Hmm, for some reason these pictures of craggy tough-guy real-man Clive Owen look a little unfeminine. Could you please run the Donna Summer filter over them a few times? Ta!
Next week: Patrick Stewart for Head and Shoulders.
Thanks to Rebecca J and Matt M. More Lancome-Owen outrage here.
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Monday, June 9, 2008
Lancome: Ooh You Poor Man
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unbelievable. why not chose a man who looks naturally unaged rather than photoshoping it??
surely thats the way to go?
Oh, no! The eyes! Do NOT mirror the eyes, for chist sake!
"Tough enough for a man, but 'shopped like a woman."
Cue the commenters saying there's nothing wrong with this photo and that PhotoShop is meant for exactly this sort of thing and that the site sucks in 3 ... 2 ... 1.
did they give him two noses on purpose?
He looks like Bill Murray. 30 years ago.
What are these signs on his forehead?
He reminds me of K.D. Lang LOL
It says "anti-age expertise" in the top right corner. ;)
This is absolutely ridiculous. I mean come on! I cannot take a company seriously that makes an ad like this - it reminds me of the "mouse over to see wrinkles disappear!!11!" crappy ads that appear on the sidebar of a web based email page. It makes me seriously question whether they are selling anything of quality and I used to use a lot of Lancome.
Oh my ... look at his *nose*!
OMFG! It's Photoshop in a bottle... now available from Lancome.
For what it's worth, I think the real photo is much more attractive.
I'm 26, and even my skin isn't THAT smooth.
what???
think he has pimple in his nose.
That's horrifying.
I have never found this man handsome or so, but this Lancôme ad is a pain to my Eyes. D: Scray!!!
That´s not Clive Owen. That´s his chinese double.
the ears are the best part, especially the one on our right, his left.
I understand why celebs like to be photoshopped, and I understand why marketing likes to use Beautiful People, but I've never understood how cosmetic companies can get away with these kind of "our snake oil makes you look like this" photoshop ads. In what country is this not considered false and misleading advertising?
donna summer filter :))) brilliant idea!
Where's his chin? They completely removed the chin-dimple! That's beyond making someone look un-aged. That's actually altering facial structure!
Even he probably said WTF!
They Henry Silva'd him!
Hey, I just sent this in too - like last night. No hat tip for me :(
Glad it made it here; even trolls are gonna have a hard time telling why this isn't a photoshop disaster lol.
It's just as well they printed his name on the bottom left corner. He's almost unrecognizable otherwise.
This is supposed to be "Photoshop disasters" not "Photoshop examples" and recently all we've seen is uses of photoshop (exaggerated or not) but no diasters like the ones you've posted before.
Please, return to the blog's origins.
And this thread scores 27!
It's an improvement I guess.
Let's remove all traces of this man's face and build him a new one. We have the technology! We can make his eyes more squinky, his chin weaker, remove the lines from nose-mouth and replace with with recessed cheek-creases. Give him a PS shave to remove his rugged facial hair. Smooth out his deep forehead worry-lines.
And turn his eyes from eyes into something never before seen on this planet. But make sure they don't match. Oh and they're blue? Nah, make 'em hazel.
Result? A complete stranger who no one could possibly recognize what with his entire facial structure changed, his skin from a textile factory, and his eyes from ZippythepinheadPlanet.
No, that's not a disaster at all. Just a good ol' standard photoshop.
LOLOL
The ears and lips are even worse than I noticed. It was hard to stop focusing on those hideous eyes.
It´s a definite disaster all right.
They changed EVERYTHING about Clive Owen, even his ears! Were they really too ugly for the commercial? The shape of his eyes and their colour, his sexy rough bearded cheeks, the dimple of his chin (omg even the dimple...). Clive Owen disappeared and was replaced by a live-size Ken doll.
And what´s that weird line going down from the inner corner of his right eye? (our left)
OH DEAR GOD!
Clive... you sexy sexy man... what did they do to you?
That is just ridiculous! He doesn't even look human anymore - he looks like (as one of the Anonymous comments noted) a bloody Ken Doll!
Stupid makeup companies.
Clive Owens dipped in candle wax!
Check out more photoshop disasters at www.hotchickswithnoeyebrows.com but they're done on purpose!
this should be against the law talk about false advertising,
Presumably the extra nose is a desired side-effect to enable the person using the product to enjoy their perfumes even more.
He looks so relaxed.
That is one of the creepiest noses I have ever seen in my life.
That is one chunky forehead. Man I can't even see anything else you people are talking about. Wow...
@senorita puri:
Thanks for not letting me down! I knew someone had to come in and tell us that the purpose of PhotoShop is making sure the image presented bears no resemblance to the person photographed. I mean, if it's not for making people look creepy and plastic, what is PS for?
I've always found that when Photoshoping mens faces, if you don't leave the pores, they come out looking incredibly feminine!
I've always found that when Photoshoping mens faces, if you don't leave the pores, they come out looking incredibly feminine!
I'm guessing that they were trying to make a statement: 'this product even works on Clive Owen's face'
They overshot the runway.
Yeah - they definitely did a number on him for this picture. The eyes, the skin, the ears, the (non) dimple. The nose, though, seems to actually look like that. Check out the other picture carefully (or others online).
I remember hearing about this campaign and reading something to the effect that Lancome didn't pick him for his good looks, but rather for his work ethic. Well, apparently they figured, they can change looks, but if he was a pain in the ass to work with, nothing would ever get done. It kind of almost makes sense, but why turn him into this monstrosity?
Is it just me, or does it look like he's pulling a thread out of his left cheek?
...
Viktor Yushchenko: Before and After.
Has anybody noticed that this is an ad for anti-aging creme? The photoshoping makes complete sense in the context of the ad, well spotted everyone.
That horrible Photoshop job would only make sense if it was an ad for some kind of French burn victim fund.
Rhody nails it again. I wish I could come up with quips like you do, Rhody. Heh.
xP
I'm amazed they let him keep his eyebrows.
I can do this! Just find a funeral director and tell him your craggy actor-friend always wanted to be pretty, and that price is no object. Have your actor friend learn that Yoga where you seem dead because your heartbeat and breathing are so slow ahead of time, though! Have the funeral director reeeeeally go at it, full-bore, with that unnatural pink wax and Pan Cake makeup and everything. As the funeral director is practicing his art, getting really into it and forgetting about what's normal and what isn't (which is doubtless part of the job description, don't you think?), losing himself in it, have your friend gradually start breathing faster and having his heart beat faster, too. Then, when the funeral director has your friend in his coffin and is going to wash the gunk off his hands, give your friend the signal. Just as the director's turning around, the friend slowly and clumsily sits up and leaves the coffin, all the while intoning, hoarsely, "BRRRaaaaiIIAaINSSZZZZ!!!"
The driector keels over dead, you two stuff him in the coffin and (ha! ha!) stiff him on the bill, leaving the gravediggers to unknowingly bury their old business chum, in your friend's stead.
Now, to the photo studio, Dead Man! Biff! Pow! Kee-Runch! ( <--- sounds of Adam West depressing shutter button) -- but not before your friend puts in his mirrored "aviator-style" contact lenses!
This has been "Lazy Procrastinating Novelist Playhouse," a treatment written for NBC, then not sent in like all the others.
@ollie210--
Wow, good catch! And that anti-aging cream must be really good stuff, that it could actually erase a man's chin-dimple! You should buy some! Or lots! If you're 16 and you put it on you'll actually become an infant -- a very, very smooth infant!
Well, maybe it's not photoshop, maybe lancome works ;P
It works so well it erases your cleft chin, shaves your stubble, removes the lines between your nose and lip and replaces them with dimple lines down the middle of your cheek. But it makes your eyes look hella weird and your eyebrows change.
For the record, his nose is quite clearly exactly like that, as can be seen from the inset. The rest of him...
Oh no. No no no no no. You do NOT mess with Clive Owen. The man is beautiful. That... thing in the ad is a monstrosity. Today I'm ashamed to be a Photoshop user.
I actually like the original photo better. They should have just chosen another guy, instead of painting him up to look like he has had 100's of plastic surgery jobs.
For the record, his nose is quite clearly exactly like that, as can be seen from the inset. The rest of him...
It strikes me that this creme is permitted on the market. And when that is the case, the food and drug administration would have had it properly examined.
So it is very strong creme, and it will certainly hve a warning coming with it.
Then the question is: from which mag is this ad taken? From one for surgians? I'm glad that those are also well informed from the new products that come into market.
And when that is the case, I find the critical remarks made here, fully out of place. Some may not think too much about sickness and death, but it's there anyway. Therefore Surgians and funeral people are needed, have a decent job, but also have to rely on some methods and treatments.
And Lancome just facilitates them in doing their work ..
All cosmetic ads for skincare products are way over-retouched - it's bollocks for sure, but hardly a disaster. Just as bad as all the rest.
""What are these signs on his forehead?""
Ha your right!
Put the image into photoshop and turn the dark end of levels down to 245 and I swear it says "OIL" Across his forhead!
I think the nose is THE worst exaggeration. wow....the whole thing is scary but that nose makes me think of an alien sea dwelling feline. *shudders*
He literally looks like he has two noses..one on top of the other.Eeww.
Yeah, I dunno. I like my men to have just one nose, not two.
he looks like something between Wayne Newton and KD Lang.
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