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Cosmetology

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Use SCC Library databases to find ebooks about Cosmetology, career resources, and more.

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Example ebooks

How To Create the Perfect Cut, Shape, Color & Perm for Any Hair Type: Secrets & Techniques from a Master Hair Stylist by William H. Easterly & Cosmo Easterly
Publication Date: 2009
Vital Face: Facial Exercises and Massage for Health and Beauty by Leena Kiviluoma
Publication Date: London : Singing Dragon. 2013
Hair in African Art and Culture by Roy Sieber
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: (Prestel) The Africa Center, 2000
[Exhibition catalog from he Museum for African Art]
Badass Braids: 45 Maverick Braids, Buns, and Twists Inspired by Vikings, Game of Thrones, and More
Publication Date: 2018
Careers in Hospitality & Tourism
Call Number: Career Reference: 647.402 CAREERS 2014
Body Therapy and Facial Work: Electrical Treatments for Beauty Therapists by Greta Couldridge; Mo Rosser; Sue Rosser
Publication Date: London : Hodder Education. 2012
Costume, Makeup, and Hair by Adrienne L. McLean
Publication Date: 2016
"considers these crafts in relation to a wide range of film genres, from sci-fi spectacles to period dramas, but also examines the role they have played in the larger marketplace for fashion and beauty products."
Hair Raising: Beauty, Culture, and African American Women by Noliwe M. Rooks
Publication Date: Rutgers U: 1996
A Cultural History of Hair in the Modern Age
Publication Date: 2019
Styling Jim Crow: African American Beauty Training during Segregation by Julia Kirk Blackwelder
Publication Date: U of Texas: 2003
A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in Antiquity by Mary Harlow (Editor)
Publication Date: London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts. 2017
Coiffures: Hair in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Culture by Carol Rifelj
Publication Date: U of Delaware Press: 2010
Permanent Waves: The Making of the American Beauty Shop by Julie Ann Willett
Publication Date: 2000
Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry by Geoffrey Jones
Publication Date: Oxford U Press: 2010
Plucked: A History of Hair Removal by Rebecca M. Herzig
Publication Date: NYU: 2015
The Politics of Black Women's Hair by Althea Prince
Publication Date: 2009
Hair by Scott Lowe; Christopher Schaberg (Series edited by); Ian Bogost (Series edited by)
Publication Date: 2016
History and social aspects of hair and hairstyles
Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture by Kathy Peiss
Publication Date: U of Pennsylvania Press: 2011
Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920-1975 by Susannah Walker
Publication Date: U Press of Kentucky: 2007
The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work by Miliann Kang
Publication Date: U of California Press: 2010
Cosmetic Dermatology by Zoe Diana Draelos (Editor)
Publication Date: Wiley & Sons, 2015
The Art of Combining Surgical and Nonsurgical Techniques in Aesthetic Medicine by Julius W. Few (Editor)
Publication Date: New York : Thieme. 2018