Comments on: The Beauty Industry: Spending And Routines

By: This Is What a Face Looks Like | Care2 Causes

This Is What a Face Looks Like | Care2 Causes — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:02:09 +0000

[...] all, if the magazines and billboards are to be believed. The fact that the beauty industry rakes in $160 billion per year shows that women of all ages are buying into the beauty norms society has placed on [...]

By: This Is What MY Face Looks Like | Small Strokes Fell Big Oaks

This Is What MY Face Looks Like | Small Strokes Fell Big Oaks — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:01:38 +0000

[...] Even before all this hoopla about Hillary, we knew that the beauty industry is a multi-billion (yes, you read that right) dollar industry. Makeup is something women are told is a fun way to express yourself, but [...]

By: melingalou

melingalou — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:45:00 +0000

These shots are outtakes from a Marie Claire article; not study by the photographer. Melissa Macron found and interviewed all of the participants, the photographer was assigned to photograph them. You can see the piece that ran in Marie Claire at the writer’s site here: http://www.melissamacron.com/Jun04MCpage1.html

By: Sandye7

Sandye7 — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 23:01:00 +0000

where can I buy Ginger Luxe lip gloss?

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:57:41 +0000

$865 and that last girl still has acne. Its probably the spray tan chems causing it lol Id put that money on clearing my skin up, then I wouldnt need all that expensive beauty regimen stuff!

By: Corporate Babysitter » Blog Archive » Beauty school parties for preteens

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:51:06 +0000

[...] And I guess it works. [...]

By: Toast

Toast — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:24:54 +0000

Judge, judge, judge.

By: Katy

Katy — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:49:59 +0000

Wow. If I was spending more than $800 a month on looking good, I would at least expect not to be covered with spots…

By: Vidya

Vidya — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:16:25 +0000

“Facial lady! The skin is a powerful oran, and cleaning it isn’t rocket science. I am convinced, that I can led a happy and fulfilling life without using your services.”

Indeed. Pretty sad to try to position professional facials as a ‘must have’. I can’t imagine letting someone else rub my face, either, ick.

There are ‘services’ which could run the bills up high pretty fast, particularly electrolysis. There are many women for whom some sort of radical hair removal technique is a virtual necessity to avoid social rejection, given our cultural beliefs that women “can’t” have beards/mustaches/sideburns (even though many do).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:47:50 +0000

I once asked a dermatologist, how much of all this fancy has any real value. He told me, that i may use cream, if i feel my skin dry, but don’t worry about the rest of it. (ok, he was a man, so I will keep on experiemnting with things like sour cream, cucumber, or olive oil. )

Facial lady! The skin is a powerful oran, and cleaning it isn’t rocket science. I am convinced, that I can led a happy and fulfilling life without using your services.

By: Sar

Sar — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:22:16 +0000

Most of these subjects don’t really represent the population of America acurately… as they are almost all fromt he upper east side or similar

By: Audrey

Audrey — Sun, 17 May 2009 06:20:07 +0000

It amazes me that women spend so much money on their hair cut, color, plastic surgery, etc…… but when it comes cleaning their skin, we are totally ignorant. When I look at some people under the mag. lamp, oh my god…… it is so dirty that is embarrassing. Ladies, facials are not for beauty, it is hygiene. Don’t we go to a dentist regularly for deep cleaning even though we brush every night? It is the same with your skin. Our skin is a filter to all the dust and dirt in the environment and therefore holds a lot of junk. It needs to be cleaned regularly.

By: Nique

Nique — Sun, 17 May 2009 01:23:07 +0000

I don’t think I could spend so much money on my appearance each month if I tried. I don’t wear makeup (only chapstick to keep my lips soft), I pluck my eyebrows myself, I don’t color or process my hair, my skin color is probably the color of a really dark spray tan anyways, and I could never imagine getting Botox. So what does that leave? Really expensive lotions and shower stuff? I could use bi-weekly massages (I assume that would be included in “spa time”) but that would be for health reasons and not just because they’re fun or whatever.

By: anna

anna — Sat, 16 May 2009 19:25:40 +0000

well if anyone had actually looked at the site link,

http://www.viiphoto.com/showstory.php?nID=311

you’d read the statement, which says lauren greenfield photographed some female new york professionals to investigate what this higher class beauty-budget standard looks like. “does spending more mean looking better”?, she asks…

By: Village Idiot

Village Idiot — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:53:16 +0000

Cosmetics don’t have anything to do with “beauty,” they’re for covering up one’s own perceived flaws, which is why the marketing is so concerned with telling you how many you have.

Obsessing about it to the point of spending as much on “grooming” each month as many people spend on their house payment is (in my ever-so-humble opinion) a sign of some kind of mental illness. The best evidence for that is how ineffective it all is towards achieving the goal of helping people look fabulous. Real beauty is an inner radiance that shines right through a superficial veneer of tinted, scented, hypoallergenic goop, or makes a lack of that goop irrelevant. On second thought, I’ve seen some cases where a thick enough application of makeup managed to obscure the genuine beauty underneath, so with enough effort it’s possible I suppose.

The people who we’re told wish to destroy our decadent civilization don’t “hate us for our freedom,” they hate us for stuff like this. Of course it’s everyone’s right to spend our income however we choose, but it’s rather sad that so many choose to self-indulgently feed their neuroses (men are no different in this respect) instead of, well, doing just about anything else with it. Hell, even saving it would be a lot better; when we’re old and wrinkly don’t need to bother masking our real appearance anymore, we might regret wasting all that cash on nothing. A few years of saving $600-$1700 a month can really add up (to about $160 billion a year, it seems). It might even be enough for everyone to get a nice facelift, or perhaps act as an economic stimulus package. Either way, at some point many of these people might wish they’d held on to that money, especially if life doesn’t quite work out the way they planned.