Archive for the ‘See the Future’ Category

Medical beauty therapies on the mend

Medical beauty treatment sales will be on the mend again in the next years after a decline of about 15 percent in 2009, with more women looking for natural-looking touch-ups and pampering in increasingly popular medical spas. IMCAS, the International Master Course on Aging Skin, expects beauty therapies including laser treatments, breast enlargements and wrinkle-filling injections to grow 5 to 10 percent a year worldwide until 201

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Businesses Try to Tap into Twitter

More than 2.6 million people know the answers to at least one of those questions thanks to one of the fastest growing, social-networking Web sites, Twitter. The Web phenomenon has spread to Lancaster residents and businesses looking to making stronger connections with their customers. Twitter is a free micro-blogging Web site that lets users post messages in real time to people who choose to be “followers.” The site allows for small bursts of information to be shared in 140 or fewer characters.

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‘Lipstick effect’ replaced by looking good for less

It is commonly thought that in the face of an economic crisis, sales of lipsticks go up. However, new research from Mintel shows that this is in fact not the case and that women are choosing other basic cosmetic products over lipstick as they start to view the items as a necessity rather than a luxury.

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