Why Everyone On Screen Kind Of Has The Same Face Now | Explained

Hollywood promoting unattainable beauty standards is certainly nothing new but in recent years people have begun noticing some odd new trends and finally getting fed up with a rather old one on screen and the way they negatively impact our ability to truly immerse ourselves in a story and more importantly the pressure they put on both women in the audience and the actresses themselves to fit into impossible molds from always having to look Picture Perfect even during the literal apocalypse to smartphone face AKA actors who just looked too modern to fit into period pieces to the rise of plastic surgery and other cosmetic procedures leading to so many people we see on screen starting to have nearly identical features these Trends have become more and more talked about in recent years and while the expectation certainly isn't that everything on screen has to be exactly true to real life all of the time it is entertainment after all it is interesting to take a deeper look at what drives these kinds of societal Trends the judgment is usually placed on the actresses themselves but there is much more at play here in a very short span of time human beauty standards especially for women have gone from something that is pretty unattainable to most people to not even really base on what human faces look like so let's take a deeper look at the truth about these on-screen Trends how they alter our viewing experiences and can even affect how we see ourselves smartphone face in the vein of Instagram face is when someone looks unmistakably modern as if they're using Tik tok's bold glamour filter or face tune at all times the aesthetic which Gia Tolentino from The New Yorker referred to as generic sameness was initially popularized by the Kardashians Jenners particularly the so-called ethnically ambiguous aspects and went on to become the template for social media influencers and models but as this became the most desirable look it also started crossing over onto our TV and movie screens as well stars have been getting plastic surgery since the dawn of Hollywood indeed for a long time it was often required in their Studio contracts that they get certain procedures to look a certain way check out our Rita Hayworth video next to learn more about that terrible time through the 1960s and' 7s there was a desire for a more real true to life look though still glamorous nonetheless and there's often been a very delicate tight RPP for actresses to walk they have to get enough done to be accepted as a Hollywood Beauty but not so much that they're mocked and shunned for going overboard now we've arrived at our modern era where many actresses feel pulled Between Two Worlds they want to act but they often need to attain some level of social media cash to actually be able to afford to though it's usually denied by Studios there are always Rumblings that role choices are made based on social media following rather than Talent alone as Sophie Turner told Porter magazine I auditioned for a role and it was between me and another girl who was a far better actress than I am far better and I had the followers so I got the job it's not right but it is part of the movie industry now and social media stardom often isn't just a about clout for these actresses it's the way they keep their bills paid as journalist Kelsey McKinny wrote in her Defector article the money is in all the wrong places about how Hollywood Big Wigs refuse to pay the people actually making the media so that they can keep more themselves Sydney Sweeney posts almost constantly and almost half of her posts are advertisements for every image Sweeney posts of herself on the cover of a magazine there is a branded selfie she is working so given all of this it's not surprising to see that many actresses have started leaning into a more modern look even to the point of changing their faces to achieve it and all of that is of course also on top of all the other pressure actresses are under to never age but all of these changes to keep up with the times also leads to on-screen in congruencies when they're supposed to be in a different time Dakota Johnson's adaptation of persuasion was panned for many reasons but as many joked her resting iPhone face certainly didn't help matters we also saw similar thoughts about hit miniseries Daisy Jones and the with some saying it can be hard to ignore the modernized looks of the cast one of the most recognizable features that stands out are their straight pearly white teeth veneers have been a part of Hollywood for decades but didn't become popular until the 80s especially as cosmetic dentistry became more accessible to Consumers outside of the industry and so don't really fit in with the era of the show many viewers also felt that Camila Marone who played Camila on the show just overall looks too modern to be believable as a young woman living in the 19 7s a lot of people said that her face just doesn't look like it belongs in that decade because she looks too much like an Instagram model older actresses attempting to keep up with Hollywood pressures also get dinged for this too take Nicole Kidman getting Flack online for her alleged plastic surgery not fitting in with the ad 895 setting of The Northman beyond the two modern aspect another issue audiences have with Instagram face is how homogeneous the look is no matter what someone looked like before they always end up looking nearly identical to everyone else with Instagram face this can just feel a little uncanny valley on social media but on screen it feels even more out of place in stories that are supposed to be about all different kinds of women living all different kinds of lives Aaron morari who plays Starlight on the boys became embroiled in discourse when she seemingly got plastic surgery in between Seasons turning her youthful look into a more chiseled one much more in line with the Instagram face look and was bullied so relentlessly online that she chose to quit social media altogether her struggle shows that the tight RPP is still very real for actresses as they face more scrutiny of their looks than ever before but also have to live in fear that they'll be hit with endless backlash if they go even just a touch too far in trying to fit themselves into the day's beauty standards and then this of course trickles down to all of us in the audience we see all of the beautiful glamorous women on screen that Society tells us we're supposed to look like but only naturally and if it becomes too obvious that we're trying too hard we'll get hate too want more of the take and and to have a say in what we cover check out our exclusive members only series on our patreon where you get to vote on what we cover next when it comes to makeup Society pretends to prefer a natural look because a lack of makeup somehow equals authenticity but what some don't realize is that what we're told is natural is actually a lot of work being very carefully crafted to appear natural we're made to believe that it's normal to wake up with beautifully tousel hair and UNS smeared perfectly done makeup and so that's what we've come to expect we're supposed to look look like and get down on ourselves for falling short but it actually takes a lot of effort to look effortless look beautiful oh no I'm sure I look terrible I just woke up are you kidding sure I'm a mess even teen dramas are known for showing high school students regularly attending class in full glam makeup expertly styled hair and fabulous outfits that they never wear more than once not to mention wearing heels to school even in those morning scenes when we wake up we have makeup on like for 2 hours we've had a professional makeup artist sit there and put eyelashes on women on screen aren't allowed to be too unpolished even if they're running for their lives surviving the end of the world or killing zombies post-apocalyptic films and TV series make sure the characters look a little dirty and disheveled but always make sure that the female characters are never too undone or unseemly sure she just survived a plane crash and is trapped on a magic jungle island but she's still got to have her eyes perfectly tight lined and her blush set The Walking Dead is guilty of this with characters like Rosita who always has perfectly groomed brows rarely if ever are they sheltered in a place with running water let alone the means to maintain a beauty regimen and even if they did there are more pressing things than Beauty going on some people had this initial criticism regarding Fallout as they thought Lucy looked too clean for someone living in the post-apocalypse but she grew up in a vault with access to Medical Care toiletries hot showers electricity and most of the regular amenities we have now so it makes perfect sense that she starts out nearly pristine in her uniform and becomes progressively more disheveled after spending time on the surface and when she briefly returns to another Vault she takes the opportunity to clean up instead of just magically resetting every episode Society demands perfection without intervention shaming women for hiding their real face under makeup and praising them for bravely going makeup free at work on camera or in any public setting as long as they still look acceptably pretty at least when we can't live up to those unrealistic expectations it lowers our self-esteem and distorts our perception of what is considered normal the narrow ideals of beauty that Society upholds often feel nearly impossible to achieve especially in this Catch 22 of needing to be perfect but getting Flack for doing anything to try to achieve that desired look if you didn't happen to be born that way while promoting A Star is Born it was revealed that Bradley Cooper apparently didn't want Lady Gaga hiding behind artifice while the stripped down no makeup makeup look did did apparently help her get into the vulnerable self-conscious heads space of her character the implication that she couldn't be real while wearing makeup sends a confusing message because again she is wearing makeup just the kind that's hard for men in particular to notice so it seems more real no makeup makeup is very much still makeup and still takes time and money to upkeep but the preference for the look in society shows how what's considered desirably real or natural isn't about actual reality but the guise of being able to attain that desired perfection without trying in tandem with the growing surge of desire to hide any imperfections there has been a movement in the opposite direction to embrace real life aspects of ourselves even things that might be deemed imperfections and not only does this help make the characters more relatable it also helps remind us that Hollywood Perfection isn't real something as simple as CA ronin's intentionally visible acne and ladybird can make an impact not just to the story itself but also to the audience shows like Yellow Jack let their young mostly female characters look as if they would after surviving a plane crash and living in the wilderness Natalie's dark roots grow out no one shaves their body hair their skin is chapped and dried from the conditions exactly how any teenage girl would look in this harrowing unglamorous situation other TV series show how everyday women look before and after they apply makeup and style their hair making it clear that like it is for us in the real world these cosmetic things aren't some inherent part of their being but a choice they are making day to today for various reasons in the first episode of The Marvelous Mrs masil mij secretly removes her makeup and sets her hair in rollers while her husband sleeps before he wakes up she's already reapplied her makeup showing how the pressure to always look your best has been ingrained in us for decades Viola Davis made it a point for how to get away with murder to reveal her character Analise as a real woman adhering to beauty standards particularly for dark skinned women of color just the simple Act of taking off her wig on screen was an iconic moment I did not want to be that woman because I don't know that woman and I've been watching that woman in movies and for several years movies and television exist to pull us into other worlds some close to our own and some very very different so it's not in and of itself a problem that some people are almost unrealistically beautiful but it is important that we really take stock of the stress this can put on us as viewers and the pressure it can put on those very people on our screens at the end of the day our look is our own personal choice but it's important to be aware of the larger societal pressures that might be making us think we need to look a certain way either because it's upheld as the default that we should somehow just be at Naturally or because it starts to feel like literally everyone else is doing it our faces are our own and we should feel free to exist comfortably with ourselves however we like the most important thing when you're doing your makeup is that you feel good about you from the inside out sometimes I'll do my makeup and you know it's it's really just for me that's the take click here to watch a video we think you'll love or here to check out a whole playlist of awesome content don't forget to subscribe and turn on notifications and make sure to subscribe to our patreon for exclusive new videos

Channel: The Take

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Keywords: the take, video essay, video essays, explained, analysis, no makeup makeup, movie makeup, tv makeup, instagram face, smartphone face, plastic surgery, hollywood, The Boys, Starlight, starlight plastic surgery, Eiza Gonzalez, Dakota Johnson, Daisy Jones & The Six, camila morrone, The Walking Dead, Lost, Lost Kate, Nicole Kidman, Kardashians, Yellowjackets, Fallout, Fallout Lucy, How To Get Away With Murder, Viola Davis, the marvelous mrs maisel, Lady Bird, Social Media, aesthetics

Id: Oz46pclxczY

Length: 12min 15sec (735 seconds)

Published: Fri May 03 2024