Basics which apparently include things like a hiking trainer (?) and Botox and bi-weekly hair blowouts, pro makeup applications and tanning salons and weekly manicures and thigh tighteners, Zone Diet food deliveries and brow waxes and all manner of peel and tuck and slap and spank and indeed Ginger looks pretty good overall, at least in the picture, which I gotta say for a grand a week you'd goddamn well better look good or something is deeply amiss.

babe who calculates that she, like tens of thousands of reasonably successful youth-crazed professionals like her coast to coast, spends upwards of $3,000 or $4,000 per month for general beauty treatments, 'just for the basics.' Grace is, evidently, rather typical, just your average aging professional L.A. who was just profiled in the New York Times (along with a few others) regarding her astonishing and elaborate monthly beauty regimen, her general tuning and maintenance, what it takes for her just to get through the week. In other words, I should be thankful I'm not someone like Ginger Grace, the sweet, 40-year-old blond real estate agent from L.A. or New York or Miami, or in the fashion industry or the movie industry or the real estate industry or in PR or marketing or nearly any other professional high-end image-oriented industry, which means I do not have to get completely drunk every single week on the brutal vagaries of, say, InStyle magazine's Get This Look Now! section, nor must I have a dermatologist and a waxer and a personal trainer and a plastic surgeon and a Mexican pimple popper on speed dial. Apparently I should be enormously grateful I am not, say, female, or living in L.A. I think.Īpparently, this is a stupendous bargain. Total estimated monthly tab for my general bodily upkeep not including accessories like boots and designer jeans and jewelry and food and sake and scotch and sex toys and books and music and love because that's a different point entirely: about 200 bucks, give or take.

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