This Day, That Year

Item from Dec 28, 1984, in China Daily: Wang Hui, manager and resident beautician at a new beauty center in Beijing, examines through a mirror the brow makeup she applied for a customer.

Beijing women can now get a complete makeover - from their head down to their fingernails - at the beauty center that opened here on Wednesday.

The Meibai Beauty Center, located at No 24 Donghuamen Street near the Wangfujing shopping area, is considered unusual because it is the first beauty parlor that offers ordinary local Chinese women the complete services of hairdressing, wig-fitting, brow-plucking, manicuring, makeup and cosmetic treatments.