Hi.

Before I introduce myself, I want to introduce you to a problem that is common to every woman on earth. I guess that, if you are one of us, you instantly know what I mean. We buy too much. Of everything. And what's even worse: we don't need it. We are very materialistic girls.

When we're running out of shampoo and conditioner, we buy four different versions of the same product. One shampoo for shiny hair, one for greasy hair, one for tangled hair and one for soft hair - with matching conditioners, of course. Out of showergel? We buy an unnamed number of bottles in different scents. And most important is that they all do something different for your skin, like scrubbing, moisturising, adding a healthy glow... Whatever. We don't buy one lipgloss. We buy at least five. Or more. More is always better. We have twelve different shades of blush, thirty shades of eyeshadow and seven mascaras. Twenty lipsticks, sixteen lipbalms (that are always missing, because we keep two of them in our pockets, five in our bags, six at random places like tables and chairs and five next to our bed, for emergencies at night), four shimmering powders and about fifty bottles of nailpolish. We are addicted to buying stuff we don't need, especially shoes and bags. Men don't understand that whe 'need' a minimum of thirty pairs of shoes - they can live with just two pairs of extremely dirty sneakers. And that's the difference between men and women. Men buy stuff, because they need it. When you have worn the same pair of sneakers for about three years, you need new ones, because walking on bare feet isn't an option. We, women, don't agree with that. We buy new shoes for every ocasion.

I'm a very feminine girl - my bedroom is stuffed with piles of clothes (some of them still with a price tag attached), too much make-up, shoes, bags, necklaces, bracelets and a shitload of soap and shampoo. But I don't care about that, because that is who I am: I am Jolijn, 18 years old, and a girl with too much of everything that she doesn't need. Hi. Nice to meet you.