Research undertaken in 1981 showed that it was not only the sharp-nosed profile, ash-white skin and coral ears of "Madame X" that had caused a scandal when Sargent first exhibited the painting at the Paris Salon in 1884.
I took in veins and cellulite, paunches and man-paps, the weird shinglelike sagging that starts to occur on the back of the thighs, cleavage that showed a spoiled-grape-like wrinkling, the ash-mottled skin of permanently sun-torched shoulders, all of it beautiful.
Most have ash-white skin, dress in slinky black outfits and have tattoos and piercings all over their bodies {if you poured water in them, they might leak}.
The inspection focused on the presence of ash-colored skin, which can occur in argyria (systemic silver intoxication).
There is a pyroclast of fine dried ash across his skin.
Or, describing the wretched Fag Ash Devine: "Her skin was the colour of Golden Virginia and when she breathed deep you seen the tar come bubbling out her ears".
On the plus side, there is a McDonalds there, but it's near the entrance so you'd have to brave an blizzard of ash and charred skin to get to the McFlurry machine.
Bor, where the UN compound was attacked, is infamous as the site of a 1991 massacre where Machar's "White Army" — so-called because its soldiers spread ash on their skin — killed 2,000 Dinka.
For nearly a decade Ash had been buying skin softeners from the daughter of a hide tanner who had developed the formulas from tanning solutions.
"They were very good-looking people, ash coloured faces and skin, about 5ft 5in tall.
We made it there in one piece, but even in the short dash from the car to the house the hot gusts of ash plastered our hair, skin, and clothes with gritty gray particles".
