Artist Recreates Golden Globe Looks With Child Models: Adorable or Eh?
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2013/01/18 20:00:00
Artist Recreates Golden Globe Looks With Child Models: Adorable or Eh?
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Who thinks of this stuff? Evidently, NYC-based artist Tricia Messeroux does. The artist, who previously created a project with mini-celebrity lookalikes called "ToddleWood," went above and beyond with her latest idea.
She took the red carpet outfits from this year's Golden Globes and created nearly identical, mini-versions, which were showcased by child models. Check out the slideshow to see the awesome shots! Do you think it's an adorable idea?
NYDAILYNEWS.COM reports:
She took the red carpet outfits from this year's Golden Globes and created nearly identical, mini-versions, which were showcased by child models. Check out the slideshow to see the awesome shots! Do you think it's an adorable idea?
NYDAILYNEWS.COM reports:
Wearing a nearly identical version of Lucy Liu's Carolina Herrera gown, the actress' little mini-me nailed the presenter's Golden Globes look right down to her matching side braid.
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And I dont like the dress on either one of them..
Edited to add: Think of it like this. Imagine Barney Frank in his beloved dog collar. Aside from that, he's wearing nothing but a latex thong. He tilts his hips and strikes a pose, puckers his lips and blinks into the camera with bedroom eyes. Sexualized? Sure. Sexually exciting? Hell no! (Or it might be for you, who knows. In that case, replace Mr. Frank with Nancy Pelosi).
Complexion is far more important than one might think, which explains why women use makeup in order to turbe-charge their gender cues. The four faces below all show the same person:
You'll probably notice that the first face looks rather masculine, although the model is a woman. That's partially due to the beard shadow, but also because of the slightly ruddier complexion, the light lips and the lack of contrast between eyes and face due to shorter eyelashes. The second face looks rather feminine but in a juvenile way, without strong gender cues. It is hard to tell from the face alone if this person has reached reproductive age or not.
The third face shows the natural complexion of an adult woman. It has the same somewhat juvenile features, but the slightly lighter facial complexion, the increased blood flow to the lips and the dark outline of the eyes (due to longer eyelashes) tells us that this is a woman within the ...
Complexion is far more important than one might think, which explains why women use makeup in order to turbe-charge their gender cues. The four faces below all show the same person:
You'll probably notice that the first face looks rather masculine, although the model is a woman. That's partially due to the beard shadow, but also because of the slightly ruddier complexion, the light lips and the lack of contrast between eyes and face due to shorter eyelashes. The second face looks rather feminine but in a juvenile way, without strong gender cues. It is hard to tell from the face alone if this person has reached reproductive age or not.
The third face shows the natural complexion of an adult woman. It has the same somewhat juvenile features, but the slightly lighter facial complexion, the increased blood flow to the lips and the dark outline of the eyes (due to longer eyelashes) tells us that this is a woman within the reproductive age range. These gender cues are naturally increased during ovulation, the period when a woman is most fertile, by factors such as stronger blood flow to the lips.
The fourth and last face belongs to a woman who simulates "turbo-ovulation" through the use of makeup that darkens her lips more than naturally possible and enhances the dark shadow of her eyelashes. Modern humans have become somewhat desensitized to this hyper-feminine look because women have been engaged in a makeup arms race for centuries, if not millennia :-) But it is still a look that subconsciously signals men "court me, compete for my attention, I'm fertile and willing".
That's why most people consider it extremely inappropriate to apply this sort of makeup to a child's face (or to the face of an adult male, for that matter). It doesn't cause men to be automatically sexually attracted to the makeup wearer, mind you. It simply confuses us by sending highly contradictory visual cues, which results in stress and sometimes aggression. (This is also one main reason for so-called homophobia btw. Even non-crossdressing gay men often send all kinds of feminine cues through posture and speech melody).
Sadly, we have also become desensitized to children wearing makeup that simulates the look of an ovulating female, "thanks" to things like beauty pageants and the use of minors in fashion adverts. But of course maekup is not the only reason that some of these photos look inapproprate and creepy. Perhaps you didn't look at all of them, seeing that some are rather harmless. Here is an example of what I mean:
In this case, the creepiness factor is partially due to a copious amount of eyeliner or mascara, as well as the torn dress that signals a "damsel in distress" type of weakness. Another factor is that the flow of the dress makes the hips appear wider and simulates the waist-to-hip ratio of a sexually mature female person, which is another important gender cue.
But it is mostly the posture that confuses the viewer. Prepubescent girls have a different center of weight than female humans who have gone through puberty, which gives adult women a different posture as well as the typical swaying hips walk. The tilted hip in this photo is not only a typical adult female posture, it is actually an extreme version of it.
The real Halle Berry shows the natural, non-sexualized version of this posture. Apparently the photographer told the child to exaggerate it, which an adult woman would do to signal "come hither". Together with the makeup and the dress, this is what I mean when I say sexualized. All these gender cues are used by adult women to leave no doubt about sexual maturity and signal sexual availability in order to attract mates. It is disconcerting to see these cues exhibited by a child. I hope that answers your question :-)