Angela Garvin’s alarm goes off at 6.30am every day. As a legal adviser, she has to be up early, and has a strict skin regime to get through.
    安吉拉·加文每天早上6點(diǎn)半被鬧鐘叫醒。作為一名法律顧問，她必須早起，而且還必須留足時間進(jìn)行嚴(yán)格的護(hù)膚程序。

　　First, she cleanses her face, then she dabson some toner —and reaches for a bottle of shaving gel. She applies it across her chin, top lip and a small area around her neck.
    她首先把臉洗干凈，然后拍上爽膚水——然后取出一瓶剃須膏，她把剃須膏涂在雙頰，嘴唇上緣和頸部。

　　Then, using a men’s disposable razor, she carefully shaves her face, rinsing the fine, pale hairs down the basin as she goes. To finish, she rinses with warm water and applies moisturiser.
    然后，她拿出一支男士一次性剃須刀，一邊仔仔細(xì)細(xì)的刮干凈她的臉，一邊把洗臉槽里被刮下來的纖細(xì)的淺色汗毛沖走。最后，她用熱水洗凈臉，然后涂上潤膚露。

　　According to beauty enthusiasts —or pretty much any woman you care to ask —Angela has committed a cardinal sin.
    如果你去向那些美容發(fā)燒友——或者任何你想問她的女人——對安吉拉的做法有什么看法，她們會說，她犯了大忌諱。

　　After all, if shaving your legs encourages hair to grow back thicker, darker and stronger, then, for a woman, face-shaving would appear to invite disaster.
    畢竟，如果說刮腿毛會讓腿上的毛發(fā)長得更密，更黑，更硬的話，讓一個女人去刮臉，似乎是在自找麻煩。

　　Nevertheless, Angela, 46 has been shaving her face three times a week for the past eight years and couldn’t be happier with the results.
    然而，現(xiàn)年46歲的安吉拉每周會刮三次臉，已經(jīng)堅(jiān)持了八年，她對效果十分滿意。

　　And she’s not alone; dermatologists also endorse the idea and, astonishing as it may sound, a host of products have been rushed out to cater for the trend of women shaving their faces.
  　而且這樣做的并非只有她一人：皮膚科醫(yī)生也很贊成這種做法,不僅如此，令人感到意外的是，女性刮臉的風(fēng)潮還催生了一系列相關(guān)美容產(chǎn)品。

　　‘It’s cheap, takes seconds and doesn’t irritate my skin, unlike laser or waxing,’ says Angela. ‘The claim that facial hair grows back thicker and darker is a myth. It’s been the best thing I could have started doing.’ What’s more surprising is that far from causing ingrowing hairs, nasty grow-back or red raw patches, Angela is adamant that regular shaving has improved her complexion.
    “這種美容方式成本低廉，費(fèi)時很少，而且不會像激光除皺或者蠟膏脫毛那樣刺激我的皮膚。”安吉拉如是說到。“那種認(rèn)為臉上的汗毛刮掉之后會長得更密顏色更深的說法完全是無稽之談。這是我嘗試過的最好的美容方法。”更讓安吉拉驚喜的是，這種做法不僅沒有讓她臉上的汗毛增多或者發(fā)出紅色的小包，反而改善了她的膚色，著讓安吉拉看起來容光煥發(fā)。

　　Dr Michael Prager, an aesthetic clinician who has a practice in London, says: ‘From an anti-ageing point of view, home shaving has some effect. It’s like a mild form of microdermabrasion, so encourages collagen production, which reduces wrinkles. Whenever there’s trauma to the skin, collagen is stimulated to help cell renewal.’
    邁克爾·普拉格醫(yī)生是倫敦一家美容診所的醫(yī)師。他指出，“從抗衰老的角度來說，自己刮臉確實(shí)是有一定效果的。這相當(dāng)于一種溫和的微晶磨皮術(shù)，能促進(jìn)膠原蛋白的生成，從而淡化皺紋。每當(dāng)皮膚受到損傷的時候，就會刺激膠原蛋白的生成，從而促進(jìn)細(xì)胞更新。”

（來源：滬江英語，編輯 Helen）