# Monster

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster/220033>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 19, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster/220033 "2003-12-19T19:44:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Azure\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@Azure\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azure_Eternity)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monster/220033/1 "2003-12-19T19:44:48Z")

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I was wandering around Apple’s site and looking at the movie trailers when I found one for a movie with Charlize Theron in it called [Monster](http://www.monsterfilm.com/). When I first saw the film poster, I didn’t even recognize her. They detailed the make-up process [here](http://www.monsterfilm.com/story/transformation.html).

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> Toni G. explains of the makeup application procedure, which took between one-and-a-half to two hours and involved spattering makeup effects with an airbrush that mimic red tones, freckling, and sun damage. “Her face, her neck, her hands, everything had at least a light coat on it. And I hand painted the capillaries and additional shading to get the emphasis where I wanted, such as deepening her nasal folds.”
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> "Toni G. is a miracle worker,” gushes Theron.

Heh. I think most people consider sun damage to be anything _but_ miraculous.