Beauty Industry

How do you prioritize self-care amidst the demands of client appointments and business operations? Have you experienced burnout or emotional exhaustion in your career as a beauty professional? How do you maintain boundaries with clients while still providing exceptional service? Have you encountered situations where client interactions impact your emotional well-being, and how do you handle them? Did beauty school prepare you for the mental health challenges and the need for self-care in this career? If you are a cosmetologist, hairstylist, barber, esthetician, makeup artist, nail care ...

Unlock the Secrets to Financial Freedom in the Beauty Industry! Are you a beauty professional dreaming of financial independence, business ownership, and lasting wealth? "Financial Mastery for Beauty Professionals: From $0 to Salon Empire" is your ultimate guide to turning small beginnings into extraordinary success. Written by Di Tran, a 20+ year licensed nail technician and beauty entrepreneur, this book takes you on a transformative journey. From starting as a high school student in Louisville, Kentucky, to owning a thriving salon empire and investing in real estate, Di Tran shares his ...

Book endorsed by the Professional Beauty Association (PBA) and Modern Salon Magazine. "With the launch of the Ready, Set, Go! Book series,Jeff Grissler has finally created a new benchmark publication geared to helping Salon Owners build and run a profitable salon. Yes, at L'Oreal we want salons to be on the cutting edge with styles and color but more importanly we want them to make money. RSG books series will now give them the tools to get their salons to the next level. Successful salon ownership,happy employees, wonderful families and friends and of all things a healthy retirement! This ...

So begins Arabelle Sicardi’s blazingly original collection of essays. A former beauty editor, Arabelle has devoted their entire adult life to the subject of beauty―they have analyzed it, criticized it, praised it, benefited from it, loathed it. Now, in The House of Beauty, they get to the contradictions at the heart of it: beauty and horror, two sides of the same coin.

A beauty and mental health expert exposes how Western society has controlled the narrative on feminine aesthetics, and breaks down the science and psychology of beauty to help women feel more confident. What is beauty? Who gets to determine who is beautiful? What happens when you fall outside of...

Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects, low educational achievement, social mobility, and the troubling state of our public health.

In this Very Short Introduction audiobook, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful and examining how we can compare differing judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely.  

A National Bestseller A USA TODAY Bestseller A New York Times Editors’ Choice A Goodreads Choice Award Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Tor,and Literary Hub From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a “Grimm...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The first comprehensive biography of Jane Birkin—actress, singer, and legendary style icon—and her profound cultural impact, from the “acerbic, culturally astute, and genuine” (The New York Times) author of the instant New York Times bestseller Glossy. Jane Birkin was...

How to Open a Successful Salon: The Louisville Beauty Academy Guide is the ultimate handbook for aspiring beauty professionals looking to turn their passion into a thriving business. Written specifically for graduates and those inspired by the Louisville Beauty Academy’s philosophy, this comprehensive guide covers every step of opening and managing a successful salon. From building a strong brand and choosing the ideal location to understanding Kentucky’s licensing requirements and mastering financial management, this book offers practical, step-by-step guidance for navigating the ...

New York Times best-selling author Robin McKinley has won numerous awards for her writing, including the prestigious Newbery Medal. Though her two sisters are beautiful, Beauty, despite her name, is thin and awkward - but she's also courageous. So when her father makes a terrible promise to a Beast living in an enchanted castle, Beauty knows she must volunteer to be the Beast's prisoner.

The steamy outtake that takes readers even further into Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling novel, Kiss the Dead. You’d think I’d get used to seeing such a beautiful man and knowing he was mine, but it never grew old, as if his beauty and the fact that he was mine, and I was his, would...

All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot is a funny, provocative retrospective on the last thirty years of Western beauty standards. From the Pussycat Dolls to Victoria’s Secret, The Girls of the Playboy Mansion to Lara Bingle, the media of the 2000s was littered with high profile examples of hotness as the highest form of social currency. Is it any wonder a girl growing up in that era might believe “good looks” were as integral to womanhood as having a pulse?

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator produces a sound...

In this book, I plan to teach you the five keys to success in the beauty industry by sharing with you my personal journey as well as giving you five highly effective principles on how not only to survive but thrive in this multibillion-dollar industry! In essence, I will share with you how to get out here and eat.

There's an unspoken rule in hockey: don't date your teammate's little sister. Dating the coach's little sister might be even worse. Not to mention bro code, which clearly states a best friend's little sister is off-limits. And I'm definitely prohibited from dating the owner of the team. But what...

Beauty work is real work. But in the modern economy, hard work alone is not enough. Beauty professionals, nail technicians, booth renters, salon-suite operators, and salon owners must also understand income, records, receipts, worker classification, deductions, benefits, business structure, and cash flow. The Beauty Professional Tax Blueprint is a plain-language guide for beauty professionals who want to move from rumor, fear, and informal survival into written clarity, documentation, and professional confidence. This book helps readers understand: • The difference between W-2 employment,...

K-beauty is often explained as a parade of ingredients, viral products, and fast launches. That explanation mistakes the visible surface for the engine underneath. The K-Beauty Engine follows the handoffs that turn a consumer phrase into a product brief, a formula, a manufacturing process, a package, a legal object, a retail signal, an export record, and—if the system is honest enough to learn—a better next decision. Drawing on official regulatory records, reproducible trade data, scientific research, public company evidence, and cross-market comparison, Andrew Yoon Joo Lee separates ...

“Scandal, sabotage and spies. Who knew the beauty industry was so cutthroat! This was a thoroughly compulsive and addictive read."" — Kate Thompson, bestselling author of The Little Wartime Library Bestselling author Gill Paul reveals the history of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena...

Juno Pryce built a skincare empire out of a bait shop, a hot plate, and a stubborn streak. Her husband built a brand out of stealing it. The night Tern Harbor crowns its beauty queen, Juno finds an unreleased bottle of her own formula in the reigning queen's makeup case, wearing a label she never authorized and a name she never approved. Denton has been selling her chemistry and her twenty-three-year-old replacement in the same weekend. He filed the trademark. He booked the warehouse. He told the investors he invented it in his garage. What he never did was read the one-page agreement he ...