# Pageant photos shouldn't look so creepy! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 23, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398 "2008-05-23T18:47:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/21 "2008-05-23T22:09:16Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Mouse on, mouse off…I can’t stop torturing myself. [/QUOTE] I happened to be listening to music when I clicked and started mousing in time to the music…it’s mesmerising ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/22 "2008-05-23T22:15:38Z")
[QUOTE=Projammer] If I were fem and found out my parents had done something like that I’d be lining up a team of lawyers for emotional distress. [/QUOTE] I know! “Honey, you’re not cute enough, so we’ve hired someone…” ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/23 "2008-05-23T22:22:57Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] That’s not makeup, that’s frosting. [/QUOTE] Or cosmetic engineering. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/24 "2008-05-23T22:45:53Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] Ooh does this mean I can post my parody again? [Before](http://pics.livejournal.com/opalcat/pic/0009ery4) [After](http://pics.livejournal.com/opalcat/pic/0009h5bq) Those websites scare me :X [/QUOTE] Gosh Opal! Yer cat shor is purty! ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/25 "2008-05-23T22:48:11Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] Mouse on, mouse off…I can’t stop torturing myself. [/QUOTE] Ugh. “Good news dear! I found a nice man who can laminate you and replace all your body fluids with plastic! You’ll **always** be beautiful!” ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Cymbeline](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_cymbeline/32/9244_2.png) [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/26 "2008-05-23T23:32:29Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] Ooh does this mean I can post my parody again? [Before](http://pics.livejournal.com/opalcat/pic/0009ery4) [After](http://pics.livejournal.com/opalcat/pic/0009h5bq) Those websites scare me :X [/QUOTE] I love it!!! In what universe do these people think this looks good??!! 😕😕😕 ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/27 "2008-05-23T23:46:18Z")
[QUOTE=nyctea scandiaca] I love it!!! In what universe do these people think this looks good??!! 😕😕😕 [/QUOTE] Possibly Japan? It looks a lot like anime. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/28 "2008-05-24T01:07:24Z")
I… what… who :eek: This is wrong on so many levels. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/29 "2008-05-24T01:22:12Z")
[QUOTE=MagicEyes] That’s not so bad. I was expecting a link to [this.](http://www.kelsphotocreations.com/beforeafter_roll.htm) Living Bratz dolls! :eek: I don’t know why they even bother taking photos of the kids. It’s all photoshop. [/QUOTE] I have a bit of a low-grade headache and the background is actually making me feel nauseous. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/30 "2008-05-24T01:33:34Z")
Most of them don’t even look like the same person anymore. They look like someone with no artistic ability tried to do a drawing of a doll with the same general hairdo as the person. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/31 "2008-05-24T01:39:21Z")
In a couple of cases., the race appears to have changed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/32 "2008-05-24T01:41:02Z")
The whole thing makes me angry. I have to hold back to not send this person an email telling them how horrible they are and how awful what they’re doing is (and how awful they are at doing it!) ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/33 "2008-05-24T02:03:45Z")
The infant who gets the headband put on looks like Satan. That shit is horrific. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/34 "2008-05-24T02:11:36Z")
There was another thread about this or a similar site a while back… [here it is](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=430813). ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/35 "2008-05-24T02:18:45Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Isn’t there an island for these people somewhere… in mid-ocean, frequently swept by storms? [/QUOTE] The one little girl is (apparently) on the Isle of Hollywood Babes. A pedophiles wetdream. Ugh, gross and ick. The hair looks horribly stiff and there too much of it; the dress style and choices are horrid; there is not one girl who looks better in the retouched shots. I am not sure I am relieved to see that this is not done to boys or dismayed that it is limited to girls. Who needs to pretty up a baby? What is wrong with these mothers? (or fathers, but I don’t see them being arsed to do this stuff). ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/36 "2008-05-24T02:57:34Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Possibly Japan? It looks a lot like anime. [/QUOTE] No, not really. A lot of the retouched photos look flatter, but that’s true of animation generally. ---
**Author:** ![Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Buckler\_of\_Swashing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buckler_of_Swashing)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pageant-photos-shouldnt-look-so-creepy/450398/37 "2008-05-24T05:35:16Z")
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