Yeah, but someone should be disqualified if they ***always ***look like shit.
My nom would have to be Oprah. The makeup, it is a must. When she was on that PBS show about living in the 1800s, I gagged.
Here a site with her (and Renee) and a whole bunch of hideousness (Barbra, Melanie, Sharon, I’m, unfortunately, looking at you), although some are just being ordinary looking under normal circumstances. Topsocialite
Jesus, it looks like her eyes are on upside-down.
I thought that picture of Oprah was Todd Bridges.
So far, Susie’s gets my nomination-right smack dab in the Uncanny Valley. :shudder:
MTA, re: the likes of Renee Z.: My hypothesis is that women who start out (when young) as “cute” more than “gorgeous” lose those exact qualities, as they age, that once made them cute, and hence can turn ugly rather quickly if they have nothing else backing it up. C.f. Drew Barrymore, who lost her babyfat about 3-5 years ago (or had it all sucked out) and completely lost that adorably cute quality she once had, such that she now looks like a Stepford Wife.
Hey, Skald said post-mortem shots don’t count.
And I know I’ve seen some terrible pics of Keira Knightly on magazine covers, but I can’t seem to find them now.
Quoth John diFool:
I don’t know about that… My impression is that, for the most part, the cute ones stay cute. Drew Barrymore is just a bad example… Didn’t she sink pretty far into drugs? I don’t think that it was age that did it for her.
Viggo Mortensen and Sean Bean, two of the most luscious men on the face of the planet, both look positively creepy here. And like they would smell. But I’d still do them. 
Rachel Hunter looks like Kevin Bacon
I read that the Arnold shots that show him like that were taken a few weeks after he had (heart?) surgery and he was ordered by his doctor to rest and not work out, and that he normally looks better.
That’s 1 degree of separation, right?
Here’s one of Nick Nolte after his DUI that looks kinda, uh, not so good.
(Stay away from them high voltage wires, Nick!)
No, I’m not posting any pictures of myself right now. 
Word.
“It’s simple… we, ah, kill the Batman.”
A lot of those celebrities without makeup look bad but they’re the ones who’re old or ugly anyway. I mean, Barbra Streisand was never a classic beauty to start with and she’s 67 years old, so what the heck would you expect?
But quite a few of them look just fine to me. Kate Winslet, Halle Berry… just roll back into bed, sweetie, I’ll be right with you.
It looks like some of those are just bad pictures. Yes, some of the women (especially the older women) don’t look so good without makeup (of course, they still look better than 75% of us will look at their ages). But most of them are absolutely beautiful.
There’s a magazine on the rack at the grocery store checkout stand right now with Alicia Silverstone on the cover. The picture looks like it’s at least 10 years old. I think that’s one way the media keeps us confused about how stars grow old like the rest of us.
Re Anne Hathaway and Maggie Gyllenhaal: they’ve been tarted up to magazine stylists’ tastes of what’s Faaabulous. This seems to involve prodigious amounts of eyeliner, making Anne look vaguely like a RealDoll™ and Maggie like a 1920s German silent film actress.
And some of them are, in fact, wearing make-up, just natural looking make-up. Kate Winslet definitely is - though she’d probably look great without it, anyway.
Some of them look bad simply because it’s a terrible picture where they’re making awful faces.