Comments on: The Makeover Fairy!

The Makeover Fairy!

The Whelk — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:45:53 -0800

Taking off your glasses doesn't automagically make you more feminine ...or DOES IT?!

By: the man of twists and turns

the man of twists and turns — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:47:35 -0800

Beat me to it, The Whelk. Cracked up at the 'genderfuck setting.'

By: SPrintF

SPrintF — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:48:52 -0800

OK. That just got better and better the longer it went on. It's one of those kinds of gags.

By: bearwife

bearwife — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:49:51 -0800

*wipes tears away* *takes off glasses to get at the tears* *OMG!!!!*

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:50:54 -0800

many thanks to mightygodking for tweeting the link above

By: ook

ook — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:51:24 -0800

I wear glasses and I approve of this message.

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:53:52 -0800

A+++ WOULD SCROLL AGAIN

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:54:13 -0800

Hahahaha, great. I love the look the last person gives their glasses in the last frame.

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:54:18 -0800

Oh this is the BEST. One of my favorite subversions of the trope was on Arrested Development wherein GOB assumes Kitty will be more attractive if she takes off her glasses and lets down her hair and, well, she isn't, and the scene ends with him trying to find some serviceable configuration of glasses on/off hair up/down.

By: Sticherbeast

Sticherbeast — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:55:36 -0800

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs owns this trope. Underrated flick in general, actually.

By: Doleful Creature

Doleful Creature — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:57:33 -0800

*frantically searches for glasses*

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:59:30 -0800

Conversely it means guys with thick glasses are the most manly.

By: Greg_Ace

Greg_Ace — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:02:06 -0800

*looks in mirror, notes massive bald spot, short hair, and full beard* *gives up and moves on to Vonnegut thread*

By: the young rope-rider

the young rope-rider — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:02:26 -0800

ah shit I had them on the "genderfuck" setting <3 <3 <3

By: nooneyouknow

nooneyouknow — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:03:28 -0800

That was straight up hilarious. And now I'm kind of afraid to take off my glasses.

By: felix

felix — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:05:51 -0800

much in the same vein: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTnIjqEA4Ro

By: infini

infini — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:09:05 -0800

*whips off glasses* *can't see shit as usual*

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:12:35 -0800

This is exactly the sort of thing that made me decide that tumblr might not be so bad after all.

By: Slackermagee

Slackermagee — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:25:02 -0800

Please, please wear your glasses. I don't care which of the genders you are or aren't. I am sick of being whomped in the face by umbrellas the rest of you little baby people are hauling around in what only you imagine to be unoccupied airspace. Its hard enough for you to see my imposing presence beyond the lip of your umbrella with glasses, without glasses and obscured by filly dodads and paint I see little hope for the continued survival of mine eyes.

By: Kitty Stardust

Kitty Stardust — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:26:19 -0800

Glasses are hot. However, I will still resent people who wear lensless or faux glasses. I needed these to see before it was cool.

By: MartinWisse

MartinWisse — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:35:36 -0800

Only if I pull my hair out of its tail as well.

By: The White Hat

The White Hat — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:36:16 -0800

Is this something I would have to own eyes to appreciate?

By: tzikeh

tzikeh — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:37:39 -0800

I kind of hope no one tries to top the last one, since it's the perfect punchline, but then I also kind of hope someone does try - and nails it.

By: zarq

zarq — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:39:38 -0800

Slackermagee: "I am sick of being whomped in the face by umbrellas the rest of you little baby people are hauling around in what only you imagine to be unoccupied airspace. " What is it with people being unable to navigate an umbrella on a crowded street without decapitating their fellow pedestrians? Or stabbing them in the neck, face, head with the spiky parts?

By: griphus

griphus — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:42:34 -0800

That's gold, Jerry! Gold!

By: zarq

zarq — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:46:41 -0800

griphus: "That's gold, Jerry! Gold!" Hmph. Try being tall on the streets of New York. Especially in Midtown West. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to Mendy's.

By: sendai sleep master

sendai sleep master — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:49:09 -0800

I tried whipping my contacts out.....Ended up poking myself in both eyes.

By: owtytrof

owtytrof — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:49:28 -0800

I saw the first couple frames at pageload and was totally prepared to hate on it ... "Well, she didn't only take off her glasses..." Good for me, I kept going. Couldn't help but grin by the end.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:53:26 -0800

Wearing contacts totally ruins this effect. And if you're close enough to see the outlines of the lenses, well, you're entirely too close.

By: Grlnxtdr

Grlnxtdr — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:59:06 -0800

Back in the olden days, when I was a single, glasses-wearing woman on the dating scene, sooooooooooo many guys would ask me to take off my glasses...(and presumably whip my hair around after, right?) At first it was irritating, like, don't they know I can't see shit without my glasses on? After a while, it was just a really fast way to weed them out. Nope, glasses stay on, shmucks. NEXT!!!

By: elizardbits

elizardbits — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:59:29 -0800

What is it with people being unable to navigate an umbrella on a crowded street without decapitating their fellow pedestrians? There is an especially cruel and gruesome section of hell for idiot who keep their 6-foot golf umbrellas open under crowded downtown awnings that stretch for entire blocks. my goal in life is to be in charge of that section of hell tbh

By: erniepan

erniepan — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:59:37 -0800

Yeah.

By: Theta States

Theta States — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:03:04 -0800

this is awesome.

By: This, of course, alludes to you

This, of course, alludes to you — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:15:11 -0800

what is that style of writing called? internet gawęda? ipad realism?

By: apricot

apricot — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:48:33 -0800

Thank you for bringing this to my life.

By: blueberrypicasso

blueberrypicasso — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:54:49 -0800

sooo good!

By: byanyothername

byanyothername — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:02:45 -0800

*snorts, pushes up glasses*

By: madcaptenor

madcaptenor — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:14:45 -0800

Wait, nobody has mentioned the fact that they're putting makeup on as well? Change one thing at a time, people. (Also, I do make passes at girls who wear glasses. In fact I am probably more likely to make passes at them. That is, if I made passes at people regularly, which I don't, because I am a Socially Awkward Internet Person.)

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:15:46 -0800

Wait, nobody has mentioned the fact that they're putting makeup on as well? Change one thing at a time, people. ahem, ah, that's.... part of the joke...

By: madcaptenor

madcaptenor — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:16:52 -0800

I knew it was part of the joke. But I wasn't sure if nobody had mentioned it because you're all cooler than I am and don't point out why jokes are funny, or because you're all oblivious.

By: Hoopo

Hoopo — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:21:56 -0800

Slackermcgee, zarq, and elizardbits - I thank you for the comments regarding umbrella safety and etiquette. Sometimes it's lonely fighting this battle in a rainy town full of short texting douchebags carrying gazebos on sticks, and I'm glad to see I have allies abroad.

By: infini

infini — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:30:54 -0800

Was it a derail or did the wind simply turn the brolly inside out?

By: malusmoriendumest

malusmoriendumest — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:55:53 -0800

I'm aching and ashamed of myself, but it's a moderately amusing tumblr instead of barnyard porn that's responsible. Huh.

By: Metroid Baby

Metroid Baby — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:56:16 -0800

Yeah, this doesn't work in real life. Let's see... (╭❍-❍) (╯°□°)╯︵ ❍-❍╯ (✿◕‿◕) ...well, whaddaya know.

By: jfwlucy

jfwlucy — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:01:13 -0800

I am sick of being whomped in the face by umbrellas the rest of you little baby people are hauling around in what only you imagine to be unoccupied airspace. OH YEAH??!! Maybe you should try to keep your giant, coarse, hairy elbows out of my face and my hairdo, and not sling your grossly overloaded bookbag over your shoulder without looking to see if you are going to clock me (hint: you are.) Also don't shove your way to the front of the stage at every goddamn show because I would like to see at least a little something other than a sea of lumbar vertebrae, and for GOD'S SAKE do not hold your lit cig at my eye level and wave it around like th--- OH CHRIST!! -- squeaked from down by your ankles somewhere, King Kong.

By: straight

straight — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:26:01 -0800

I kind of hope no one tries to top the last one, since it's the perfect punchline, but then I also kind of hope someone does try - and nails it. Notice how she very cleverly holds her glasses at an angle where you can't quite tell whether or not they are identical to the ones Austin Powers is wearing. A+

By: Splunge

Splunge — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:57:30 -0800

I have noticed that this does not work for David Caruso no matter how many times he does it. He's still ugly as sin.

By: sexyrobot

sexyrobot — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:57:45 -0800

Wow. Now I have to get glasses!

By: Mister Moofoo

Mister Moofoo — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:36:39 -0800

Conversely it means guys with thick glasses are the most manly.

By: Space Kitty

Space Kitty — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:49:24 -0800

It is ridiculous how much I love this.

By: byronshell

byronshell — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:35:19 -0800

But putting glasses on makes you look smarter, right?

By: LogicalDash

LogicalDash — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:39:32 -0800

what is that style of writing called? internet gawęda? ipad realism? I propose it be termed "Beatonic."

By: pracowity

pracowity — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 17:49:33 -0800

However, I will still resent people who wear lensless or faux glasses. People do that?

By: saturnine

saturnine — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 18:43:17 -0800

People do that? Yes. Those people are also mostly likely to ask you if they can wear your glasses, and when you let them, exclaim "YOU ARE SO BLIND".

By: porpoise

porpoise — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:22:14 -0800

As a former glasses wearer (LASIK! ftw) I miss having eyeglasses sometimes. Naw. I hated those things when I needed them, and contacts made me look more like a stoner than I was. ..and when you let them, [they] exclaim "YOU ARE SO BLIND". Hah. My last encounter with that was in grade 9 or 10. I didn't get rid of my glasses until my mid-20s.

By: Grlnxtdr

Grlnxtdr — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:35:30 -0800

I almost don't even dare to not wear my glasses. I wouldn't even be me, I don't think. It would be me, incognito.

By: St. Alia of the Bunnies

St. Alia of the Bunnies — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:04:03 -0800

The only thing that happens when I take off my glasses is I can then magically read fine print. Darn bifocals.

By: straight

straight — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:08:15 -0800

"Rob Bell's Lasik Surgery to Cost Christian Hipsters Millions"

By: delmoi

delmoi — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 21:53:14 -0800

Someone should do the reverse, where girls add glasses along with makeup, etc.

By: Snyder

Snyder — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:47:06 -0800

Conversely it means guys with thick glasses are the most manly.

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:16:54 -0800

takes off the glasses he's worn since he was 8 - No, not the SAME pair... feels chest Nope, damn it. Puts glasses back on

By: Rocket Surgeon

Rocket Surgeon — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:38:00 -0800

By: jscalzi

jscalzi — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:55:59 -0800

No one's mentioned that this photo essay also found Waldo.

By: Karmakaze

Karmakaze — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:06:08 -0800

saturnine: "People do that? Yes. Those people are also mostly likely to ask you if they can wear your glasses, and when you let them, exclaim "YOU ARE SO BLIND"." I like having people who do that stare straight down and then teeter as the floor tilts away. I'm not just myopic, baby; I have astigmatism. Actually, though, because I have a relatively mild prescription for someone for whom glasses are not optional, I occasionally get "Huh, that actually kind of helps."

By: Grlnxtdr

Grlnxtdr — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:19:12 -0800

The thing that's kind of sucky about that trope is that it assumes I'm 85 times more sexy without my glasses on. Hell, no. IF I got contacts, and IF I put on lots of eyeshadow and eyeliner and IF I did my hair up, I'm still me, aren't I? I still sexy old me. So this always felt like an underhanded compliment, or it tries to be...oooh, sexy librarian, unpin your hair, take off those glasses, you are a goddess behind those glasses! No, motherfucker, I'm a goddess all day long, glasses or a clown wig.

By: Grlnxtdr

Grlnxtdr — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:11:59 -0800

Further, only special people ever get to see the sexy, ultra-feminine, made-up, without spectacles, goddess librarian me. If you're special, she'll show you all kinds of tricks. The glasses trick is just one of many.

By: infini

infini — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:22:40 -0800

I discovered early on that myopia is natural beer goggle when circumstances require the removal of the spectacles.

By: subbes

subbes — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:38:21 -0800

There's a bit of a bell-curve to that, though; if your eyesight is too good or too bad without your glasses on, you don't get the beer goggles effect. Instead, you get:

You look the same, but now I can't read the titles on your bookshelf 50 feet away, and without the halo effect of David Foster Wallace, I find you less sexy
haaaaaaaaaay baby where are you let's get naughty (CLUNK) help help i fell in the bin

By: infini

infini — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:18:59 -0800

I'm usually within the bounds of 'personal space' by the time the glasses come off, for those very reasons, subbes

By: Devika

Devika — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 21:57:49 -0800

Dude does that one dude who takes off his glasses to become River Song look uncannily like Hugh Grant to anyone else?