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              nomakeup2
              nomakeup2
              April 6, 2012
              Lee Morris

              Super Models Without Makeup, Hair, Lighting, and Retouching

              It’s easy to think that models are perfect in every way because when we see images of them they have had hours of hair and makeup, they are lit by some of the most talented photographers on the planet, and then they are retouched by the most meticulous Photoshop artists around. In this post we get to see side by side comparison shots between each model without makeup and then after the full production. Each of these models looks pretty normal except for the last one that looked incredible even without makeup.

              nomakeup long Super Models Without Makeup, Hair, Lighting, and Retouching

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              • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MW7TGJZXAHVJ6YSLEJNPEYHD3A Casey

                …and they’re all still really attractive

              • http://www.facebook.com/idhitit Justin Massongill

                Photogenic guy! Someone reads reddit!

              • http://www.rlmorris.com Lee Morris

                ya it’s an addiction of mine :)

              • http://jwnphoto.com Joseph Nienstedt

                Bottom line, these girls are still hot no matter what look you’re going for. Even “raw”.

              • http://www.facebook.com/chipspraguephotography Chip Sprague

                You forgot to mention focal lengths in your headline.  And posing.  And timing.

                The before pictures do the “integrity” of the effort an injustice.

              • OscarGonsier

                Photogenic guy…! LOL

              • rujazz

                Ridiculously photogenic guy!! Redddit FTW

                It’s an interesting exercise however I wonder how different they would look under the same lighting as the finished shot with same pose.
                Love fstoppers…….it’s an addiction of mine

              • Garrett Byrum

                ahhhh shittttt. i just laughed so hard

              • Benjamin Dell

                focal length is a big difference between each of the images here. A lot of facial distortion.

              • http://profile.yahoo.com/6VEA6HACWXRIGO2NVBGWXVLB6M harry

                Some of these test shots are distorted via lens/focal point are they not?  Some of these models looked warped as all hell!

              • http://www.flexiblevision.com Roman

                How can you take so bad picture of so beautiful models?  Better hire a pro photographer ;)

              • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WZFNDSQFYXL2TP3NP2AVEQV32U RUSS

                they all look like they have alien shaped heads. eeeesh

              • hispeedchase

                They all have one thing in common. Great New York Boobs!!

              • Vincent Muccioli

                The before shots are all shot wide angle. It makes their heads look tiny and their breasts look big

              • david strauss

                Well Played with the Photogenic guy. Apparently my brother in law knows him…

              • themsquaredgroup

                Coco Rocha still looks good and Lara Stone is so ugly she’s hot. Huge gap teeth like vintage Madonna. 

              • http://www.facebook.com/nitsan.simantov Nitsan Simantov

                WTF? this looks fake! :/

                All of their faces look like they’ve been contorted in PS. Almost all their chins look bent out of shape and in some of the photos their entire face looks superimposed. :/

              • Wesley Chandler

                Looks like they used some sort of wide lens on the non-makeup/edited one.  They all look distorted!

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002867993629 Emjay Khan

                looool the last picture is great example!

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Igor-InvisibleSounds-Butckhrikidze/723953185 Igor InvisibleSounds Butckhrik

                Adriana Lima is superb with or without makeup
                 

              • http://twitter.com/MorningRoad Joop van Roy

                 That’s why they are models.. because they stand out.

              • http://www.facebook.com/mkmurphy Matthew K. Murphy

                BAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA!!!!

              • Hunter Harrison

                The sixth one down (whoever that is) looks like a freakin’ alien. Here eyes have the state of Nebraska between them. 

              • http://www.facebook.com/gvernon3 George Vernon

                I really gotta learn how to make my models look different! ;)

              • amanduca

                How do I upvote this comment?

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carlos-Zaya/759505417 Carlos Zaya

                I’m properly mistaken, but the pics with no makeups look a bit distorted… They still look great though! 

                //CZ
                http://www.zayaphotography.com

              • http://www.facebook.com/thekingjulian Julian Jones

                There’s nothing wrong with the before images. These are “casting/polaroids” images, no expression, no hairstyling or makeup. It is simply a basic headshot for the agencies to get a good idea of how you look. Also, there’d be full length and 3/4 shots as well. But as far are the “distortion” goes, I doubt it was shot with the same photographer.

              • http://twitter.com/JPGodwin John Godwin

                Can you imagine being so stunningly attractive, that even that your worst, you still look like THAT?

                They are all beautiful, and something tells me I’m having the opposite reaction to what the author intended.

                This kind of crap is pathetic. 

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/José-Carlos-Li-Ho/673540180 José Carlos Li-Ho

                Photogenic Guy! hahaha Wasn’t Expecting that!

              • http://www.facebook.com/szymon.boratynski Szymon Boratynski

                well.. that’s what the make up is for, right?? ;)

              • http://www.grisneutrestudio.com/ Antoine Willaeys

                Still gorgeous, don’t understand this post !

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=513474392 Jason Peters

                Nobody looks amazing in bad light and with distortion… But these girls still look good.

              • Hanselbeck

                Just wide angle shots.

              • http://profile.yahoo.com/5LZMREJJON2WZHWT2GXALO2UBA Fro

                Old article. Writer prob never slept with hot women. This is how they look like in the morning, FYI.

              • http://twitter.com/Reactivestills Gary Martin

                And that why we and make up artists are here to make them feel good and make money from it!!
                And of course make beautiful images at the same time.

              • http://www.facebook.com/ravelli.mar Marco Ravelli

                Looooooool awesome!

              • Spy Black

                I would’ve stuck a picture of Elvis on the second of the last pic…

              • Joven

                I didn’t find most of them attractive before OR after.

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