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Winter flowers make women pretty

(chinanews.cn)
Updated: 2006-11-24 15:11


Winter has come to the greater part of China's northeastern region, and
leaves and flowers are beginning to wither. But for fashionable young
women in Changchun, Jilin Province, it is also a suitable time for them
to beautify themselves with fresh flowers. They even scatter some rose
leaves in their bathtubs, just like ancient royal princesses.

Girls in China's north enjoy dressing up, but frequent sandstorms and dry
environment often make them frown. They wish to keep their young facial
appearances, no matter how much money they will have to spend. A latest
statistics show that cosmetics are better sold in Changchun than in other
parts of China. Whenever beauty parlors launch expensive new service
items like "flower hairdressing," fashionable young women will flock for
them.

Some beauty parlors can provide various kinds of flowers simultaneously,
like rose, peach blossom and apricot flowers. As such service items are
much sought after buyers have to book them two days earlier.

Pretty girls are often the clients in those restaurants and teahouses
that promote new "flower dishes." A lady said that drinking tea with
flowers in such a teahouse was very enjoyable after a long day.

Some deft young women are able to make cosmetics by flowers themselves,
which makes others jealous. Miss Teng, a white collar working for a
foreign-invested company, said she had learnt to make cosmetics from a
friend in a beauty parlor. "Now I often have a rose bath, and make some
skin-protection liquid out of chrysanthemum, to beautify myself," she
said.










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