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...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 we belong...
...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...
...many spas that service youngsters, those under 18 must have a parent present during a massage. At Belle Visage, where 30% of the clients are between the ages of 11 and 20, owner Tina Keshishian has created Teen Clean, a 45-minute deep facial, seaweed mask and skin-care education program for $55, which is $25 less than a similar package for adults...
...have been silenced, too. His death was bizarre and its cause remains unexplained. According to an aide, Shchekochikhin developed a slight fever on July 16 as he was en route to Ryazan, 300 km east of Moscow. When he returned home the next day, the fever worsened and his skin began peeling and breaking. When an ambulance was finally called a day later, he was so weak that he had to be carried to the car. He fell into a coma and died nine days later. Doctors suggest he had an allergic reaction to an unidentified substance, but his family...
...visit to your doctor. Hypochondriacs beware: "It's not a self-diagnosis book, and people who use it as such probably aren't using it as we intended," says assistant editor Michael Berkwits. FYI: Kawasaki syndrome, discovered in Japan in the 1960s, may show up in small children as skin rash, fever and enlarged lymph nodes. --By Sora Song