{"id":109,"date":"2005-03-16T14:58:23","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T19:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/16\/the-amazing-power-of-makeup\/"},"modified":"2011-03-16T12:41:19","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T19:41:19","slug":"the-amazing-power-of-makeup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/16\/the-amazing-power-of-makeup\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing Power of Makeup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this from a friend that forwards around jokes. This is pretty remarkable.<br \/>\n(and the last one has a punch line, of course).<\/p>\n<p>It makes me wonder about that part of our brains that sees beauty in people and how gullible and flawed it is.<br \/>\nWhy is there such a wildly different visceral reaction to each image? And isn&#8217;t it striking how these &#8220;pretty people&#8221; are all very normal people, just with good stylists and photographers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050316-beauty1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nChristina Aguilera<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050316-beauty2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nPamela Anderson<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050316-beauty3.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAlicia Silverstone<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050316-beauty4.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCameron Diaz<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050316-beauty5.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nChristina Applegate<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050316-beauty6.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nGoldie Hawn<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050316-beauty7.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nBritney Spears<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050316-beauty8.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMadonna<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/images\/20050316-beauty9.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nMichael Jackson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this from a friend that forwards around jokes. This is pretty remarkable. (and the last one has a punch line, of course). It makes me wonder about that part of our brains that sees beauty in people and how gullible and flawed it is. Why is there such a wildly different visceral reaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distractions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}