I touched on this before but I've had more time to organize my thoughts on the matter into something coherent.
The Beauty Parlor could use a reorganization.
As it stands this is the closest we have to a guideline for what kind of content is in there.
And quite frankly I find it lacking in terms of accuracy and clarity, especially since the merge with Deathfats.
There are examples of threads there that were once more applicable to that sphere, but now feel as though they belong elsewhere, such as Shoe0nHead, and the Jomhas, or depending on how you want to cut it there are threads elsewhere that should be added in like Ellen Woodbury, Samantha Prater, etc.
To illustrate my point, if a newcomer was to ask "what kind of threads are in the Beauty Parlor?" I do not think the current guidelines provide a satisfactory answer. So we need to find that answer, and then add/remove threads from that forum to fit it. It could be as broad as being all the female lolcows, pun not intended, or as narrow as those actually active in cosplay and beauty. However as it stands it suffers greatly from the very stagnation that Null derides in the OP of this thread. There are threads in there that no longer fit but remain because they've always been in there, and there are threads that could be in there but aren't because they predate the board.
To be clear I have no issue with the existence of the beauty parlor, or its status of having special rules, I only want its subject matter to be clearly defined and accurately applied.