Oriflame: Symmetry? PAH!

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75 comments:

David said...

It's a good job her pelvis is out of shot.

robin said...

maybe its just an ugly model?

FxFarlakes said...

well..no..this is not a PSD,the model herself is a disaster...

crazy-gabrielle said...

She's giving you the stinkeye.

Rai said...

They seemed to have whitened one eye and not the other...

Desibeo said...

It's a PSD alright. Block one side and look at the other. Now do the other side. The PSDer has taken his preferred sides from different photos of the model, ignoring the fact that her face is turned in one of them.

amandalikes said...

First rule in portraiture DO NOT TOUCH THE EYES!! But to give them credit she looks more like a cyborg than a dead person.

Ashley Pomeroy said...

It's the uncanny valley at work. If I saw this... thing... coming towards me in a dream I would wake up screaming.

Adam said...

The more I look at this, the more it creeps me out.

Jeff said...

Is this Twoface's wife? Really, it does look like someone slammed together two different pictures of this model's face. Maybe more than two pictures, who knows.

moses2112 said...

looks like someone took a hammer and broke her collar bone

Kelseigh said...

What the HELL is wrong with her clavicle!?

jk24 said...

Maybe she's the new lead singer for the *Black Eyed* Peas. They totally ralph lauren'd her eye.

Scott said...

her head is attached to her neck funny.

The Printer said...

Two different sides of the face from two slightly different angles combine to make me queasy.

wv: naphalsy. This PSD makes me feel naphalsy.

Don said...

Paris Hilton suffers from the same condition.

Antoine said...

MAGNIFIQUE !!

Bippy said...

Is she Shannon Doherty's younger sister?

weebesom said...

Good grief, that collarbone.. and those eyes!

Ren said...

Not to mention her head is a different color than her neck. Drastically. And it's crooked, and in the wrong spot.

PhysioProf said...

It looks like they unsharp-masked her right eye, but not her left eye.

ZaphodQB said...
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ZaphodQB said...

She looks like she has a stye in her right (our left) eye.
could just be the fact that her black eye liner stops far short of where it stops on her left eye.

Kasey said...

Her mouth is not at the same angle as the nose.

Miriam said...

Imagine waking up with her looking at you.
Can't sleep....Girl will eat me!

Miikka said...

Not buying those cosmetics

Evey said...

It looks like the photoshop guy was working on lifting her face, went out to lunch, and forgot to do the other side. Lazy bums!

Elizabeth said...

It's an hommage to the cubists. The Demoiselle d'Oriflame.

John said...

Where are you people getting this idea that it's two different photos from two sides? Everybody has a natural asymmetry in their face—you just hardly ever notice it unless it's pointed out. It may indeed by shopped, but aside possibly from the nose, there's no reason to believe that.

ewaffle said...

No human being has ever had clavicles like that. If the rest of her bones had an equivalent thickness she would be a gorilla.

A big gorilla

Melissa Maples said...

Props to jk24 for using "ralph laurening" as a verb.

ZaphodQB said...

laughing at John....

There is always a hand full in every crowd, and that is part of what keeps me coming back to see who will be in denial this week.

HackerOnHacker said...

There's something strangely Lovecraftian about this...

Tammie said...

She looks like she just got punch in the left eye.

ouch.

Martin said...

Pah... symmetry is absolutely overrated...

The Sophisticate's Diary said...

Bell's Palsy? Stroke? Some Stepfordian condition caused by eating magic, golden beans? Who knows.

danidors said...

I have to admit I don't feel so surprised about the face, nobody is really symmetric and noses can be unstraight, eyes in different size and shape, lips with weird twists…

But the neck! My goodness, it's like somebody who would have Mr. Potato as only Anatomy Lesson.
Please see how her neck is pushed and melted with another neck, creating a set of foldings, lines and things nobody ever had. Feels like somebody was playing clay with her body, pinching a piece of flesh up and then stick an ugly head on top of it. Not to mention the flatness of the front part of the neck, so scary.

The thing is simple, usually there is a hollow area between the collarbones, then from there there are two tendons going straight to the back of the head, under the ears (sorry, my english is not enough to use proper terms for this), somehow describing a "V" shape.
She just has something with "A" shape, exactly the other way around.


Of course, also her collarbones are matching the freakshow. You could kill a donkey if you hit it with one of those.

_ricards_ said...

it's not an ugly model.
i know her, she's from my city.

Chris Shepherd said...

up that has been well Ralphed.

Tim P. said...

She's having a stroke!!

Alexxa said...

yeah, the face is from two different pictures - with two different lighting effect.
on one side of her face it's richly brown-toned, but the other side is reddish and paler.
Thus the difference in depth of the eyes.
Which makes me feel off balance. Or something.

Admar said...

it seems to be also a problem in the impression, that was scanned magazine.
I researched in the google:
this is Diana Pereira, winner of Supermodel of the World in 1997
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermodel_of_the_World_(contest)

The same top model in two other images:
http://oribeleza.blogspot.com/2009/05/catalogo-92009-da-oriflame.html

http://aeiou.caras.pt/exclusivo-diana-pereira-novamente-gravida=f22171

ottothecat2004 said...

nothing is wrong with this picture.. she looks fine. Her collar bones have been defined with makeup which is what makes them looks bigger. I am way more asymmetrical than this, it's embarrassing really. Does this make me a photoshop disaster

http://i38.tinypic.com/2igd20h.png
Word verification - stabho.

Andy said...

The only thing funnier than this disastrous piece of work is the flids who comment saying that it looks fine.

WV: belent which is close enough to bellend to make it funny on a slow Friday afternoon.

Bippy said...

Try Google imaging Diana Pereira, and check out the images where she is looking directly towards the camera. She has a very asymmetrical face. Goes to show.
http://aeiou.caras.pt/data/i/3297f90294144e2591bd009bb8142ca9.jpg

http://u2only.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/diana_pereira.jpg
shows this well.

tim maguire said...

It's Bride of Two-Face!

Archimer said...

A few people have pointed out that this is likely a composite of two images, one in which the model is not facing the camera directly.

Before reading these comments, I knew that the image looked strange, but couldn't pinpoint it. I do believe that you guys are correct!

Cullen said...

Faster! Faster! I need you guys to work faster! Jeez, how long does it take to retouch a photo?

Gamebird said...

After looking at Google images of the actress/model, I agree she has a very asymmetrical face, in exactly the manner in the PsD. Except the PsD has exaggerated her asymmetry.

http://u2only.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/diana_pereira.jpg

At the picture above, she's looking straight at the camera and the photo looks un-retouched. If she were sitting across a table from me, I'd think she was pretty with the occasional bit of creepy about that right eye.

In the PsD, the right eye is WAY creepy, very off-putting. Her bent nose is strange and her tilted mouth just makes the nose look stranger. In the un-retouched photo, her nose is straight, so I don't know why it's bent to the side in the PsD.

She looks so odd, that I'd think the advertisers should have gone with a more symmetrical model rather than her. She's off-putting. She looks so perfect otherwise in the PsD that the image is clearly retouched, and to have not "fixed" her natural asymmetry and perhaps made it worse with whatever they did to her nose, is just wrong.

Meg said...

At least they added some cute dimples...to her neck.

wv: gultying

Mr Syme said...

Hi Have you seen this "official" Spai's Royal Family disaster?

http://sufridoresencasa.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/1135343445_extras_ladillos_1_0.jpg

Kasey said...

In real people, there's a narrow piece of a bone between the two clavicles that is in the center of your body.

This girl has one clavicle slightly across the center line. The other one appears to be in backwards and it's also dislocated. They should mirror each other. As previously noted, the prominent neck muscles should rise from the central ends of the clavicles.

wv:windopi

rozz said...

WTF?! Were they on CRACK?! It's so utterly obvious that they'd HAVE to be on some type of f'ed up drug like crack to have missed it!

Sónia Pereira - Chefe de Grupo Oriflame said...

Well... I´ve been reading all these nasty comments about Diana Pereira and I just have to say that this model is Great!

Maybe this job is not so great but nobody can say that she´s ugly.

She´s a portuguese model and one of the best.

People watch your mouth.

About this job I have to say that could be much better of course and looks artificial but nodody should criticize this model.

Chico said...

Blog fail yet again

Burlesk Grotesk said...

Sonia, stop being such a moron. You come across almost as stupid as this model looks.

Harlem's A Hatin said...

Wow, I hope here eyes don't look like that in real life!! Love your blog!

http://harlemshaterade.blogspot.com

pootpoot said...

I'd love to know from how many photos this composite face was put together.

Sónia Pereira - Chefe de Grupo Oriflame said...

Dear Bulesk Grotesk

You must be Grotesk at least because you can´t even be polite or normal.

I would like to see your real face.

I´m sure you look uglier than this bad piece of photoshop.

Sónia Pereira - Chefe de Grupo Oriflame said...

Another thing

People go and do some work instead of criticizing just for the pleasure of doing criticism.

Pedro said...

...this is Diana Pereira

In 1997 she won ford models supermodel of the world! She is not an exemple of symmetry but she's beautiful...

oh ..it's another PSD fail...this blog is losing it.

percy said...

It's a bad job of the designer responsible for a bad job of photoshop ...
the model itself is a beautiful woman but should know with whom they work because their advertising in this publication is very horrible.

CQ said...

I think it's just the ad on the other side of this page that's screwing up the colours.. Not a PSD.

mrblackblue said...

her face looks like a puzzle where pieces don't fit together.

Jeff said...

Sónia, there is no point in telling people they should be out doing the same kind of work to earn the right to mock or complain about a given work. The point is, if you are a professional in a field, your work should be able to produce a work of a certain level of quality. And sorry, this isn't it. The Photoshop jockey butchered someone's face into the Uncanny Valley, and if you can't admit that, then that's your problem.

Saying that someone should go and do the same line of work to have a legitimate reason to mock a bad job is incredibly naive. I shouldn't have to be a politician to have a reason to complain another politician is bad. I shouldn't have to be a physician to say a particular physician is bad. The same goes for Photoshop jockeys.

Stephen said...

As an emergency physician, it is possible to have a partial sternoclavicular dislocation due to a car wreck or fall-perhaps that happened to her. It would look like this.
Stephen

Burlesk Grotesk said...

Sonia, I think I love you. You're even more juvenile than I!

Tiffany said...

Her eyes, they penetrate my soul...

... or something like that.

wv: mashnes

That's kind of how I would describe the mess going on with her eyes!

zyosea said...

Did she just have an aneurysm? Is this anisicoria in the precise moment of the photo shot? Pretty cool.

marven.payne said...

Some images should be fixed in Aperture or Lightroom NOT Photoshop. This is a perfect example of why.

Barbara said...

Did you notice that Sónia Pereira is the chief of Oriflame? :)

Sónia Pereira - Chefe de Grupo Oriflame said...

Dear Jeff

You didn´t get what I said.

What I was trying to say is: get yourselves busy!

This is a bad piece of photoshop I agree but there´s no point of carrying on like this.

Everybody knows that this is a bad job. Nobody here found the dinamite... or nuclear energy.

But people like to criticize just for the pleasure of criticizing that´s the point!!!

designcity said...

I'm portuguese, I'm a designer, I know that Diana Pereira is a beautiful model, but the question is: it is an awful, terrible, shameless work done in Photoshop and I'd like to see the brand or someone saying "I'm sorry" to Diana (she doesn't deserve this) and bad work should be always be reported. You can check how she really is at: http://lh6.ggpht.com/_UNWUAtRxRl4/SlIr38UwJpI/AAAAAAAAaZE/5GdbdHwlcl8/DSC_9728.JPG

normalityrelief said...

i just wet myself ... it gets worse each time you look at it

Jen Collins said...

I applaud them for using a recovering Bell's palsy patient as a model!