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...indeed. Formerly the domain of overstressed or overpampered adults, spas have begun aggressively wooing the under-18 set. Offering specially designed massages, facials, hair braiding and glitter manicures for teens, they are hoping to cash in on adolescents' disposable income and limitless ability to obsess about their appearance. "So much of the media is filled with beautiful girls who have beautiful skin," says Breanna Ellis, 15, who gets a facial at the Belle Visage Day Spa in Studio City, Calif., every six weeks. "Young girls like myself are pressured to be beautiful in society or we don't feel like...
...this country, and last year, according to Teenage Research Unlimited, they spent a total of almost $20 billion on health-and-beauty products. The nearly 10,000 spas operating in the U.S. are determined not to let all that money be squandered on Clearasil or do-it-yourself hair...
When the 10,000-sq.-ft. Loews Coronado Bay Resort opens in San Diego next January, it will feature a spa for teenagers offering temporary hair coloring, body jewelry and fitness classes. If such services prove popular, they will probably be replicated at the chain's other 18 locations. Spa director Michael Santonino says the San Diego resort will sell organic skin-care products created for teens. The amenities have been tailored on the basis of information gleaned from a survey of 9,000 teenagers administered in conjunction with Seventeen magazine...
...mirror, Tobey Maguire almost looks like a regular person. It's 8 a.m., and he's sprawled out in a makeup chair on the closed set of Spider-Man II, wearing gray sweats, shorts and sneakers. He's not exactly larger than life--maybe 5 ft. 8 in. His hair is goofy and tousled. His voice is hoarse and has a touch of Californian dude-ulosity in it. But the chair swivels around, and you notice the eyes, luminous pearly gray lasers that go right through you. Then you remember: Oh, yeah. Right. Movie star...
...confuse him with any of those losers in real life. Offscreen, Maguire is as tough as nails, managing his resume as well as any other star in Hollywood. Look at the arc of his career. It's as perfect as the part in Peter Parker's hair. At 28, he has worked for a string of A-list directors that would make James Lipton weep, including Woody Allen, Ang Lee, Terry Gilliam and Curtis Hanson. How does he do it? Where's his Weekend at Bernie's? "I wait," says Maguire. "I don't want to work as an actor...