Cosmetic Horror: Difference between revisions

 

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* A Swiffer Sweeper commercial featured this. A woman was in the bathroom giving herself a facial. Her two children look in, see her wearing the facial mask, and run away screaming.

 

* ''[[Brazil (film)|Brazil]]'' has women dying and liquefying from the beauty treatments.

* [[The Remake]] ''[[Catwoman (film)|Catwoman]]'' plays with this trope. There are face creams that are addictive to use, to the point that they ''melt away the face'' of the user if she doesn't put more on daily.

* [[Jim Carrey]] as ''[[The Mask]]'' surprises his landlord while she is in this state, eliciting a [[Wild Take|scream of mock horror]] from him—and a real one from her (made funnier by the fact that both of them have green masks on).

* Played with in ''[[The Princess Diaries]]''. Mia is subjected to an enforced makeover to take her from the awkward geeky girl she is to looking more "appropriate" to the role of Princess of Genovia.

* Spoofed in ''[[Tank Girl (film)|Tank Girl]]''. Tank and Jet at Liquid Silver get explicit robot instructions for their beauty regime including removing "all unsightly body hair". The hologram says at the end that if they followed all directions correctly, "you should appear as so"—but Tank and Jet have their own counterculture idea of beauty, so they look nothing like the hologram.

* ''The Lady's Dressing Room'' by [[Jonathan Swift]].

 

* On ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'', the [[Almighty Janitor]] describes having seen one of the women of the Tipton hotel's staff "in her hair net" as frightening.

** In addition, the twins Zack and Cody mistook their own mother for a zombie seeing her in the midst of her mask-and-curlers.

'''Alex:''' You mean the place where snooty girls fake smile at us while they pluck our eyebrows until we scream and then say "you'd be so pretty if you took care of your skin"? Pass. }}

* ''[[Pair of Kings]]'' Girls run a spa that does the uusal facials and seaweed wraps, but also steals life force, youthening themselves and aging their victims.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

** The Black maid character was often seen from the legs down with the lower parts of a girdle visible, for comedy's sake. The white lady of the house, however, was never seen less than perfect.

* ''[[MAD]]'' has a short called "Celebrities Without Their Makeup" that implies no one is really as pretty as they appear, and that their true faces are either horrible or comedic.

[make up brush clears away and reveals the Spy vs. Spy face] }}

* ''[[Batman: The Animated Series]]'' "Feat of Clay"—A has-been actor began using an experimental cosmetic cream to help him look good for roles. It ate away at his face, and when he tried to blow the whistle before it went on the market, Daggett's men fed him an overdose, turning him into Clayface.

 

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[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

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