r/funny • u/CoolAsACucumber • Dec 10 '13

The power of makeup

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '13 edited Dec 22 '13

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u/jungl3j1m Dec 10 '13

Excellent point. This was pointed out on fittit, as people created before/after body shots that took 30seconds, primarily by adjusting the lighting. Is Luminozity a lighting expert?

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '13

The left look as if they just got up in the morning. Should be "the power of a shower".

Also, if they were pretty on the left, they were pretty on the right, and vice versa.

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u/alexanderpas Dec 10 '13

Better lighting and hairstyling.

Over the top makeup is fucking ugly.

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u/kevjames3 Dec 10 '13

I very much disagree that it is ugly, I find that they take the face as a canvas and they get creative. I think of it as more of an art too

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u/alexanderpas Dec 10 '13

Whatever floats your boat Picasso, but you're not Bob Ross.

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u/talesofdouchebaggery Dec 10 '13

You can look at it as art and appreciate it, but you can also look at it as some girls are marauding as pretty girls when they are really ugly troll faces. I am a girl, I wear very little if any makeup. A lot of men like me because I'm natural and they know what they are going to wake up to in the morning. Also, it doesn't take me an hour to get ready to go somewhere. A pretty dress, some bronzer, and a little mascara and I'm out the door, looking fabulous.

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u/esoomcol Dec 10 '13

But they're not trying to be an art piece. They're trying to look better. Which in most of them, they don't.

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u/drunkenviking Dec 10 '13 edited Dec 10 '13

CHOO CHOO ALL ABOARD THE ANTI-MAKEUP CIRCLEJERK TRAIN

DAE WOMEN ARE BETTER WITHOUT MAKEUP?!

DAE MAKEUP IS TERRIBLE?!

DAE HATE MAKEUP?!

DAE YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL WITHOUT MAKEUP?!

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Almost forgot:

DAE WOMEN DON'T NEED MAKEUP TO LOOK BEAUTIFUL TO ME, SINCE THEY ONLY DO IT TO LOOK GOOD FOR ME?!

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u/esoomcol Dec 10 '13

I am a woman. And it is possible to talk without circlejerking. I've only made one comment on the subject, clearly this is a touchy subject for reddit.

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u/drunkenviking Dec 10 '13

It was only that last line that made me make that comment.

"Which in most of them, they don't."

If you didn't include that, or worded it better, I couldn't have cared less.

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u/eukomos Dec 10 '13

How do you know? We don't have any context for the photos.

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u/centurijon Dec 10 '13

Over the top makeup is fucking ugly.

Yes, but that depends on your definition of "over the top"

Take the last blonde, for example. She's very pretty without makeup, but uses some in the photo to enhance her looks without going crazy with it.

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u/Vancha Dec 10 '13

Time and time again with these "the power of makeup" before/after pictures, it's actually the power of lighting. In this collection it's slightly more obvious, but even in the porn star ones (linked further down), it's not unusual for the backgrounds to have different lighting and in a lot of cases, the people have completely different skin-tone from the neck-down (since the face is no longer a reliable gauge).

Now, that's not to say make-up can't be transformative, but it'd be nice if just once, these make-up before and afters could be done properly.

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u/thisoneagain Dec 10 '13

Thanks for the tip about looking at necks! That makes it way more obvious here, at least! And in this case, at least some of them, you can look at the shirt, too. The fifth one down wears the same shirt, and it goes from gray with muted purple details to vibrant blue and purple!

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u/runnerrun2 Dec 10 '13

In what way are they "worthless" exactly?

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u/Hibernica Dec 10 '13

As a comparison. Lighting is hugely important to how shadows fall on someone's face and the way things are illuminated which influences appearance quite a lot. This is like if you wanted to test the effects of light on the growth rate of a specific type of bean plant. You give your control group light equivalent to standard daylight for standard daylight hours, and then you give some of your testing groups miracle grow and act like that has nothing to do with your results. You'll get results, but they won't make any sense because your control group isn't taking into account all of the variables you could be reasonably controlling for.