I think it’s fair to say that I am a fairly gullible person when it comes to marketing. After all, I have bought all the mascara in the world and I still don’t have eyelashes like they promise, I have tried almost every concealer and you can still see that I have blemishes and I have bought at least three different kinds of egg poachers and I still can’t make restaurant quality eggs.

I also tend to take in most things I see in print, believing (erroneously) that if it’s been commissioned by an editor, produced by a journalist, looked over by a sub-editor and gone through legals etc it should have a grain or more of truth.
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