With “celebrities” thus, so it can denote an actor, a politician, anyone well known to the public.
I was thinking the other day of the practice very prevalent in political commercials wherein one party will use the worst photograph imaginable of the opponent in their ads. Both parties do it; it is not something one only associates with conservatives or liberals, or any ideology.
But to expand it, let’s find the worst photographs of anyone in the public eye who is normally hailed as handsome or beautiful. Surely there’s a picture out there of Leonardo DiCaprio or Kate Winslet (just to name two examples off the top of my head) in which both were caught with an expression that was not becoming.
Oh man I wish I could find this picture - my dentist has it in his office. It’s a before and after picture of George Clooney with and without his teeth capped from some dental trade magazine. The before picture he looks like a perfectly normal and respectable person and I swear to God the after picture makes him look like a horse. THAT is supposed to sell me caps?!?! It’s hideous!
I really hope there is a dentist on the board who has access to this photo who can scan it and provide a link.
Keira Knightly is insanely hot in movies, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a flattering still picture of her. I don’t have any specific examples in mind, though.
That picture does not look bad to me. Your incisors are supposed to be longer than your molars. In the before pic, his teeth are worn down. The after fixed that. His teeth don’t look too long to me. The gumline raising, however, might be true, and that also contributes to tooth length appearance.
The “Marilyn Monroe” pictures of Lindsey Lohan. Both are beautiful women, but not interchangeable; the angles that flattered Marilyn beyond belief did Lindsey no favors. She was much better served by her first Rolling Stone and GQ spreads.
I don’t dispute that, I just think the correction was WAY overexcessive. It probably looks fine alone but when you put the pictures side by side it looks so dorky.
And it’s kind of the opposite of the OP, but do you remember Susan Boyle, the Scottish singer who gained fame on Britain’s Got Talent? She was photographed for Harper’s Bazaar magazine and it’s amazing what a difference a good makeup job, hairdo, and good clothes make. The photos are here.
OK, so what’s with the phone numbers instead of prices there? Are you supposed to call up all of those folks in New York to be told live that you can’t afford what she’s wearing, instead of just coming to that conclusion yourself without wasting some receptionist’s time?
Ok, granted she looks scary nowadays, but a few years ago when “the Madge formerly known as Madonna” was still kind of hot, Out magazine made her look like some kind of llama-woman escapee from the Island of Dr. Moreau.
As if the picture wasn’t enough by itself (somebody turned Photoshop to 11, didn’t they?), your comment made me laugh like an idiot, which I really needed this morning.
