Seven of The Best Beauty Moments in The Movies

Some movies teach us lessons about life, others talk about love, and there are others whose story reminds us of many moments in our life.

Unsurprisingly, the seventh art seeks inspiration in real life to achieve its biggest goal: to thrill us.

The truth is that the various situations that we experience every day in our beauty salons, whether they are amusing, embarrassing or dramatic, really seem to be based on a feature film.

Empowering, life-changing, sometimes just plain illogical – the beauty salon has always been the perfect location for some iconic cinematic moments where identities are remodelled, intimate secrets revealed, and jokes and laughs shared.

Several are the plots in which hair and beauty are just a background to tell a lovely story.

For this reason, we would like to pay tribute to this industry and its professionals by selecting a list of the top beauty salon movies that you should watch, so prepare some popcorns and enjoy!

Beauty Shop

Mixing entrepreneurship with comedy, this movie is a must watch for anyone who is starting their own business in the beauty industry.

With some well-known stars in its cast like Queen Latifah, Kevin Bacon, Alicia Silverstone, and Andie MacDowell, the plot narrates the trajectory of Gina, a beauty stylist who decides to open her own beauty salon, whose clients are always getting into trouble. A few laughs are guaranteed!

Edward Scissorhands

Edward does not have the typical appearance of the beautician we are accustomed to seeing in our beauty salon, but he has an excellent talent for aesthetics and art.

The romance between Edward (Johnny Depp) and Kim (Winona Ryder) is the background to tell the story of how talent can make people come together.

Steel Magnolias

This drama tells us the day-to-day life of a salon located in Louisiana and all the tragedies of its clients. The full movie can be seen as one big beauty moment as many scenes take place in a beauty salon.

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

The iconic scene of the character played by Steve Carell shaving his hairy torso for the first time is one of the most entertaining moments in cinema. And one which we often see in clinics and beauty salons with clients wriggling inside the hair removal room, trying to avoid the dreaded pull.

Caramel

Most of this movie happens in a scenery that is very familiar to us: a beauty centre. It shows the lives of five women who work in the same salon in in Beirut, Lebanon. Going from topics ranging from infidelity to old age, this is one of the films about beauty salons that show the human side of working in a salon and dealing with different people. The name of this film is inspired by the method used for hair removal: hot caramel.

Legally Blonde

The movie that taught an entire generation about ammonium thioglycolate, the chemical that perms hair.

Legally Blonde shows that beautiful woman can do extraordinary things and worry about something other than their nails and their hair, however, without ceasing to worry about their nails and their hair :-)

And seeing one of Harvard's top professors at the beauty salon shows that smart women can, YES, look after themselves.

Venus beauté (Institut)

This movie uncovers the world and the lives of four tenacious, intelligent women who make their living practicing beauty at a Parisian beauty salon. These characters show us the most beautiful side of this profession and their different postures with love.