Natural Beauty

If you take a good look at the dreamy doctors in Grey's Anatomy, you'd naturally come to the erroneous conclusion that the ones we have in real life are similarly well groomed. That we hardly ever get our hair messed up, our blue scrubs are tailored individually to flatter our physiques and none of us ever had an unfortunate encounter with blood and human excrement.

A far cry from the truth.

I can personally vouch for that fact since I've personally been liberally doused in bag of packed cells - emerging from the ensuing bloodbath resembling Dracula after a crazed drinking binge. I could barely repress a shudder when I saw my nightmarish reflection in the mirror ( with flickering neon light to add to the effect ).

Not a pretty sight.

And neither is a physician after doing a 24 hour call. Unfortunately very few take the trouble to even run a careless brush through their bed-hair before starting rounds. Hence the groggy, pale, unkempt zombies that roam the halls in the early ungodly hours of the morning in search of that glorious caffeine hit - possibly giving rise to the endless rumours of hospital hauntings.

But for those that have slogged through the grueling 24 hours, I can forgive. Though barely. Come on, at least take the time for a quick shower and change before starting work again!


Victims of the spin cycle!
The ones I find unforgivable ( and think should have their heads collectively decapitated ) are the doctors who come fresh from home in the morning looking as if they'd been literally ( liberally? ) dragged through the washing machine cycle - and tossed through a spin cycle as well. A few even look as if they could have been senselessly battered at the tumbling creek by the ancient washer-ladies.

Paul : OMG! Were you on-call last night?
Spin-dried Sally : No. What makes you say that?
Paul : Umm... Your trendy tornado-tossed hair? So nattily clipped with the giant hairclip?
Spin-dried Sally : Nah, I don't have the time for that. I depend on my natural beauty.
Paul : Natural beauty!? *choke*

I hate perpetuating the shallow notion that beauty is more than skin deep but in this case, I can't help it!

Look, I know God gave us all natural beauty ( though a gifted few had a bit more than the rest, I think ) but He in all His divine wisdom also gave us cosmetics - and other assorted enhancements such as the miraculous Wonderbra and the looks-preserving Botox. So for the love of God, use them! I'm not expecting a drunken extra from the Peking Opera House - but rather than have the guards at the hospital mistake you for the cleaning amah, at least slap on some Rose of Dawn blusher for God's sake.

Beauty might be in the eye of the beholder but please, don't kid yourself. Even Angelina Jolie - who probably looks fabulous au naturale - would think twice before stepping out her house without a touch of make-up.

Now that I've blasphemed myself this time of year and taken God's name in vain several times, I think I need to go to church.