Beautiful

Nina G has just returned from a visit to the doctor with disturbing news. Her eyes are bloodshot and swollen - not from a good cry watching Out of Africa or The Bridges of Madison County but from a bout of the evil conjunctivitis. Yes, Nina G is a mere mortal and at present, diseased. Her classic beauty marred by her own window to the soul. She takes a step back from the mirror, trembling and shaken, she lies herself down to rest.

Nina G then began to question her own vanity. She ponders the emphasis she places on physical beauty. She reflects on time and money wasted on potions and lotions, facials and microdermabrasions, injections...and the list goes on. Ever since she can remember, she has been cleansed, scrubbed, toned and moisturised. All in the name of beauty. Recently, she has also taken up yoga, spinning and boxercise to maintain her lithe figure. Again, all in the name of beauty.

Some puritans say beauty is over-rated and only skin-deep. Why then is the beauty industry one of the fastest growing industries in the world? Why then are women injecting bacteria into their skin and using products made from placentas? Because, the truth is, as shallow as some people may think of beauty, it is powerful. Beauty is power. Beauty can help you get the job you've always wanted. Beauty can most definitely get you the man of your dreams. So, as long as Nina G possess beauty, she must be permitted to flaunt it unabashedly. Let's face it, no one really wants to sit next to the ugly kid in school.