Uncanny Valley Makeup: Difference between revisions

See also [[Make-up Is Evil]], [[Cosmetic Catastrophe]], [[Impossibly Tacky Clothes]] and [[Excessive Evil Eyeshadow]].

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''Samurai 7'' (anime adaptation of ''[[Seven Samurai]]''), Gorobei, Rikichi, and Heihachi are forced to dress in drag [[Disguised in Drag|as part of an undercover mission.]] Gorobei and Rikichi sport laughably gaudy visages - [[Your Mileage May Vary|Heihachi, however,]] [[Attractive Bent Gender|makes for a very pretty lady.]]

* 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 ''[[A Clockwork Orange (novel)|A Clockwork Orange]]'', the sociopathic culture of the young is partly indicated by the crazy way they dress and the insane makeup the girls are described as wearing:

{{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).}}

* 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.

== [[Real Life]] ==

* When girls are just beginning to wear makeup and experiment with it,(usually in their pre-teens) sometimes they can look downright clownish. Maybe they used foundation multiple shades too dark or too light from their actual skin color. Or maybe they used a little too much eyeshadow and blush. Or maybe they had put on the brightest shade of lipstick they could find. Possibly all of that.

* Lots of the more OTT makeup styles amongst alt fashion wearers in Japan (and the fashion followers in western countries). Contact lenses that make your eyes look impossibly round and huge? Check. Two to three pairs of false eyelashes? Check. So much pale foundation and powder that you look like you're made of chalk? Check. Foundation'd-out lips? Check. Perfectly round clown blusher? The list goes on. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130629132813/http://www.yaplog.jp/cv/milukyun/img/145/miluu3_p.jpg The effect is often adorable, but it doesn't make it less creepy.]

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