Beauty and recession only skin deep in Singapore: poll

Reuters, 17 Feb 2009, Nopporn Wong-Anan

SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - Despite the threat of job losses and the country's deepest economic recession, seven in 10 Singaporeans will continue to spend on beauty products and services, a small industry survey showed.

One in every two polled said they spent at least S$50 ($33) a month on beauty products and a third said they would be cutting back on other lifestyle choices, not beauty, according to a survey by the organizer of the BeautyAsia 2009 exhibition.

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