Monochrome

Currently: TV is informative!

Catching a brief glimpse of the top ten finalists of the Miss Universe competition last night, I marveled that the world over seems to produce beautiful women in the form (excepting the contestant from Tanzania, whose facial structure, highlighted by her completely congruous bald head, made me want to weep at its striking perfection) of light honey-skinned brunettes (all sporting luxuriously long, gently curled locks) with Caucasianish features. And two of them were Asian! All were within an inch and/or cup size or two of each other, but otherwise completely interchangeable in terms of their appearance (and purported aspirations, but that's another post entirely). You would have been hard-pressed to find 9 women who looked so much alike in the same school (that's accounting for cliquish girls who tend to look/dress alike), let alone as randomly selected (ha!) representatives of ethnically diverse nations.

Strange.

On the other hand, as a long-haired, honey-skinned brunette (and otherwise having extremely little in common with our Universal misses), it's nice to know that blonde is out this year.