Bombshell by Lynda Curnyn

Author:Lynda Curnyn
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781459248502
Publisher: Red Dress Ink
Published: 2004-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Not exactly a drawing. More like a photocopied replica of a human face, which had been marked in dark pen around the eyes, the chin….

“What is that?” I demanded.

“Nothing!” Claudia insisted, sliding the paper beneath a magazine.

“Don’t tell me you’re considering plastic surgery?” I asked, realizing I had seen a similar drawing before in an article in a woman’s magazine detailing the horrors—and the joys—of going under the knife.

“Cosmetic surgery,” she said, as if it were as simple as choosing a new foundation.

“Claudia! Whatever happened to aging gracefully?” I asked, harking back to all those conversations we’d had over cocktails about how glorious our profession was for supplying us with the moisturizers, the color palettes, the illuminating creams, to do just that.

“Please,” she said, “there is nothing graceful about growing old.” Her eye fell on the blowup of Irina that now covered the back wall of her office. Claudia sniffed, returning her gaze to me. “Why do you think this company is banking all its future profits on that little chippy over there?” She gestured with her chin at the photo, as if she could no longer bear to look at it. “Beauty beyond thirty is a farce,” she declared. Then she stood and walked up to the life-size Irina, her eyes scanning that insolent face as if to find some secret there. “Look at her!” she said. “That skin…”

“Claudia, that’s been airbrushed.”

She shook her head, a bit furiously. “Maybe. But you saw it. At the reception. She’s practically flawless.” Her voice lowered to a reverent whisper as she brushed a veiny, perfectly manicured hand over Irina’s face, as if caressing a lover.

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