Before and After Makeup

image Here's an interesting series of pictures of models before and after makeup is applied (one, two, three, four, five, six, seven). To see the pictures you can also go to the main page of the Yossi Bitton Makeup School site and navigate through to the 'before and after' gallery, but beware of the annoying music. The after pictures have to be photoshopped. There's no way that makeup alone could conceal skin imperfections that perfectly.

Body Manipulation

Posted on Fri Oct 22, 2004



Comments

maybe its just me but even in the afters these girls/women dont look good. i mean the work done on them was drastic and made a hell of a difference but their naturally hideous and i can see it under that makeup.
Posted by debrah  on  Wed Oct 26, 2005  at  04:04 PM
Hey i know that some people would to look like that i mean who wouldn't want to look like that. But there is a line between pretty and fake and these are a little too fake. The good thing is about this is not everyone looks like that. The photos do look like they have been touched up big time though
Posted by Bethany  on  Sun Nov 06, 2005  at  05:03 PM
get pictures of woman or people putting the makeup on
Posted by shannon  on  Tue Nov 08, 2005  at  06:05 AM
latex and paint? no way! Im thinking stage makeup since i have used it before. with certain lighting it creates a flawless look. However in the first photo there is a blur between the girls hairline and skin which makes me suspicios of photoshop or enhancement. Even if the skin is more flawless than usual the girls features have not been altered and whatever someone said about lips becoming bigger is a lip plumper or the outline of the lips overfilled to create bigger lips it is not an enhancement. Lighter and shinier colours can create an illusion of bigger fuller lips.
Posted by Olivia  on  Thu Nov 10, 2005  at  05:59 AM
These photos are real. I know one of the chicks in the pictures. Also, there is a hair product that actually blurs hairline and skin. It is advertised as giving a person a "photoshoped" look. You can get it at Savons for like $4. These photos are real- and they're SPECTACULAR.
Posted by booch  on  Mon Nov 14, 2005  at  12:59 PM
Which one was she Booch? Was she the horseshoe crab one?
Posted by Charybdis  on  Mon Nov 14, 2005  at  01:56 PM
Look at number 3. An olive complexioned person. In the after shot she has completely changed her skin color face, neck, shoulders,,,and to be convinceing in person she would have to do her arms, hands, legs and whatever else was showing, this would take several jars of make-up every day.
Posted by Bill H  on  Mon Nov 14, 2005  at  03:33 PM
:ahhh: Makeup can't do that alone. Although I wish it could, it can't. Those images have obviously been photoshopped.
Posted by Mariah  on  Thu Nov 24, 2005  at  06:31 PM
These pics are real, however the have been photoshopped slightly to enhance colour and texture. I can get very similar results with plain makeup, it's just how you apply it.
Posted by Maria  on  Sun Nov 27, 2005  at  05:37 PM
ah, i'll just give in my quick comment since i wear make-up.

for the people who are like "OMG NO DEY R PHOTOSHOPPED!11 THEIR EYEZ R DIFFERENT BEFORE 'N AFTERRR!11".

eyeliner can do anything to eyes. trust me. my eyes droop a lot (thanks to my dad's genetics), so when I apply my eyeliner I put a thicker line near the "droop", which makes my eyes look like they curve up. eyeliner, seriously, makes a HUGE difference.

But yes, these are editted in Photoshop. if you look at model photos on deviantart http://www.deviantart.com that are NOT editted on photoshop, you can actually see the pores and regular human features that appear even with make-up on.

and yeah, these people would look hilarious in real life.

you wonder how much foundation their wearing.
Posted by mai  on  Mon Dec 12, 2005  at  11:23 PM
the afters are hot, who cares if doctored, good to wank over
Posted by hmmm  on  Sat Dec 24, 2005  at  04:18 AM
jokes, i have a hot girl and only nerds look at and wank over touch up jobs and pr0n on the net.
Posted by hmmm  on  Sat Dec 24, 2005  at  04:20 AM
im a trained makeup artist and These before and after photos does show the magic of makeup yes it can change the shape of eyes and facial stucture making it look like your eyes are more of an almond shape, or that u have high cheekbones. yes there may be a little photoshop but not to the faces because the site is all about makeup they may photoshop out a stray hair that destracts for the overall image, but thats bout it.
Posted by Jessica  on  Mon Jan 02, 2006  at  05:21 AM
r u hot jessica
Posted by hmmm  on  Sat Jan 07, 2006  at  01:45 AM


wtf

that is damn crazy
Posted by mareans  on  Sat Jan 14, 2006  at  09:01 AM
;-)
Posted by sarah  on  Thu Feb 02, 2006  at  04:19 AM
i think that these pictures show us what trends the body is trying to follow. My sister is wanting to become a model, she is beautiful and i no know she can do it. But i would hate for her to be one of those airbrused peroxide blonde type people. any one think im talking sence? 😊
Posted by Abbi  on  Wed Apr 05, 2006  at  09:50 AM
These have DEFINATELY been airbrushed in photoshop.

It is SOOO obvious!

Any woman who tirelessly searches for the perfect foundation should know that however expensive her make-up is, it could NEVER produce such a flawless effect - even if the models had perfect skintone beforehand there would still be slight variations in tone and texture. Its onle because we are so bombarded by 'pefection' these days that we can't seem to differentiate between real and unreal. No wonder girls are growing up feeling utterly inadequate because they haven't got the 'perfect face'. Its a depressing sign of our times and I dread to think where it will lead.
Posted by liz  on  Tue May 02, 2006  at  06:29 AM
HEAVY use of Photoshop, and to be exact:

- Manual BLUR brush,
- Grain plug-in
- Saturation & Color (control U)
- Just little CLONING bursh.

I know 😉)) Because I can make EXACT SAME result, however base make-up is required.
You cannot apply 100% computer make-up.

Hahah - I'm not impressed.
c
Posted by cyryl  on  Sun May 14, 2006  at  03:40 AM
Hey!
I'm back WITH ACTUAL DEMO MADE - don't have much time in here, so I put a very little taste of what Photoshop is capable of with some learned over years tricks. So here's what I come up with after 16 min. to be exact





(I start using Photo Styler first back in 1993, original father of Photoshop you know today hahahah), this is just quick picture - it's close enough, to get idea how would look once finished...

Cheers to all.
c

ps. so what you think now ?! HOAX or I should say - REAL MAKEUP for $599. BUY IT.

Used - 1 TOOL + secret shortcut.
Don't e-mail me - I will never tell you how it's done - I will loose my job then. LOL
Posted by ciril  on  Sun May 14, 2006  at  04:28 AM
It is amazing what can be done with makeup. Yes, it can be done in photoshop, but in this case I don't think so. I have done work in the modeling industry and it is amazing what can be done. In some of the worst cases, you use a heavy foundation that essentially levels the skin. The stuff is difficult to work with and is only good for still photos as any movement might cause cracks or wrinkles.
Posted by Lounge Lizard  on  Mon Jul 17, 2006  at  03:41 PM
i believe there's been alot o' photoshop. at any rate, these women are pretty pretty.
Posted by parisa  on  Mon Jul 17, 2006  at  06:04 PM
Why is it that in the before pictures,they always have the hair pulled back and sticking out all over the place. give the before girls the nice hairdo, THEN take the before picture. after all, isnt it supposed to be about makeup?
Posted by Tara CC  on  Fri Oct 06, 2006  at  03:50 AM
because the worse they can make the 'before' picture look, the better the 'after' picture will seem 😊
Posted by tawni  on  Wed Oct 18, 2006  at  04:30 PM
the 5th picture is plain impossible she went from having wrinkles and pinmples and acne skaring to having a perfect face and tahts inpossibe even makeup can cover all that up!!
Posted by mel  on  Sat Nov 18, 2006  at  11:58 AM
in the last comment i ment to say even makeup CANT COVER THAT UP NOT CAN SRY
Posted by mel  on  Sat Nov 18, 2006  at  12:00 PM
Can't believe some people actually think these pictures are real. Not only are they photoshopped, they are OVERLY photoshopped to the point where they look like paintings rather than photographs. The graphic (not makeup) artist did a good job at making these women pretty, but a very bad job at making the photos look like the work of real makeup. I'm surprised the website has the gall to put them up. (They would have made excellent samples for computer graphics training program, however.)

I guess when you do graphics editing yourself and have seen thousands of digital artworks, this is more apparent? *shrug* All I know is that if you only showed me the "after" #3, I would have said "Hey, thats a pretty realistic digital portrait!"
Posted by Lori  on  Sun Jan 14, 2007  at  11:49 PM
I really wanted to be beautiful. I know i'm not. I have been in 1 pagent, and, oh the make-up! I was young, 12 at the time, and, I didn't wear alot of make-up, my family didn't have alot of money to buy it.
Some of the plainest girl would come out beautiful. Everyone wantso be seen as beautiful as they really are, dispite their real appearence.
That's why i support this make-up using. Now, gilrs like me, can shine inside and out.
Posted by Abbie  on  Fri Feb 16, 2007  at  08:26 AM
Check out this example of photoshop at work: http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/flat4.asp?id=6909
Posted by Visnu-maya  on  Sat Feb 17, 2007  at  03:34 PM
i dont think these women are necessarily ugly, but.... also i think number five is naturally pretty, she just has skin problems is all the rest of her is fine.
Posted by amanda  on  Sat Feb 24, 2007  at  09:46 AM
WOW. These women should all be sued for deceptive advertising!!! :o

Let's face it, women are really not the fairer sex when compared au natural in the light of day!
Posted by Byrdeye  on  Sat Mar 03, 2007  at  10:47 AM
Of course, womanhood is the art of deception...
http://byrdeye.blogspot.com/2007/01/top-10-feminist-lies.html
Posted by Byrdeye  on  Sat Mar 03, 2007  at  10:50 AM
Lol. I just love how other women are really nice to everyone when they don't have their makeup on, then turn into self-absorbed catty people with their noses stuck in the air when they do have it on. Then they brag about how "beautiful" they are with their artificial looks. Talk about bragging about nothing.

It is true that makeup can't do everything, Keira Knightley always looks flawless at premieres and award ceremonies, but if you use High Definition tv and zoom in on her forehead, you can see her pimples.
Posted by Jessie  on  Tue Mar 20, 2007  at  09:57 PM
Not only do I agree with the previous posters (maybe photoshop), but the before pictures seem to have the worst lighting possible, while the afters have the most flattering lightening possibles, it seems. I look fine, thank God, without make-up (I think that many people look better w/out), but I know that I look great in some lighting yet 10-15 years older in other...aaaah!
Posted by Mary  on  Sat Apr 14, 2007  at  11:31 AM
Anyone that can't see that nearly all of these CLEARLY use photoshop has never used photoshop before. Makeup may do wonders, but a number of them are blatantly retouched and airbrushed.
Posted by an art student  on  Mon Apr 30, 2007  at  03:58 PM
this ia c-c-c-craazzyyyy
Posted by crazy girl 101  on  Sun May 06, 2007  at  06:44 PM
I do not believe these are photoshopped, have you ever watched a professional at work its amazing, I attened a conference for foundation, one of the best names in the industry did half a face in 2 hours, the face looked perfect not one flaw, contouring is amazing one of the models had her nose contoured another her chin, the one with the pot marks, if you look they are still there but well covered, and the shading helps incredibly, one woman had a pimple still there to you just really have to look, its an illusion everythings still there but after the makeu0p application and amazing lighting its hard to tell. People would really be amazed what lighting makeup and hair could do. DO you really think that celebrities really look like that?? What do you think happpens when they break out badly it gets covered up and you could almost not even tell anything is there.
Posted by Jess  on  Fri May 11, 2007  at  05:51 PM
also to the airbrishing comment, you can airbrush makeup on a person which also makes it flawless, so it could have been airbrushed in person not necisarily on photoshop....
Posted by jess  on  Fri May 11, 2007  at  05:53 PM
i think makeup can do that, but pleas people should take it eazy on them selfs. thats toooooooooooooooo much make up, and isn't the real person . so what is the point.......
Posted by tara  on  Sun Jun 17, 2007  at  09:46 PM
personally I really think these are semi-real pictures...touched up just a bit to take away hair line issues and other "flaws" you dont even need to use the latex paint or whatever. I am a make-up artist its all about using a highlighting foundation in all of the right places.. I learn the best from eve pearl. an amazing make-up artist.. a good way to conceal under eye circles is instead of using a light yellow colour under the eyes you use a salmon color conceler... it works wonders!
try highlighting the areas of your face where the light hits... of course this technique is very time consuming and requires more colours and varieties of makeup than the average girl has on hand. really it is pretty amazing what just a brush and powder and base make-up can do if you use it right... thats the key.
Posted by cheyenne  on  Fri Jul 13, 2007  at  07:14 PM
PICTURES OR GTFO
Posted by anonymous  on  Thu Aug 16, 2007  at  05:22 PM
that is just so wrong... they look so much like normal people would and then they just look really pretty... basically it is saying that anyone can be a model.. it definetly makes you wonder what some of the hottest models look like
:D
Posted by kelly  on  Mon Sep 10, 2007  at  07:20 PM
What about this?

http://pics.qweki.com/f9fc8ea15d152add0729
Posted by whatabout  on  Tue Oct 02, 2007  at  11:51 PM
as a professional photo editor myself
i can assure you those are edited, heavily, and pretty badly i may add, because they are so obvious
Posted by jenn  on  Mon Nov 05, 2007  at  03:53 AM
Yeah, these photos have definitely been photo-shopped. You can see choppy areas on the bottom of their jaws and their foreheads look smudged. But that's not to say airbrushing doesn't work wonders. The proof is simply in pictures of models and celebrities without their make-up on. Flawless skin doesn't exist on anyone (but babies) without make-up. Besides, every make-up artist will attest to their effectiveness. I've never heard one say anything bad about the effects they get from airbrushing.
Posted by Amanda  on  Sun Jan 06, 2008  at  01:07 AM
Now, I must be honest.
I am not a make up artist, per se, but I do know as I study the art of it, thought not completed.
For things such as, they will use something called 'Full Coverage Foundation.'
IE; The thickest and most flawless foundation possible.
It will cover everything.
Not a problem. Skin color wise, if you don't change that of the neck and shoulders aswell then you will just look like you're wearing a mask. This will have used slight amounts of photoshop as after a procedure such as they don't want to spend much time photoshopping, therefore makeup will cover most of it.
if anyone's wondering.
MAC Full Coverage is the way to go
& no, in person it does not look too terrible.
Posted by Dolly  on  Wed Feb 13, 2008  at  03:55 PM
As a photographer who has worked a lot with stuff like this, I think it is airbrushed makeup, the kind that is sprayed on. It's like magic and covers anything,even hideously huge pimples. Look at the angle differences with some of the gals. The photographer who did the after shots chose flattering angles to their nose/chins etc and also use lighting with hardly any shadow so any bumps or wrinkles wont show.
Posted by Amber  on  Thu Feb 21, 2008  at  12:55 AM
there all rank and fake. but good job with the makeup some people are just born ugly and need it.
Posted by megan  on  Tue Apr 22, 2008  at  07:56 PM
Hi the makeup artist I think that the pics are real anjd if anyone wants to complain then why dont you try and see if you can do this LOL 😊
Posted by kirstyleigh  on  Tue Jul 15, 2008  at  02:40 AM
Soooo much airbrushing.
Posted by Magenta  on  Wed Jul 23, 2008  at  09:36 PM
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