Do more Physically attractive and famous A-listers sell more products? Or are we just clutching at expensive imaginery over-hyped straws?

The proof might be in the pudding, so-to-speak.

In recent years, the services sector has achieved higher growth rates than manufacturing, and they have certainly been helped along the way by innovative advertising and marketing techniques.

FROM JAPAN WITH LOVE...

Kao is, one of Japan’s biggest names in the beauty and personal care business. But it realized recently that it had become too reliant on its domestic market; and accordingly decided to, search territory beyond the borders of Japan for future revenue. The Japanese market for cosmetics, as with other business segments of the country's economy, is widely projected to contract in the next few years, making other markets critical to survival.

If you’re human and more than 10 years old, at least one haircut in your life probably made you feel that you look like a freak. Something as simple as a haircut can take you from reasonably unnerved by your appearance to horrified by it; And as philosophers have demonstrated through the centuries, a bad hair day seems to trigger as much profound thought as other, more obvious life-altering events.