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Helpful life advice obtained from famous movie makeovers.

Is your life not currently turning out how you had hoped? Is something missing? Are you not good enough?

We can help you with that.

Turns out, the secret to making your life exceptionally better is actually pretty simple. All you need is a movie-style makeover.

Just follow these six simple steps and you’ll be on your way to becoming a much better person than you are now. The whole process usually works best if you can make it fit into a 40-second montage. If you can’t make that happen, at least be certain to enlist the help of a sassy best friend whose problems the audience don’t care about because she’s not the star.

Good luck! (Oh – and don’t get too excited, but if you do this properly, it’s more than likely you’ll end up with a man. A man! The stakes are high.)

Now get changing!

1. Change your hair.

Frizzy? No highlights? DEVOID OF LAYERS? Nobody is going to notice you that way. Drop that book and pick up a blowdryer. STAT.

The Princess Diaries

Never Been Kissed

2. Change your weight.

Oh, did we say ‘change your weight’? We meant ‘lose your weight’. If you want to be awesome (and snag a man), you’re allowed to have been fat in flashbacks only. Present-day fat does not work.

America’s Sweethearts

3. Change your whole face situation.

It’s pretty simple really: Your face is shit. Remove those glasses, pluck those eyebrows and add some make-up. There, that’s better. Now you can come out of your shell and let people notice the talents you had all along.

She’s all that

Miss Congeniality

4. Change your friends.

Aint nobody ever got anywhere hanging out with unattractive people. Ditch those weirdos who you get along with so well and latch on to the closest DD-cup you can find.

Mean Girls

5. Change your clothes.

Everybody knows that if you want to make a man love you, you must dress the way he likes. This is an important part of every movie-style makeover. Forget your taste – it’s bad. You cannot wear anything that you feel comfortable in ever again.

Pretty Woman

My Fair Lady

6. Change your identity.

Step six is an emergency step. If the the above five steps fail, you must proceed to the next level: IDENTITY CHANGE. Basically, do the opposite of anything you would usually do in life, ever. This step works even better if you have a man who can explain to you how you should be living your life. You know, what your interests should be, and that sort of thing. Sandy from Grease was AWESOME at this step. And she snagged herself a possibly-gay scientologist who can make cars fly so… This system totally works, you guys.

So there you have it. Six simple steps to give yourself a movie makeover and change your life for the better. (Oh, and don’t forget the man. Movie-style makeovers mean nothing unless they end with a surprised ‘this totally has nothing to do with your looks but I’ve never noticed everything that was great about you until this moment’ man.

 

 

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Top Comments

Alice 10 years ago

As MummyC commented before, it's so interesting to see the lines on Sandy's face in the "after" photo - aka she looks like a normal person.
I've been watching a lot of 80s/90s movies recently, and the biggest thing I'm noticing is how completely different the actresses look then, compared to now. Back then, they are all still beautiful women, but they are slightly imperfect - a line here, a bag there. Now days, every actress just looks flawless. Between fillers, botxox, surgery, eyelash extensions, dental work and heavy make up, having amazing genetics is just the start of it!
I'm in my 20s and Sandra Bullock in Gravity had smoother skin than me!


afw 10 years ago

A few honourable mentions:
- She's Out of Control (with Tony Danza) *photo
- Strictly Ballroom *photo
- Clueless (Tai, played by Brittany Murphy)
- The House Bunny

RL 10 years ago

Doesn't Fran (Strictly Ballroom) get better skin due to the cream/scrub Scott's mum sells her - haha!

afw 10 years ago

Oh, forgot Muriel's Wedding too, when she becomes "Mariel."