i've been paying attention to men's shaves on movies and TV and it seems like their shaves are ridiculously perfect. any ideas how they do it?
Perfect shaves on actors?
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That what I was thinking when I read the thread title.
Microsurgery and gene splicing.
And you can't forget CG these days.
Lighting, cameras, and oodles of makeup. Probably post prod digital enhancements as well.
Modern media and pop culture creates all sorts of false expectations and perceptions of perfection. A friend from way back was a masseuse and once took care of Mel Gibson's back when he was in Aus years ago. He's actually 4' 11" (well, she is over 6') and is riddled with severe acne scars on his neck.
Modern media and pop culture creates all sorts of false expectations and perceptions of perfection. A friend from way back was a masseuse and once took care of Mel Gibson's back when he was in Aus years ago. He's actually 4' 11" (well, she is over 6') and is riddled with severe acne scars on his neck.
And then there's Brett Favre...
They have a lot of makeup on their faces. It covers their whiskers.
Are you saying my shave is less than perfect?
Favre and the Vikings did get a shave yesterday, didn't they?
Interesting as I watched Sherlock Holmes I paid attention to the stubble. Holmes always had some beard growth, Watson had less but was never freshly shaved. Stubble did play a small role in the movie....Im assuming they used straight razors back then (1850s?) but only the super rich bathed daily (monthly?)
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I find myself doing the same thing in front of the TV or in a movie theater.
I went to see some English period film a few months ago with my wife - I can't remember which - but one of the actors had some serious blemishes / ingrowns on his lower neck and there was no effort to cover them up aside from the extra frilly shirt collar. Not attractive, by any means, but at least the imperfections were allowed to stay and be seen in all their glory.
I went to see some English period film a few months ago with my wife - I can't remember which - but one of the actors had some serious blemishes / ingrowns on his lower neck and there was no effort to cover them up aside from the extra frilly shirt collar. Not attractive, by any means, but at least the imperfections were allowed to stay and be seen in all their glory.
You know what would be ineresting is to know the method actors whom Im sure would use period correct shaving techniques when preparing for a movie. I don't know which actors are method besides Sean Penn who supposedly started method acting with taking on the Spicoli role years ago (according to his Mom)
What's that odor I smell? Ah, yes, a whiff of GTFO!!!
I live too close to the Cheddar Curtain to respect him. 
Makeup
Computer-generated imagery.
and Money.
Odds are that those blemishes were ADDED in the makeup stage unless it was a seriously low-budget movie.
According to this: "Although Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes over a 40-year period that spanned three distinct eras in British life (Victorian, Edwardian, and Georgian), in the Holmes stories it is always the late Victorian era." I would guess that gentlemen of that era, which Holmes surely was, would never be seen in public unshaven. But it's predicatable that the producers would saddle the Holmes canon with 21st century affectations; they'll hook the kiddies any way they can, and stubble is in.
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