Word: glittering
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...indeed. Formerly the domain of overstressed or overpampered adults, spas have begun aggressively wooing the under-18 set. Offering specially designed massages, facials, hair braiding and glitter manicures for teens, they are hoping to cash in on adolescents' disposable income and limitless ability to obsess about their appearance. "So much of the media is filled with beautiful girls who have beautiful skin," says Breanna Ellis, 15, who gets a facial at the Belle Visage Day Spa in Studio City, Calif., every six weeks. "Young girls like myself are pressured to be beautiful in society or we don't feel like...
...dancing show that made me first realize Cairo was not the ethereal city of my “Arabian Nights” dreams. I sat in intense anticipation for the belly dancer, who in my mind would be buxom, with stomach flowing in rolls and waves, and with enough glitter on her costume to make me flinch. What emerged instead, after two hours of an Egyptian cover band, was a very thin woman. Belly dancers are not supposed to be very thin. Here was a woman with fake breasts, no waist to speak of and certainly no belly. She probably...
...less of the national average. A large number of those are children. Bernd Siggelkow, a pastor in Hellersdorf, says Western politicians made big promises to the residents of East Berlin, but they were not fulfilled. "People here thought, 'Now the West is coming with all its glitter and gold,'" Siggelkow, 39, says. "But in the wake of unification came unemployment and a dramatic rise in broken marriages. A generation of neglected children is growing up here." Even in West Berlin the mood is hardly upbeat. Julia Wahn, 30, who just finished her teacher training, is still looking...
...after the show, Creed e-mailed fans, saying, "We hope you can take some solace in the fact that you experienced the most unique of all Creed shows." If the 15,000 fans covered by the suit get back any of the $55 ticket price, viewers of the movie Glitter and Cincinnati Bengals fans will no doubt contact their lawyers...
...pair of Wellesley students wearing nothing but lingerie and body glitter competed together in an onstage kissing contest. They were so involved in their exhibition that Franklin pulled the scantily-clad students off each other, saying, “This is a kissing contest, and that’s a lot more than kissing...