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Last week, eight Lowell House residents kicked off the first-ever Lowell “Neckbeard-a-thon,” a new exam period ritual for stir-crazy students that bars contestants from shaving any body part below the jawbone. Facial shaving is, however, encouraged...
DIED. GEORGETTE KLINGER, 88, fashionable skin-care pioneer of the 1940s whose European facial techniques laid the basis for today's multibillion-dollar spa industry; in New York City. Born in what is now the Czech Republic, she fought acne as a child and began experimenting with her own cures when traditional dermatology treatments failed. Her view that the face is something to be treated rather than just decorated inspired a revolution in cosmetic skin care...
...beauty market remains elusive for L'Oreal and others. Companies have produced myriad concoctions, such as Active Skincare Daily Energizing Face Wash for Men, from Adidas; Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male bronzing powder, from a product range that also includes eyeliner (guyliner?); and Multi-Purpose Facial Formula for Men from Kiehl's, a L'Oreal brand. But the size of guys' sales potential may be exaggerated. In Britain, one of Europe's largest markets, sales of men's grooming products stood at $1.5 billion in 2002, according to Mintel International--a figure tipped to rise just...
...array of computerized measuring devices that will track physiological data about them. As the couple discuss a glitch in their marriage, a technician in the next room monitors the data: heart rate, sweaty palms, the speed of blood flow. Another technician watches them on a video screen, recording facial expressions, calibrating emotional vital signs of couples during actual marital conflict. Survivor, Fear Factor--that's kid stuff. This is true reality...
...women, helping push up testosterone sales some 17 times in the past decade to about $400 million annually. Variously given as a pill combined with estrogen or as a patch, cream or injection, testosterone remains unproven as a sex aid. Meanwhile, it can cause oily skin, unwanted facial hair, a lowered voice and an upsetting onslaught of sexual fantasies...