Plastic Smile Novels & Stories

she inquired, a smile on her face. I gave a slow nod. She retrieved the lipstick from her sling bag and applied it, even though her lips were still red, before applying foundation. Her face was completely blanched. "Am I too pretty?" My brow furrowed in response to her question. "Ah, yeah." Those plastics are lovely, and they're even better because they can be recycled. I was ready to go when she requested, so I came to a halt. "Do you think he's attractive?"

I plaster on a smile. "No, everything is fine."

And this one appeared to be mine. “Mr. Ivan! Is it true?” one shouted. “Mrs. Ivan! Did you really—” another began. “Smile,” I murmured under my breath, leaning just close enough for the cameras to catch the illusion of intimacy. Her lips curved, not warmth, not joy, but precision. A smile sculpted for show. I mirrored it, sliding my hand to the small of her back as we walked through the chaos toward the conference hall. To anyone watching, we were untouchable. Perfect. Everything they wanted us to be.

Perfect once told the first-batch campers that she tries to suppress smiling like Kim Kardashian and Victoria Beckham, because smiling causes wrinkles. “You know that popular aphorism,” she asked the class. “ ‘It takes 43 muscles to frown and only 17 to smile’? That’s an urban myth that has already been debunked. The fact is, it takes 12 muscles to smile and only 11 to frown.”

another lady defended her. " Most women like her are the ones who spend the highest amount of money just to look this young and beautiful. Who knows, perhaps she's had a face surgery before, or had Botox fillers injected in her lips. Her jaws don't look natural, neither do her lips. You never know" another lady said. They continued to talk about it until she walked up to where they were and bent her head slightly while smiling at them. They hated their Tete a Tete and greeted her back, forcing smile on their own faces as well.

(smiles) A. Gupta

Marcia chuckled lightly, "Right, a one in a hundred years kind of guy!" Her smile transformed her once simple makeup, making it seem alive and vibrant. Kevin hadn't let the makeup artist overdo her look. Her eyes were elegantly defined, enhancing their depth, while her lips were a striking, seductive red. Her smile was like a blooming flower, brilliant and impossible to ignore.

Another man asked. Oh no. I looked at Dimitri with pleading eyes as I hoped he could read my face. I did not want him to leave me alone to take pictures. I felt overwhelmed by all of the attention, and I did not know what to do with my face. The entire time I had a casual smile plastered on my face, but I could feel my facial muscles growing tired and I wanted to return to my emotionless face. I did not know whether or not everyone can see my fake smile glitching as my muscles were growing quite weary of the force against it because it was not genuine at all. Dimitri smirked at me and unlinked his arm from mine. He stepped away from me and opened his arms as they were pointed at me.

“You haven’t smiled once. You’re so much prettier when you smile, Sid.” Sidney ground her teeth hard enough to hear the enamel scrape below her ear. She flexed her self-control and swallowed the vomit welling in her throat, and she gave him the bright fake smile. The false grin she had been conjuring since her marriage collapsed, the meaningless upturn she offered customers. She tugged her facial muscles taunt and pretended to mean it. Her lips pulled tight and rigid as her cheeks struggled to participate. She produced an empty and terse smile, the shape well-practiced from so many days at work, so many baseball games with those moms, so many times playing nice with Aiden in front of their s

Matthews’ computer had shown it would be. That had been a truly remarkable experience. Electronic pictures had been taken of her face and jaw and input into the computer. The doctor had played with the controls changing the size and position of teeth in tiny increments until the three of them found an image that fit the bill. Now for the first time in living memory, Dacey had beautiful brilliantly white teeth and a simply lovely smile.