thestoutorialist:

karnythia:

thegoddamazon:

bookishboi:

yagazieemezi:

zebablah:

ghdos:

Whoa. Lot of interesting transformations there.

woooooooooooooooooooow

It’s really give and take. Without make-up, quite a few are naturally good-looking.

Nah bruh 

last time I clicked one of these links I found my cousin on here

All I gotta say is:

CONTOURING WILL CHANGE YOUR WHOLE LIFE SON.

Whew. Contouring is a mothafucka, man. Sheeeeeeeeeiiiit.

The one time I let someone contour my face *I* didn’t recognize me.

After watching RuPaul’s Drag Race I give much respect to contouring. Shit. You can change everything.

Maybe it’s because I don’t understand contouring, which I’ll freely admit, but I feel like the biggest difference-maker here is under-eye concealer? Someone explain to me where I’m going wrong. Now that I’m looking for it more I can see the difference contouring makes but I still think the flawless under-eye look is what makes the most noticeable difference.

Personal reaction time: I have to admit that I spend a lot of time trying to find a balance between my desire to say “fuck flattering” and my desire to dress to appeal to the male gaze because I know that ultimately that’s the only way that I know to attract attention. Anyway, these pictures make me want to never leave the house without makeup again. I’m not saying that’s a positive reaction and it certainly isn’t going to happen! But that’s my honest response. 

(Source: caitedge)

valleygirlonceremoved:

coketalk:

Interesting, but nope. We don’t hate Anne Hathaway because of the economy. Actually, we don’t hate Anne Hathaway at all. We just don’t give a shit about her particular fairy tale.

It’s not Anne’s fault. She just doesn’t project authenticity. I know that sounds ridiculous, given that authenticity is as manufactured as anything else we absorb from pop culture. Still, authenticity is what it takes for us to scrape off our protective layer of cynicism and enjoy a genuine emotional response to whatever they’re trying to sell us.

In Anne’s case, we’re just not buying it. Sure, she’s talented and lovely and probably holds the world record for never slouching a day in her life, but her humility is false, and even by Hollywood standards her stardom is hyper-calculated. It’s hard to like someone who takes her celebrity that seriously.

Anne has one of the most beautiful smiles in the history of teeth, but you know what? We don’t trust it. We don’t believe that the expression on her face matches the content of her soul, and that slight emotional hypocrisy is enough for us to turn on her.

That’s the fundamental difference between Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway. We’d all rather imagine ourselves as J-Law’s BFF because when she smiles (or trips or cries or farts) we believe her. She is authentic in a way that Anne just isn’t.

I’m not bothering to read the original article beyond the headline, but coketalk nails it. And can I just add that I’m really sick of seeing all these dudes all over the internet telling me my distaste for Anne Hathaway is internalized misogyny. Like I don’t think Seth committed too many serious crimes*, and there’s certainly a conversation to be had about girl hate centered on certain celebrities, but in light of how sexist this year’s Oscar’s undeniably were how about all your bros shut the fuck up for once and let the ladies lead the conversation? 

*I think that Seth MacFarlane is a better satirist than he sometimes gets credit for and that’s why I’m not critiquing him too much for his performance. Obviously the jokes about Quvenzhané Wallis were unacceptable, largely because they were racialized in a way most of the other jokes were not, regardless of intent. But that is a larger conversation that is already being had by better minds than myself. 

In case anybody still doubts it, while scrolling the Christoph Waltz tag I came across a visual representation of this argument against Anne Hathaway’s authenticity:

Just looking at the difference between her and JLaw’s body language makes my skin crawl at her smarmy artifice. And yet, there’s got to be some kind of internalized misogyny that causes me to perceive her that way, hasn’t there? I’m not trying to police anyone’s version of femininity, I don’t want to be all Julie Klausner about things…I guess I’ve got to accept that there really are some nasty unconscious bias going on in reacting negatively to Anne Hath. I have to admit I was wrong, but that still DOESN’T mean I need to hear mansplainations from dudes who think their sexual attraction to Hathaway means they need to defend her against those bitchy women who are always fighting among themselves. 

coketalk:

Interesting, but nope. We don’t hate Anne Hathaway because of the economy. Actually, we don’t hate Anne Hathaway at all. We just don’t give a shit about her particular fairy tale.

It’s not Anne’s fault. She just doesn’t project authenticity. I know that sounds ridiculous, given that authenticity is as manufactured as anything else we absorb from pop culture. Still, authenticity is what it takes for us to scrape off our protective layer of cynicism and enjoy a genuine emotional response to whatever they’re trying to sell us.

In Anne’s case, we’re just not buying it. Sure, she’s talented and lovely and probably holds the world record for never slouching a day in her life, but her humility is false, and even by Hollywood standards her stardom is hyper-calculated. It’s hard to like someone who takes her celebrity that seriously.

Anne has one of the most beautiful smiles in the history of teeth, but you know what? We don’t trust it. We don’t believe that the expression on her face matches the content of her soul, and that slight emotional hypocrisy is enough for us to turn on her.

That’s the fundamental difference between Jennifer Lawrence and Anne Hathaway. We’d all rather imagine ourselves as J-Law’s BFF because when she smiles (or trips or cries or farts) we believe her. She is authentic in a way that Anne just isn’t.

I’m not bothering to read the original article beyond the headline, but coketalk nails it. And can I just add that I’m really sick of seeing all these dudes all over the internet telling me my distaste for Anne Hathaway is internalized misogyny. Like I don’t think Seth committed too many serious crimes*, and there’s certainly a conversation to be had about girl hate centered on certain celebrities, but in light of how sexist this year’s Oscar’s undeniably were how about all your bros shut the fuck up for once and let the ladies lead the conversation? 

*I think that Seth MacFarlane is a better satirist than he sometimes gets credit for and that’s why I’m not critiquing him too much for his performance. Obviously the jokes about Quvenzhané Wallis were unacceptable, largely because they were racialized in a way most of the other jokes were not, regardless of intent. But that is a larger conversation that is already being had by better minds than myself.