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Id ESLPod_1081_CN
Episode Id ESLPod 1081
Episode Title Personal Grooming
Title New Beauty Treatments
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"Beauty salons" (businesses that provide beauty services and treatments, especially for women) are always "innovating" (coming up with new ideas, products, and services), trying to find new ways to serve their customers. For example, in recent years "eyebrow threading" has become a popular "alternative" (another way of doing something) to eyebrow waxing. In eyebrow threading, a long cotton string is "doubled" (folded in half) and "twisted" (with two pieces wrapped around each other), and then rolled against unwanted hairs. This pulls out a thin line of hairs all at the same time, "whereas" (while in contrast) eyebrow waxing pulls out a large area of hairs, and plucking pulls out only one hair at a time. Threading gives "beauticians" (people who provide beauty services) more control in shaping their customers' eyebrows.

"Blowout bars" are also becoming very popular. A "blowout bar" is a hair salon that offers only one service: Hair professionals wash and "blow dry" (dry using a hair dryer) a woman's hair with "beauty products" (chemicals and other substances) that make the hair straight or "wavy "(with very large, open curls), "smooth" (without little pieces of hair going in many directions) and "voluminous" (not flat).

Other beauty salons are innovating by bring their beauty services to the office. In New York City, where there are many "affluent" (wealthy) professional women, beauticians go into the workplace to offer "manicures" (fingernail treatments), "pedicures" (toenail treatments), "blowouts" (hair styling using a hair dryer), makeup applications, and even "spray tanning" (the process of spraying a colored chemical onto skin to make it appear tanned from sun exposure).

Topics Clothing + Grooming | Health + Medicine

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