Clare Banker, 7, plays dress up in her bedroom in State College. Defining beauty starts at a young age for girls. Dolls play a huge roll in signifying what is beautiful and was is not. / Photo by Hannah Bressi

Dana Matthews, a junior at Penn State, applies a weekly mud mask at her apartment at State College. / Photo by Sarah Nelson

Sarah Weber, a junior at Penn State majoring in broadcast journalism, tans at an apartment clubhouse in State College. / Photo by Britany Nelson

Mike Trenski applies a facial cleansers during his beauty routine. Trenski applies facial cleansers each week. / Photo by Ashley Laird

Brooke Proute gets her eyebrows threaded, an ancient Indian practice for hair removal, at ESSpa in State College. / Photo by Nina Rizos

Katherine Essel, a Penn State senior majoring in kinesiology, weight trains at the White Building on campus. / Photo by Yosra Alterkawi

Brooke Proute wears an oxidant sulfate face mask to relax and hydrate her skin. The treatment was being done at ESSpa in State College. / Photo by Nina Rizos

Molly Lichtenwalner, a communication sciences and disorders student at Penn State, smiles as she gets her head shaved at Evolve Studio in downtown State College. Lichtenwalner shaved her head in support of pediatric cancer patients as a part of the second annual No Hair Don’t Care, an event that raises money and awareness for the Penn State Dance Marathon, a 46 hour dance marathon benefiting pediatric cancer patients and their families. / Photo by Anna Ungar