2003-02-24 - 1:53 p.m.

What is it with the obsession of beauty?

Where beauty is equivalent to flawless, smooth, porcelain like complexion?

Where beauty is being as white as you can get?

A pretty girl, barely 12 was overheard asking a beautician to "make her skin white and to get rid of all blackheads".

She didn't know the difference between a make over and a facial -- it all seemed the same to her. She did not know the term "blackheads".

So I sat there, puzzled, shouldn't girls at that age be pre-occupied with things other than blackheads and being the "fair-beauty"?

At 12, apart from struggling to complete my homework and preparing for the exams, I was busy running around the housing estate like of the boys, cycling and playing hide and seek in drains.

Times have indeed changed!

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