Do you mean they look like supermodels still?

Well, some of them look gorgeous in both pictures, and some of them look weird in both pictures, IMO. It's not like it's the makeup turning them from regular to supermodel. Not that I actually thought that, but a lot of times, I think the difference in regular people is a lot more significant.

a lot of times, I think the difference in regular people is a lot more significant.

Which'd lend support to why they get paid the big bucks, I guess.

Going through them is quite fascinating. One of the reasons I don't wear much makeup is because I have blending issues. It's also why I don't work in colour when I'm drawing, so at least I'm consistently hung up. I think it's fair to conclude that even though some of those makeup jobs are outlandish or ugly, that they're well done, right? I may have lost some of my blending hangup.

I love the carefully wrought natural look. Hey, she looks good. I guess she's the one I should be stealing tips from, but that's more boring than artfully natural. Damned nice cheekbones too.

Gorgeous woman and makeup. Love the green and bronze.

Those are neat pictures, but I'm with Jesse--most of them, the makeup doesn't completely change them. And most of them are very weird looking.

Which'd lend support to why they get paid the big bucks, I guess.

Which was my point, really. It's not just about being 5'10" and 125lbs.

From reading the pages where I got the links they do theorise that the women are wearing foundation. I'm not clueful enough to have much of an opinion. But, again, we can all wear foundation. Only some of us for money.

Watching Lucy Lawless on Burn Notice yesterday had me wondering if she, at the precise build she was on this week's ep, would have been cast in an attractive role without having been Xena.

Then again, the male lead's body is probably harder to maintain than the female lead. But it's a fine line. Hers could be achieved just by not eating. He's got to worry about diet and exercise.

The actors I know tend to come by their bodies pretty easily, but I don't know many women in the field who're up for glam roles, so I don't know what the female side is like.

msbelle, I really like Saving Grace, but not for the plots. I like it for Holly Hunter being spectacularly hot (and messed up) at 49, and her BFF-relationship with Laura San Giacomo. And Earl, who amuses me, and Leon the death-row prisoner, who's trying to fumble his way towards redemption in the two years and some he has left. A lot of it is cliche'd, and I do have issues with why Grace even needs to be saved, but Hunter's just so great I don't care.

Yay for a woman in her late 40s having sex and looking awesome.

Dude. Check Asia Carrera for before and after. That's a bit more delta, but kinda in a drag-queenish way.

Oh, she's a porn star. Don't click from work. There are bare boobs below the fold on the first link.

yeah, all in all, I'm OK with not being pretty or striking or whatever enough to be a model. I think modeling would teach me to hate my body and I really like liking it, and I like having a relatively uncharged relationship to food.

Make a compound butter with lots of garlic, some cumin and black pepper, slather it on the corn, then wrap the corn in foil and grill or broil it.

I like this method. Only I like it with butter and brown sugar.

ita, I saw the "hot lunch" preview and I snorted diet coke. I'm all caught up with Doctor Who and now I'm on to Eureka.

Obviously, my sleep is all fucked up because of my vacation. I need to get back on track or I'm going to be sorry beginning Monday morning.

I got stopped at a sobriety checkpoint tonight. He asked me where I'd come from, and I said, "My friend Nancy's house." He asked me, "Were you drinking at your friend Nancy's house?" And I said "no," but, really, it's a silly question 'cause I could've spent 2 minutes at my friend Nancy's house, and nine hours at the liquor store on the corner, and I would still be telling the truth when I said no. Then he asked, "Are you sure you weren't drinking at your friend Nancy's house?" And my first reaction was: Why? Do you know something I don't? Then I was wondering why he was obsessed with referring to my friend Nancy's house. Then I remembered that I hadn't even had water at Nancy's, so, yes, I was really really sure. And beyond that, I simply don't drink. I don't like alcohol. I'm a freak, I know. Then he wanted to know where I was going, and so I told him, "Home." Then he covered my license and asked me what my address was. And I said, "It's not the one on my license, it's blah blah my address." And he says, "Right. Good job. You may go." What was that? Right? How would he know my address? So weird.

Alibelle! Hi! You're probably gone now, but what I"m reading, 150 messages back, you're there! Hi! How the hell are you almost 25? Are you sure you're not 19?

I have no idea how it happened. I wish I were 19. I feel like I should be. And then I could still be in college, and still be able to take classes in things. I love school. Also: hi, meara!