DUKES сочинителя KRISTOPHER способа

Принесено в 1984

19.May.2008, 01:35 pm

Jules Smith «Ожерелье поцелуя поцелуя», $237
Jules Smith конструирует ожерельеЯ не могу чувствовать низкое - половина моей стороны.

Отполированный перст засовывает мой оскал. «Как вы чувствуете?»

«Я не делаю.» Я думаю я усмедется; Я не знаю если мои губы двигают. «Я чувствую большим.»

«Фантастично. Доктор будет правым cIn», котор я наблюдаю ее swish ponytail вне mahogany дверь: это будет кабелем balanced белокурого, втора могло случиться ESLI она всегда купает в естественном солнечном свете.

Я ослабляю в моем месте, моих бедренных костях вставляя вне мое платье лета и на ясное заволакивание роскошной кожи. Я Cradled ребенком стула заднего сиденья Benz и dentist, я пытаюсь поднять мои ноги от пластмассы, но он всасывает на моей коже, держа меня на валиках. Я даю вверх и вытаращусь на экране эппл компьютера перед мной, плавающ на французскую стену ванили. Вспышка Befores и afters нежно: стороны поднялись в час обеда, котор принудили линии усмешки от too many стертых дат обеда, плача супруги обнимая женщин замаскировали expressionless после быть Botoxed в красотку.

Я не могу ждать.

Будет быстро rap на двери, вежливо перерыве, и ровном, молчком отверстии: отжатое белое пальто скользит cIn. Усмешки доктора, без его стороны creasing. «Так мы как раз будем заполнять в 1 cc…»

«Juv? derm,» я отвечаю. Я интересую если мои губы изгибают вверх. Имя заполнителя настолько совершенно органическо к своей цели: мясо «rejuvenate» работаемого внутри, «дерматология» намекнуло на. Косметика достаточно, котор нужно звучать невредно, медицинско достаточно TAK, CTO вы сможете оправдать немедленный подъем как клиническая потребность.

«Of course,» он соглашается. Он гнет над мной, производящ съемку. «Скоро вы будете иметь совершенные губы для того чтобы сопрягать остальнои вашей стороны.»

Я хихикнул «благодарю вас,» хотя я знаю его conversational foreplay будет формулой факта и небылицы?much like нос его ассистента, который увядал назад на место. Я вижу, что он говорит это к повелительнице проблескивая на экран компьютера, по мере того как стерто лицевое доказательство ее последнего замужества, я вижу, что он говорит это к каждой что-то-год-старой девушке 30, до каждые сладостные 16 Botoxed за ее летами. К любому оплачивая для кто-то-на-одн с одиночного cc. Или 3.

«Я радостен вы пребывание из солнца,» он говорит. «Хорошо. То будет большинств управление, котор вы имеете anti-вызревания в ваших двадчадках.» Его шахта лоска глаз излишек. “Though you may soon want to consider an eye lift. Your eyes are beautiful, but…”

“They’re sagging?” I ask. I raise my brows in the gold-framed mirror that floats in front of me, and then force myself to relax?the expression crinkled my forehead.

“Your eyes are just a little puffy over the lid.”

“That’s the Jap in my Cracker Jap,” I answer. “They’ve been like that forever. I’m a little Asian.”

“Oh, that’s very natural then,” he says. “Yes, a laser would fix that. Or we could lift from the hair line, and raise your brows, too.” His fingers tug my face up, and I’m wide eyed in my reflection.

“Yep,” I say, recognizing his movement. “I’ve done that in the mirror before.” It’s like I’m enjoying the slumber party makeovers I always wanted as a teenager: syringes instead of tubes of flavored lip gloss, older over-groomed men instead of T-shirted younger brothers.

The mirror disappears.

A needle dives into my skin.

“Can you feel anything?”

“Barely.” I say. My eyes water, and I worry for my mascara.

His syringe pinches again, and again, and again, like a needle stitching a smile. The pain is worse the closer he gets to the corners of my lips, piercing my machine behind expression. Then the syringe is replaced with gloved fingers, massaging my mouth. Still partly numb, his hands’ dance is both fuzzy feeling and sharp.

“Are you moving the filler into place?” I laugh: there’s something amusing about all the work it takes to look natural.

“Yes, it’s very malleable.”

I try to smile. They hand me a mirror, and giggles spill out my ballooned mouth.

“You look so good!” says his assistant. The perfect pillows of her lips make a circle as she coos, forming a little black hole of talk. I wonder if my kisser will echo hers tomorrow.

I laugh again. They look at me like I’ve picked up the wrong fork for my salad (no dressing), or like when they turned down the $500 gift card I’d received at a black-tie dinner for their services (”You need to spend $5,000 to use it,” a lab-coated consultant explained. Small print on the card’s back argued otherwise, but I handed them my American Express).

“I’m sure it’ll look lovely in a few hours,” I say. “But right now it’s as if my brother socked me in my face?funny.”

“Well, you’re all done,” says the doctor. I reach to shake his hand. “Hopefully we’ll see you again soon.”

Hopefully?

Who needs hope when I have so much control over the face god gave me? Under the fancy fluorescent light, my mind’s eye is already erasing more lines: those parentheses around my smile, gentle reminders of a lifetime spent spinning, penning stories that gave me pleasure; that smiling curve of under-eye circles, from years of telling myself sleep was an overpriced luxury.

Who needs hope when I can buy grooming and confidence? Earthly intelligent design always trumps the concept of some far-off, mystical designer naturally birthing beauties.

The door’s closed, and I’m alone in the controlled quiet. I stare at my face in the mirror, at my pale, bloated smile. Though I’ll have to wait a day to enjoy the results, there’s instant gratification: I feel god-like.

I move to get out of my chair, but my body sticks to it, and I sink back in.



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  1. darcy demarco says:

    This is very well written. It is good because you can tell that there is thinking going on along with the action. I like the fact that it is thought-provoking.

    Something to think about: A few years ago, in San Diego, I attended a party for a singles group/night at a bar. None of the people were attractive by any standard. Cruel though it may sound, you could tell why they were still single: their looks. But, not one of them had succumbed to the knife.

    Which made me think: Would I have the guts, if I looked like one of them, to not have plastic surgery? To demand that society accept me as I am, no matter what the cost?

    I am a person who liked being married. And, other than a weight problem at times, I have usually considered myself attractive.

    Just a thought.

  2. M says:

    i respect anyone’s right to choose to have work done on their face or body, but this article makes me really uncomfortable.

  3. KRiSTOPHER DUKES says:

    What about me calling you “lover”?

    Lover.

    XXXO,
    K

  4. ROSE says:

    Ha!
    Nothing uncomfortable about that. It its a very accurate description of what it’s like….Although I have never heard “Hopefully we?ll see you again soon.”
    If you’re going there in the first place, it’s because you have made a concscious that either:
    a) You choose NOT to age like your mother (Sometimes not a desirable eventuality).
    b) You want to keep looking fresh for your man.
    c) You are going to look good and fight the normal aging process - kicking and screaming…because you can.
    This is my opinion only, but I want readers to understand that K wrote a great piece.
    Also, I always get the sticky-leatherette thing going on at any doctor’s office. The surgical chairs are designed to be CLEANED. Sweaty adhesion is OK…and leaving a ripped and soggy paper cover is the norm.
    Nothing to see here except for great writing.
    aheers

  5. Kelly says:

    Thrilling to see the indomitable Miss K. returning to craft and form. I truly missed you.

    Hawaii, Hong Kong, Japan, next NYC and Paris? Milan? Bicoastal, No; Biglobal!

    Kelly

  6. KRiSTOPHER DUKES says:

    How about just bi?

    Missed you more.
    K

  7. Kelly says:

    No, I missed you the most.

    As regards the bi.
    We could fly our Bi-play-n. You be the top wing, I’ll be the lower. We will fly to Cumberland Island and watch the Wild Horses run underneath us. Or, will they watch us?

    Kelly

  8. Peter Belisi says:

    A tad freaky!

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  12. C says:

    Lips are the one modification I’ve always wanted. I just hate the idea of having to go in every 6 months or deflating.

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