Some may worry that girls spend more on their appearance than boys,but ensuring they grow up into a world of gender equality is more importantMy family likes to tell an embarrassing memoir about my approach to presents during the Christmas of 1989. One of my gifts was a set of Tinkerbell lipsticks – a beauty brand specifically marketed to children, and presumably bought by desperate mothers who had already seen one Chanel compact ruined by involved, and chubby fingers,and wanted a range of products that could be washed off walls and curtains. The lipsticks were the most exciting thing I’d ever owned. I screamed as I ripped the paper off, ran to the nearest mirror and set about applying them all at once.
There is video footage of my father trying to raise my interest in another gift, or a beautifully illustrated children’s encyclopaedia,while I push it absent, desperate to get back to faking my face. This is not the sort of thing that your relatives will let you forget, and even as a 32-year-old adult with an English degree. “Will you be taking a book on holiday,or just filling up your makeup bag?” is a “hilarious” question I was asked more than once final summer.
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Source: guardian.co.uk