Unkempt Beauty: Difference between revisions

 

{{quote|''"Go upstairs, take off your makeup''

 

The fashion industry would have you believe that without make-up, expensive designer clothes, and fancy hair-care, we all look like trolls. [[She Cleans Up Nicely|And Hollywood is all too willing to pass that message along.]] Some people, though, are always gorgeous, even when they first wake up in the morning, and are walking around their breakfast nook in their sweatpants, all bleary-eyed, [[Messy Hair|their hair in disarray]], [[Too Much Information|scratching their--]] Well, you get the idea. In fact, sometimes they're even hotter that way.

This trope is the inversion of [[She Cleans Up Nicely]], where a woman (or man) is equally sexually appealing dressed down and casual as when they're actually trying to be sexy. It can also be an [[Misaimed Fandom|audience's reaction]] to [[Hollywood Homely]], in which case an attempt at [[She Cleans Up Nicely|SCUN]] will likely be seen as an [[Unnecessary Makeover]].

 

 

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** On the same note, ''[[Firefly]]'' usually had Jewel Staite in homey overalls and occasionally [[Wrench Wench|covered in grease]]. As [[The Medic|Simon]] says, Kaylee looks good ''especially'' covered in engine grease.

* [[House (TV series)|Dr. Gregory House]] has big bags underneath his eyes, [[Perma-Stubble]], and bed hair. His rugged, unkempt look is actually ''more'' attractive than the one and only time we see him clean shaven and smartly dressed. Too bad his [[Jerkass|personality flaws]] take away from it. [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|Or not.]] Specifically a patient once said that Ashton Kutcher and House have the "same bedroom eyes."

** [[She Cleans Up Nicely]] too, but is staggeringly gorgeous in her natural state.

* John Glover as [[Smallville|Lionel Luthor]].