How to Look Good Naked (United Kingdom, Channel 4, 2006; United States, Lifetime, 2008) is a reality program first begun in Britain, where it was hosted by Gok Wan, and then modified in the United States, where it is hosted by Carson Kresley (the fashion stylist from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy). In both
Infomercials are television commercials that sell products using programming imitative of noncommercial television shows. They can run anywhere from one minute to one hour, with the standard length being just under 30 minutes. Originally shown between the hours of 2 A.M. and 6 A.M., as a network’s alternative to signing off, infomercials can now be
The World Wide Web, accessed through the Internet, is home to retailers from every possible area, and the beauty industry is no exception. Consumers not only have the chance to buy beauty products from the Web sites of stores where they are available, but they can also purchase them directly from the companies that manufacture
George Ellis Johnson, born in Richton, Mississippi in 1927, founded the Johnson Products Company in Chicago in 1954. Johnson had worked as a chemist for the Fuller cosmetics company for 10 years before starting his own business with 500 dollars in borrowed money. The company represented part of a larger trend of growth in the
The fashion industry’s association with a world of glamour and haute couture has been contrasted with the issues of sweatshop labor, including child labor, unregulated factories, below subsistence-level wages, and forced labor. This dichotomous view of work and production in the beauty industry becomes even more complex when not only manufacturing, but also beauty sales
The Latina beauty industry includes hair care, cosmetics, and fragrance products and services. The industry includes mainstream brands and Latina-owned companies that target U.S.-born and immigrant Latinas as consumers. The American beauty industry may target marketing toward U.S. Latinas in English or Spanish. U.S.-born and immigrant Latinas are also business owners and employees of the
Magazines for American men, dealing variously with topics as diverse as politics, health and fitness, fashion and other aspects of consumerism, sexual health and performance, and travel, can be traced back to the 18th century. Since the 1980s and 1990s, magazines directed at men with a range of interests and sexual identities have expanded dramatically.
A makeover is a transformation from an inadequate before to a superior after; it is often used to refer to a transformation in appearance. One can be made over or make over oneself. In the U.S. mythos, the makeover is often an element in the rags-to-riches story. History The makeover has been used as a
Gentlemen’s Quarterly (GQ) has been in existence for more than half a century. The magazine, originally owned by the publishers of Esquire (f. 1933) was launched in 1957, under the editorial direction of Everett Mattlin. This new publication, an upmarket venture intended to whet the consumer appetites of fashion-conscious men of style and provide a
The preoccupation with male grooming, most closely associated with the modern phenomenon of the metrosexual and his fastidious rituals of hair and skin care and physical fitness, is not simply the product of late-20th-century consumer culture. Men have been obsessed with their physical appearance for centuries. In the ancient Egyptian world, for example, men practiced