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

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For me white smiles and perfect teeth kill any post apocalyptic story or period piece. Immediately bring me back to reality

In the 70s sitcoms, actors wore the same shirts or dresses over and over, like they were in there closets. Nice touch.

This is why I love watching British TV and movies. They have real faces. Faces with all of their beautiful imperfections. And gorgeous middle-aged women. There's nothing I love seeing more on screen than a middle-aged woman with gray hair and wrinkles. Everybody loves older women. Why are they trying to make it like they don't exist?

Veneers will never not fuck me up. They are so so so uncommon in Europe that I have a weird uncanny valley feeling whenever I see them in US movies (and on some people from the US in real life.) THEY LOOK SO WEIRD

There's also a problem with period pieces that the hair, makeup, and costume departments often style the actors to conform to current beauty norms. High fashion hairstyles in the mid-1800s, for example, were WILD and unappealing by today's standards (seriously, check them out), so most shows/movies refuse to use them, leading to the bizarrely common trope of "half-up/half-down hair = period." If Dakota Johnson had actually been styled in period-accurate hair, makeup, and costume, it would have gone a long way to minimizing the "smart phone-"ness of her face. ETA: For examples of shows that get it right, Bernadette Banner has been doing round-up videos at the end of the year of all the best (and worst) historical costuming for the last few years.

Everybody looks like Bratz dolls basically

Also in cartoons, female characters tend to have the same face, for example in the total drama cartoon series, male characters tend to have different style of faces, but most females pretty much are the same. Also with Disney princesses.

Respect for Sophie Turner for that quote and saying truth as it is.

The Diane Keaton era of actresses always look unmistakable and unique and inspiring on an empowering level.

Erin Moriarty's case actually made me sad and disappointed; like she was a genuine and naturally beautiful woman, she has zero reason to go under the knife and I'm wondering if external factors were involved or did someone in her circle got in her head

Has anyone heard the joke, "you're not ugly, you're just poor." I find it funny cause its true, if you have the money you to can look like a model with nose job, face lifts, hair, etc. These procedures are like 10k dollars or more.

if you think this is bad take a deep dive into korean beauty standards in their entertainment industry 😭

I'll never forget the recent YouTube ad that sent me into an influencer-induced rage: "Soooo, I began my anti-aging journey when I turned 24"... shutupshutupshutp 😅

I still can’t believe that Erin got plastic surgery. She was naturally beautiful and now she looks like everyone else.

There is a difference between European movies and series and Hollywood movies and series. It's like Hollywood is scared of non-drop-dead-beautiful people, people who don't look like supermodels. It's funny how even cop, detective or medical, firemen or whatever occupation shows have super gorgeous, way too made-up people in roles of cops, detectives, teachers, lawyers, even on field, while trying to put down the fire or operating on some person in emergency, or after 24 hour shift, they look all glammed up, with perfect hair and make up, shiny skin and they look so rested. It does make a lot of people feel bad about themselves and it's not realistic in slightest. Do those producers think the show will not have any popularity if actors are not drop dead gorgeous? Isn't like script, story, acting, characters and all other work enough? They all have to be pretty too?

A good way to get a feel for how much cinema and TV beauty standards have intensified over the years is to look at period pieces from different decades. Like look at the new persuasion, or even bridgerton, the look at pride and prejudice from 2005, then back to the ones from the 90s and further. It's fascinating.

The latest where I’ve seen this is Damsel, it constantly took me out to see her with perfect eyeliner and lipgloss while she’s literally running from a dragon. The makeup was too over the top.

Not Lady Gaga telling me that the most important thing is to feel beautiful inside out whilst displaying a nose job and a trout pout among other cosmetic procedures 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Shout out to Fallout for getting it right! I too, noticed how she looked progressively more disheveled as she spent time out in the wasteland and how she cleaned herself up once she had the resources and time to do so!