at first glance, this could be a beauty shop in anytown, usa, but it s actually on the grounds of the prison. can i have a magazine, please? yes, ma am. the inmates call it cosmo, and it s here where they learn how to style hair and give facials and manicures. it makes me feel like i m at home going to the beauty shop, and, actually, it relieves the stress. it takes me away from that environment, for a little while at least. my instructors, they don t treat me like an inmate. they treat me like a student. first of all, i m a female and i m african-american and i ve been incarcerated, so that s already three strikes against me. but i think i could actually have another chance to become someone, to be something. i would always turn my client away from the mirror so that she s surprised when she see that transformation. shampoo and conditioner, please.
be a beauty shop in anytown, usa, but it s actually on the grounds of the prison. can i have a magazine, please? yes, ma am. the inmates call it cosmo, and it s here where they learn how to style hair and give facials and manicures. it makes me feel like i m at home going to the beauty shop, and, actually, it relieves the stress. it takes me away from that environment, for a little while at least. my instructors, they don t treat me like an inmate. they treat me like a student. first of all, i m a female and i m african-american and i ve been incarcerated, so that s already three strikes against me. but i think i could actually have another chance to become someone, to be something. i would always turn my client away from the mirror so that she s surprised when she see that transformation. shampoo and conditioner, please. jennie brown is 21 and serving six to eight months for trafficking cocaine and breaking
please? yes, ma am. the inmates call it cosmo, and it s here where they learn how to style hair and give facials and manicures. it makes me feel like i m at home going to the beauty shop, and, actually, it relieves the stress. it takes me away from that environment, for a little while at least. my instructors, they don t treat me like an inmate. they treat me like a student. first of all, i m a female and i m african-american and i ve been incarcerated, so that s already three strikes against me. but i think i could actually have another chance to become someone, to be something. i would always turn my client away from the mirror so that she s surprised when she see that transformation. shampoo and conditioner, please. jennie brown is 21 and serving six to eight months for trafficking cocaine and breaking and entering. this is where i hand out the supplies, brushes, shampoo/conditioner, grease,
at first glance, this could be a beauty shop in anytown, usa, but it s actually on the grounds of the prison. can i have a magazine, please? yes, ma am. the inmates call it cosmo, and it s here where they learn how to style hair and give facials and manicures. it makes me feel like i m at home going to the beauty shop, and, actually, it relieves the stress. it takes me away from that environment, for a little while at least. my instructors, they don t treat me like an inmate. they treat me like a student. first of all, i m a female and i m african-american and i ve been incarcerated, so that s already three strikes against me. but i think i could actually have another chance to become someone, to be something. i would always turn my client away from the mirror so that she s surprised when she see that transformation. shampoo and conditioner, please. jennie brown is 21 and serving six to eight months for
there are a million men in this country who battle anorexia and binge eating. right. i shouldn t just portray it as a problem for women. there was an article in the daily mail written by the former editor of cosmopolitan we call it cosmo. i ve read it, i ve seen it. reverse retouching. now some of these models are so thin that she says that when she was at cosmo, i also faced the dilemma of what to do with models who were frighteningly thin so they will add a few pounds so you re not looking at their rib cage. and they did that for cameron diaz, which is one of the pictures that they showed. what she said is you never see the horrible, hungry downside of being a model. and you hear about that. but you it doesn t you don t see them starving and bingeing and having bulimia. right. so it seems to me the media have a lot to answer. for everyone likes to look at nice-looking women but the idea