Humour

My friend "Big Bro" Josh was voicing his concern over the safety of girls these days.

"You better don't go out too late," he said.

"But I can't help it sometimes. "

"Then live closer to your workplace."

"No can do. I love living at home with my parents. And of course, I'd be crazy to miss out on all that home-cooked food."

"Ok, then better get yourself prepared."

"Pepper spray ah?"

"No, pepper spray might be used against the victims. Better use those alarms/sirens attached to the keychain."

"Good idea."

"Yeah, and try looking uglier. It'll help in deflecting unwanted attention."

"Uglier???!"

"You know, wear a geeky looking pair of spectacles. That sort of thing."

After that guffaw-inducing conversation, I put some serious thought into what Josh had said. Reason being, he's older and has eaten more salt than me. Plus he's my big bro who always keeps an eye on me - surely what he had said about looking uglier merited some consideration.

After about two seconds of thinking, I decided that trying to look ugly ain't the answer to preventing crime from happening to your own person. After all, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. What is butt ugly to one man may be deemed rosily beautiful by another.

Nah, sorry Josh. Looking ugly won't work. What a girl needs to do is to look scary. Everyone can agree in unison what scary looks like. For centuries, everyone agreed that scary is defined by Count Dracula, and lately, by that boy in Omen.

It's not that hard to look scary. All you need is some deathly white powder, black lipstick, some red lipstick (to draw the Snake Lady sign on your forehead), a hair brush and a can of hair spray. Oh, and also a good make up artist. Check out the results in the pic below. Guaranteed to scare the living daylights out of any dastardly crime lord, eh?