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Natural beauty...slow news day

http://www.sonnyradio.com/nouglywomen.htm
This photo was taken at a competition in June 2006. The competition was between 9 women for best total makeover. They had every possible beauty treatment available to them for the contest. Look at the before and after photos.

Conclusion - There are no ugly women, only those who can't afford an expensive makeover.

(The woman 2nd from the left won the contest.)

Eliza Doolittle, Ms. South Carolina, Dora (the non-explorer)...

created by charlatan on Sep 27, 2007 at 01:44:49 pm     Comments: 8

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Don't tell this guy about the contest :

posted by jr on Sep 27, 2007 at 02:52:26 pm     #



Via digg
The 25 Ugliest Celebrities
http://campussqueeze.com/static/the-25-ugliest-celebrities.html

Celebrity in itself isn't very aesthetically pleasing.

posted by charlatan on Sep 27, 2007 at 08:33:37 pm     #



I still think one of them has a penis!

posted by Offshore on Sep 28, 2007 at 07:56:43 am     #



Thompson is dieing to tell you who it's not.

posted by charlatan on Sep 28, 2007 at 02:19:41 pm     #



I'd have nailed Marnie BEFORE the makeover. But it is fascinating how great they all looked afterward. But...who's who? I heard BJ Clinton was interested too (fairness doctrine) ;^)

posted by Darkseid on Sep 29, 2007 at 07:38:02 pm     #



Darkseid, if you look at their smiles, you can tell that they're each right beneath their original photos. :)

What I want to know is... given that certain magazines such as Redbook have recently come under fire for publishing retouched photos on covers (there was a comparison between an original photo of Faith Hill and the Photoshopped one that ultimately made the cover), do those women really look THAT good? Or did someone skilled at photo editing help the process along?

posted by valbee on Sep 30, 2007 at 12:54:28 am     #



One difference I notice between Marnie, and the others in the original photographs was that her hair was fuller, and had sheen. All the "after" picture shows the hair is fuller, and spotlighted from above. So I wonder how important the hair was to the "final" impression. We seem to be "programmed" to be attracted to youthfulness, and healthiness. The after pictures mimic this.

posted by oldsendbrdy on Sep 30, 2007 at 10:30:50 am     #



They're all relatively fit.

The top is crappy office fluorescent lighting amidst a washed out backdrop.

Health/beauty/the covering of shortcomings.. selective breeding are the same thing.

posted by charlatan on Sep 30, 2007 at 11:40:13 am     #