# Young black woman becomes white woman - eye popping makeup artistry! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 15, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635 "2003-03-15T18:50:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/1 "2003-03-15T18:50:18Z")
I was wandering around the net and ran across [this racial conversion](http://www.makeup-artist.com/prosthetic05.htm) on a professional makeup artist’s website. Why they would do this I have no idea (it has something to do with the soap “All My Children”) but it’s an eye popper (to me at least). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/2 "2003-03-15T18:57:37Z")
Paula Jones is black! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Tarantara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a4c791/32.png) [@Tarantara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantara)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/3 "2003-03-15T19:03:07Z")
Is this how Michael Jackson became a white woman? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/4 "2003-03-15T19:13:03Z")
The only page I couldn’t view in the link was the one you referenced. Everything else was cool. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/5 "2003-03-15T19:16:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\*The only page I couldn’t view in the link was the one you referenced. Everything else was cool. \*\* 😕 Hmm… seems to be working fine for me. Here is the url link [http://www.makeup-artist.com/prosthetic05.htm](http://www.makeup-artist.com/prosthetic05.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/6 "2003-03-15T19:19:05Z")
How about [Whoopi and Babawa at one and the same time](http://www.makeup-artist.com/prosthetic03e.htm)? ---
**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/7 "2003-03-15T19:19:55Z")
she’s a really beautiful woman. without makeup. obviously. i remember an advert on tv where they morphed Mel B from the spice girls and Lennox Lewis into white people. very freaky. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/8 "2003-03-15T20:04:52Z")
That makes me think of the SNL skit where they made Eddie Murphy into a white man. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/9 "2003-03-15T20:13:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\*😕 Hmm… seems to be working fine for me. > > Here is the url link > > [http://www.makeup-artist.com/prosthetic05.htm](http://www.makeup-artist.com/prosthetic05.htm) \*\* Something is wrong with that page, but none of the others. I had to scroll extreme right to see the images from page prosthetic05.html. (I’m presently on a Mac.) The navigation buttons are a little wonky too. Probably a codin snafu. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/10 "2003-03-15T20:24:24Z")
Hmmm. If I look at that girl in the “white” version, the lips and jawline still look distinctly “black” to me. I guess make-up can only do so much, of course, and it’s quite an impressive makeover. That half-Whoopi is just plain scary. :eek: What I found an impressive racial makeover was [Eddie Murphy as an old Jewish man in the barbershop scenes from “Coming to America”](http://www.movieclub.com/reviews/archives/02barbershop/america.jpg). I mean, that’s downright amazing! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/11 "2003-03-15T22:44:00Z")
Well the makeup job certainly changed her, but… I don’t think it made her look “white”. After just looks more like Tina Turner than Before does. Very nice either way. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kitarak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kitarak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitarak)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/12 "2003-03-16T01:50:59Z")
Wow. She looks _scary_ after the makeover. Sure, it’s an impressive change, but all the altered features just add up something that’s subtly wrong… I really have to ask: Why on earth would someone want to do this? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/13 "2003-03-16T02:00:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eats\_Crayons \* > \*\*Something is wrong with that page, but none of the others. I had to scroll extreme right to see the images from page prosthetic05.html. (I’m presently on a Mac.) The navigation buttons are a little wonky too. > > Probably a codin snafu. \*\* I found it scrolling way over to the right. I’m also on a Mac right now, but I’ll try again later on my pc. Could just be how Explorer on the Mac works with that page. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/14 "2003-03-16T02:38:19Z")
Apparently it was for a soap opera, not the woman’s own idea. fyoof! although who wrote that plot line?! ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/15 "2003-03-16T02:47:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kitarak \* > \*\*Wow. She looks _scary_ after the makeover. Sure, it’s an impressive change, but all the altered features just add up something that’s subtly wrong… > \*\* Sort of like Michael Jackson… ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/16 "2003-03-16T02:57:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tarantara \* > \*\*Is this how Michael Jackson became a white woman? \*\* LOL! 😃 I agree with some of the other posters; I’d still say she was black, although much lighter. And, I think she’s better looking as herself. ---
**Author:** ![Spacegirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Spacegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spacegirl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-black-woman-becomes-white-woman-eye-popping-makeup-artistry/161635/17 "2003-03-16T04:28:31Z")
[hijack]I am using a mac, and I am using safari (browser for mac) and the page loads fine for me.[/hijack]