More general 'increased beauty'

[Nansen]

Reading my present book, which is by the way exceptionally good broadly speaking and which I recommend to anyone, I came across stuff that could be of specific interest to the lurkers of this particulalr forum and thread.

The book is the Master and Margarita by Boulgakov, and in the beginning of chapter 20, Margarita puts a cream on herself that increases her beauty, with a hint at age regression also. The process is only one or two pages, but it's well written and the emotions are great to contemplate.

Her maid does the same a little later but no process is shown.

Also, in the beginning of chapter 23, a nude Margarita is given a ball gown and shoes respectively out of blood and roses, in a very poetic way. Plus a number of corpses come back to life to be vigorous ball guests.

I'm not putting the whole text here, cause I don't want to ruin it for you, but I frankly recommend you read the whole thing, it's wonderfully insane and lyric yet insightful.