wandering stars

While they may be associated with “frivolity,” beauty supplies are far from a harmless and unimportant “girl thing” that everyone can safely ignore. Not in an industry worth billions of dollars a year and involving some of the largest companies in the world. And not in an industry where the exploitation of women has become a routine and expected part of the trade, from those who paint nails in cut-rate salons to the women packaging the products in Mexican maquiladoras.