Piercing is a type of semi-permanent body modification. In the technique most commonly used by piercing professionals today, a hollow-point needle is inserted in the skin to cut a small opening for the display of jewelry, usually a ring or a stud. Although vulnerable to infection, the flesh surrounding the puncture wound tends to heal
The word manufacture means to make by hand, but long ago it lost that connotation, meaning now to create many goods as part of a large-scale operation. In the beauty and apparel industry, the manufacturing of products must be timed to coincide with specific seasons and created to appeal to the appropriate target market. Timing
Mary Kay Cosmetics is a direct sales company specializing in beauty products, especially skin care and makeup. The company, begun in Dallas, Texas in 1963 by Mary Kay Ash, is known for its conservative corporate culture and the pink Cadillacs that the company offers as rewards for top sellers. The company operates through a multilevel
Max Factor is best known for his invention of specialty cosmetics used in the early American film and television industries. Beginning with foundation products, his innovations expanded into the mass market. Factor also developed the concept that makeup used should match a person’s coloring. Early Years Born Max Faktor in Lodz, Poland, he gained recognition
Maxim is a monthly men’s magazine founded in 1995 that features articles about men’s health, fashion, sports, consumer goods, and other male activities and men’s culture. It is most readily identified with the rise of self-indulged, fashion-conscious metrosexuals. The magazine is also well known for its non-nude photography of female celebrities, models, musicians, and actresses
Men’s Health was launched in 1987, under the editorial leadership of Mark Bricklin, as a general health and fitness magazine for American men. The president of Rodale Press, Robert Teufel, conceived of the magazine as a workout and healthy lifestyle magazine in keeping with the philosophy of its founding company. J. I. Rodale created Rodale
The term metrosexual, which was first coined by British cultural critic Mark Simpson in a 1994 article for the Independent and in a 2002 discussion of the English soccer star David Beckham written for www.salon.com, burst onto the American scene with three specific developments in 2003: the publication of a New York Times article titled
While the profession of the male fashion and underwear model is a relatively recent invention, men have served as models for centuries, primarily in artists’ studios and academies. In the 18th and 19th centuries, formally trained artists regularly conducted studies of frequently nude, living models, both male and female. Artistic institutions, in this period, especially
Since 1938, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has regulated the safety, rather than the efficacy, of cosmetic products. The regulation of cosmetics, ensuring some measure of safety to its users, was the result of problems caused by cosmetics, from redness and swelling to blindness, paralysis, and death. In the late 19th century, women
In the 1970s, a new type of groove called hip hop that relied on rhythm, technology, and poetry became the music of choice within African American and Latino communities in New York City, particularly in the Bronx. Borrowing from African American, West African, and Caribbean forms of musical expression, hip hop artists would combine the