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* An example occurs in ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' when the host club dresses as women to cheer up Haruhi. They wear makeup that is hilariously overdone, wigs, and gaudy dresses. Likewise, every [[Takarazuka|production]] done by the Zuka club features a lot of this. Likely this is because most of the characters already look like that...
** And it's actually lampshaded by the Host Club when they see Haruhi in it, claiming "IT'S TOO THICK!"
* In [[Tenchi in Tokyo]], Ryoko applies makeup to herself ''by the pound''. The result is her face looking so creepy and silly looking that her rival [[Everything's Better
* Shortly after joining [[The Shinsengumi]] in ''[[Peacemaker Kurogane]]'', Tetsunosuke gets jealous at Yamazaki Susumu, who does his spying work crossdressed as a beautiful woman. Tetsunosuke grabs a spare kimono and borrows Susumu's makeup box, ending up looking more like a Kabuki clown than a lady, to the horror of innocent bystanders.
* A teacher in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' wears so much makeup, it may as well be a mask. After a run in with Yami Yugi, it literally breaks off like a porcelain mask.
* In a first season episode of [[Pokémon (
* Done for laughs (though very slightly dramatic) in ''[[Eureka Seven]]'' when Eureka tries make up.
* The Ganguro girls in ''[[Durarara]]''. So much makeup...
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* Queen Narissa from ''[[Enchanted]]'', especially in her live-action form.
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLQW2qr5Hs Mystery Man] from [[David Lynch]]'s ''[[Lost Highway]]'' has no eyebrows, as well as a fairly subtle combination of eyeshadow and lipstick that renders his face fairly... uncanny.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]'', the hero's love interest [[Unnecessary Makeover|tries getting a makeover to look prettier]]... [[Glamour Failure|but it fails spectacularly]], with excessively heavy makeup and a huge [[Eighties Hair]] wig.
* Pavi's faces in ''[[Repo!
* [[Mark Hamill]] had just suffered a car wreck before the shooting of ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]''. To hide his facial scars- [http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/vlcsnap-2009-11-18-16h30m48s15.png AAARGH! SEND IT TO HELL!]
* [[Natalie Portman]]'s makeup in ''[[
* ''[[The Warriors (
** The Furies, especially. Particularly because their glowering expressions never seem to change under the bright Day-Glo face paint.
* "Baby" Jane Hudson as an adult in ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]''. Bette Davis suggested the idea she never washes her face, she just cakes new makeup on every day.
* In [[John Carpenter]]'s ''Escape from L.A.'', [[Bruce Campbell]] plays the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills, a man obsessed with achieving physical perfection through plastic surgery. The prosthetic makeup he wears for the part -- sculpted cheekbones, a thinner nose, a squarer jaw, visible hairplugs -- makes the character look more like an animated mannequin than anything else.
* [[Enfant Terrible|Blithe]] in ''[[The Sitter]]''.
* The matchmaker's makeup in ''[[
* Judge Doom in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', seeing as how he was intentionally meant to invoke [[Uncanny Valley]] (makeup was used to make his skin look unnaturally pale and flawless, and Christopher Lloyd avoided blinking when the camera was on him).
* The Dee Dee twins from The Return Of The Joker.
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* In ''[[Bridget Jones Diary]]'' Bridget goes out partying with a "[[With Friends Like These...|friend]]" who is always able to bring down her self-esteem with cutting remarks, and ends up convinced that she is horribly prematurely aging. As a result, the next time she goes out she spends ages applying lots and lots of makeup, to the point that when she arrives her friend Tom tells her she looks like Barbara Cartland.
** In the sequel, she goes out to a fancy dinner with Mark Darcy and, in a hurry as ever, makes up in the cab on the way there. She can't work out why everyone at the party is looking at her strangely, til Mark sends her to the ladies' room and she finds that, in the dark, she confused plum eyeshadow with rouge...
* In ''[[Discworld
* In ''[[A Clockwork Orange (
{{quote| These sharps were dressed in the heighth of fashion too, with purple and green and orange wigs on their gullivers, and make-up to match (rainbows round the glazzies, that is, and the rot painted very wide).}}
* In ''[[Bridge of Birds]]'', this is apparently the standard of beauty - among the [[Long List|many, many preparations]] Li Kao claims a beautiful woman makes every morning are "checks to make sure that her makeup has hardened into an immovable mask" and "looks into the mirror for any visible sign of humanity, and is relieved to find none".
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* The porcelain doll look is used to a fantastic effect in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrtQCCT8kpk this advert] for ''[[Eastenders]]''.
* Mimi Bobeck from ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' frequently wore more makeup than was <s> necessary</s> healthy for the proper brain functioning of those around her.
* In the ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' episode "The Tale Of The Many Faces" a struggling model named Emma visits a strange woman named Madame Visage who gives her some powder that apparently helps her get a modeling job. The powder didn't really do anything, considering that Emma was pretty to begin with. (It does seem to almost hypnotize those around her, who will drop everything to mention how pretty she is.) However, its revealed that Madame Visage is {{spoiler|a [[Vain Sorceress]] and the face powder has properties that keeps girls faces looking younger and the skin smooth. She wants the faces to be in peak condition so that she can steal them and use them as her own face as a way to keep herself looking younger.}}
** Another AYAOTD episode called "The Tale Of The Mystical Mirror" features another [[Vain Sorceress]] named Mrs. Valenti who hires only in her words "beauties" to work in her clothing boutique and she is later revealed {{spoiler|to regularly kill young girls in a ritual to keep herself eternally young and beautiful while she was actually centuries old.}} She gives her employees a compact filled with makeup, and she makes sure to keep her "youthful" face covered with so much makeup that her face looks like its made of plastic and she appears rather [[Stepford Smiler]]-ish.
* ''[[Toddlers and Tiaras]]'': nuff said
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* At least two episodes in ''[[Hey Arnold]]'' feature Helga's older sister Olga break down crying so much tears that her makeup runs down her face and it looks like she's [[Tears of Blood|crying black tears]].
** Another episode has Helga give herself a makeover, in order to make herself look more girly for Rhonda's party. When her mother opens the bathroom door and sees the finished product she gasps and faints, causing Helga to say "Maybe I should've gone a bit lighter on the eye shadow."
* In the [[Mega Man (
* Seen in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* All of the female characters in ''[[The Problem Solverz]]'' have brightly colored eyeshadow and facial markings.
* One late episode of ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' had the [[Villain of the Week]] , "Mask Scara," fly around giving horribly trashy makeovers to everyone in townsville as well as some of the billboards. Not as uncanny when it's supposed to be funny, but still really, really ugly.
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* Combined with [[Values Dissonance]], this applies to most historically accurate recreations of historical makeup styles, such as the English Renaissance fashion for caking on a pale, lead-based makeup- which often ended up horribly disfiguring long-term users, incidentally.
** From the 16th-18th centuries, the style for rouge was to apply it in a round (or occasionally triangular) pattern with no attempt to bend it into the foundation, creating a rather clownish effect to modern viewers.
** Much like the ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]'' example under Film, its been suggested that some women never washed their face, they just caked new makeup on every day.
** There are theories about the high numbers of mentally disabled children in noble families in 18th century Japan, for being caused by babies touching the lead makeup of their mothers and suffering from lead poisoning when it got from their fingers into their mouths.
* Pageant photography, [http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/5418581/Childrens-beauty-pageant-might-come-to-NZ especially of kids.]
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