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- Aging Beauty Cybill Shepherd, Linda Evans and Teri Hatcher - Oprah
- Stealing beauty: Cosmetics top list of swiped goods - msnbc.com
- Beauty Shops Work to Fight Breast Cancer - fox4kc.com
Aging Beauty Cybill Shepherd, Linda Evans and Teri Hatcher - Oprah Posted: 30 Sep 2010 09:13 PM PDT This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Stealing beauty: Cosmetics top list of swiped goods - msnbc.com Posted: 30 Sep 2010 05:21 AM PDT When magazine headlines shout "steal this look!" — some women are taking that literally. Turns out, cosmetics top the nation's list of shoplifted items. "Health and beauty care items" accounted for 20 percent of all items stolen from supermarkets in 2008, according to the most recent survey from the Food Marketing Institute.
Are vain people more likely to be criminals? Or do criminals just want to look hot in their mug shots? More likely, it's that slipping beauty products into a purse is more doable — and worthwhile —than, say, ripping off a 12-pack of toilet paper. Just last month, Caroline Giuliani — the 21-year-old daughter of former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani — was caught swiping $100 worth of beauty products from a Manhattan Sephora . The Harvard senior must complete one day of community service to pay for her beauty-stealing binge. And although we don't know what Giuliani stole from the high-end beauty shop, experts say shoplifters are just as discerning as consumers when it comes to what they take. Story: 5 skin mistakes that age you "Consumers gravitate toward certain items, and so do the criminals," says Joseph LaRocca, a senior advisor for the National Retail Federation. Among the top shoplifted items are pricey hair care brands like Pureology and Bumble and Bumble, according to the group. Also among the most stolen items: Oil of Olay's Regenerist line of anti-aging products, LaRocca says. "We hear that over and over again; it's one of the top targeted items," LaRocca says. That's surely in part because of the attention the Regenerist line received after an American Consumer Union review of the drugstore line found that it outperformed much more expensive brands such as La Prairie Cellular, which sells a 1.7-oz. anti-aging cream for nearly $580. Highly shoplifted items like the Oil of Olay skin care line are increasingly being stashed under locked display cases — an annoyance for the customer who must track down an employee to unlock the $24 wrinkle serum. Most stolen health and beauty products
The padlocks may be making a dent, however. Bucking the economic downturn, overall shoplifting rates dipped in 2009; still, retailers still lost $11.7 billion from shoplifting last year. Story: Prick and run? Botox bandits rip off wrinkle shots Rhett Asher, the vice president of industry relations for the Food Marketing Institute, says the group is working on a report looking into why amateur shoplifters swipe what they do. In terms of beauty products — why pocket a $15 lip gloss and risk serious legal consequences? "You have to look at it as a specifically self-destructive kind of behavior, a statement of rebellion — it's more about that kind of statement than it is about mascara," says Dr. Gail Saltz, a New York City psychiatrist and regular TODAY contributor. "I think that if you're stealing stuff, then probably you aren't happy and you may feel it's about the way you look." But for teen girls, pocketing nail polish from a drugstore can almost be a rite of passage — even actress Megan Fox went through a sticky-fingers phase as a teenager, and was reportedly banned from a Florida Wal-Mart after stealing a $7 tube of lip gloss. (Keep in mind that's according to tabloid reports, and Fox's reps have refused to comment on the claim.) "For young girls, it often is these makeup items they're taking, because ... it's not about beauty — it's about doing something wrong," Saltz says. Another theory: Maybe some petty thefts steal the stuff they're too embarrassed to bring to the register. Among the top shoplifted items according to the NRF are Alli weight loss drugs, pregnancy tests, Nicorette products — and Rogaine. © 2010 msnbc.com Reprints This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
Beauty Shops Work to Fight Breast Cancer - fox4kc.com Posted: 30 Sep 2010 08:09 PM PDT KANSAS CITY, MO - October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and some metro hair salons are marking the occasion with a special effort to "cut" the impact of the disease. FOX 4 Medical Reporter Meryl Lin McKean is Working for You with the report. In recognition of Breast Health Awareness month, the Black Health Care Coalition in partnership with area beauty shops will provide access to breast health information and free mammograms. "Beauty Shop Talk" will be held this Friday, October 1 at Salon Red, 5150 Ararat Drive off of Eastwood Trafficway and Saturday, October 9, 2010, at Oasis Salon, 7703 Prospect, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Oasis Salon will also provide free haircuts for women on certain days in October as a part of their "Let's Cut our Breast Cancer" campaign. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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