by JJ Martin
For the first decade I lived in Milan, I was convinced that Italian women were nuts when it came to their beauty regimes. How did they look so good, I wondered, and do so little? Born and raised in Los Angeles, where I was probably doing stomach crunches in my mother's womb, my first source of consternation was at Milanese gyms where women spent 45 minutes chatting in front of the bike machine and only 10 minutes actually on it.
Post work-out, while in the crowded locker room, I noticed another peculiarity. Not only did these same women proudly stand up buck naked in their high heels, but they spent a full 15 minutes lovingly massaging body lotion over every inch of their tawny-coloured bodies - which, incidentally, remained the same colour all year. Italian women are not interested in building muscle, but they are expressly interested in eradicating cellulite.
Source: http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/
