TOP 100 COSMETIC SITES
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| Awards Season, and the Swag Goes to ... Few The Hollywood writers’ strike is threatening a beloved Tinseltown institution: the swag bag of free luxury items. nytimes.com |
Your Hairdressers Know, but They’re Not Talking Hairdressers who don’t want their clients to tell them their troubles are as rare as those who believe in natural blondes. nytimes.com |
Smallest Year-Over-Year Growth On Record For Cosmetic Procedures Showing sensitivity to weaknesses in the U.S. economy, plastic surgery was not spared from the recession's grasp. According to the newest national procedural statistics report from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), in 2008, doctors performed over 12 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures - encompassing both surgical and minimally-invasive procedures. Surgical numbers dropped nine percent and minimally-invasive numbers rose five percent. medicalnewstoday.com |
Beauty on a Budget: Advice From a Stylist More women are trading down and buying cheaper cosmetics at their local drugstore but can use a little guidance when approaching the endless rows of products. nytimes.com |
Weight Loss Surgery Works Even For Moderately Obese Surgeons once recommended weight-loss surgery only for severely obese patients who failed to drop pounds with conventional weight-loss methods, but a review now finds that bariatric surgery helps the moderately obese lose more weight, too. "Until recently, only people with severe obesity with a body mass index (BMI) greater than 40 were considered for bariatric surgery," said review author Jill Colquitt, Ph.D. medicalnewstoday.com |