Diary of a Gen Z Student: Nothing like a lick of fake tan to make me feel like a whole new woman

"A girl’s gotta do, what a girl’s gotta do. Sometimes that includes posing in your birthday suit, while a stranger spray paints you."

Trinity College student and Irish Examiner columnist Jane Cowan. Photo: Barry Cronin

If anyone else has a father that epitomises practically every cliché about fatherhood, you’ll be well accustomed to receiving lengthy lectures about the world around you.

A permanent fixture in my dad’s rotation of lectures is the evils of marketing. He’ll stand in the kitchen, soap box firmly fixed under his feet, and describe how “these marketing people” just want to take advantage of you, kid. They’ll sell you anything if it increases their bottom line.