Uncanny Valley Makeup: Difference between revisions

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== [[Real Life]] ==

* 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.

** 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. See also [[Blush Sticker]].

** 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.

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* That ungodly combination of bright orange tanned skin and bleached blonde hair popular with many sorority girls and young gay men, who love to combine it with overly tweezed/waxed eyebrows.

** Well, if we're talking ''bronzer'', there's [[Jersey Shore|Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi]] and Rep. John Boehner (R-OH).

* [[wikipedia:Ganguro|Ganguro]]. Girls who followed that trend deliberately used makeup to look like Japanese ghosts and demons.

* Ganguro.{{Citation needed}}

* The late Dame Barbara Cartland, prolific romance novelist. Clive James famously described her face as looking like "looking like the corpses of two crows that had flown into a chalk cliff".

* That "two crows flying into a chalk cliff" analogy could also apply to Taylor Momsen as of late. Ever since she's said she "doesn't fucking care" about being a good role model, she has begun layering her make-up on pretty thick. Michael K of Dlisted has unfavorably compared her multiple times to a panda.

* [[Lady Gaga]].{{Citation needed}}

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* [[Boy George]], especially on his appearances in I Love the (Era), when he's... not so [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|Pretty]] and still wearing heavy amounts of makeup.

* [[Boy George]].

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** ~~Especially~~ on his appearances in I Love the (Era), when he's... not so [[Stupid Sexy Flanders|Pretty]] and still wearing heavy amounts of makeup.

* Some more [[Values Dissonance]] examples: Heavy makeup for women was especially popular in [[The Roaring Twenties]], [[The Fifties]], and [[The Eighties]]. Usually ladies from these eras were tactful in their application of cosmetics, but at times they overdid it. This was especially the case with actresses who were playing characters in historical movies set ''long'' before the advent of mass-marketed cosmetics.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtc4SNspw5A&feature=related Some youtube tutorials] will teach you how to enter the uncanny valley of makeup, by trying to make you look like an anime character. No, not uncanny valley like an anime character wearing makeup. Looking ''like an anime character''.