Salon’s David Marchese has an essay up today about our secret addiction to pimple popping which is worth reading, though I can also summarize it for you in one line: Squeezing your zits is gross, but everyone does it anyway …
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Salon’s David Marchese has an essay up today about our secret addiction to pimple popping which is worth reading, though I can also summarize it for you in one line: Squeezing your zits is gross, but everyone does it anyway …
Client Nine is a tiny girl with big eyebrows.
When I go out to the reception area to get her, she jumps right up when I call her name. And the woman sitting next to her says to me, “Don’t …
Over the past few weeks, I have concluded that there are two types of people in this world: People who blister and burn at the merest suggestion of hair removal via waxing (that would be me) and people …
Client Eight is a shy 16-year-old girl with a small bit of acne around her hairline. (Hair products, people. Hair products.) I ask if she has any concerns about her skin and she immediately starts talking about her break-outs: “I …
Tonight we finish clients early, so Miss Stacy does a mini-lecture about different kinds of spa employment.
Booth renters (which make up a majority of hair stylists and nail technicians) pay a spa owner weekly or monthly for their chair …
Tonight we have the written test on waxing. It’s an accidental pop quiz because Miss Stacy forgot to tell us we were having it. Nobody does well. The spa has been busy, busy, busy with clients and it’s been over …
Okay, kittens. We’re done with body treatments. We’ve mastered facials. Makeup applications are but a distant memory.
At Beauty U, the time has come for waxing.
A quick disclaimer to the supportive family members who read this blog:…
On Wednesdays, most of the students at Beauty U sit through their weekly dose of Scott’s Beauty Business Sense, except for a handful of seniors and those of us who abstained. In theory, that means Beauty U doesn’t …
Tip Jar: Where you get the back story on every tip I make at Beauty U.
Now that there’s only one senior student left in Beauty U’s night program, all bets are officially off on that whole “juniors can’t work …
In case you still need proof that for-profit trade schools aren’t real schools — at least, not in any traditional, academic sense of the word — I give you this:
Tonight, two of our senior students, Becky and Leslie are …
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