Beauty

[HappyDaze]

On 7/19/2014 BellaCarro said: OP does have a point, IMO. Often the host or vendor will offer how European women wear things, what skincare they use, etc, as a selling point. As if we need to or should emulate European women. Wonder if they reverse it and tell Europeans how the Americans do things on the overseas shopping channels?

LOL, somehow I doubt it- it may actually be a NON-sales tactic there.

[F1wild]

My soon-to-be ex-husband is from N. Ireland. We lived there & England and traveled Europe all the time. My in-laws used to chat all the time about "those Americans" who don't know how to do their hair or maintain a great complexion.....but then always requested hair & face products from me.

I've noticed great hair, face, teeth and fashion, both in the USA & UK/Europe. I've also been shocked in horror in both places. Here, we're sold European everything. There, everything is American. The grass is always greener?

[HappyDaze]

But no one has whiter teeth than Americans!

[Desertdi]

On 7/19/2014 Sister Golden Hair said:

Our daughter-in-law is half-Swedish and she isn't any different from a woman in the U.S. She likes nice clothes, wears make-up, takes a bath every day (sometimes 2 if she has worked outside) and has beautiful hair.

It is like saying everyone that lives in Missouri only has gone as far as the 5th grade and have outhouses. Oh, and we go barefoot all the time.

Sheesh.....some of my Eastern relatives don't think we have paved streets and running water in AZ, either (!)

[Sister Golden Hair]

Desertdi, you mean you have all that down there

[Bella Carro]

On 7/19/2014 Desertdi said:

On 7/19/2014 Sister Golden Hair said:

Our daughter-in-law is half-Swedish and she isn't any different from a woman in the U.S. She likes nice clothes, wears make-up, takes a bath every day (sometimes 2 if she has worked outside) and has beautiful hair.

It is like saying everyone that lives in Missouri only has gone as far as the 5th grade and have outhouses. Oh, and we go barefoot all the time.

Sheesh.....some of my Eastern relatives don't think we have paved streets and running water in AZ, either (!)

Oh, you do, then?!

[Desertdi]

On 7/19/2014 Sister Golden Hair said:

Desertdi, you mean you have all that down there

Yeah.....and "they" think I have heat stroke when I tell them we have 3 of the biggest power plants in the country........providing electricity for most of the SW..........

[F1wild]

On 7/19/2014 HappyDaze said:

But no one has whiter teeth than Americans!

Oh, that's the first thing I had to do whenever I was introduced - "smile, show your straight white teeth".

[F1wild]

On 7/19/2014 Desertdi said:

On 7/19/2014 Sister Golden Hair said:

Our daughter-in-law is half-Swedish and she isn't any different from a woman in the U.S. She likes nice clothes, wears make-up, takes a bath every day (sometimes 2 if she has worked outside) and has beautiful hair.

It is like saying everyone that lives in Missouri only has gone as far as the 5th grade and have outhouses. Oh, and we go barefoot all the time.

Sheesh.....some of my Eastern relatives don't think we have paved streets and running water in AZ, either (!)

When the in-laws were planning for their first visit to AZ they asked if they would need a car or if everything was walking distance........I so wanted to insinuate it was just like a scene from Rawhide, Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza, etc., but I didn't.

[Desertdi]

On 7/19/2014 F1wild said:

On 7/19/2014 Desertdi said:

On 7/19/2014 Sister Golden Hair said:

Our daughter-in-law is half-Swedish and she isn't any different from a woman in the U.S. She likes nice clothes, wears make-up, takes a bath every day (sometimes 2 if she has worked outside) and has beautiful hair.

It is like saying everyone that lives in Missouri only has gone as far as the 5th grade and have outhouses. Oh, and we go barefoot all the time.

Sheesh.....some of my Eastern relatives don't think we have paved streets and running water in AZ, either (!)

When the in-laws were planning for their first visit to AZ they asked if they would need a car or if everything was walking distance........I so wanted to insinuate it was just like a scene from Rawhide, Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza, etc., but I didn't.

That's hilarious............but, then again, one of my Chicago pals asked me if there were a lot of teepees around where I live................