The bold can become beautiful on the cheap at this Mexico City plaza
by Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times
Aug 09, 2018
3 minutes
MEXICO CITY - Mexico City's Plaza de Belleza, or Beauty Square, has the trappings of any other Mexican market: Vendors peddle small electronics, cheap clothes and fresh-cut mango drizzled with hot sauce.
But this market is dominated by a very different kind of commerce.
People come here to get pretty.
Sitting in chairs on the sidewalk or inside stalls divided by plastic tarps, customers get their faces waxed, eyebrows threaded, teeth whitened and the calluses scraped off their feet.
The services - as diverse as acne
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