What’s with the Beirut look for women in Malta?
Published:
November 5, 2014 at 12:10pm
I just DON’T get it. This look – ten tonnes of mask-like make-up especially round the eyes, glitzy clothes and hooker shoes – is totally non-European.
But most Maltese women who get themselves up this way wouldn’t know what the ‘Beirut look’ is if it was explained to them (“what is Beirut?”), so where does it come from? Inherent cultural programming?
Our access is mainly to European magazines and media. But oh, hang on a minute: New Joy-sey, and all the television series spawned by the look favoured by the descendants of dirt-poor Sicilian immigrants there. That must be it. It’s some kind of genetic programming.
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‘Dancers fenomenali….’
Now we know where Konrad gets his lipstick.
Hi Daphne, is ‘Daphne Blog’ your twitter account?
[Daphne – No, of course not. Does the name sound literate to you? Well, then.]
Ok I thought so. Thank you.
Excuse me for going off-topic, but can you please bring back the ‘Newer’ and ‘Older’ buttons? They are very handy to navigate the site, especially when I come here and find several new blog posts.
[Daphne – There is a new page numbering system at the bottom.]
I believe it’s the buttons used to move between successive articles without the need to go back to the home page to access a different article. I also used to find them very useful.
J is right. They were useful for reading the blogs in a sequence.
Only till you got on through the posts on the home page. Then you would have to keep hitting the back button to find any older post you were interested in.
Italians coined the term ‘inzoccolation’ to describe it; zoccola meaning hoof, also used for hooker.
I can assure you my wife just won’t step into any shoe shop at the moment, make that the last few years, platforms and stilettos off the scale.
Tamarreide, the equivalent of hamallagni, is here.
Off topic – the site design refresh is welcome, but you’re missing the newer/older buttons when viewing individual posts, which are vital IMO. Hope you add them back.
Apologies for perpetuating the off-topic trend, but I agree with Rorschach and J above. The ‘newer’ and ‘older’ buttons were one of the previous layout’s strongest assets.
Contrary to any other news portal, your readers do not click on articles that catch their eye off the homepage. They come to read all the articles and the ‘newer’ button allowed one to pick up where one left off on the previous visit, browsing chronologically without having to exit to the homepage.
If this is the way you want it I guess we’ll suck it up and carry on, but I urge you to consider bringing those two buttons back.
You can do the exact same thing with the new page number system, at the bottom of the blog. This new system is actually more contemporary and user-friendly than ‘newer’ and ‘older’ buttons.
That’s Shasha, Michelle Muscat’s make up artist.
The problem is that once they plastering all this makeup on its hard to turn back to a basic natural look… so they end up wearing it from morning to night. You forgot to mention the increasing “painted” eyebrow trend.
[Daphne – Tattooed brows? VERY Beirut.]
Not only tattooed brows but false eyelashes which are very lethal if you get too close.
Any chance of having back the ‘back’ and ‘forward’ buttons on the article pages? They were so convenient.
Regards,
Steve
[Daphne – There’s page numbering instead at the bottom of the page. It’s the standard system used by news sites.]
I did notice that but before it was very easy to move from one article to the next. Now it is not.
Kemm sirna Labour.
It’s not working.
Agree about wanting the ‘newer’ and ‘older’ buttons back. I found them very useful for reasons already mentioned.
Exposure to European media? I don’t think so. I am amazed by how many people at work turn up not knowing anything about current issues even directly related to their work place.
It is not the first time that I am asked how I know about this or that. When I mention CNN, Sky news CDC, or Reuters or wherever, I am given a look which would translate to ‘xu stramberija!’.
Most are really up to date on what (Super) One said, so if the Labour Party did not say it, it did not happen and (worse still) it is not worth knowing.
Thinking is hard work and most prefer slumber.
Remember how books and education were the enemy of the people for a very long time in the golden years?
Well, those people must have procreated and are passing on this wisdom to their offspring. Even getting a degree, for many, is just the means to getting better pay and nothing else.
I miss your OLDER / NEWER buttons. It was much easier to browse this blog with them.
I don’t. The new version is brilliant and that is coming from somebody who is not that computer literate.
Love the new layout, looks sharp and crisp.
It’s creating the hooker look for men, pathetic. Your brains are your asset, especially as everything heads south.
Hamallagni mizbugha b’mod hamallu. (Forsi tajba ghal fuq il-‘belly dancers’)
Pero’ hammallagni xorta tibqa’ – anzi, hamallagni doppja.
I don’t know why the surprise.
Algeria and Tunisia are not that far off either, and in the same vein.
Striscia babes are “better,” but still in the same vein.
Extend Beirut to Med-Arab basin.
From Switzerland upwards, Italy gets included.
Great header by the way, Daphne.
I like the way the site works even without the backwards/ forwards buttons.
The only thing is when going back after just having posted a comment, I need to press twice instead of once.
I actually like going back to the main page after each article.
I always keep the main page open. I just open each blog in a separate tab.