Alicia

Beauty is alluring.

Beauty is elegance.

Beauty is a woman subjected to all sorts of body manipulations.

Who am I kidding?

Beauty is pain.

My head feels like it's going to spilt into two with the tight chignon Tanya has my long hair in. Let's not get started on my face and the stuff she's put on it.

"Stand still, let me put the finishing touches to your makeup. You're sweating like it's going out of fashion." She says to me with a voice full of exasperation.

"I'm trying but you know I'm not used to wearing all this heavy stuff." She has put a ton of powder on...