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The School of Beauty and Long Life - the untypical institute of beauty in China
Directed by Noah Sheldon · 2019
At a Chinese beauty and hairdressing school, trainees learn facials and perms while drilling in military uniforms under their charismatic, uncompromising founder.
A strange portrait of a beauty school run like a boot camp.
Classes on facials, hair perming, and eyebrow grooming, hundreds of trainees from all across China enrol in the Wenfeng Beauty and Hairdressing School to realise their dreams of becoming hairdressers and beauticians unde
Plays in YouTube's player · Watch on YouTube
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