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What does the beauty industry include?

The beauty industry mainly includes facial care, body care and maintenance.

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The word beauty can be understood from two angles. The first choice is "capacity", followed by "beauty". "Rong" includes three meanings: face, grace and decoration. "Beauty" has two meanings: adjective and verb. Adjectives indicate that the result and purpose of beauty are beautiful and beautiful; Verbs express the process of beauty, that is, beautification and change.

Therefore, simply speaking, beauty is to change the original bad behavior and disease (face) into a civilized, high-quality and acceptable appearance through activities and processes, or to say products and methods to achieve this goal.

The word beauty comes from the ancient Greek word "kosmetikos", which means "decoration". No matter how it is named, beauty activities have existed for a long time in ancient times. Archaeologists confirmed from the cultural relics excavated during that period that dyes and perfumes had been used in different places at that time.

By 5000 BC, black antimony powder was used to paint and dye eyebrows, lead was used to paint eyeliner, and green malachite was used to paint eye shadow. Surprisingly, the makeup of ancient women is strikingly similar to that of modern women, such as touching fingers, painting toenails, painting lips, painting eyebrows and dyeing hair.

The driving forces for the rapid development of beauty industry are as follows: firstly, in recent years, the upgrading of residents' demand structure, the adjustment of social industrial structure, rural urbanization and community-based cities have created great opportunities for the rise of beauty economy in China.

Beauty originated from human ancestors. Since there has been human beings, there has been beauty. Beauty is to beautify people's appearance. With the development of society and the progress of science and technology, beauty is constantly changing and improving from content to form. According to the different connotations of beauty, modern beauty can be divided into life beauty and medical beauty.

Life beauty means that professionals use professional skin care cosmetics and professional beauty instruments, and use professional skin care methods and massage techniques to comprehensively care and maintain human skin. Life beauty can be divided into two categories: nursing beauty and cosmetic beauty.