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=== Real Life ===

* 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.

* A common social media practice in which filters are applied to uploaded photos of people to make them look much 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. They are often combined with more generic deceptive angling to conceal multiple chins and other features.

* 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.

* 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 about the size of a baseball, and this trope was utilized to prevent it from being seen.

* [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] had this trope applied to his polio. He did not want attention drawn to it, and [https://www.businessinsider.com/how-fdr-hid-his-paralysis-from-american-public-even-while-campaigning-2019-4 often used clever means of hiding its severity when he needed to be photographed]. Most images that were sanctioned photos explicitly showed him sitting in a vehicle or in such a way the polio was not obvious if he had to stand for any reason so he looked "normal". FDR himself purposely worked to pose himself for the photos (with the cooperation of the photographers) to look as natural as possible to hide his wheelchair, leg braces, or any hint of infirmity.