Monday, March 26, 2007

Whipped Cream and Body Butter for the Innocent

Some of life's biggest indulgences. Hot tea. Warm shower. Whipped body cream from Origins. No not whipped body cream in the kinky sense. The name of the moisturiser really is whipped body cream: ginger souffle.

It is amazing how much you can tell about a person just by looking through her toiletries. Pore-shrinking scrub. Firming body cream. Tanning lotion. Whitening face mask. Anti-dandruff shampoo. Anti-Kink conditioner. Extra strength deodorent. It says a lot about what the person likes (or not like) about herself. What they want to change. What they feel insecure about. I like looking at other people's toiletries. I feel like I am connecting with them at a non-verbal level. It beats actual conversation sometimes. Unless they are guys. Then most labels on their soap/shampoo/face wash says "For Men" or "For Normal Skin". No girl ever believes she has normal skin or normal hair. There has to be something wrong with it. If not the multi-billion dollar cosmetics industry wouldn't have survived for so long.

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