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Matthew Coggon, University of Colorado

Have you ever considered your makeup to be dangerous? I don’t mean in the sense that you could fall on your mascara and poke your eye out. I’m talking about all the chemicals found in makeup.

NEW MILFORD — Princess Factory is not your typical spa or nail salon.

The new business at 132 Danbury Road in New Milford caters to girls aged 3 to 15 and offers services as manicures, pedicures, glitter tattoos, hair tinsel and makeup application. Princess Factory is also available for birthday parties and mother-daughter, or “queen and princess” visits.

Lee Blaney, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Karen Foxgrover, who uses a wheelchair and lives on her own, relies on personal-care workers to help her get up, bathe, dress, eat, use the bathroom and go to bed.

Five workers, all UW-Madison students, fill four shifts seven days a week. Four of them will leave soon, so Foxgrover is training other people to replace them.

Finding help is a never-ending struggle that sometimes leads her to go to the Dane County Farmer’s Market and hand out her card.

Featured in countless magazine spreads, television commercials and in the aisles of drug stores, the U.S. beauty and cosmetics industry is the largest in the world.

According to Statista, it produced upward of $62 billion in revenue in 2016 — nearly $20 billion more than just 10 years before.