Boys Can Be Pretty Too!

It's been months, I know. So in order to welcome myself back I'm themeing this week's writing (really, I'm kidding myself if I think I'm gonna write more than one post this week - probably should read "I'm themeing my next few posts around...") around what has partly been keeping me distracted and away from the computer: Men (or probably more accurately, boys, mentally at least... bitter? who, me?).

Well... now that I've pretty much sworn off them (for now), I have more time to sit back and reflect...

Make up for boys is everywhere you look at the moment. Superdrug has jumped on the band wagon and is stocking guyliner and manscara - I'm guessing it's just cheap and nasty products in manly packaging. (Oh, just a minute, stop the press, I just read that the 'Guy-liner' pencil is "chunkier than the female equivalent and therefore easier for men, who have bigger hands, to use"). Hehe... probably not the men most likely to be wearing it - can't quite see it catching on with the meaty-handed construction worker crowd just yet.

The whole (marketing) thing is a bit silly really - surely any self respecting male, if they've got the balls to wear make up, would be more than happy to just buy one of the many brands of girl cosmetics that aren't all pink and fluffy looking... either that or just borrow their girlfriends'. Still, I guess you can hardly blame those marketing folks for giving it a try.
Anyway, at least something good has come from all this (apart from a healthy profit for Superdrug) - two swell conjoinulations.