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Wow what a heavy title to opt for especially now when credit bang means beauty treats and pedis and manis are the first to be zapped off the essentials list

The "dictatorship of beauty", this must mean that all us gals with even half a pea sized brain do not conform to the standard idyll which can be anyting from "Hollywood siren", to luscious cocktail waitress either way it's a regime that dictates how the world perceives us and how we take on the world.

But in effect sisters all over the world do care about the way they look and how they appear not just to friends, family and work colleagues but to random strangers and the coffe shop guy and thre hairdresser and all those people that stand on the fringe of your world . You do give a teensy damn if your nails look grimy on a trip to the manicurst ( maybe not so much now that credit chic has allowed you some easy manitenance grace ) and you do care if you're shopping for groceries or clothes and the attendant sees what you're wearing . After all there's only so much dressing down a girl can deal with!

It is wonderfully liberating to not have to deal with high maintenance grooming on a daily basis. All that preening and pruning is inordinately time consuming regardless of whether you do it or a skilled professional in a happy spa does it for you. Is there an easy way out of the regime without compromising your female self or are we confined to the drugery of the dictatorship? Of course as in any elected dictatorship there are some who break the mould who manage to be themselves inspite of every manufcatured bosom enhancer, lip primer, face powder, eye opener, double lash insert and revolutionary concelaer the beauty world throws at them and to these trail blazing movers and shakers I salute you ! Whether you're a working Josephine who refuses to buy an eye cream to conceal those dark circles or an avant garde actress who insists only on natural lighting and real imperfection ; it is women like you who allow women like me and the rest of those struggling to deal with the excesses of the lipstick jungle to take a breather and allow for the fact that we can only be as good as nature allows us to be . Of course with the right amount of dosh and oodles of soft focus lighting we can all be pretty much who we want to be .But that crucially might not be who we are !

Sultry chanteuse Amy is a case in point , she is not the archetypal beauty and has no air brushing or blemish erasing tricks to conceal her pain which is esentially

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