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Topic: THE LOOKS

Do me a favour and check out this site: www.pricescope.com
It is amazing how celebrities look without make-up.
Did you also notice that when a couple sleeps together in 1 bed, you will always see the man's "torso", but never the woman. Do they use a special L-shaped "cover".
I am surfing a lot, so sometimes I encounter weird sites.
This isn't weird but real.
It must take hours to "paint those people"and you will NEVER , or almost never recognise them. More, without make-up, it is really good to see the consequences of plastic surgery. THOSE surgeons should be suspended for the rest of their lifes if you see the results.
Michael Jackson, in his thriller time, was an attractive young man.
In the USA, they will have a lawsuit, for almost nothing. I even heard on the news a few years ago, that a gynaecologist was prosecuted 10 years after he used "a forceps" to help a baby out of his mama. At the age of 10, his results on school were not that great, and the court's verdict was: guilty. I can not imagine this.
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2 Reply by Zurf (edited by Zurf 2007-09-20 14:41:46)

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Re: THE LOOKS

Doc - On that baby thing, not only was there A suit, but a series of them.  And the attorney who was bringing a lot of them became a Presidential candidate and remains a Senator.  A sad state of affairs.

On the celebrity thing, I used to be a photographer's assistant (also a photographer, but it ends up I made a better assistant) and met many models.  They'd come in off the street in sweatpants and sloppy t-shirts, sipping a coffee, hair a mess, looking like real people.  Then the makeup artist and hair artist would have their way, some good lighting and nifty filter work, some neat tricks in the darkroom and you've got a supermodel.  Hard work for everyone - not trying to make it sound easy. 

The thing that surprised me is how many of the women looked better to my eyes in their sweats and sloppy t-shirts than with all the makeup.  But once the film was developed and the prints made - WOW!!!  There is an art to the makeup, and the hair, and the photography and the darkroom work.  All of it working together to make an attractive photograph, but in person the woman doesn't look near as good with the amount of makeup, etc., required. 

That said, I guarantee you some of the women you see in print that you think, "Eh, nothing special", you wouldn't be able to keep your eyes off if you saw her at the grocery store.  And vice versa.  Some of the women who make your eyes pop in a magazine wouldn't even turn your head on the street.   The features that make a photograph work don't always look so good in person, and vice versa.  Plus there is surely a lot of skill to proper positioning and body control on the part of the model and a lot of work on the part of the makeup/hair artists, and then also the work of the photographer/assistant in proper lighting, props, composition, etc.  Then the darkroom guys get their whack at it. 

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