That's what I figured, because there was that horribly gratuitous line where when Katniss strips Peeta she notices his body hair and lack of facial hair, and wonders what his beauty crew did to him.
Then again, I was amused that there was so much focus on waxing Katniss's legs in both of the first two books but no mention of waxing her arms, armpits, etc. I know arm hair is actually an issue for some people to see on women, and I was going on the assumption that for whatever reason, it's been centuries but heterotypically Western beauty standards are still in place except for the token grotesques in the Capital. It would have been more interesting if Cinna et al were like, "UGH, EYEBROWS" and gave her an Elizabethan hairline plucking and an oh-so-fashionable cosmetic teeth-blacking. Impractical, "relatably" "alien," and appropriately classed (you can afford to keep in style and eat sugar to rot your teeth; all the contestants are appropriately in line with Capital standards, since Panem is not culturally unified). Boom, done.
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Re: This sucks
Date: 2011-11-19 03:40 am (UTC)Then again, I was amused that there was so much focus on waxing Katniss's legs in both of the first two books but no mention of waxing her arms, armpits, etc. I know arm hair is actually an issue for some people to see on women, and I was going on the assumption that for whatever reason, it's been centuries but heterotypically Western beauty standards are still in place except for the token grotesques in the Capital. It would have been more interesting if Cinna et al were like, "UGH, EYEBROWS" and gave her an Elizabethan hairline plucking and an oh-so-fashionable cosmetic teeth-blacking. Impractical, "relatably" "alien," and appropriately classed (you can afford to keep in style and eat sugar to rot your teeth; all the contestants are appropriately in line with Capital standards, since Panem is not culturally unified). Boom, done.