Download or read book Botched Beauty written by Brittney Jack CMP CMA COE C-MNT and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2024-05-24 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumer’s safety guidebook to make an educated choice on where to get beauty services & avoid botched treatments in an unregulated industry. Help bring awareness to the dangers of non standard spas operating in your area and key red flags to look out for when you are choosing a beauty professional to care for your beauty enhancement needs. Why education is so important to avoid botched beauty treatments or inflict life-threatening injuries with compromised clients through bacterial/viral infections. Help raise the standards in the industry for your overall health and safety with sanitization/sterilization practices that exceeds the insanely low standards in beauty establishments today!

Download or read book Perfect Me written by Heather Widdows and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves good or bad, a success or a failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal, showing how it is more dominant, more demanding, and more global than ever before.Heather Widdows argues that our perception of the self is changing. More and more, we locate the self in the body--not just our actual, flawed bodies but our transforming and imagined ones. As this happens, we further embrace the beauty ideal. Nobody is firm enough, thin enough, smooth enough, or buff enough-not without significant effort and cosmetic intervention. And as more demanding practices become the norm, more will be required of us, and the beauty ideal will be harder and harder to resist.If you have ever felt the urge to "make the best of yourself" or worried that you were "letting yourself go," this book explains why. Perfect Me examines how the beauty ideal has come to define how we see ourselves and others and how we structure our daily practices-and how it enthralls us with promises of the good life that are dubious at best. Perfect Me demonstrates that we must first recognize the ethical nature of the beauty ideal if we are ever to address its harms.

Download or read book Candace McFly written by Kathy Mansfield and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you do anything to help your friends? Even if it meant facing one of your biggest fears? Candace is not your typical third grader—or your typical girl for that matter. She’s not into her appearance or competing in the Li’l Miss Live Oak pageant like all her friends are or the ladies in her family were. Her mama was a Li’l Miss Live Oak, her grandmother was...her great-grandmother too. But she has no interest in competing even though it’s her year to. Plus, there’s that little stage fright issue she has. But she does love to figure out puzzles and mysteries! Her best friend, Arnold, isn’t like other boys their age either, but his quirky ways make him the perfect sidekick who always keeps things interesting. Normally, life in a small town can be dull. But not in Live Oak. School has just ended, and Live Oak’s pageant season has just begun, along with mysterious happenings to the contestants. Candace’s friend Anna Kate swims up to Candace and Arnold at the School’s Out for Summer Soiree, requesting Candace’s help. Telling her a tale so unbelievable, Candace can’t help but be reeled in as more bizarre events keep occurring to her friends. To truly find the culprit, Candace must make one of the toughest choices of her life—go undercover, becoming a contestant in Li’l Miss Live Oak, overcome her stage fright phobia, and catch whoever is trying to botch the beauty pageant. With Arnold by her side, anything’s possible, but will they solve it in time to crown the next Li’l Miss Live Oak?

Download or read book The Indivisible Heart written by Patrick Roscoe and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of a grotesquely mutilated body of a young man in Seville, Spain, sets off an investigation into an apparently psycho-sexual murder that has disturbing personal implications for chief detective Manuel Arroyo and Olivier Joaquin Ortega, the forensic pathologist handling the case. Interwoven with the official search to understand this mysterious death is the murder victim’s haunting narration of the final days in his life, stalked by a psychopath through the squares, bars, and cafes of the city. What drives his pursuer to murder? Is it really psychosis that compels him, or is it a worship even darker than the Moorish influences that haunt the city?

Download or read book No Regrets written by Coleen Nolan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Regrets is Coleen Nolan's gripping new memoir about love and heartbreak. As a member of the Nolan sisters, Coleen Nolan was born into the spotlight and has stayed there ever since. She has now become one of the nation's favourite TV presenters and is used to newspapers and magazines claiming to have the inside story of her private life. In No Regrets Coleen finally reveals the truth of what really happened during the last few rollercoaster years, truly the worst of her life. Whilst it's certainly been a traumatic time for the whole family, Coleen is a survivor. First and foremost, she is a mum and is determined to hold her family together. The Nolans finally put aside their infamous feud to rally round their beloved sister Bernie, who tragically lost her fight with cancer on the 4th of July last year, aged just 52. In this memoir, Coleen movingly describes her struggle to deal with the emotional scars that come from losing someone so close and the effect it has had on her own life. Coleen also reveals the secret that she has been hiding from prying eyes: her second marriage and 'happy ever after' with musician Ray Fensome was pushed to breaking point by a series of rows and separations. Here, for the first time, Coleen reveals how she has battled to save her marriage and to stop her family being torn apart. In this incredibly candid memoir, Coleen writes with raw honesty about her family troubles, her career highs and lows, and her struggle with her body image. In recent years, Coleen has found herself in both a plastic surgeon's office looking at a £20,000 bill to 'fix her face' and at a breast cancer clinic asking for the removal of her healthy breasts to avoid becoming the fourth sister in the family to be struck down by cancer. Wonderfully warm and moving, and brilliantly funny and honest, No Regrets will take you from laughter to tears and back again as you share in Coleen's very personal journey.

Download or read book Natural The Beautiful N Word written by Richard Jones and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural . The Beautiful 'N' Word Breaking the Psychological Bondage of the American Standard of Beauty The American standard of beauty is an optical illusion that has mesmerized the world. Artificial hair, and makeup in the hands of a beautician is equivalent to a deck of cards, a top hat and a magic wand in the hands of a magician. The multibillion-dollar beauty industry has successfully proven that the hand is quicker than the eye. Hypnotically, the public applauds the deception. Most women-even some little girls-are addictive users of the hair and cosmetic charade; yet, few know its history. Most women were convinced in childhood by subliminal messages in the media that their natural hair and facial features were substandard. Ultimately, acquiring the acceptance and applause from a well-trained public became a subconscious ritual. No civilized race or nationality is exempt. This book exposes secrets and facts about the American standard of beauty rarely revealed, such as: The untold truth about artificial hair Why natural beauty is heavily discouraged The cosmetic conspiracy A totally natural method of growing nappy hair What are Sisterlocks and who is its creator

Download or read book Beauty Women s Bodies and the Law written by Jocelynne A. Scutt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a woman’s body beautiful? Plastic surgery, cosmetic surgery and non-surgical interventions such as Botox are changing women’s bodies physically and affecting cultural notions and expectations of what it means to be a woman. Yet where does the law stand? Is the renovation of women’s bodies legal? This book explores a range of topics, including: whether shape-changing by surgical and non-surgical means is ‘really’ what women want; the question of legal intervention when operations, injections and other methods go wrong; the impact of consent determinations on whether women can or cannot freely seek changes to their body structure; and the role which culture and social expectations play in women’s decision-making. Taking a legal perspective on the vast range of ‘beauty’ interventions available to women, Scutt discusses women’s perceptions of body and beauty, pressures on women to conform to ‘idealised’ notions of the perfect woman’s body, and outcomes of legal actions including those taken by individual women who are unhappy with results, as well as those launched against companies trading in products advertised as safe and for women’s benefit. Beauty, Women’s Bodies and the Law will appeal to readers with an interest in women’s and gender studies, law, and cultural studies.

Download or read book Discourses of Perfection written by Anne-Mette Hermans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores editorial and advertising discourses related to cosmetic procedures and beauty products and services in UK lifestyle magazines, offering a holistic perspective on the normalisation of cosmetic procedures and the societal context in which particular perceptions have flourished. The volume examines the societal climate that contributed to cultural perceptions of the body as object and project, and constructions of masculinities and femininities as context for developments in lifestyle magazines’ content on beauty and cosmetic procedures. Integrating approaches from Critical Discourse Analysis, Thematic Analysis, and Content Analysis, Hermans explores the varying ways in which cosmetic procedures and other beauty products are marketed to different audiences and examines phenomena such as the problem/solution rhetoric, and developments in beauty advertising discourse specifically targeted at men. The book also investigates the continuum view of beauty products and cosmetic procedures, and examines the implications of these blurred boundaries for the regulation of the cosmetic surgery industry. This innovative contribution to research on the representation of cosmetic procedures and beauty products in the media will be of interest to scholars researching at the intersection of language, gender, individualised body projects, and sexuality.

Download or read book In Defense of Tort Law written by Thomas Koenig and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tort law is a good thing (whatever it is....).

Download or read book Beauty around the World written by Erin Kenny and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the concept of beauty seriously, this encyclopedia examines how humanity has sought and continues to seek what is "beautiful" in a variety of cultural contexts, giving readers an understanding of how to look at beauty both intellectually and critically. Is beauty ever more than "skin deep"? Arguably yes, considering that the concept of beauty—and the pursuit of it—has shaped cultures worldwide, across every time period, and has even served to change the course of history. Studying beauty practices yields insight into social status, wealth, political ideology, religious doctrine, and gender expectations, including gender nonconformity. A truly interdisciplinary text, Beauty around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia presents an insightful perspective on beauty that draws from philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and feminist studies, giving readers a unique view of world beauty practices. This volume offers information about beauty practices from the past to the present in alphabetical entries that address terms and topics such as "beards," "dreadlocks," "Geisha," "moko tattoos," and "progressive muscularity." Readers will better comprehend how beauty shapes many social interactions in profound ways worldwide, and that the unspoken social agreements that shape ideals of attractiveness and desirability within any given culture can matter very much. The encyclopedia's entries challenge readers to consider the questions "What is beauty?" and "Why does it matter?" A comprehensive bibliography is a valuable resource for further research.

Download or read book Kilty As Charged written by Amy Vansant and published by Vansant Creations. This book was released on 2017-01-02 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart-pounding and laugh-out-loud funny, the Kilty series from USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Amy Vansant introduces you to Broch and Catriona—the urban fantasy couple you can't forget. Catriona's been "fixer" for Parasol Pictures for longer than she cares to remember. Saving drug-addled actors and shady producers from themselves is a grind, so when she finds a half-naked man in a kilt passed out on their Hollywood lot, it's just Tuesday for her. This guy, though... Against her better judgment, she wheels his unconscious carcass to her apartment to let him sleep it off and keep from losing his budding acting career. Plus, the studio doesn't like it when she sends half-unconscious people off in Ubers. The Uber drivers like it even less. But this guy is a disaster. A gorgeous disaster, but one hundred percent trainwreck. When he wakes up, things only get weirder. First, his name's Brochan. Broken? What twisted parents name their kid broken? Catriona wants to write off the ridiculously sexy, self-proclaimed Highlander as a con artist, but her adopted father seems strangely comfortable with the man claiming to have no memory of his past or knowledge of the modern world. And ol' Kilty doesn't seem to care or remember where the stab wound in his side came from. No, he's headed for her shower—again—like he's never had one, obsessed with her shampoos, devoid of all modesty...and dammit...he's charming as hell. Who is this guy? A red-bearded thug, an old picture, and a three-hundred-year-old vendetta soon have Catriona worried she could lose everything—including the mysterious time-traveling Scotsman who makes her crazy in more ways than one. A Highlander followed her home...Can she keep him? -----------------WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT KILTY--------------- "Kilty As Charged has everything you could want: a very strong lead woman (Catriona); fast-paced storyline; lots of action; some huge Scotsmen; great dialogue and plenty of humor; a great cast of supporting characters; and even some time travel! A hilarious story told in a very interesting way. Throw in some mystery and intrigue and you've got yourself a great read....Amy Vansant has written a highly imaginative, mystery/love/humor-filled novel that leaves you wanting to read the next in the series ASAP!!!" ~ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ MMG "Finished reading Kilty as Charged yesterday and loved it! Amy's combination of humor, action, just enough romance, and humor really hit me perfectly --- and made me laugh out loud. Repeatedly. Added to which, she wrote a charming, hilarious male main character. I very much enjoyed her writing style and sense of how to employ the deft lampoon. It is now imperative that I read the other books in the series." --- ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Marcus Cootsona, Author of the Severin Force Political Thrillers "An amazing book by Vansant. A perfect love story, with romance, twists, surprises--- I actually really did laugh out loud in more than 4 places. I love Vansant's quirky sense of humor, her sarcasm is perfect, and how did she even come up with a time-traveling idea, it is too amazing! I read this at work on my break in two sittings." ~ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Aisha K.S. Hashmi, NRCPT "Fun all the way through!!! Great characters, very well developed and interesting. Had me laughing from the first scene. The female lead was quirky and relatable. I found her perspective, job, and skill set out of the norm which I think is part of this author’s genius. You never quite know what may happen next. I love how she keeps surprising herself with her inner dialog! It is hilarious! Highly recommend !!" ~ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lin

Download or read book The Signatory written by Kirk Marshall and published by Skylight Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Signatory is a wild and enthralling novella from Kirk Marshall, an emerging Australian writer and editor of the Red Leaves bi-lingual literary journal. This mind-bending tale of Scottish cryptozoology must be read to be believed as it blusters and dallies with the mad antics of the strange British dilettante, Sebastian Sackworth. It is at times reminiscent of the nonsense literature of Lewis Carroll et al - and yet displaying more contemporary (dare we say) "borgesian" stylistics. A delightfully absurd dramatis personae pits together a misanthropic anthropologist and a lusty Italian ornithologist on a madcap search for a rare Red Swan, soon to be joined by an Icelandic recluse, a chimpanzee, and a notorious pirate, to name a few. Along the way, Marshall manages somehow to mix in odd polemics on public transport sex, the science of moats, and the mysterious highland landscape.

Download or read book Utterly Deadly Southern Pecan Pie written by Penny Burwell Ewing and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s the annual Pecan Festival in Whiskey Creek, Georgia, and Jolene Claiborne is ramping up to beat the competition in the pecan pie bake-off. While conducting tours at Pineridge Plantation, Jolene encounters a restless ghost in the library with a bloody mystery. Trouble arrives when Scarlett Cantrell pops in from Heaven to act as interpreter between the living and the dead. One mystery is enough to solve, but when the bank president keels over dead after tasting Dixieland’s entry in the pie bake-off, and her father is fingered for the deed, Jolene finds herself entangled in two mysteries linked by greed and murder. Undaunted, she delves into the past to uncover a crime so hideous its secrets reach out from the grave to once again bring family tragedy to this lovely Southern town. But, meddling carries a heavy price. Will her sexy cowboy cop stay or take a hike?

Download or read book The Book of The Kuchisake onna written by Andrea Febrian and published by Andrea Febrian. This book was released on 2024-07-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the chilling pages of "Unveiling the Slit-Mouthed Woman: Exploring the Haunting Legend of Kuchisake-onna," prepare to delve into the depths of one of Japan's most terrifying urban legends. This comprehensive exploration of the iconic figure known as Kuchisake-onna, or the Slit-Mouthed Woman, will take you on a spine-tingling journey through the origins, cultural significance, and enduring legacy of this unforgettable tale. Uncover the mysterious roots of Kuchisake-onna, from the domestic violence theory to the botched plastic surgery theory, and explore the ways in which this vengeful spirit reflects the deepest fears and anxieties of Japanese society. Discover the chilling symbolism behind her iconic appearance, from the surgical mask that conceals her horrific disfigurement to the scissors that serve as a metaphor for the violence and violation that lurk within the human heart. As you journey through the pages of this book, you'll encounter the many faces of Kuchisake-onna in popular culture, from her haunting presence in manga and anime to her unforgettable portrayals in Japanese cinema and video games. You'll also uncover the regional variations and adaptations that have made this legend a truly national phenomenon, reflecting the diverse cultural landscape of Japan. But beyond the terrifying exterior of this urban legend lies a deeper exploration of the human psyche and the power of storytelling to shape our understanding of the world around us. Through the lens of Kuchisake-onna, you'll grapple with the fundamental questions of life, death, and the nature of evil, and discover the incredible resilience of the human spirit in the face of unimaginable horror. Prepare to be haunted by the vivid descriptions and chilling artwork that bring the legend of Kuchisake-onna to life, and uncover the hidden meanings behind the symbolism that has made this tale an enduring cultural touchstone. Whether you're a fan of Japanese horror, a student of urban legends, or simply a curious reader looking for a spine-chilling thrill, "Unveiling the Slit-Mouthed Woman" is a must-read exploration of one of the most terrifying and unforgettable figures in modern folklore. So step into the shadows and confront the haunting legend of Kuchisake-onna if you dare. But be warned: once you've gazed upon the horrific visage of the Slit-Mouthed Woman, you may never look at the world the same way again.

Download or read book Art and Animals written by Giovanni Aloi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Art is continually haunted by the animal', wrote Deleuze and Guattari. Over the past two decades, animals have quite literally invaded the gallery space, from Joseph Beuys' co-habiting with a coyote, Janis Kounelli's instillation of live horses, Damien Hirst's shark in formaldehyde to Mark Dion's natural history displays and Marco Evaristti's 'goldfish in a blender'. In this latest addition to the highly acclaimed 'Art and...' series, Giovanni Aloi surveys the insistent presence of animals in the world of contemporary art, exploring the leading concepts which inform this emerging practice. From exhibitions featuring live animals, to taxidermy, and interspecies communication, Giovanni Aloi explores how animals feature in modern art with a range of thought-provoking and innovative visual representations. Art and Animals challenges ideas of identity, 'otherness' and civilisation by explaining the role animals have occupied in our cultural development and illustrating their presence in the visual arts today.

Download or read book The Trickster in Contemporary Film written by Helena Bassil-Morozow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the role of the trickster figure in contemporary film against the cultural imperatives and social issues of modernity and postmodernity, and argues that cinematic tricksters always reflect psychological, economic and social change in society. It covers a range of films, from Charlie Chaplin’s classics such as Modern Times (1936) and The Great Dictator (1940) to contemporary comedies and dramas with ‘trickster actors’ such as Jim Carrey, Sacha Baron-Cohen, Andy Kaufman and Jack Nicholson. The Trickster in Contemporary Film offers a fresh perspective on the trickster figure not only in cinema but in Western culture in general. Alongside original film analyses, it touches upon a number of psychosocial issues including sovereignty of the individual, tricksterish qualities of the media, and human relationships in the mercurial digital age. Further topics of discussion include: common motifs in trickster narratives the trickster and personal relationships gonzo-trickster and the art of comic insurrection. Employing a number of complementary approaches such as Jungian psychology, film semiotics, narrative structure theories, Victor Turner’s concept of liminality and Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of film, as well as anyone with an interest in analytical psychology and wider critical issues in contemporary culture.

Download or read book The Meet Cute Method written by Portia MacIntosh and published by Boldwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brand new laugh-out-loud romantic comedy from the bestselling author of Life's A Beach and Stuck On You. Do movie romances ever happen in real life...? Frankie doesn't believe in true love. As relationships expert at popular magazine Stylife, she has learnt that dating disasters are far more common than happy ever afters. So when she is tasked to find out if meet cutes can work in real life she is up for the challenge - but whether it's being a damsel in distress with a flat tyre, or spilling coffee over a stranger, she isn't convinced this can really lead to love. But little does Frankie know that the ultimate meet cute opportunity is just around the corner. As she is whisked off her feet (all in the name of her work project of course...) perhaps true love isn't just for the movies after all...? Join bestseller Portia MacIntosh for a laugh-out-loud, feel-good summer read, guaranteed to whisk you away and put a smile on your face. Praise for Portia MacIntosh: 'A hilarious, roaringly fun, feel good, sexy read. I LOVED it!' Holly Martin 'This is a heartwarming fun story, perfect for several hours of pure escapism.' Jessica Redland 'Super-romantic and full of festive spirit. I loved it!' Mandy Baggot