It looks like I'm showing my age again. Does this explain why I've never heard of Sarah Beenie? I was also in a bit of a hurry so I just typed in whoever came to mind first. If I'd dredged a bit deeper through the grey cells I would have remembered Stevie Nicks and I should never have left out the very first woman who struck me as having something most lacked - Aimi Macdonald.
I spent my teenage years at an all boys' school at a time when the Miss World contest was an annual event. A regular comment around the school was "You can see better looking women walking down the street." I had to agree with this but wasn't quite sure why at the time. The answer is now obvious. They were for the most part excessively tarted up but, with one notable exception, there was nothing below the surface.
The exception - Miss Sweden 1970. Anybody else remember her?
Cosmetics manufacturers are obviously hell bent on encouraging this because they're making a fortune out of us. Nobody who makes lipstick is about to tell women that they'd look better without it. I suppose women have been painting themselves since the day paint was invented (men have done it too though possibly for different reasons) but you'd have to be desperate to resort to the potentially fatal bella donna.
As I mentioned in another post, if those Roman women had really wanted to attract a mate their pupils would have dilated by themselves. I'm left with two possible reasons for faking it:
1) They were more interested in impressing other women.
2) They had a problem. How do you get a man when you don't actually like any of them them?
