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Ugly Beauty: The Ugly Face of the Beauty Business by Brandon, Ruth is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Ugly Beauty: The Ugly Face of the Beauty Business about?
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. With wonderful attention to detail and real affection for her subjects, Brandon tells the story of Helena Rubinstein (1870–1965), a Polish Jew from a poor family with a small salon in Australia, who became the first woman tycoon and self-made millionaire. Her timing was excellent: she struck at the moment when decent women, for the first time, were allowing themselves makeup and were willing to shop for it publicly. At the same time, a young French chemist named Eug?ne Schueller (1881–1957) was making his name in hair dyes (and later collaborating with the Nazis); it was his company, L'Oreal, that swallowed Rubinstein's business. The descriptions of Schueller's political scandals are fascinating, but the story shines when Brandon returns to Rubinstein, a stubborn, spirited woman who responded to a luxury Park Avenue apartment's "No Jews" policy by buying the entire building, and who calmly thwarted robbers in her home at the age of 91. A clearheaded discussion of current beauty standards, vanity, and the gender politics of the modern cosmetic industry rounds out this lively history of the founding of the beauty business as we know it. (Feb.)
Who reads Ugly Beauty: The Ugly Face of the Beauty Business?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Brandon, Ruth
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061740404
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Home & Lifestyle, Medical, Memoir
- Rating
- 2.9 / 5 (158 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13