History Main / UncannyValleyMakeUp

* An example occurs in ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' when the host club dresses as women to cheer up Haruhi. They wear makeup that is hilariously overdone, wigs, and gaudy dresses.
** Every [[{{Takarazuka}} production]] done by the Zuka club features a lot of this.

[[caption-width:315:Some girls wear Cover Girl, she wears Dutch Boy.]]

* Pageant photography, especially of kids.[[http://www.pageantphotoretoucher.com/photos.html]]

[[caption-width:315:Some girls wear Revlon, she wears Dutch Boy.]]

* Pageant photography, especially of kids.

*** That would be the 19th century Victorian fashion. Modern photography hadn't been invented at the time when this style of make up was fashionable.
**** Of course, there's the occasional dose of uncanny valley makeup in mortuary photography as well; this troper has seen a photograph of a young infant that had passed away with its sad pale cheeks blushed and ''adhesive mortuary eyes'' applied so it'd look awake.

** For some, however, that sort of makeup job is this troper's self-confessed main source of FetishFuel he has for Goths...
* This troper once encountered a secretary whose face made her think of an overgrown porcelain doll.
* In this troper's area, girls tend to bleach their (naturally dark) hair almost white, wear thick foundation and mascara, and generally put on so much makeup they look like living dolls. It creeps this troper out. A lot.

* The blog AwfulLibraryBooks showed a book entitled [[http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/makeup-for-fun/ Makeup for Fun]]. It apparently shows you how to apply makeup to make your kid look like a freaky lion, a dead person... the list goes on.

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZLQW2qr5Hs Mystery Man]] from DavidLynch's ''Lost Highway''. It takes you a while to work out what's so off about his face, gradually you realise that (well, [[CosmicHorror among other things]]) it's his fairly subtle eyeshadow and lipstick in combination with the fact that he ''never blinks''. The effect is, well, [[NightmareFuel eee... brr... aaargh...]]

** I never thought that Ronald McDonald could give me nightmares...but it seems that video proved me wrong.

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* ''BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'' has the creepy Dee-Dee twins who always wear clown makeup.

* In the ''AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' episode "The Tale Of The Many Faces" a struggling model named Emma visits a strange woman named Madame Visage who gives her some powder that apparently helps her get a modeling job. (The powder didn't really do anything, considering that Emma was pretty to begin with) However, its revealed that Madame Visage is [[spoiler: a VainSorceress and the face powder has properties that keeps girls faces looking younger and the skin smooth. She wants the faces to be in peak condition so that she can steal them and use them as her own face as a way to keep herself looking younger.]]

* The Joker in ''TheDarkKnight'', complete with GlasgowGrin.

* In ''My Big Fat Greek Wedding'', Toula's family is preparing her for her wedding, and they are in such a hurry that everyone pitches in to do her hair, makeup, and dress her. The end result is that she, in Toula's words, "looks like a snow beast".

* The bicycle doctor in one of Pee-Wee's nightmares from ''Pee Wee's Big Adventure''--Normal except for the horrible [[http://cdn1.gamepro.com/global/radar/blog_images/92553-5.jpg demon-clown sneer]] hidden behind his surgical mask.

* In the video for Pink's song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eocCPDxKq1o "Please Don't Leave Me"]], the boyfriend tries to leave and the girl character goes StephenKing on him, starting with ''{{Misery}}'' and ending with an AxeCrazy bit from ''TheShining''. The more psycho the girl goes, the more her make-up goes MonsterClown, until she looks horribly like Pennywise from ''{{It}}''. brrr...

* The Music video for Fall Out Boy's ''America's Suitehearts'' features Pete Wentz in some freak facepaint that makes him look like he has a large smiling black mouth full of teeth.

* The Great Fairies from ''OcarinaOfTime''. Combined with their NoblewomansLaugh, it's kinda hard to notice they're on your side at first.

* A teacher in YuGiOh wears so much makeup, it may as well be a mask. After a run in with Yami Yugi, it literally breaks off like a porcelain mask.

* The blog AwfulLibraryBooks showed a book entitled [[http://awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com/2010/07/04/makeup-for-fun/ Makeup for Fun]]. It apparently shows you how to apply makeup to make yourself look like a freaky lion, a dead person... the list goes on.

* Some more ValuesDissonanceExamples: Heavy makeup for women was especially popular in TheRoaringTwenties, TheFifties, and TheEighties. Usually ladies from these eras were tactful in their application of cosmetics, but at times they overdid it. This was especially the case with actresses who were playing characters in historical movies set ''long'' before the advent of mass-marketed cosmetics.

** Especially on his appearances in I Love the (Era), when he's... not so [[StupidSexyFlanders Pretty]] and still wearing heavy amounts of makeup.

Bonus points, if the person is wearing a old fashioned PimpedOutDress, a frivolous multicolored outfit, or an all black outfit. Or they may also dress in a skimpy outfit that was intended purely for {{Fanservice}}.