Saliha serves up a reality check:

As far as people are concerned…the make-up, the hair straightening/curling/rebonding…who are we trying to kid? Ourselves? What are we trying to hide? The innate humanness that we can’t run away from? At the end of the day, no matter how glamorous you look, you have to go to the toilet at least twice a day to urinate, and to defecate. How sanitized…the
words we use to convey the icky reality of being finite. Of being human. Of having a body that is aging, as we speak. Every breath that we take signals a moment that will never return. We’re all on countdown.