How much money do women spend on maintaining their looks at different stages of their lives? The Beauty Breakdown is an interactive feature which crunches the numbers and offers up some dollar possibilities.
For details about how Newsweek estimated these dollar amounts, view the pdf for a complete price breakdown and read the Editor’s Note.
Personally, I didn’t find the numbers so accurate and it’s not like I just emerged from under the anti-beauty rock. Is it not a rather uncommon thing to start getting lip fillers at age 25?. And does a girl really, from the ages of 8 to 12, spend over $7,000 on beauty? Really? Surely, you would agree that some of these things are rather anomalous.
Let’s assume you do. The more interesting question is this: why would these numbers (how much women spend on beauty) be exagerated? To make a better story? Maybe or maybe not. Newsweek cites these numbers from outside sources. Perhaps, then, to make women think they ought to be spending that much on their looks? Cosmetic companies and surgical offices would certainly have a vested interest in this. Just a thought.
And one more thing.
Maybe the spending on Restylane as a wrinkle filler wouldn’t be so high in the 30-49 age group if spending on indoor tanning hadn’t been so high in the 13-29 age group. Just sayin’.
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