一位中年男士的护肤心得_BEC初级作文

一位中年男士的护肤心得

如今的我对男士化妆品不再抵触，因为我把它们与柔美相关联，而本人完全能接受之。我规避化妆品，通常是出于更确切的理由——觉得它们是忽悠货，属于自吹自擂。

I feel irritated by their barely literate marketing guff (“Terre d’Hermès is a symbolic narrative revolving around a raw material and its metamorphosis . . . ”), their modish ingredients, their stratospheric price tags and their essential sameness: strip out all the pseudoscience and here is (three times in four) a nice-smelling white goo that will make your face slightly greasy for about an hour or two.

我气不打一处来的是那些文绉绉、废话连篇的广告用语（“爱马仕大地情人男用香水(Terre d’Hermès)的广告词最具代表性，说它产自天然原料，具有脱胎换骨之功效……”）、那些时髦的成份、令人咋舌的标价以及大同小异的功效：去除天花乱坠的忽悠，实际就是香气袭人的白色黏性物，它能让诸位的脸部稍显油光上一、二个小时而已。

My theory runs that skin is, basically, waterproof: that’s why we don’t all go like a toilet roll dropped in the bath when we get caught in the rain. And since skin is waterproof, trying to force moisture into it from the outside is the errand of a halfwit, when it is both cost-free and much easier to put the moisture on the inside, in the form of a glass of water.