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Scots lead Britain's male beauty boom
Telegraph UK ^

Posted on 05/08/2012 6:30:41 AM PDT by Perdogg

The rapid increase in male demand for tanning, waxing and facial treatments is expected to help create 11,000 jobs in the £6.2bn beauty industry over the next 12 months, research by Kantar Worldpanel has found.

However the survey of 1,500 businesses across Britain exposed surprising regional divides.

In Scotland, the number of grooming treatments bought by men has risen by three quarters, the biggest increase anywhere in Britain. A fifth of these were sessions on the sunbed as men top up their tans.

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1 posted on 05/08/2012 6:30:44 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: Perdogg

All is vanity


2 posted on 05/08/2012 6:36:47 AM PDT by ecomcon
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A fifth of these were sessions on the sunbed as men top up their tans.

Britons in a sunbed? I think you see that scene in just about every vampire movie when the sun comes up.

3 posted on 05/08/2012 6:37:28 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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...What, are we supposed to be shocked or something?
4 posted on 05/08/2012 6:44:05 AM PDT by Méabh
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< facepalm >
5 posted on 05/08/2012 6:46:17 AM PDT by tomkat ( FU.baraq <font finger=middle>)
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To: Méabh
Oh, wait, I forgot one:


6 posted on 05/08/2012 6:48:40 AM PDT by Méabh
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To: Perdogg
Oh, aye!


7 posted on 05/08/2012 6:55:39 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: Perdogg

The wussification of men continues.


8 posted on 05/08/2012 8:22:11 AM PDT by bgill
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It is in direct correlation to the percentage of male homosexuals. The more homos, the more waxing, tanning, etc


9 posted on 05/08/2012 9:41:21 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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10 posted on 05/08/2012 9:43:44 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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11 posted on 05/08/2012 9:57:47 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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