Tattoos
A tattoo is a type of body modification in which dye is injected into the skin to alter the pigment. Tattooing is prominent throughout the world, and there is anthropological evidence of some sort of tattooing for the past 10,000 years. Techniques vary, but the most common form of tattooing involves pricking the skin and…
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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 …
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Piercing
Piercing is a type of semi-permanent body modification. In the technique most commonly used by piercing professionals today, a hollow-point needle is inserted in the skin to cut a small opening for the display of jewelry, usually a ring or a stud. Although vulnerable to infection, the flesh surrounding the puncture wound tends to heal…
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Organic Trends And Products
Organic trends and products within the beauty industry are produced according to organic standards: using ingredients derived from organically grown, natural botanicals. This is a growing trend in the beauty industry, with many beauty companies promoting a link between natural beauty and environmental health. Principles Organic products are those that use production methods and include…
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Nail Art
Nail art refers to decorative embellishments of fingernails, while nail art fashion includes designs, paintings on nails, and the length of fingernails. This tradition of decorative embellishments of female fingernails has lasted for over 6,000 years in one form or another. As foot binding and the desire for diminutive feet originated among elites and initially …
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Johnson Products
George Ellis Johnson, born in Richton, Mississippi in 1927, founded the Johnson Products Company in Chicago in 1954. Johnson had worked as a chemist for the Fuller cosmetics company for 10 years before starting his own business with 500 dollars in borrowed money. The company represented part of a larger trend of growth in the…
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Health And Safety
Since 1938, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has regulated the safety, rather than the efficacy, of cosmetic products. The regulation of cosmetics, ensuring some measure of safety to its users, was the result of problems caused by cosmetics, from redness and swelling to blindness, paralysis, and death. In the late 19th century, women…
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Male Grooming
The preoccupation with male grooming, most closely associated with the modern phenomenon of the metrosexual and his fastidious rituals of hair and skin care and physical fitness, is not simply the product of late-20th-century consumer culture. Men have been obsessed with their physical appearance for centuries. In the ancient Egyptian world, for example, men practiced…