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"TaKe HeR sWiMmInG oN tHe FiRsT dAte!" Yeah, yeah.

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00:002025 is all about becoming unrecognizable, literally.
00:03If you missed it, it's the latest huge trend of mainly beauty influencers
00:07transforming their faces into something that isn't quite their face.
00:12And a lot of the videos are set to the song Lockjaw by Sir Mix-a-Lot from 1992,
00:16which is kind of an insane archive pull, but I love it.
00:19Let's look at some of these transformations together.
00:22I feel like the rubric for if these are successful or not is
00:25if the police would find you if you were wanted for a crime,
00:28and this one definitely passes that test.
00:30That is a completely different person.
00:31If anything, this trend just highlights to me how little I know about makeup.
00:37I know that people are true artists with it,
00:39but this is like shapeshifting to an insane degree.
00:42And I think it highlights just how much effort and work
00:46goes into makeup skills like this.
00:49I feel like it easily gets dismissed as a hobby,
00:52like a woman's hobby or something that you have to do
00:54in order to have cachet in this world.
00:56But it's truly like an artistic skill.
00:59That is like a painting.
01:01That is a painting on a 3D surface.
01:03These people should be working for the spy division of the CIA
01:07to help people transform to go undercover.
01:10Because like, insane.
01:12This one to me highlights how important hair color is in this also,
01:16because the tone of the hair just completely changes their face too.
01:19But I also want to talk about what the word unrecognizable is doing here,
01:23because you see this word a lot on social media
01:26when people are talking about self-improvement or wellness
01:29and like a winter arc, if you've ever heard of that.
01:31And I get that it's like sort of a dramatic word
01:34to like call attention to like changes you want to make in your life.
01:38And like, this is pretty good and normal advice,
01:41but I don't know, I take issue with the word unrecognizable a little bit
01:46because it's like, you hopefully like yourself.
01:50Maybe you just want to have better habits,
01:53but you want your friends to be able to recognize you.
01:55I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking it.
01:57But you see this word all the time and I don't know, it kind of grinds my gears.
02:01But in terms of these amazing makeup transformations, I get it.
02:05So, slay on.