… that was actually the title of a recent article at the Huffington Post by David J Constable.
I visited a nightclub one evening to witness the dolls and their dates myself. In Taïga Sky, a rooftop nightclub in Batroun (30 miles from Beirut) everyone is smoking, bouncing on the spot and eyeing each other up, not in a complimentary way but diamond gazes of fierce competitorship. The top trump card here is a tan and a good set of pins, and in that respect it’s no different from the techno cattle clubs in the UK, however in Lebanon the women look like Cleopatra, with a dark natural beauty beyond anything Max Factor can supply and into the billion dollar industry of plastic surgery. Their partners are a mixture of bodybuilders in Lycra t-shirts or fat, pony-tailed Arabic mafiosi. It’s as captivating as it is frightening.
Back in Beirut, in the VIP corner of Le Capitole, another five-star rooftop bar, I see the wives and girlfriends of artists. They must be the better-halves of surgeons as surely no one can afford to spend that much of their own cash on reconstructive surgery and blow-me-up operations. There are benefits to marrying/dating/having sex with a plastic surgeon, as these well-ironed and unwrinkled faces suggest to me that they don’t reach the age limit of nightclub entry, such is their youthful appearance, bronzed with potions and powders.
You can read the rest of the article here.
It’s amazing how some foreign journalists are willing to judge the whole Lebanese society based on a few visits to some of the country’s posh bars and clubs!
This article really pissed me off. I wouldn’t even call this guy a journalist. He took one “fact”–that Lebanon has surpassed LA and Miami as the “plastic surgery capital of the world” (though CNN might disagree with him there)– and wrote a whole article based on his own ill-informed observations.
And he doesn’t just stereotype Lebanese or Arabs: “In Europe women smoke, lunch and get pregnant in their teens, in North America they eat donuts and watch late-afternoon trash television, in Russia they get sloshed on vodka . . .” What??
“Males lead a sullied existence” and eat too much. Where does he get this stuff?
Perhaps the part that had me shaking my head the most was when he said the people in the club reacted the the power outage with “a state of mild hysteria.” Sorry, but in two and a half years in Lebanon I’ve never seen the Lebanese react to a power outage. It’s routine.
Seriously an idiot.
Nice! It is not a good way to judge from one side. I guess the few who follow this path of plastic surgery are nothing compared with women in other countries!
http://www.cnngo.com/seoul/visit/ideals-beauty-plastic-surgery-capital-world-389581