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30 Incredible Makeup Transformations That Prove “Every Woman Is A Hollywood Star” (New Pics)
Good makeup can inspire a person to be more confident and to live their life to the fullest. Makeup master and beauty guru Goar Avetisyan believes that every woman is a Hollywood star. She gives incredible makeovers to women with severe skin conditions or who are very ill, completely transforming them to help them feel as beautiful on the outside as they are on the inside.
Scroll down to see the inspirational before and after photos, upvote your favorite ones, and let us know in the comments which transformations you loved the most and why, dear Pandas. Be sure to check out Bored Panda’s earlier list about Goar right here.
The beauty expert has an incredibly successful online presence, with over 9.7 million Instagram followers, 282k YouTube subscribers, and her own beauty school and studio in the center of the Russian capital
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Goar sees herself as a cheerful and reckless makeup artist who adores living life to the fullest and wants to share her love of life with everyone she can. She provides makeup and beautification lessons both in person, as well as via video.
The popular makeup artist moved to Russia with her family when she was just one year old. Her path toward fame and fortune started when she was a teenager. When she was 11 years old, she started experimenting with makeup on herself.
By the age of 16, she was giving makeovers to her friends and acquaintances. Eventually, what was just a hobby turned into a full-fledged job.
Goar became a mother this year on July 3. The 27-year-old gave birth to a healthy baby boy weighing 4 kilograms (around 8.8 pounds). She shared her joy with her followers on Instagram, getting nearly 2.5 million likes. She continues to give updates about her child on social media.
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Arran Walker 5 years ago
I have struggled with upper lip hair most of my life... and it only seems to get worse as I get older.
Fieke Engelen 5 years ago
Funny, I did not notice that. I have to have a chin wax every 3 weeks ever since I had cancer.
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Malakai 5 years ago
My only critique here is the eyes tbh. The way they're done makes them look unsettlingly too-large and doll-like, and honestly it looks really flippin creepy >_>
pebs 5 years ago
To me they look exactly like her eyes, only with makeup and false eyelashes. If you look at the first photo, you see that they are wide open as in the second.
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Anette Goldstein 5 years ago
It looks great. However, I have a hard time believing that no photoshop was involved
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Chris Jones 5 years ago
You look great but your HAIR - that is absolutely stunning before as well.
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Rachel Peterson 5 years ago
Sweet! (and I still have trouble with the before/after nose shape/size)
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Rocio Palacios 5 years ago
I don't understand how they manage to make all loses look so similar! Are these pics for real?
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Katarzyna Drozd 5 years ago (edited)
She looks badass on first one, like nothing can breake her
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Karin Conklin 5 years ago
You can see the beauty in her eyes on the left. She doesn't need that much makeup.
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Truth Monster 5 years ago
This is the kind of stuff that holds women back culturally in the West. With carnivalistic flourish we are shown what we should regard as ghastly and behold! they can be fixed with makeup and better lighting to adhere to what society thinks is an acceptable level of beauty to be featured in a movie/tv show. This normalizes the idea that women must spend hundreds of dollars for makeup products (especially if you don't want a toxic chemical soup on your face), years of accumulated application time, to be beautiful.
ChimeraBubbles 5 years ago
I was thinking the same thing, Truth Monster. The entire time I was thinking "Why must women look like flawless plastic dolls to be considered beautiful and therefore accptable?". Normalise naturally flawed human skin then maybe people won't feel they need to use make-up in the first place to feel worthy of society.
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Malakai 5 years ago
Some of these are really amazing, but...I kinda feel like it'd send a better message to embrace these people's differences instead of covering them up and conforming all of them to two or three 'socially acceptable' looks. Granted, living with these differences is not something I can fully imagine nor understand, and I'm not faulting or shaming these women for wanting these makeovers, but I think it would send a better message to embrace the things that stand out instead of 'fixing' them.
Elsker 5 years ago
They look pretty, sure. But why do they all have to look like instagraminfluencers? Can they just be pretty AND themselves?
siobhan mcfadden 5 years ago
But they are not themselves, most have cancer, birth marks,scars and hair loss and they just want to feel human and their old selves again. Who are you to deny them that. Can you not just be happy for them.
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Rocio Palacios 5 years ago
Some of these transformations are probably really powerful for some of these women. But most of them aspire to an unrealistic kind of beauty, that doesn't even look nice in real life, it actually looks as moving plastic faces. Also, the facts that this make-up style makes older women look younger and younger women look older makes no sense at all. Finding joy in life in all is stages is the key to true happiness!
S Jurjans 5 years ago
True... but again, these women suffer from cancer and other health allments... It is nice to see them feel beautiful again like before ...
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Izzy Bes 5 years ago
They look beautiful in all both pictures! And they all look so pleased with the result, but why did you cover up some of their natural beauty? No hate, I just think you should've embraced some of their natural features.
Photographer Chick 5 years ago (edited)
I def get what a lot of people here are saying about how people can be beautiful without makeup, and how we shouldn't make people feel forced into looking a 'like an Instagram influencer', but, a lot of the women in this article suffer from major facial deformities and abnormalities. No matter how accepting you think you are-- you would surely do a double take if you saw them on the street in their "before" state. (It doesn't make you a bad person, it's just human nature. As a good person, you would still notice, but you would choose not to treat them differently.) Anyway, imagine if you couldn't wear clothes. Like, none. Like your body had a severe reaction to any fabric touching it in any way. Every day, for years, anytime you went outside, you knew people would be surprised and take a second look: "woah! Look at that naked person!" So imagine that this makeup is like saying "here, here is an outfit that you can wear when you want, if you want. You have choices. You can mingle with others undetected." That's a gift.
Erica 5 years ago
I agree!! I fully understand the comments criticizing the “overdone” and “plastification” but these woman may feel selfconcious about their differences or injuries. And yet now they have had an opportunity to see themselves without that being the show stealer in the mirror! Remember when glamour shots were a huge thing? We laugh now but people loved to be dressed up and look and feel like the most attractive version they could possibly be! And a lot of this involved hairstyling and people waiting in them, pampering them! I say we just appreciate the artistry and how happy these women look. And consider some may not have had a lot of happy moments at times
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Catlady6000 5 years ago
Makeup should enhance what is already there, not plaster over into something else
S Jurjans 5 years ago
That is true for women not suffering from horrible skin diseases and cancer....
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lara 5 years ago
To me, beauty is in the heart. My grandmother, who I miss so much, was, to me, the most beautiful woman in the world. She was everything to me and did so much for everyone, as did my mom. Mother Theresa was gorgeous, the love flowed from her like water from a well. My mom did so much for her family, she died way too young from breast cancer, but I remember her and she still makes me smile with the memories. These women were beautiful before and still are.
S Jurjans 5 years ago
Thank-you for sharing such beautiful memories of your Mum and Grandmother.... God Bless them in Heaven and you on Earth
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Laila Hernandez 5 years ago
b proud of the way you are, dont make makeup change that, you are you, not a bunch of gross chemicals
Bran 5 years ago
This woman used her creative talents to try to help others! Her heart is in the right place! Why do we have to be so judgmental of EVERYTHING! No one said they weren’t beautiful before. This was a woman just trying to help in a way she could. Maybe this made these ladies days! Let’s build each other up as woman instead of always judging in anyway we can....
Marnie 5 years ago
The problem with this is that the woman doesn't dare move after this. Sweat a little and it ruins the foundation. Go for a beer and your lipstick is messed up. Go for a walk and your hair is now ruined. It's lovely to dress up once in a while, but there are guys that actually think women can look like this all the time. That only works if she's a barbie doll who stands in a closet until she's "needed".
Mary Green 5 years ago
If it makes them have a better feeling about themselves, who am I to judge. You do you.
Roni Turner 5 years ago
I got something different from most people from this. The title says it, every woman is a Hollywood star. We look at all these fake people and feel ugly, fat, too dark, too light, blah, blah, blah. It IS all smoke and mirrors and this just shows that. We are all as beautiful as those photos in the mags, models in the advert, stars on the red carpet. We don't need the makeup to show us that. But without the makeup some people don't realise that they are just as beautiful as just as ”perfect” as what they see on social media.
Mavi Hava 5 years ago
Ya know, the makeup was good, pics were kinda cool, but honestly, most of these girls looked like your normal-nice-looking, average female just walking on the sidewalk. The few that really had any problems were obviously just caused an incident of some sort or they were born like that, which is okay too, and there's nothing you can really do about it. And even they looked better before makeup!! Really, what makes someone beautiful (or handsome for guys!) is their personality, the way they carry themselves, and their personal hygiene. so yeah that's my advice for the day :)
Viv Hart 5 years ago
All the makeovers look so artificial & similar. All that needs to be done is a good treatment of a skin complaint, with a minimum of base. The lady with all the black moles really has to get professional help. Hair loss due to chemo, there are plenty of very comfortable turbans or bandanas, or wigs. Also, the Before photo often shows the lifestyle of the person, while the After makes her into someone with a different way of life. As I said, all very artificial.
Neb 5 years ago
Note that most (if not all) "after" photos are in different distance (heads are smaller), some with different face angle, and most (if not all) with different light angle - if looking into portraits with identical light background, "before" photos are directly to face (no shadows/same amount of shadows on left and right), and the light "after" is a bit from the photo right (left side of photo has more shadows than in "before" photo, and usually less than right side. That helps a lot with changing visual appearance
Ellen Daniels 5 years ago
Is any of this sustainable by these women? Why such dramatic night-club type dark eye makeup? I wouldn't consider any of these to be daytime looks. While the results are dramatic, PERFECT air-brushed skin is kind of creepy. Is it possible to give a less "perfect," more human look to the skin, with a lighter touch of the airbrush? I truly don't know.... But a big thank you to the person who helped women feel better, as I assume they volunteered for this because they were unhappy with their looks. It's what THEY feel that counts.
Lily Mae Kitty 5 years ago
argh. Yes, makeup can enhance or transform. But every "after" is so over exposed and filtered to hide the flaws. It's WAY too much smoky eye makeup on everyone. It's like this person can only do one look and does it on every women. It's way too unnatural for real life. They all look like they're tv presenters, not what women look like in real life.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 5 years ago
They all like Kardashian look a-likes. Is there no such thing as natural makeup at the moment? And why so damn thick?
P Brixey 5 years ago
If you look closely at ALL the pictures, you may notice that all of the "Before" pictures and shot closer to the face than the after ones. It is a ploy to make the faces look worse than they really are. It's a photographers trick. Also if they smiled in the before pictures they would all look 1,000 % better than the pics make them out to be. This topic was total rubbish, who is Bored Panda trying to kid, they must be stuck for topics.
Jade Stone 5 years ago
Yes, the Artist did some magic...Still, most of these ladies could have some VI peels and microneedling done and use of Vit C & Vit A serum,, healthy diets and some some self esteem classes. Make up can make you a slave to this routine. Nevertheless, I'm quite sure some magic was done, even for a brief moment!. As for myself, I'm no model, but after a few skin peels and more to come to help shed that sun damage and good beauty care products, not really expensive, my skin is on it's way to being natural healthy radiant. Besides, I don't wear all out make-up, but now and again lightly applied eye shadow, Mascara and skin tone lip stick...
Livvy-Rose Richards 5 years ago
Some of these are amazing, but all gorgeous before. Also, some look super fake and plastic after!
Pink Welly 5 years ago
This makes me so uncomfortable. Is this what the human race has evolved to? That we must all comply to one standard of beauty? And if we don't submit ourselves made up we are worth less as we truly are? These women are beautiful without the makeup. If they feel otherwise it is because we have told them so.
MyrkurDragon 5 years ago
Bit sad how most of them look "the same" after the make up. All the same eyebrows, smokey eye, cheek color etc.
PurplePringle 5 years ago
I don't feel like they need to cover their so called "flaws. Maybe a tad bit of makeup to make the lips and eyes pop but not a whole face that makes them look fake
Boyd Gauvin-Hill 5 years ago
Doesn’t having that much make up on your face feel like you’re wearing a mask? I mean, that must be heavy.
Not-so-MadMax 5 years ago
makup does not make you under eye bags go away, it just makes them a less obvious color.. a lot of these photo's must have been photoshopped. The people in them do not need photoshop, they are beautifull!
Sybille Stahl 5 months ago
I guess it works as long as you can visit Ms. Avetisyan every day to have your makeup done.
Andy SALVIANO 1 year ago
Magnifique avant après, mais désolée, j'ai quelques doutes sur la véracité des photos .... au moins vous nous avez fait rêver un moment
Monica Pryts 4 years ago
Good grief, people! Some of these women have clearly been through a lot. Why criticize them for feeling better about themselves for a few moments? I need to stop reading the comments.
Jennifer Brady 4 years ago
Every last one of these has been photoshopped 🤣. If you can’t tell look at the shape of the noses and jaw lines, as well as all the finishes which are completely flawless, no make up can give you that. All this does is make women feel horrible about themselves when they don’t get the same results. The author should do something good and show the unpolished results or the makeover, I’d be much more interested in that as it’s real.
Denise Mclean 5 years ago
I think this is absolutely wonderful, the transformations are amazing, but the way the women feel afterward is so reflective on their face. It is all in their eyes and they just beam how they feel. That some Awesome Body Language !
Lizaveta Sanna 5 years ago
All this make up its works one famous make up artist. She live in Russia, but her heart from Armenia. Almost all this girls with life trouble and they want on one day forgot about it and feel herselfs charming princess. Goar Avetisyan of course help with wishes! She have beauty school, beauty salon. And all this she make herself! Amazing woman https://instagram.com/goar_avetisyan?igshid=1wmtkrc1ol692 . Ps Sorry for my English I try do my best ❤️
Angela Allen Simms 5 years ago
I was a ICU Burn Nurse years ago and some of my patients had horrific burns which are very disfiguring! Most chemo and immune conditions as well as neurological conditions can be extremely disfiguring. You shouldn't judge anyone because you don't know their story!! Not everyone survives their stories either! Makeup can change the way a person feels and helps with their self image. It may take more depending on the damage. So have some compassion for others who may have been the victim of another's cruelty!! BTW, my pt died from the acid burns her boyfriend threw on her, there are many more stories but you get my drift!!
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 5 years ago
In case nobody noticed it, most of the makeup models above have severe skin issues: acid and/or fire burns and scares; chemo sequels, severe acne and genetic skin conditions. Most likely, these women wanted to look "normal", not "gorgeous". Looking gorgeous was part of the game.
Mumof1 5 years ago
Several people are suggesting that women are accepted as they are. And whilst I agree to a certain extent, I would suggest that these women are asked how THEY feel? Doesn't every one want to feel beautiful? Han't that been the way for hundreds of years? Don't be hypocritical and say these women are beautiful BEFORE and after - many of them are horribly disfigured - don't deny them the opportunity to look and FEEL better about themselves!
Michael Goble 5 years ago
I think many of these are photoshopped. Noses, lips and chins have been reshaped. But how do these people feel when they wash off the makeup and return to their normal selves. Even if they are not photoshopped, it would take hours to do the full job with makeup.
Ronda Thompson 5 years ago
I Think it is Amazing that The Make Up Industry has come so Far. These Women Look Incredible. "Absolutely Beautiful". Unfortunately we Live in a Very Harsh Judgemental World. We are Our Own Worse Critics. So I Say Do What Ever Makes you Feel Better. Let's Face it, when you get Older, You Need a Little or a Lot of Help. To: All of you People who Say, Embrace Your Flaws, "You Are Insane". No One wants to Expose Flaws. When Your Young, it's Not as Serious but when Your Husband or Boyfriend Leaves you for a Younger, More Putt Together Women, You will Alway's Lose if you Don't Care About Your Appearance". Ladies, "Never Give Up", you must Keep Trying, Otherwise if you Let Yourself Go, (You have No One to Blame But Yourself.) A Little bit of Make Up Goes a Long Way. All Women are Beautiful Regardless of Flaw's. Ladies be Kind to One Another, we All want to be Loved & Accepted. Especially by Other Women. Men are Just Ungrateful Pigs. I Say Do What Ever Makes you Feel Good. Smile
Jackson Gohn 5 years ago
This is exactly the kind of stuff that bored panda usually wants to "shut down".
Erica Hanlon 5 years ago
I agree w all the comments before mine that raise the issue of women wearing makeup and it's push to conform them into the "plastic doll" /airbrushed image that is so widely, yet sadly, accepted and even EXPECTED nowadays.
Mariana Costache 5 years ago
Sorry to say... but some of the ”models” really need plastic surgery correction. So...if it disturbs you, then just take it - not to let an acquired scar on your face allow you to feel beautiful only after 2 hours make up session and kilos of cosmetic powder. This is just a temporary change that let you ”cheat” your mind for short...anyway not enough to realise your attitude.
Marilyn Helling 5 years ago
Everyone always says beauty is skin deep, but being one of these ladies people treat you so differently. They either feel sorry for you or make a face and get away from you. I've been there. In public if your pretty you are helped sooner than someone like me and these ladies. So don't tell me beauty is skin deep. So is ugly by others
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Minha Khan 5 years ago
Honestly, I do not like them. The artist is lightening their skin or making them tan. Many of you may like these but to each their own.
MiniMaus 5 years ago
I agree, but then make them more "human" and not like a plastic doll, insta influencer.
Load More Replies... Ronda Thompson 5 years ago
These Make Up Artist are "Super Talented". I Say Go for it. !!! I'm Very Happy that in Today's World there is a Easy Way w/Make Up to Help you Feel Better. There is Nothing Wrong w/That. That's it in a Nut Shell. Alway's put Forth a Little Effort, (When you Feel Like it). Do it for Yourself. It Really does put an Extra Pep in "Your Step". God Bless these Women who are Permanently Scared, My Heart Goes Out to You. Don't Lessen to All those Na-Sayer's. Do What Makes you Happy. There is a Time & Place for Everything. Even w/o Make Up, Just Smile from the Inside Out. Your Spirit is Beautiful, Embrace Your Light. Take Care of Yourself & Find Your Peace & Happiness will Follow.
Cornelia van Huyssteen 5 years ago
There's no point asking why we want to beutify ourselves. There's a part of ourselves that is drawn to beauty. Even babies are attracted to beautiful things. Animals also love beauty. It's inherent.
Truth Monster 5 years ago
This is the kind of stuff that holds women back culturally in the West. With carnivalistic flourish we are shown what we should regard as ghastly and behold! they can be fixed with makeup and better lighting to adhere to what society thinks is an acceptable level of beauty to be featured in a movie/tv show. This normalizes the idea that women must spend hundreds of dollars for makeup products (especially if you don't want a toxic chemical soup on your face), years of accumulated application time, to be beautiful.
ChimeraBubbles 5 years ago
I was thinking the same thing, Truth Monster. The entire time I was thinking "Why must women look like flawless plastic dolls to be considered beautiful and therefore accptable?". Normalise naturally flawed human skin then maybe people won't feel they need to use make-up in the first place to feel worthy of society.
Load More Replies... Malakai 5 years ago
Some of these are really amazing, but...I kinda feel like it'd send a better message to embrace these people's differences instead of covering them up and conforming all of them to two or three 'socially acceptable' looks. Granted, living with these differences is not something I can fully imagine nor understand, and I'm not faulting or shaming these women for wanting these makeovers, but I think it would send a better message to embrace the things that stand out instead of 'fixing' them.
Elsker 5 years ago
They look pretty, sure. But why do they all have to look like instagraminfluencers? Can they just be pretty AND themselves?
siobhan mcfadden 5 years ago
But they are not themselves, most have cancer, birth marks,scars and hair loss and they just want to feel human and their old selves again. Who are you to deny them that. Can you not just be happy for them.
Load More Replies... Rocio Palacios 5 years ago
Some of these transformations are probably really powerful for some of these women. But most of them aspire to an unrealistic kind of beauty, that doesn't even look nice in real life, it actually looks as moving plastic faces. Also, the facts that this make-up style makes older women look younger and younger women look older makes no sense at all. Finding joy in life in all is stages is the key to true happiness!
S Jurjans 5 years ago
True... but again, these women suffer from cancer and other health allments... It is nice to see them feel beautiful again like before ...
Load More Replies... Izzy Bes 5 years ago
They look beautiful in all both pictures! And they all look so pleased with the result, but why did you cover up some of their natural beauty? No hate, I just think you should've embraced some of their natural features.
Photographer Chick 5 years ago (edited)
I def get what a lot of people here are saying about how people can be beautiful without makeup, and how we shouldn't make people feel forced into looking a 'like an Instagram influencer', but, a lot of the women in this article suffer from major facial deformities and abnormalities. No matter how accepting you think you are-- you would surely do a double take if you saw them on the street in their "before" state. (It doesn't make you a bad person, it's just human nature. As a good person, you would still notice, but you would choose not to treat them differently.) Anyway, imagine if you couldn't wear clothes. Like, none. Like your body had a severe reaction to any fabric touching it in any way. Every day, for years, anytime you went outside, you knew people would be surprised and take a second look: "woah! Look at that naked person!" So imagine that this makeup is like saying "here, here is an outfit that you can wear when you want, if you want. You have choices. You can mingle with others undetected." That's a gift.
Erica 5 years ago
I agree!! I fully understand the comments criticizing the “overdone” and “plastification” but these woman may feel selfconcious about their differences or injuries. And yet now they have had an opportunity to see themselves without that being the show stealer in the mirror! Remember when glamour shots were a huge thing? We laugh now but people loved to be dressed up and look and feel like the most attractive version they could possibly be! And a lot of this involved hairstyling and people waiting in them, pampering them! I say we just appreciate the artistry and how happy these women look. And consider some may not have had a lot of happy moments at times
Load More Replies... Catlady6000 5 years ago
Makeup should enhance what is already there, not plaster over into something else
S Jurjans 5 years ago
That is true for women not suffering from horrible skin diseases and cancer....
Load More Replies... lara 5 years ago
To me, beauty is in the heart. My grandmother, who I miss so much, was, to me, the most beautiful woman in the world. She was everything to me and did so much for everyone, as did my mom. Mother Theresa was gorgeous, the love flowed from her like water from a well. My mom did so much for her family, she died way too young from breast cancer, but I remember her and she still makes me smile with the memories. These women were beautiful before and still are.
S Jurjans 5 years ago
Thank-you for sharing such beautiful memories of your Mum and Grandmother.... God Bless them in Heaven and you on Earth
Load More Replies... Laila Hernandez 5 years ago
b proud of the way you are, dont make makeup change that, you are you, not a bunch of gross chemicals
Bran 5 years ago
This woman used her creative talents to try to help others! Her heart is in the right place! Why do we have to be so judgmental of EVERYTHING! No one said they weren’t beautiful before. This was a woman just trying to help in a way she could. Maybe this made these ladies days! Let’s build each other up as woman instead of always judging in anyway we can....
Marnie 5 years ago
The problem with this is that the woman doesn't dare move after this. Sweat a little and it ruins the foundation. Go for a beer and your lipstick is messed up. Go for a walk and your hair is now ruined. It's lovely to dress up once in a while, but there are guys that actually think women can look like this all the time. That only works if she's a barbie doll who stands in a closet until she's "needed".
Mary Green 5 years ago
If it makes them have a better feeling about themselves, who am I to judge. You do you.
Roni Turner 5 years ago
I got something different from most people from this. The title says it, every woman is a Hollywood star. We look at all these fake people and feel ugly, fat, too dark, too light, blah, blah, blah. It IS all smoke and mirrors and this just shows that. We are all as beautiful as those photos in the mags, models in the advert, stars on the red carpet. We don't need the makeup to show us that. But without the makeup some people don't realise that they are just as beautiful as just as ”perfect” as what they see on social media.
Mavi Hava 5 years ago
Ya know, the makeup was good, pics were kinda cool, but honestly, most of these girls looked like your normal-nice-looking, average female just walking on the sidewalk. The few that really had any problems were obviously just caused an incident of some sort or they were born like that, which is okay too, and there's nothing you can really do about it. And even they looked better before makeup!! Really, what makes someone beautiful (or handsome for guys!) is their personality, the way they carry themselves, and their personal hygiene. so yeah that's my advice for the day :)
Viv Hart 5 years ago
All the makeovers look so artificial & similar. All that needs to be done is a good treatment of a skin complaint, with a minimum of base. The lady with all the black moles really has to get professional help. Hair loss due to chemo, there are plenty of very comfortable turbans or bandanas, or wigs. Also, the Before photo often shows the lifestyle of the person, while the After makes her into someone with a different way of life. As I said, all very artificial.
Neb 5 years ago
Note that most (if not all) "after" photos are in different distance (heads are smaller), some with different face angle, and most (if not all) with different light angle - if looking into portraits with identical light background, "before" photos are directly to face (no shadows/same amount of shadows on left and right), and the light "after" is a bit from the photo right (left side of photo has more shadows than in "before" photo, and usually less than right side. That helps a lot with changing visual appearance
Ellen Daniels 5 years ago
Is any of this sustainable by these women? Why such dramatic night-club type dark eye makeup? I wouldn't consider any of these to be daytime looks. While the results are dramatic, PERFECT air-brushed skin is kind of creepy. Is it possible to give a less "perfect," more human look to the skin, with a lighter touch of the airbrush? I truly don't know.... But a big thank you to the person who helped women feel better, as I assume they volunteered for this because they were unhappy with their looks. It's what THEY feel that counts.
Lily Mae Kitty 5 years ago
argh. Yes, makeup can enhance or transform. But every "after" is so over exposed and filtered to hide the flaws. It's WAY too much smoky eye makeup on everyone. It's like this person can only do one look and does it on every women. It's way too unnatural for real life. They all look like they're tv presenters, not what women look like in real life.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 5 years ago
They all like Kardashian look a-likes. Is there no such thing as natural makeup at the moment? And why so damn thick?
P Brixey 5 years ago
If you look closely at ALL the pictures, you may notice that all of the "Before" pictures and shot closer to the face than the after ones. It is a ploy to make the faces look worse than they really are. It's a photographers trick. Also if they smiled in the before pictures they would all look 1,000 % better than the pics make them out to be. This topic was total rubbish, who is Bored Panda trying to kid, they must be stuck for topics.
Jade Stone 5 years ago
Yes, the Artist did some magic...Still, most of these ladies could have some VI peels and microneedling done and use of Vit C & Vit A serum,, healthy diets and some some self esteem classes. Make up can make you a slave to this routine. Nevertheless, I'm quite sure some magic was done, even for a brief moment!. As for myself, I'm no model, but after a few skin peels and more to come to help shed that sun damage and good beauty care products, not really expensive, my skin is on it's way to being natural healthy radiant. Besides, I don't wear all out make-up, but now and again lightly applied eye shadow, Mascara and skin tone lip stick...
Livvy-Rose Richards 5 years ago
Some of these are amazing, but all gorgeous before. Also, some look super fake and plastic after!
Pink Welly 5 years ago
This makes me so uncomfortable. Is this what the human race has evolved to? That we must all comply to one standard of beauty? And if we don't submit ourselves made up we are worth less as we truly are? These women are beautiful without the makeup. If they feel otherwise it is because we have told them so.
MyrkurDragon 5 years ago
Bit sad how most of them look "the same" after the make up. All the same eyebrows, smokey eye, cheek color etc.
PurplePringle 5 years ago
I don't feel like they need to cover their so called "flaws. Maybe a tad bit of makeup to make the lips and eyes pop but not a whole face that makes them look fake
Boyd Gauvin-Hill 5 years ago
Doesn’t having that much make up on your face feel like you’re wearing a mask? I mean, that must be heavy.
Not-so-MadMax 5 years ago
makup does not make you under eye bags go away, it just makes them a less obvious color.. a lot of these photo's must have been photoshopped. The people in them do not need photoshop, they are beautifull!
Sybille Stahl 5 months ago
I guess it works as long as you can visit Ms. Avetisyan every day to have your makeup done.
Andy SALVIANO 1 year ago
Magnifique avant après, mais désolée, j'ai quelques doutes sur la véracité des photos .... au moins vous nous avez fait rêver un moment
Monica Pryts 4 years ago
Good grief, people! Some of these women have clearly been through a lot. Why criticize them for feeling better about themselves for a few moments? I need to stop reading the comments.
Jennifer Brady 4 years ago
Every last one of these has been photoshopped 🤣. If you can’t tell look at the shape of the noses and jaw lines, as well as all the finishes which are completely flawless, no make up can give you that. All this does is make women feel horrible about themselves when they don’t get the same results. The author should do something good and show the unpolished results or the makeover, I’d be much more interested in that as it’s real.
Denise Mclean 5 years ago
I think this is absolutely wonderful, the transformations are amazing, but the way the women feel afterward is so reflective on their face. It is all in their eyes and they just beam how they feel. That some Awesome Body Language !
Lizaveta Sanna 5 years ago
All this make up its works one famous make up artist. She live in Russia, but her heart from Armenia. Almost all this girls with life trouble and they want on one day forgot about it and feel herselfs charming princess. Goar Avetisyan of course help with wishes! She have beauty school, beauty salon. And all this she make herself! Amazing woman https://instagram.com/goar_avetisyan?igshid=1wmtkrc1ol692 . Ps Sorry for my English I try do my best ❤️
Angela Allen Simms 5 years ago
I was a ICU Burn Nurse years ago and some of my patients had horrific burns which are very disfiguring! Most chemo and immune conditions as well as neurological conditions can be extremely disfiguring. You shouldn't judge anyone because you don't know their story!! Not everyone survives their stories either! Makeup can change the way a person feels and helps with their self image. It may take more depending on the damage. So have some compassion for others who may have been the victim of another's cruelty!! BTW, my pt died from the acid burns her boyfriend threw on her, there are many more stories but you get my drift!!
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 5 years ago
In case nobody noticed it, most of the makeup models above have severe skin issues: acid and/or fire burns and scares; chemo sequels, severe acne and genetic skin conditions. Most likely, these women wanted to look "normal", not "gorgeous". Looking gorgeous was part of the game.
Mumof1 5 years ago
Several people are suggesting that women are accepted as they are. And whilst I agree to a certain extent, I would suggest that these women are asked how THEY feel? Doesn't every one want to feel beautiful? Han't that been the way for hundreds of years? Don't be hypocritical and say these women are beautiful BEFORE and after - many of them are horribly disfigured - don't deny them the opportunity to look and FEEL better about themselves!
Michael Goble 5 years ago
I think many of these are photoshopped. Noses, lips and chins have been reshaped. But how do these people feel when they wash off the makeup and return to their normal selves. Even if they are not photoshopped, it would take hours to do the full job with makeup.
Ronda Thompson 5 years ago
I Think it is Amazing that The Make Up Industry has come so Far. These Women Look Incredible. "Absolutely Beautiful". Unfortunately we Live in a Very Harsh Judgemental World. We are Our Own Worse Critics. So I Say Do What Ever Makes you Feel Better. Let's Face it, when you get Older, You Need a Little or a Lot of Help. To: All of you People who Say, Embrace Your Flaws, "You Are Insane". No One wants to Expose Flaws. When Your Young, it's Not as Serious but when Your Husband or Boyfriend Leaves you for a Younger, More Putt Together Women, You will Alway's Lose if you Don't Care About Your Appearance". Ladies, "Never Give Up", you must Keep Trying, Otherwise if you Let Yourself Go, (You have No One to Blame But Yourself.) A Little bit of Make Up Goes a Long Way. All Women are Beautiful Regardless of Flaw's. Ladies be Kind to One Another, we All want to be Loved & Accepted. Especially by Other Women. Men are Just Ungrateful Pigs. I Say Do What Ever Makes you Feel Good. Smile
Jackson Gohn 5 years ago
This is exactly the kind of stuff that bored panda usually wants to "shut down".
Erica Hanlon 5 years ago
I agree w all the comments before mine that raise the issue of women wearing makeup and it's push to conform them into the "plastic doll" /airbrushed image that is so widely, yet sadly, accepted and even EXPECTED nowadays.
Mariana Costache 5 years ago
Sorry to say... but some of the ”models” really need plastic surgery correction. So...if it disturbs you, then just take it - not to let an acquired scar on your face allow you to feel beautiful only after 2 hours make up session and kilos of cosmetic powder. This is just a temporary change that let you ”cheat” your mind for short...anyway not enough to realise your attitude.
Marilyn Helling 5 years ago
Everyone always says beauty is skin deep, but being one of these ladies people treat you so differently. They either feel sorry for you or make a face and get away from you. I've been there. In public if your pretty you are helped sooner than someone like me and these ladies. So don't tell me beauty is skin deep. So is ugly by others
Load More Replies... Minha Khan 5 years ago
Honestly, I do not like them. The artist is lightening their skin or making them tan. Many of you may like these but to each their own.
MiniMaus 5 years ago
I agree, but then make them more "human" and not like a plastic doll, insta influencer.
Load More Replies... Ronda Thompson 5 years ago
These Make Up Artist are "Super Talented". I Say Go for it. !!! I'm Very Happy that in Today's World there is a Easy Way w/Make Up to Help you Feel Better. There is Nothing Wrong w/That. That's it in a Nut Shell. Alway's put Forth a Little Effort, (When you Feel Like it). Do it for Yourself. It Really does put an Extra Pep in "Your Step". God Bless these Women who are Permanently Scared, My Heart Goes Out to You. Don't Lessen to All those Na-Sayer's. Do What Makes you Happy. There is a Time & Place for Everything. Even w/o Make Up, Just Smile from the Inside Out. Your Spirit is Beautiful, Embrace Your Light. Take Care of Yourself & Find Your Peace & Happiness will Follow.
Cornelia van Huyssteen 5 years ago
There's no point asking why we want to beutify ourselves. There's a part of ourselves that is drawn to beauty. Even babies are attracted to beautiful things. Animals also love beauty. It's inherent.
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