So here’s how things looked around 8 PM at Casa Beauty Schooled last night:

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

• 12,000 teenagers received Botox injections in the last year. (via Salon.)

• 50 percent of women would rather go a whole summer without sex

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So, tonight, a Beauty U student brings in the newspaper because the front page story is “Local Madam Arrested for Terrorizing Sex Slaves.”

“I can’t believe I went into that place!” she says. “I didn’t know what it was!”…

So remember how last week, I told you that I was down to my last 18 nights at Beauty U?

Then I went to school and Miss Susan told us that we forgot to count snow days. Which Beauty U …

There are a lot of Tip Jar stories that I haven’t told you, either because they seem kind of run of the mill (yet another European facial on yet another middle-aged lady for yet another $5 tip) or because I’m …

I’ve been writing this post in my head for a couple of weeks now, ever since this whole Al Gore/massage therapist scandal broke. Whatever the true story is there (Tipper says it’s false), it brings up some …

Tonight we return to Beauty U after a glorious, if sweltering week off.*

Even though it’s been sunny for days, it turns cloudy as I drive to school, in that hazy summer way that makes you notice all the cigarette …

So, after I published yesterday’s post, I had a bit of blogger remorse.

This doesn’t happen often round these parts, but when it does it’s because I feel like I’ve crossed the very fine line I walk around here …

So, we had Monday night off because it was a Beauty U Staff Development Day, which means tonight, Miss Stacy and Miss Theresa have a long list of new rules and reminders for us:

When you greet a client, always …

From this week’s Modern Love essay, “Finding Marriage Without Losing a Self,” by Jillian Lauren:

“You know, when I said beauty school was hot, I was just playing with you,” he said. “I know that place is crappy and