You Couldn’t Make It Up
by Rachel Ragg
Well, strike me down with a msacara wand.
According to a new survey (don’t you love them? This one’s by a beauty retailer, so it has to be true), the average value of a woman’s make-up bag is £172.
This, apparently, means that the contents of our make-up bag are more valuable than our mobile phones, watches and bags – and should be adequately insured.
All I can say to that is: I am evidently not a woman.
My make-up bag is a M&S plastic bag (one of the free green ones that they offer to put sandwiches in).
Value: £0.00
My make-up consists of one lipstick, one eyeliner and one pot of eyeshadow. Said items were bought for a newspaper photo shoot before Christmas, not for personal use. Though my 8-year-old did enjoy using it for the school Christmas play.
Value: £3 (thanks to Poundland)
As for the other items…
Ho hum. My bag (actually my son’s old school rucksack) is worth less than the average woman’s £5 eyebrow pencil (what on earth is an eyebrow pencil, anyway?). One pot of £27 foundation could buy me three mobile phones (my £9 Tesco Value phone conveniently doubles as a watch).
I somehow don’t think I will be needing to take out insurance.
Find one failed woman here too. £172 – hah! I got some foundation last year from Boots. Yup, that was it. My year’s make-up purchase.
I think we should start a Failed Women’s club!
Just think how many pairs of shoes you could buy with that money not spend on insurance.
Ha ha. I fear I would spend it in Tesco!
Erm, I don’t have a make up bag, however, I look like an old bag!
All old bags will be very welcome in our Failed Women’s Club!!
I often wonder who these women are, who answer these surveys. Women like you and me bring the average down, so there must be others out there who spend double the figure on make-up.
What a thought!!!!!