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Is our society a little too materialistic?

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ruby27 | 13:47 Wed 14th Nov 2007 | Society & Culture
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Lipstick - how much?
a) �5?
b) �10?
c) Nothing - you refuse to be part of a patriarchal system that pushes women to smear their faces with such unnecessary muck?
d) Guerlain's product - the $62,000 (�29,900) KissKiss Gold and Diamonds lipstick, apparently part of a trend for "haute couture" beauty products

http://www.guardian.co.uk/women/story/0,,22106 06,00.html
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Why do you hate men ruby?

Just read your link, didn't realise you were quoting!!
�6.99 actually. Well the one I'm wearing today was. The one I wear when I'm going out was �5.99 I believe.

Do you know why lipstick was first created? Heh, heh..
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Because I am bitter and twisted?

If I remember whats his name anthropologist from Swindon Desmond Morris somethingy , its to replicate a babbons bottom or something
Not quite.

The way I heard it, it's more to do with replicating the looks of lips elsewhere.
I use Estee Lauder ones & Lancome ones. So what?
No, it is a lot too materialistic.
China has the correct answer,
HOW MUCH !!! for a lipstick ??

I'm stunned !! if i had that sort of money i would rather donate it to charity than pay that for a lipstick.

What makes it so special???
I certainly do.

Wasn't there a story in the Observer (I think) recently about some bird who wore the same dress everyday for a year? I seem to recall reading it and wondering at the same time if she washed it too.
The �9.99 long lasting lipstick by max factor does just that, stays on all day. Dries the hell out of your lips though.
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Louisa69
Apparently for that money you get
"One never really knows what she may uncover when the top is removed ... It is powerful and unimaginable, unique and desired, obtainable and unobtainable at the same time.
For that price I would want a whole lot more, at least a guarntee that it made the whole of me beautiful
It does rather make you sick to thnk of spending that sort of money on something that you will leave on your fags, wine glasses and teeth
No we do not live in a too materialistic society.

Forget your lipsticks, materialism is directly linked to new conservatism where the old fad of thriftiness has been exchanged for low investment now, high returns later.

Once this returns have been paid, then we should all be as materialistic as possible and spend, spend, spend.

Materialism in turn promotes competion, which in a free market economy will thus generate billions for the economy and show what a true meritocracy we have in England.

People no longer aspire to having land or gold reserves, modern society has moved towards visible wealth. That is how nice your house looks like or what car you have. Best of all, can the neighbours see steam rising from your swimming pool when it is minus 2 knowing it is costing about 75 pounds a day to heat!!!

Right or wrong that is aspiration nowadays, partly due to Premier footballers and pop icons, partly due to neo-capitalist ideology.

However, materialism has its downfalls which must be addressed. Those too lazy, too thick or simply too Welsh to do well get jealous and this leads not so much to crimes of utility, but credit cards and debt.

And who pays for this debt in real terms??? Middle bloody England. The hard working and aspiring classes trying to fund a nice house for their loving family only to be faced by high interest rates because the peasants do sweet FA.

However, I still maintain that materialism creates aspiration, and the all the smelly masses can be at the same plateau if they only stopped drinking, smoking, robbing and watching porn!!!!
ruby and Louise.... If you buy the one they're advertising I believe the idea is that it does not transfer on to your fags/glass of wine/random person you're snogging.

However I will concede that you two are quite gobby so may need a lipstick with a longer staying power.

Leggs it quicksmart
It's what's called free enterprise people !

Our economy runs on it and if people want to spend that amount it's their choice and if they don't the manufacturer will soon go out of business.
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CD

Thanks
I get terribly confused about which lips, our labia / clitirous or a babbon bottom. Which is the most kissable, remind me again
I believe that's subjective ruby.
the baboon
What a waste of money. It would take me 2 years to earn one of those lipsticks.
* where did she go *

Can you recommend one then China :))



*sneaks quietly away*

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