The Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty this week.

Or really, what we’ve been paying the past three weeks, since I’m back and using this post to get myself caught up on everything. …

This is probably the most-read post on all of Beauty Schooled, so I feel a little lazy finishing up this Best of Beauty U retrospective with it.* But I sort of love it for all of the weird nerves it …

This is one of the posts — and moments — that keeps haunting me. When I saw Markesha in that big black t-shirt, I was so fed up with the strange Beauty U culture that is really our whole culture, …

This one needs no introduction. It’s just Milady’s Pure. Solid. Gold.

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Back for the final week of my own Graduation Hiatus (but I am missing you, wherever I am, sweartogod!) with this post about Leslie’s graduation. Which was one of the saddest Beauty U nights ever. Sorry for continuing that theme…

So after Siobhan O’Connor and Alexandra Spunt made me give up styling products, I figured the least they could do was come on over and tell us more about how ditching traditional, chemical-laden beauty products can be awesome and …

Another combination post for you, for obvious reasons. Because this is when Beauty U became a very sad and strange place.

Yes, chickens, it is true.

Our beloved Miss Jenny — the Brazilian Queen, with her straight talk on …

Classic Miss Jenny, telling us to be okay with people’s boobs and butts. I love this, though I’ll be honest — the few times I had a client answer yes, it was tricky to massage their breast tissue without feeling …

It’s fun to read this one and realize how much better I really did get at working on clients. The weirdness of touching strangers more or less disappeared. I got more used to the odd sounds and awkward comments. I …

So. Upselling. Little did I know when I wrote this post how much it would be our raison d’etre out on the clinic floor. I really admired how Miss Jenny handled the situation — a few weeks later, Meg and …