On an average weekend, you and your closest friends head from one appointment to the next, taking care of your nails, brows, dye jobs, or whatever else is on your growing list of to-dos. But even when you can't be physically together, you and your fellow beauty-obsessed friends can still spend quality time together doing what you love most: catching up during your manis, facials, massages, and so on.

For those with pesky acne-prone skin, it's never just as easy as hopping into your local Sephora grabbing the first thing you see off the shelf. Nope, we have to be extra careful to make sure we don't irritate our skin (thus causing even more breakouts).

Cryotherapy has been around for some time, but what you may not know is that the full-body cooling treatment also does wonders for the face. Ask facialists and beauty experts alike and they'll tell you: Cold therapy doesn't just relieve muscle pain.

Like acne, hyperpigmentation is a common skin affliction without a straightforward solution. In short, it's a condition by which patches of skin become darker in color than the normal surrounding skin and, once again like acne, it can have various causes. Some of the most common include melasma, sun spots and age spots.

In previous economic downturns, we've seen "the lipstick effect" play out. If you're unfamiliar, it's the idea — accompanied by concrete numbers — that women still want to get dolled up and treat themselves with this small, luxury item — despite the fact that other product categories experience a sales slump.