Beauty secrets used to be secret. You blocked out the evening, bolted the doors, silenced all notifications, and got busy. Maybe you stippled your face with Mario Badescu Drying Lotion, coated your bikini line with hot wax, glopped on a hair mask, and spent the evening in athleisure watching Love Is Blind, hoping the show’s title was a statement of fact. The next day, you’d wake up feeling fresh and ready for company. No one knew what happened in those quiet hours, and that was exactly by design.
There are an untold number of beauty treatments and procedures that are best conducted solo. Some of the products they involve are so rank and disgusting that they would chase any non-participant out to the street gasping for air. Some of them are creepy, ugly, shocking, disturbing. Some of them are, impressively, both.
