5 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Women Are Saving Thousands of Dollars With DIY Beauty Procedures. It's Not Always Pretty.
To conserve cash on her beauty regime, Brooke Burnside dermaplanes her face and tints her own brows with henna at home. 'Doing these services myself has saved me thousands,' said Burnside, 32, the owner of a fitness studio in Bridgehampton, N.Y. Sue Phillips, 65, recently started mixing her own body cream. 'I have become a lot more conscious of how much I'm spending,' said Phillips, who works in the fragrance industry in New York.
With rising prices, recession fears and tariffs top of mind, women like Phillips and Burnside are skipping the beauty parlor, and taking treatments into their own hands.
