Prettify
I'm willing to concede that it's a little unfair (and outright sexist) to mock female celebrities caught on camera without their makeup. Surprise! Some women look better with half-an-inch of cosmetics. Whatever. The truth is, a lot of these bareskinned adies ultimatelyare as beautiful as they are with makeup -- just a little less polished. But then there are celebrities who, apparently, don't just highlight their more attractive features with makeup, or cover a few blemishes, but actually somehow cosmetically transform themselves.I mean, Good God: Look at Jessica Biel! That's not just the star of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry and Blade: Trinity, that's a goddamn modern miracle, a testament to modern science. Who knew there were cosmetics out there capable of prettifying zombies? That's not just an unflattering angle or a bad hair day, folks: That's fraudulism. This picture just proves that, underneath all that goop on her face, Jessica Biel is actually nothing more than a pair of high cheekbones and indiscriminately slapped on lip flesh.
Prettify: fancify, make more beautiful.
That upper lip, that upper lip. What is it? Goat placenta and holy water? Stem cells and spackle?
You're insane - she's still gorgeous. Her upper lip in that picture looks a little weird - a little - but if you saw someone who looked like that in a bar, you'd likely consider her gorgeous. I can't believe how warped our perceptions are when someone who looks like that is not only considered not beautiful, but outright ugly.
Please.
Dear god. I'll never forget the feeling of sheer terror when, as a lil'un, I saw my heroine (ballet dancer) Gelsey Kirkland with a lip full of colligen. You'd think after all these years the terror would have subsided. It has not. Why do women do this to themselves!? It passeth understanding.
No one is disputing her attractiveness, so there's no need to get one's knickers in a twist. And really, if the worst thing that someone says about your looks is that you're a touch pasty, you're doihg well. Most ladies aren't that lucky. But look at the top lip, you can see a noticeable decrease in volume near the corner of the mouth, as well as marks made by the syringe. It might behoove her to lay off the mouth syringes.
At any rate, my sympathy for strangers chip got lost in the mail around the time she started screaming 'bloody murder' because her beauty was just so dazzling, no one would take her seriously. You can can see this must be true, because she can only find work as a night janitor. Why are the ugly girls always getting the breaks?
Reminds me the 'Single Female Lawyer' episode of Futurama, when the concept of Ally McBeal (Jenny McNeil) is described as a kind of victim because, she's single and professional. Zapp muses, 'Maybe she's just imcompetent.' I've never seen her act, because she seems to be in a lop of crap. If she's talented, good for her, but I can't say anything that subject. The point is: lip injections are gross, because they make you look like you got a case of sub-demal cold sores.
She looks like a pretty, fresh faced young woman, except for...
THAT LIP! What the hell?
I agree - the lady looks beautiful in the pic, but her lips need an "undo" command.