Less is more

Where is the natural beauty?

What a lot of people (particularly American men) told me when I mentioned Sweden prior to coming here is that there are the world's most beautiful women there.

When I got here — after having being spoilt for the last three years in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland — I saw that Swedish girls cake their face with make up to the point that any natural beauty is totally lost.

In fact I doubt some of them would even be recoginsable if they took off their masks.

There is a limit to the amount of make up a girl should put on in the morning:

Less than one millimetre in depth of foundation on your face please!
Do not use mascara and eye liner to the point where your eye lashes become one solid blade - there should be individual hairs there!

Of course this overuse of make up is most prevalent among the school girls and first year uni students who are still learning how to use this stuff, but even older women can be noticed with defined lines of foundation around their chin line and neck.

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a circus.