Beauty

There are many ways to define the word BEAUTY. When my Mom was still alive she owned a Beauty Salon she called Cinderella. The interior of the salon was designed to make you feel like you're in a parlor inside a castle. I guess it was made that way to make the customer feel like a fairy tale princess. I really don't know. What I do know is that not all who came out of that Salon came out looking beautiful. I learned very early in life that the most skilled beautician and the most expensive cosmetics can only do so much.

A lot of men nowadays equate beauty with what they see on FHM every month. They deceive themselves by pretending that Adobe did not invent Photoshop a long time ago. Did you know that an insider once told me that she can count in one hand the number of women whose features they did not have to alter using Photoshop?

Vicki Belo says anyone can be beautiful. By that she means anyone can have fat from her stomach sucked out through scientific means. By that she means, too, that one can have silicone injected or implanted into one's chest or butt as long as you have cash, or Citibank PayLite.

Try hanging out at the new Greenbelt and chances are you'd be amazed at the number of beautiful women you'll see. Only don't look too closely and if you do get to go out with any of these 'beautiful' women be sure to leave before the sun rises so you can keep the fantasy alive in your head (wherever that is). That's an advice I heard from a male friend.

Some say it's cliche but true beauty really lies within. No amount of make up can make up for what's lacking inside a person. Neither can the most invasive beauty technology really help.

I know a really good reconstructive surgeon who has decided to concentrate on using her skill to help kids with deformities. She doesn't look a bit like Belo or any of those celebrity 'dermas' out there. She looks so simple. But once you get to know her and learn about her family life and the charitable work she's into you'll realize that she is more than beautiful.

I hope, as a woman living in today's advertising-driven culture, I'll have the courage to aspire to be truly beautiful, inside-out.