Jul 24, 2024
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The end of this is my computer dying very badly because I refuse to let any technology go.
I'm not into En*la H*lmes (staying out of the tags) for many reasons but a few things about the new movie trailer:
Millie Bobbie Brown, for all her determination to dress like a 47-year-old rich woman who founded an MLM, does Not actually look old enough to pull off "marriageable age" with half-up hair. quite apart from the inaccuracy, or the idiocy of adventuring with your hair mostly down, girl looks 16 maximum. a woman getting engaged at 22 is accurate to the 1880s, but she would like. look 22. dress like an adult woman in her era. etc.
visible gel manicure
visible lip filler OR insanely overdrawn lips with modern nude/rose lipstick or lip gloss. the lips are just really distracting in a controllable, intentional way that has nothing to do with the actress' natural features
I'm sorry but if you get visible filler, you should not be cast in period dramas anymore. "oh but she has to live her life offscreen!" yep and if that life offscreen involves more than subtle, natural-looking filler, sorry, but her life ONscreen should no longer include media set before the 1960s. she made that choice as an adult, and has to live with the career consequences
While I do agree with most people when it comes to the topic of actors/actresses not looking normal in films and TV in present day. I also try not to romantize older media, because while actors in the past did not have iPhone face or Ozempic, the beauty standards of the past were still incredibly exclusionary. Just look at Rita Hayworth and she had to go through in order to sustain her career, or the fact that Judy Garland developed a drug addiction and was referred to as a "hunchback" by MGM executives because of her weight when she was a LITERAL CHILD.
”iPhone face” bitch please. People had all different types of faces and bodies back in the day, they just weren’t the trend so paintings and photographs were altered to make them look more like the convention at the time. People have always looked so many different ways, it’s impossible for a face to be “too modern” because modern features don’t fucking exist.
Honestly I think the so-called ‘iPhone face’ is just either filler/surgery or a lack of commitment to period accurate hair and makeup.
I know very little about make up especially in historical context but a laminated brow, heavy contour or glossy look can catch your eye when you know that’s wasn’t common or invented in the era. Somewhere in your brain you go ‘huh something seems off’
Makeup can completely change your face and so can hair. Like yeah a modern hairstyle will make the actress stick out like a sore thumb in a period drama. Hell there’s a lot of actors that have this issue bc people don’t consider that men’s haircuts are also different depending on the time period.
‘iPhone face’ is more ‘yeah they look too much like a tiktok influencer for me to buy this’
Forgive me in saying this as I appreciate both shows tremendously but I gotta say...
Band of Brothers feels so much more natural as a historic piece than Masters of the Air. Honestly, I think a lot of hair, makeup, sets, and actors of Masters of the Air look wayyyyy too modern and kinda jarring to see (especially with female characters). The crazy thing is that Masters of the Air had a bigger budget too, but to me, it somehow looks worse than BoB
do you have tips on how to achieve "reverse iphone face" please
Don't wear extremely modern, trendy make up or get lots of plastic surgery to match the current beauty standard, I guess?
There is no such thing as natural iPhone face, I firmly believe. All kinds of faces have existed in all different periods of history. The only thing that creates iPhone face is actively altering your face, permanently or otherwise, to make it exclusively match the modern beauty standard
I don't know why I was told I have reverse iPhone face, flattering as it was. It certainly not because of anything I did actively, and since like I said I don't believe natural iPhone face is possible… Technically I think everyone naturally has "reverse iPhone face. As long as you're not doing a full Instagram influencer make up look or getting fillers and a nose job, you should be all set!
(also, people only ever see me in historically influenced clothing and hairstyling. Back when I dressed modern, the selfies I posted on here never got any comments about looking like I was from a different era or something. It really is all about context!)
Merlin really missed out because I was nine at the time.