Latest Beauty Trends and Top Beauty Activities in 2012

What are the latest beauty trends in 2012? To understand this one has to take stock of the preference of the beauty aspirants and customers about the parts of their anatomy that are important for beauty enhancement. It could be hair, nail, eyelashes, skin, fingers, and above all; the face though legs and toes cannot be undermined either.

Haircut Tops the List

Among the beauty related activities, it seems that on the fall 2012, hair cut and hair care tops the list according the preference of the people and the market trends. The following facts may be taken into consideration in determining the top element in latest beauty trends.

• Most of the beauty salons find that haircut is their top activity;
• Living Social Vanity consumer survey that was released on 14th December last year indicate that it is the haircut that tops the activities relating to beauty and fashion in the market today and it also indicates the trend that might come up in 2012; and
• These magazines and trade journals make conscious effort to discover as well as share information about the social trends and behavior that includes latest beauty trends and are reliable sources of information.

Results of Popular Surveys

Most of the popular surveys that were conducted last year resulted in bringing out the supremacy of hair cut and hair care in the realm of beauty activities.

• Haircut topped list of most of the popular beauty and relaxations activities in online survey of over 4000 consumers conducted by top ten U.S medias conducted during November and December, 2011;
• Over 85% consumers said that they had hair cut on average of 6.3 times during the year under consideration; and
• Second spot was again occupied by hair coloring with around 45% of the consumers taking to coloring on average 2.4 times during the entire year.

Surveys therefore established beyond any reasonable doubt that hair care that includes both hair cutting as well as hair color; occupied the top spot in the list of beauty activities undertaken by the consumers and was in the top spot.

Nail Care and Skin Care

While hair care and hair color took the top spot among beauty activities indicating the recent beauty trends, skin care and nail care occupy the second and third spots respectively. In the surveys conducted both these items registered high position in the consumer preference scales. While most of the people said that skin care is important for them, some of them also preferred nail care and manicuring. While both of them occupied lower spot in comparison to hair care and hair dying they were higher in ranking in comparison to all other beauty related activities.

Whether it is hair care, hair dying, or nail care and manicuring, most Americans may prefer to do them on “do it yourself” basis during the year 2012 that shows the latest beauty trends in the market as well.