Can we talk about immensely large sunglasses?
See, it’s not just that they cover your entire face. They’re unflattering. They make you (where “you” is the person with insect-eye-size eye coverings) look like you have huge cheeks stuffed with delicious nuts. Alternatively, depending on where the glasses fall, they absorb both your cheekbones and your forehead, giving you the appearance of a gaunt person without the dignity of a proper scalp.
Every time I see someone with moon-mask sunglasses who wants me to take their picture, I shudder deep inside. There is probably some way to take that picture and not make them look like a total alien, but that power is not within me.
I’m not mad. Just cut it out!
yeah.. I think the huge Euro-sunglass-thing looks silly on all the people I’ve seen wearing them.
Hello, clowns and rappers from the late 80’s called.. They said they want their fashion sense back.
Said sunglasses remind me of the Ugly Shoe Wars of the late 1990s.
I swear up and down that the undergrads around me were competing to see
who could find and wear the ugliest, clunkiest, most impractical shoes
possible.
Generally, I agree. Some folks, however, need the help. I always assume huge sunglasses==covering up something really bad.
And here I was expecting you to make a comment on delicious nuts.
I suppose you make a good point – acne scarring? genetic mutation? fall in nuclear waste? No problem!
Ah, sleestak sunglasses, making women look like bug-eyed monsters since 2006…
I dunno. Are you certain Posh is not a Sleestak?
Hmm good point, that could be a picture of her without her glasses on :)
You should talk: You (singular) shave your head. You guys who shave your whole head because of a hairless patch on top wind up looking like concentration camp refugees, or chemotherapy patients, or Spielberg aliens. There’s just no way that anyone looks good without hair. IMO. So quit it! :-)
Ah, but you forget that I shave my head primarily because I am balding – which essentially means I am going to not look good without hair either way – might as well do it on my terms!
Your point about everyone having a different opinion of what looks good may be satisfactory on one level, but as a photographer/videographer I do concern myself with whether an angle or article of clothing makes someone look the best they can. Who decides what “best” means? Well, if I’m behind the camera, I do, subject to the interpretation of my subject, my audience, or my employer.
If my employer was a fashion magazine that required underweight women for models, for example, I am sure my concept of “unflattering” might be different.
I tend to think the the people wearing big, opaque sunglasses are hiding behind them. They tend to have a lot of other makeup and disguising clothing along the way. It’s sort of, “Look at me but don’t get too close,” costuming.
As to hairstyles, it’s all hairstyles. I tend to think that guys with a fringe of hair around a bald spot (a la a 12th century monk) look better than guys with no hair. Ditto the sort of W effect that comes of a hairline that recedes faster on the sides. This is just my opinion, though, and I will freely admit that my personal philosophy is: “If you can’t play with your hair, what good is it?” My hair changes all the time!
This topic has so many facets I think I’ll make a list for you!
1. If you have lupus, are on medication that makes you highly inflammable, are very pale and have run out/want to save on sun screen costs, etc. huge glasses are useful.
2. Enormous sunglasses do give the impression that someone is hiding something. Perhaps these people hope that we’ll assume that they’re hiding the fact that they’re a big damn deal. It’s nice to have dreams.
3. Ocular health is no laughing matter!
4. Some people will wear silly-looking items if they’ve seem someone they perceive as cooler than themselves wear them. It is the way of the human animal.
5. At least they’re not wearing those stupid shutter shades.
Big sunglasses.
Pegged pants.
Hoodies.
Underwear showing.
Duck tails/Tails/Mullet (I had a magnificent mullet when I was younger.)
Untied shoes.
Popped collared polo shirts.
my boots come unties ALL the time. they stay that way cuz I’m lazy, not cuz I’m cool.
I have big sunglasses. I call them my “movie star sunglasses”, and in my head when I wear them I look like this:
(I know I don’t really look like that. But it’s the fun of imagining it in my head, you see!)
I laugh because it is true. My wife agrees.
Big sunglasses are the new Paper Bag. It’s a lot easier to get uglier girls to wear them during sex though.