Quote from Port1385:
Male traders in the city need to be aware of the 4 stages of single women in NYC. Here are the stages:
Stage 1 - The Fun Years -
Ages 18-23
Its all about having a good time and experiencing things. Relationships typically last 2-6 months with lots of casual dating in between. Sexual experimentation is always the rule rather then the exception.
Stage 2 - The Dinner Years -
Ages 24-28-
Women during this stage find that guys in NYC will pay just about any amount to go to dinner with them and find themselves to be high demand real estate. Guys are all over them as they go about NYC during everyday life. Its all about going to dinner with the next guy. The women become very picky with which guy they spend time with and demands increase with each year older they get for material things. The women in this stage will most always what you do and figure out how much money you may have. They will ask their friends how much they think you make. Sex doesnt seem as much of a priority as it seemed during the fun years and going out with someone with money and career is the priority of the day.
Stage 3 - The Transition -
Ages 29-34
Women during this stage are increasingly putting on weight and there are wrinkles starting to be seen on their faces. Chins and guts may appear during this stage. Women are still very demanding at this stage and even more so then the last stage, however, they are finding their appeal to men to be falling. They simply cant attract the same quality of guys as they did in the earlier stages. They are finding more and more that guys simply wont agree to go to high-cost dining establishments. The guys they are attracting are not the ones they really want or had during their earlier stage. Frustration sets in during the late phases of this stage.
Stage 4 - The late years where anything goes
Ages 35+
The women in this stage have already put on some weight and the age is evident in their faces. Guys routinely pass these type of women up. When there is a date, the guy demands that the lady pay half or even the entire date. The women in this stage are as agreeable to going to bed as the women in the earliest stage. In fact, these are the most agreeable women and easily pick-upable at your local bar. The women will sleep with most any guy of any age range and quality is not a concern anymore. Just getting sex is the real concern for these women. These women are also looking to get married and have kids. At this stage, they are the easiest to convince of such ventures. Some of the women in this stage will go on an exercise/dieting spree and become as slender as those in the fun years, but no amount of exercising or dieting will make age disappear...
Quote from the_neuron:
I like big butts, and I cannot lie!
Quote from clacy:
The explanation is quite simple..............sun damage. Sun damage obviously, is more prevelent amongst fair skin people, as opposed to dark skin. The ironic thing is that these are the exact people that spend hours every week fake baking.
Sun damage rears it's ugly head in the following ways:
Pigmented Lesions (sun spots)
Diffuse redness (rosacea, etc)
A breakdown of collagen (wrinkles and skin laxity)
Smoking and sun damage are the primary factors in the appearance of skin. Look no further than fair skinned women, who are runners. They are constantly accumulating sun damage, not to mention that gravity does also lead to more skin laxity.
As someone else pointed out, Asians, West Indians, Blacks, etc, all look much younger than white men/women of the same age, assuming they are not signifacantly overweight, etc.
Dark skin types have melanin in their outer layer of skin, which protects them from sun exposure.
As to your cosmetics question, yes the vast majority are made and marketed towards light skin types. That is because those people have more sun damage, as well as the fact that redness and brown spots are much more apparent on lighter skin.