Russian women seem to know what they do. They look nicer when they don't wear heavy make-up. Average Russian families don't have a big income. Therefore some young people prefer to study, and find a well-paid job after that. The majority of their parents cannot afford to pay for university education. Only the best students receive the state scholarships. This is why young people, who want to continue studying after school, are compelled to find a job and save money for further study.
Young people, especially young women, often have short-term contracts. Actually employers always try to avoid the necessity to pay an obligatory three-year maternity leave.
Some young women live separately from their parents and are financially independent. They always try to find a financially secure husband in Russia or abroad. Their parents have nothing against it. This probably explains why young Russian women wear such clothes that men fly towards them as bees do towards honey.
Also, since the beginning of the nineties it is possible to buy any fashionable clothes in shops. This is why it seems that women have decided to fill the emptiness of all years of the Soviet regime when they couldn't even think about fancy clothes.
How do Russian girls look like? As in every country, Russia has every kind of people. On the streets you could meet young businesswomen, wearing strict suits and heading to their offices; posh young ladies with small fashionable handbags, visiting prestigious boutiques; pretentious artistic-looking creatures in ethnic clothing, with an invariable cigarette, hurrying to their classes in the College of Architecture; hard rock fans in heavy chains, wandering around the city; girls from the country, wearing tight pants and high-heeled shoes, drinking beer in bars and taverns.