Uncanny Valley Makeup: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Discworld/Wyrd Sisters|Wyrd Sisters]]'', Magrat goes overboard on powder and mascara when going out to rescue Nanny Ogg from the Duke's dungeons, and is described as looking like "two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl".

* 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:

* 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".

* Effie Trinket from ''[[The Hunger Games]]''. She wears technicolor ''wigs'', but then you find out ''the whole Capitol wants'' to look like this.

** Not incidentally, she was cast as the mother of Mimi Bobeck on ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]''.

** Lampshaded in ''When bad videos happen to good artists'', as [[Carrot Top]] refers to [[Christina Aguilera]]'s rather... unfortunate looks in ''I turn to you'' as: "Make-up by Tammy Faye, body by [[Ally McBeal|Callista Flockhart]]!"

* Chris Crocker demonstrates in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XeUHA5RiE4 this video] what the Joker would have looked like without his white face powder.

* 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.