Makeup apps used on babies create images of pure horror
Commenters compared with pictures with Ru Paul and a zombie baby
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Your support makes all the difference.Apps created to try out makeup have been turned on babies — with horrifying results.
A baby, Gabriel, had his picture shared on Reddit after his mum used an app called YouCam Makeup to add terrifying cosmetics to his face.
The pictures quickly went viral, as Gabriel was turned from a normal baby into a terrifying, made-up one.
Commenters on the pictures were divided about Gabriel’s look.
“Your son is going to be an awesome drag queen,” wrote one. Commenters compared Gabriel with drag queen Ru Paul as well as “zombie baby from Dawn of the Dead”.
“In 18 years your son WILL exact vengeance,” wrote another.
The mother — who goes by the name Unicornreality on Imgur and Reddit, but is really called Fiona — was concerned that users would mistake the baby for having really been made up, rather than the pictures being drawn in an app. But that was perhaps testament to the realism of the app’s effects, which are almost indistinguishable for a real baby that has had make up applied to its face.
When the picture was shared on Reddit, some applied the makeup to make their cats look a bit more fabulous, too.
“She looks like the mother of the aristocats now,” one poster wrote in response to one of the cat pictures.
“She looks uncomfortably human,” wrote another.
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