There’s apparently a saying in Taiwan – my guess it was said by advertising types and not Confucius – that goes like this, “There are no ugly women, just lazy ones.â€
To that end, last night the news was reporting that Taiwan’s women spend NT$ 320 yi (I may have the phonetic of that number wrong.) on face creams alone to whiten their faces or remove wrinkles. That doesn’t include any other kind of cosmetics or make-up.
To put that in perspective, that’s NT$ 320,000,000,000 or roughly US$ 9.6 billion annually.
Is it any wonder you can’t swing a dead cat around this place without hitting a beauty store?