Plastic beauty!

Summer Smellathon!

The mother of all sales!

The Biggest & Baddest Smells Event!

Look better for Less!

Summer Makeover Event!

In the factory we make cosmetics, at drugstores we sell HOPE!

.....tingle, mingle, glow...wait a minute...SHIT!!!

...These are not advertisements that I come across in between TV programmes...in fact these are themes around which programmes are spun for several hours together..why sometimes even the whole day for 7 days a week...and add to my agony..seeing all this on all the "n" number of channels that came with a promise of providing me with a variety of entertainment!

...and what is most entertaining to me is the fact that there are people who watch this crap without actually getting bored day in and day out, else surely they would have been taken off-air for want of viewers.

Women have two weapons they say- cosmetics and tears.

Isn't this the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? They are all firming or uplifting or invigorating. They make you tingle. Or glow. Or feel young. They are prepared with hormones or placentas or royal jelly. All the juice and joy missing in the lives of these women are to be supplied by the contents of jars and bottles. No wonder they spend twenty dollars for an ounce of face makeup or thirty for a half-ounce of hormone cream....all for looking NATURALLY beautiful! What price bliss? what price ecstacy?

..and adding salt to the wound..

There they were... shown, sitting all tarted up, some even excusing themselves to get their routine touch-ups of AHA's and PHA's every 15 mins...Then, in walked a plastic beauty...How could she be late for the meeting? SHE was the keynote speaker on today's topic - "Cosmetic Industry- A Misdemeanor".