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Entering Angelica’s beauty salon, “Queen of Waxing,” on a sunny Tuesday morning, I was welcomed by the sweet smell of propolis wax and the cozy atmosphere of pink sofas, white and pink wallpaper, and the space-filling palm tree in the salon’s waiting room. While I waited for my interview appointment with Angelica, I could hear the exchange that was taking place between her and her client behind the provisional walls of the treatment cabin at the back of the salon, Angelica’s whispers and chuckling alternating with the rustling of the waxing procedure and the client’s deep and emphatic breathing. A soft and gentle samba sound accompanied this pain-loaded bodily and emotional interaction between these two women, in which touch and trust were being negotiated in the performance of beauty service work.
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Lidola, M. (2015). Of Grooming Bodies and Caring Souls: New-Old Forms of Care Work in Brazilian Waxing Studios in Berlin. In: Alber, E., Drotbohm, H. (eds) Anthropological Perspectives on Care. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137513441_4
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