Super Short Story (75): Make-Up She thought the already very good-looking don’t need any make-up, since there is nothing to make up for. He thought they should enhance their looks fully though. He thought the already very ‘bad-looking’ don’t need any make-up, since...

Stonepeace said, ‘Beauty is only skin deep and the skin is not very deep.’ A Buddhist saying says, ‘This body is but a smelly skin bag (臭皮囊).’ Indeed, a bag made of skin, that smells, and carries the smelly inside. We try to forget this, as we disguise our...

Please don’t mistaken you are lovely because you think you have lovely hair, for hair is but dead cells. Please don’t mistaken you are lovely because you think you have lovely skin, for skin is but skin-deep. Please don’t mistaken you are lovely because you think you have...

Pretty… is pretty… subjective. (but true inner beauty isn’t) The first and second lines read together suggest absolute objectivity, till the third line says otherwise. (Is this another...

One of the most memorable films ever is a film in a film – in the movie ‘American Beauty’ called by fans as ‘the plastic bag scene’. As commented by the young filmmaker in the story, who shot it… Ricky Fitts: You want to see the most beautiful thing...

In the story ‘Kiss of Death’ by Richard Starkings in ‘Popgun Volume 1′, the conclusion reads -  ‘… one should never forget that the people who write history books often substitute beauty for truth when it suits them [or is it the other way round]? Which is...