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Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When a bored queen decides to take a beauty school correspondence course, she begins monopolizing the time of her village's farmers with practice sessions in hairdressing and nail care.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Make-up, as we know it, has only been commercially available in the last 100 years, but applying decoration to the face and body may be one of the oldest global social practices. Lisa Eldridge, one of the world's foremost make-up artists--with a very large and loyal public following of her own--has written the first real history of the subject. Face Paint will explore the reasons behind make-up's use, the actual materials employed and manufactured...
Author
Series
Rumblewick's diary volume 4
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rumblewick, a Highly Qualified Witch's Cat, records in his diary what happens when his reluctant young witch tries to pursue a modeling career on the Other Side.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
208 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Every woman has had to make a very personal choice about her relationship with makeup, but often the choice is not entirely hers to make. Nudson unpacks makeup's cultural impact: how it can be used to shape a personal or cultural narrative, how often beauty standards align with whiteness, how and when it can be used for safety, and its function in the workplace, to name a few examples. She examines the ways that beauty standards differ across race,...
13) Cosmetology
Publisher
Peterson's
Pub. Date
uuuu
Language
English
Description
The field of cosmetology includes the professions of hair stylist, barber, nail technician/manicurist, and esthetician. All states require barbers, cosmetologists and other beauty care workers to be licensed. Each state's requirements vary, however, typically they require a person to graduate from a state-licensed barber or cosmetology school and be at least 16 years old. Usually applicants for a license are required to pass a written test and demonstrate...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
They were both born in the nineteenth century in humble circumstances—Helena Rubinstein in an orthodox Jewish household in Kraków, Poland, Elizabeth Arden on a farm outside Toronto. But by the 1930s, they were bitter rivals in New York, the rulers of dueling international beauty empires that would forever change the way women thought about cosmetics, salons, and wrinkles. This riveting biography brings these two celebrated women to life,
...Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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Description
Tells the story of two of the first highly successful women entrepreneurs in America, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. One hundred years ago these women immigrated to the United States and, starting with next to nothing, created what is today the $150 billion global health and beauty industry.
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