Hi everyone,
We're looking for girls to tell us their funny beauty disasters for the next issue of Cosmo. Anything from bleaching facial hair and it going wrong to make-up mistakes! It would involve emailing a headshot and a brief outline of your story and you get a £10 voucher as a thank you for your time. Please email asap to make the issue!!!
Thanks everyone!
cath_mortimer@hotmail.com

Yeah great advertising......not

It'll make people less likely to want to go to a salon for treatments!

Also, why to they make you use a Hotmail.com e-mail address? xx

Because many journalists are freelance or use their own email addresses to work on stories.

I do have to agree though that sadly these stories are fun, but sensationalised and usually have a negative impact on the industry. At least that is what happens every single time this comes up.

Best of luck (moved to media requests).

woo hoo, a whole £10 for ruining our reputation
how can any beauty disaster be funny ?

YAAAAAWNNNN...

I think there should be a sticky in the media requests foum stating that we dont take kindly to journalists fishing for disater stories as we are professionals. (and also totally perfect, and dont make mistakes. lol.)

PMSL kate,
i saw this thread yesterday but didnt think it was even worth a reply

Makes a mockery of an industry we are trying to whole heartedly better.

Vicky Pollared: yeah right, I waxed this woman's eyebrow right off, right and it was the day before her wedding right, and she was so pissed off right, but I did it ok right....not...

We want positive stories, like ten years younger.....but they spend a lot of money on their shows but the results are great.....why can't they show stories of great techs and therapists who get great results without clients or TV companies having to invest £1000's?

What we have to remember here is that the original poster is just doing her job. Unfortunately articles which show our industry in a positive light do not sell magazines - sad but true.

Hopefully as more and more journalists come on here looking for their stories, they might start to think that there is mileage in doing positive articles - although I wont hold my breath LOL.

Wouldnt it be great for a magazine to run a 10 years younger - pick a therapist, from here hopefully LOL, who could do a piece for one months magazine and then do a follow up the next month.

I agree..that sounds like a great idea...I love my nail mags but I personally would love to see some case studies...such as people with nail problems and how they are resolved etc...much more constructive

Or......

A nice big spread advising the readers what to look for in a good 'nail technician' and not to just go for the price etc.

Unfortunately too many people who have no idea about nails think it is just a matter of slapping a bit of acrylic on and dont appreciate just how much knowledge and skill is required.

A nice big cheer for our industry would be far better than the balls ups

I did offer to do this if people wanted to send their stories, and I would upload them but nobody seemed to be interested in that either!! The whole purpose of what I do is to promote the professional aspect of the industry. If anyone is interested I would still do it. Beauty Treatment Information, Product information, find a beauty salon with Allaboutbeauty.co.uk

The funniest thing that I have to report is when I took my sewing kit to a manicure appointment (not a good idea to use identical boxes for different things).
But as no one died or were disfigured they would not be interested!
My client still laughs about it, asking if I can do her darning when I arrive!

This would be an excellent write up for cosmo magazine because there is no harm darn , it doesn't give the beauty industry a bad name and you will get a £10 voucher , I think we should all put in something like this just to get the £10 voucher, what have we got to loose? Go for it ...

£10?

How much does Cosmo cost? Euuwww.

full of high end mega expensive fashion & make up advertising and it is not worth a penny. IMO.