Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

I admit it. I've done the occasional quick touch-up of the ol' lippie at restaurants. It takes 15 seconds. I also cannot criticise anyone for being vain, as I am as looks-conscious as the next chicky-babe. But there are places for people like me. Bathrooms. Bathrooms are gifts from heaven for self-concerned princesses to primp and preen in relative privacy.

This woman took 30 minutes to sift through her hair, eyes, lips, face and eyebrows in a post-lunch grooming frenzy. And, call me astigmatic, she didn't look any better than when she first started. A fairly large number of women here are obsessed with their looks. Not simply vain (which can be a reasonably private vice) but obsessed. And apparently some of them can't wait to share it with the world...