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Focus on the Filipino youth: The Lost Generation

The business of beauty

by Cheryl Chan

THE QUEUES in mall bathrooms attest to our national vanity. With all the women putting on lipstick, powdering their noses, and whipping their dangerously long, buhaghag-free hair between vigorous brushstrokes, it is nearly impossible to get to the sink to wash hands. Whether the vanity is cause or effect, I’m not sure. Probably a little of both.

Read more… | Posted Friday, September 2nd, 2005