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Would you like to look like Michelle Pfeiffer, Madonna, Angelina Jolie AND Demi Moore?
December 4, 2008
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I think we’ve all done it once: look admiringly at the face of our favourite female Hollywood celebs and hope that we either had “that” nose or “those” cheekbones or “that mouth”. I’ve spoken to so many cosmetic surgeons who have said that clients routinely show up at their office with a photo of a Hollywood celeb in the hopes of looking that perfect.
The same happens when we go running to our hair stylist with Katie Holmes’ new bob or Jennifer Aniston’s new shade of highlights or even Jennifer Lopez’s new updo!
The problem is that we often forget that the reason why Angelina’s lips look good on her is because they work with her face structure and Katie Holmes’ bob rocks because of the angle of her face. When you transpose features … it doesn’t always look good because features are meant to work as an overall … so if you “move” Angelina Jolie’s lips onto your face … it won’t look as good … something will be wrong.
My friend Natasha sent me a link to an article from the New York Magazine and I was taken aback by the photo of the woman that was featured because she looked like someone I had seen before, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. There was something so incredibly perfect about her face … it was hard to say.
I then scrolled down and realized that the perfect woman in question was a composite that was created by Nucleus Imaging by combining the following celebs:
“Michelle Pfeiffer’s unfurrowed brow, Madonna’s plumped-up cheeks and wide eyes, Angelina Jolie’s super-straight nose and lush lips and Demi Moore’s angular jawline.”
Once you piece everything together, you’ll be blown away.
The result is of course the perfect face, but yet in all that perfection there seems to be something wrong … something not quite right … something flawed.
As I was reading the article, I realized it referred to that same feeling I had when I first saw the composite, like when you see a friend, colleague, co-worker or family member and you’re not able to put your finger on what has changed, but then realize or find out that they had work done to their face to make it look younger.
The New York Magazine feature explores the anatomy of a perfect face … whether it’s one that you were born with or one that you created thanks to the help of a talented plastic surgeon.
The article also explores a very current topic … that of women who have bodies that are fitter than 25 year-olds, but who show their age on their face. I see these women at the gym on a regular basis … many have much better abs than I do. I did chat not long ago with one of them about my line of work and she quickly came out and admitted that she had been to a doctor in the hopes of refreshing her face because she felt it really didn’t match her body.
She wasn’t interested in injections, she wanted a facelift so she could look younger and get rid of all that sagging skin around her eyes, jawline and neck. Simply put, she wanted her face to match her body and her spirits.
The article refers to a new term that can only be attributed to what Baby Boomers have given us: a striving cosmetic enhancement and the pursuit of a “NEW NEW FACE”!
The article is quite long … it’s about seven pages which really makes it a feature. I think it’s a great read because New York Magazine commissioned this editor to cover the new reality of aging.
I really liked how they paraphrased the great French actress Catherine Deneuve:
“Past a certain age, it’s either your fanny or your face. In other words, if your body is fierce (from yoga, Pilates, and the treadmill), your face will have no fat on it either and it will be … unfierce.”
You can read the entire article here: About-Face
The article ends with a very interesting recount of the “IT” faces of the last 3,378 years! It’s really interesting to see how our definition of beauty has changed.
You can jump to page seven here: 3,378 Years of the “It” Face
Photo of Angelina Jolie by yoja
Photo of Angelina Jolie holding her hair by erkans
Photo of Michelle Pfeiffer by índio
Photo of Madonna by índio
Photo of Catherine Deneuve by andy54321
Posted by Beauty Match on December 4, 2008 | Permalink
Topics: Celebrity Beauty Secrets, Cosmetic Treatments |
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