Pretty Price Check (05.27.11)

The Pretty Price Check: Your Friday round-up of how much we paid for beauty this week.

• Thieves stole $150,000 worth of hair extensions from a Texas beauty salon. As you know, I have a lot of feelings on the subject of selling hair. (Via New York Times.)

• If you’ve ever wanted to see 12 models without professional makeup or retouching, now you can. Phew.

• BellaSugar asks: Does $38 worth of makeup work as well as $209? I totally can’t tell which side of the model’s face got which products. And I’m a trained professional, yo.

• Teen wears $25,000 dress to the prom, reports Jezebel. Hope no one spilled the spiked punch on it.

• If the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act passes, developers building new strip malls (you know, where beauty salons live!) would have to require tenants to pay $10 per hour plus health insurance or $11.50 per hour without it. Fingers. Crossed. (Via Broadside)

• Lead was found in 96 percent of cosmetics tested in a new and scary study, reports No More Dirty Looks. Don’t worry, arsenic was only in 20 percent of samples.

• 40 percent of consumers do not trust cosmetic companies, reports Stacy Malkan from the Sustainable Cosmetics Conference. Couldn’t have anything to do with that thing I just said about lead and arsenic right?