Equals out to about $2.26 a month.

UK lass, so I obviously spend far less on beauty than glamorous American women do (snark at the writer, not at Americans) but…

No hair cuts from salons, because I generally just trim it to the right length and then fuss around with it myself. I do buy cheap peroxide though, because my hair started getting darker as I got older, and with my pale eyebrows it gives me a marilyn manson-like no-eyebrow appearance. Maybe £5 a month there. I buy cheap eyeliner, mascara, eyeshadow but tend to save up for mineral powder foundation, blusher and anti-eyebag-stuff, so that’s maybe an extra £20 every 3 months. I use palmers cocoa butter moisturiser- totally not fancy or posh but smells yummy and works well- bought a big tub for £6 last July and still haven’t used it up. Good shampoo and conditioner, £6 a month. I’ll go months without shaving at all then go on a mad anti-hair rampage with creams and stuff so… maybe £10 every 3 months on that? I don’t consider soap, deodorant or toothpaste to be a beauty expense, as these are about hygeine. I own one bottle of perfume that I bought 4 years ago and use very rarely. I exercise at home and my other half does my massages so…

Maybe £25 a month? Of course, if we count clothes as well… I go through stockings like bacon rind goes through my cat. I HAVE to spend out on bras because I have my very own doomy chestage, and generally get the matching panties simply because I might as well go all out if I’m spending £40 on a bleeding bra, but even then my other clothes are generally bought in the sales, and I can’t afford expensive shoes.

Damn, what sort of women is this guy friends with? Imaginary ones?

Oh yeah, and if men don’t care about shoes (not buying that, but still) then they surely appreciate the shapely calves of a woman crippling herself with stilettos?

Of course, all this could boil down to is “this guy is a twatmonkey”.

I’m an American woman, and I’m not anywhere near that cost-wise. Hell, we make less than that a month.

Two boxes of hair dye every two months, ten bucks. Haircut once every six, to even the ends out, ten bucks a shot. Every now and then a packet of hairpins or elastics, but not a whole lot more. Say, five bucks every year for that. My silk scarves for windy conditions were my grandmother’s, so no cost there. Time…well, I’ll admit it takes longer to braid it at night, unbraid and brush in the morning, time to put a scarf on before I walk out, etc. On the other hand, my hair’s long enough that if I’m not careful I tuck it into my jeans, and that appears to be enough to “make up for” the size 24 body it’s attached to. That and a sparkling personality and wit.

As to other things, I wear makeup if I’m going somewhere, which is not often. I shave legs, underarms, and pubic area because I don’t like having hairy pits, I shave my legs when I think about it in the summer, and I shave my pubic area because it’s easier to keep things clean at Certain Points In The Month. It has nothing to do with what men like.

So far my husband has no objections. We actually spend more on his appearance because he likes the expensive razor and has to get a hair cut every two months.

Of course, I’m tall, thin, and 22, so I still have to weed out asswhipes like that. Are there real people out there with real sex lives who actually expect their SO’s to behave like that? My guess is that he’s basing his expectations on anime girls.

nothing wrong with lipstick lesbians!

=)

You know, I used to think a lot of the tripe that comes out of Hollywood came from people who KNEW the movies they wrote were full of ridiculous expectations, but were written to pander to something they thought the public wanted. This guy apparently thinks those ridiculous expectations are the non-negotiable, bare-minimum requirements a woman must maintain if she doesn’t wanted to treated like garbage by men.

The thing that makes me sad is that I fear he’s just writing down what a lot of men secretly think, but have the sense not to verbalize where women can hear them.