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The name derives from a common practice where the physically unattractive (who wish to disguise certain physical attributes, like obesity) will angle their photos on social media so as to look more attractive, doctor certain features with lighting and shading to erase physical flaws, or both.
In [[film]], it's related to [[Low-Angle Shot]], where unimpressive traits are disguised. However, this trope is more about the deliberate concealment of negative attributes that would
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== Straight Examples - Using In-Camera Effects Only ==
=== Advertising ===
* Actual food products get a form of this treatment during advertisement. Since the actual food items often don't look half as impressive when actually served, the items presented during a commercial are often doctored to look fresher and crisper than they do when an actual person eats the same item in reality. Such doctoring will include shooting the food in certain lighting and applying the culinary equivalent of makeup to make the food look more appealing. Ingredients -- while representative of what is actually used/sold -- are specially prepared by skilled chefs and/or "food stylists" (instead of, for instance, 16-year-old grill boys) to maximize their visual appeal. Foods, like prepared sandwiches and hamburgers, are constructed with their ingredients deliberately placed off-center so they can be seen hanging out of the side of their roll/bun, subtly suggesting much larger portions than actually exist. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSd0keSj2W8 this video made by McDonalds] explaining exactly what goes into a food shoot.
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=== Real Life ===
* Outside of media, makeup is often used for this purpose to disguise or downplay physical flaws.
* Hitler often used [[Low-Angle Shot]]s to make his height more impressive on film, though it was impossible to conceal in [[Real Life]]. However, this trope was used in both photographs and film to otherwise disguise how one of his arms was prone to jittery movement, which many now believe to have been his attempt to cover up a case of Parkinson's disease.
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=== Real Life ===
* Purposed invoked for official photos of Kim-il-Sung. All official [[North Korea]]n photos had to be explicitly doctored to hide a very prominent neck tumor that was about the size of a baseball, and this trope was utilized to prevent it from being seen.
* Before the debates in 1858 in Freeport, Illinois between senatorial candidates Stephen Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, a series of daguerreotypes (an early form of photography) drawn up for both men were doctored to make both men look more impressive, with Douglass' cheeks slimmed down to make him less stocky and Lincoln received similar treatment to make him look less gaunt.
* A common social media practice in which filters are applied to uploaded photos of people to make them look a lot better than they actually are, often digitally covering up bad complexion via digital post-processing. This is far from perfect and often tends to make the faces look "low-detail", thus subverting the trope, especially when the overall effect is combined with bad lighting. Often combined with more generic deceptive angling to conceal multiple chins and other features.
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