Fashion Magazine Confirms “Human Barbie” Is A Real Person
Her eyes are HUGE! Is that just the makeup?
This must be some new use of the word “little” I wasn’t previously aware of.
A google search for “human barbie without makeup” reveals a more normal-looking face. Her eyes are pretty big on their own, but she might also use some kind of full-eye contact when she’s in full makeup.
White eye liner helps with the illusion of big eyes.
Making yourself look like a doll is actually a ‘thing’ in some Asian countries like China or Japan. It’s a standard practice for them to use white eye liner.
It looks like maybe she had some sort of plastic surgery to flatten out the area around her eyes, but that most of that weird unsettling look is makeup and that Real-Doll facial expression.
There’s a “before” photo if you google image search her, and she looks like a normal, pretty girl. There’s also one where she’s putting on makeup, and it looks clear to me that her face doesn’t look normal post-surgery, but doesn’t look as strange as it does in the posed photos either.
Yeah, she has really big… oh eyes, didn’t notice those before.
Oohh! I can answer this one!
Makeup artist FTW!
Ok, here’s a closeup of the OTHER freaky Ukrainian girl currently out there - Anime Girl. (I couldn’t find a good closeup of the Barbie-girl’s face in a quick google)
Ok, so looking at the image, especially the eyes.
The main trick here is to make them much bigger. First, you’ll notice that the eyebrows are entirely drawn on, and aren’t in their proper place (her real eyebrows have been blocked out and covered by makeup - they’re actually hidden mainly by the outer fringe of her eyelashes.)
Next, the actual eyes. She’s wearing “circle” or “anime” or “oversize” contacts. I’m a makeup artist, not a doctor, and I think they’re cool as hell. Just make sure that you get ones that match your prescription, and if they bug your eyes, then take them out. PSA over. The extra color of the iris provided by the contact lenses makes the next part of the trick possible.
Which is, the actual outline of the eyes. If you look closely, she has lightened her tear ducts and mucosal lining along the edges of her eyes - look closely at the corners of her inner and outer eye: you can see they’re actually slightly pinkish skin instead of being “eyeball.” No worries - from casual-glance distance, it’s nearly totally invisible. What’s she’s done instead is create a false outline a bit out from there, and the viewer naturally just assumes that this line IS the eye-line, because that’s where most people put their makeup.
Specific places to note here: along her bottom lash line, she’s matched closely on the inside corners of her eye, but she’s made the line significantly lower along the outer sections of her lower eye. That gives her a little more real-estate for the “whites” of her eyes.
Other basic eye tricks:
She’s used very thick and extremely high-lifted upper false lashes to make her eyes seem bigger and more rounded (we tend to include the lashes area in “eyeball” space when we look at faces)
She’s started both of her lash lines at around the center-mark of her eyes, under her pupils, and used extremely light makeup to make her inner eye area by her nose look all bright and wide open - that also makes the “eye area” look bigger from a casual glance.
Next major difference: check out her nose. If you look closely at it, you’ll notice that she’s used contouring shadows to make her nose look all slim and tiny on the top of it, and to blend the edges of it into her skin (this is also a very careful lighting trick) so that it doesn’t stand out very strongly.
Her lips have been makeupped as well - if you look at the center of her lips, you’ll notice that the lipstick color extends outside of her natural lip line there, and if you look at the edges of her lips, it does the opposite - falling inside the lip-line. This makes for the pouty-O shaped mouth, and also makes it look smaller, because it’s narrower width in her face.
Her chin has also been attacked with contour makeup, and she’s very carefully posed to keep that pointy narrow shape to her face.
Finally, I don’t know about Anime girl here, but several plastic surgeons have noted that if Barbie does really have a body that’s shaped like that, it could have cost her well into the hundred grand range. Barbie girl claims that she’s done all her work the hard way, and that she’s a raw-foodist, and that she watches her weight and spends lots of effort to look this way.
I can’t say one way or the other, but if that’s what Barbie wants to do, then go for it! I’m not going to diss Dita von Teese for buying her figure either - she looks amazing, and it’s what she wanted.
You’re in the business so I guess you’d know, but do you really say “makeupped” rather than “made up”?
Good post, Lasciel, thanks for the explanation.
Not if I’m writing something professional, no.
In casual conversation (ie - Message boards) with random people? Eh. Language is to be played with. In addition, there’s lots of professional/industry terms that I didn’t use in that post because it wouldn’t be helpful to the non-makeup person reading it.
If that isn’t a perfect example of the Uncanny Valley, I don’t know what is. <shudder>
Anime girl seems to have plucked her eyelashes, too, which is a lot further for a look than I’m willing to go!
There is a lot of eye-makeup trickery going on with both Anime girl and Barbie girl, but all the photos are heavily photoshopped as well. Skin folds and puckers in certain places like armpits and elbows, no matter how slim you are. Ribs and collarbones cast shadows. Veins show through the skin. Over-photoshopping produces the exact plasticky surface effect that they seem to be deliberately going for here. It’s like pop stars who are now using Autotune as a musical effect rather than to cover up flaws.
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Shodan
Ck out her boyfriend, the real life Ken Doll. (warning: squeamish alert)
He looks like Keanu Reeves. . . and his tits are uneven.
Wow, I actually agree with Shodan on something…
So now I’m thinking that ‘ugly baby’* divorce cases will become more common.
*Man Sues for Ugly Baby Born to Ex-Wife, Wins $120,000 - Man wins $120k in divorce from wife who bore him an ugly baby. Wife had had surgery, but never told. Man claimed false advertisement and judge agreed.
" …has had 90 plastic surgery procedures to the tune of almost $100,000…"
So, do plastic surgeons give you one of those “10 surgeries get one free” punchcards or somethin’? 'cause by my calculator, that’s only about $1000 for each procedure on average. That sees like hardly enough to even get the good drugs after…
I saw this on the Huffington Post, early today, from Fark.
There’s a video of the Barbie doing her makeup in the slide show (#15). It’s all just makeup. And I don’t think she looks that freaky, compared to people like Anime girl. Her eyes only look freaky when you’re at a medium distance–too close and you see the trick, too far and proportion just plays with you. Unlike most uncanny valley things, she at least moves like a real person. And she doesn’t look like a Barbie doll at all.
Here’s a direct link to the YouTube video, if you don’t want to click on a Huffpost link.