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Guy Uses Makeup To Transform Himself Into Female Hollywood Celebrities
After featuring Eva Senin Pernas’ amazing makeup art, we heard about someone who took this art form in a totally different direction. Paolo Ballesteros, a Filipino actor and TV host, uses makeup to change his identity, transforming into various Hollywood A-List stars.
What’s striking about his transformations is that he doesn’t seem to use any sort of prosthetics. All he needs to accentuate or hide various aspects of his facial structure is make-up!
More info: Instagram (h/t: elitedaily)
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MarieMclatchey 10 years ago
Would love to see the haters try and master make-up like this!!! Very clever man xxx
BarbaraWood 10 years ago
Excellent artistry! He captures specific facial features unique to each celebrity some with more success than others, but all in all, great!
AnikAshraf 10 years ago
No way close to Meryl Streep & many others & later heavily photos hopped.... Bored panda really trying to make us bored or what ??
AnaPangilinan 10 years ago
no photoshop used... all make up and pure talent.
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RowRusDin 10 years ago
It's not weir... It's an amazing talent of a Filipino actor...so proud of him!!!
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PaulaRaymundo 10 years ago
Paolo Ballesteros! You deserve to be here. He's an actor from the Philippines!
RuruAlvarez-deAsis 10 years ago
why all the hate guys? photoshop or not he's just a guy having fun with his make-up.
MayickDumandan 10 years ago
He is an afternoon tv show host. And he sometimes come in to the show looking like those shown here. So NO. THESE WERE NOT PHOTOSHOPPED!
ShaunaElyseYancha 10 years ago
I want to see how he did it,like video because for me it is fake.
NicoleMcGregor 10 years ago
Some are really good, and look similar to the people he is trying to look like, but others, not so much.
Michelle Erba 10 years ago
how the heck does he do this!! Its so impressive...makes ya think about beauty standards too.
FloParedes 10 years ago
Paolo is a great grandson of a great philippine painter fernando amorsolo. Google it gor your doubts...
Maria Feramie Sanchez 10 years ago
He performs everyday on a noontime show here in the Philippines .. you can search him "Paolo Ballesteros" to watch all his makeup transform
Maria Feramie Sanchez 10 years ago
he's sooooooo amazing ! he even impersonated Miley Cyrus very well ....
Maria Feramie Sanchez 10 years ago
This is not photoshopped .. I watch him everyday on Eat Bulaga Show .. he performs and impersonate lots of famous public figure ..
Crackr Jax 10 years ago
Wow. Very impressive. Though most of those wouldn't fool anyone. He's so talented though, that's crazy. But Mariah and Julia were spot on!!
MargusKlemetti 10 years ago
This guy's boyfriend is very lucky. He can f***s all these celebrities.
J.a.Awa-ao 10 years ago
yes greepy for haters hahahaha, did you known guys paolo is grandson of famous painter
Linda Shade 10 years ago
mariah carey looks good, the rest kinda freaks me out haha. but still..nice job dude
Bella Cabrera 10 years ago
and to think that he was also color blind but still he can achieve these looks!
NikkiStrasser 10 years ago
I agree most are horrible. The best ones he did were Katy perry 1st and Julia Roberts, second. The rest scare me. LoL
Row Rus Din 10 years ago
To whoever says it's photoshop...ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! Just watch him on Youtube if how he did the make-up transformation & you'll be amazed!
KristineCruz 10 years ago
He is a known actor in Philippines. You can google him and his works and you'll find out that this is about make-up and proper projection.
EirinEdvardsen 10 years ago
So impressing! The power of make-up, and how to use it. Some of them are better than others, but still... really impressing!
JennalynFragata 10 years ago
photoshop????? common.... TRY TO READ THE TITLE.... "ITS MAKE UP NOT PHOTOSHOP..........
FranceSaniel 10 years ago
its not photshop or anything u said.. he is very talented host here in our country, very talented doing hes art in makeup.
BeatrizCarvajal 10 years ago
It's not surprising though because he is the grandson of Amorsolo, the national artist in the Philippines.
XenaCastillo 10 years ago
these pics are full of filters. i hope the real pictures without filters are uploaded soon.
Annalyn Flores 10 years ago
to all basher watch eat bulaga show on youtube..... then tell us if its photoshop or not....
Marta Urbańska 10 years ago
Without makeup looks better:-P Handsome guy :-) And in general, I would like to know how to make yourself a makeup like this.
AnnalynFlores 10 years ago
it's a talent no photoshop or anything... you can watch him on youtube... he do that weekly on there tv show eat bulaga... search it
MilesVinarao 10 years ago
Its really plain make up.thats how brilliant he is,his art is so great you would think its photoshopped,but its not.very talented man.
LalethMendoza 10 years ago
I really believe that he is a better make up artist than a photoshop editor. You can see him perform in some TV shows wearing those make ups
SundanceArias 10 years ago
This is actually his blood line. Because his great great grand father is a NATIONAL ARTIST.
stellamarieyruma 10 years ago
All your 'photoshop' comments only prove how convincing his make up transformations are.Go search his live acts on YT and be mind blown
Ragnhild Andersson 10 years ago
Some of them are great! Others looks to much like a painting...like Tyra Banks and Daenerys Targaryen.
Virginia Lee Hostman 10 years ago
They have lots of drag queen acts in Las Vegas. Maybe there's an opportunity waiting for him on The Strip.
ShellyPowers 10 years ago
You are real good at what you do I am a passable (CD) but I which I could change my facial look with makeup like you but I am not good enoug
R.l. Procter 10 years ago
I guess I just don't get it. The coloring is so off to me I can't appreciate the effort.
Paula Raymundo 10 years ago
More in: http://www.thesoshalnetwork.com/2014/06/10/the-manwoman-with-a-thousand-faces/
Alfredo Eduardo López Liñares 10 years ago
This guy must have too much free time. Most are creepy as hell. Just two or three have some resemblance to the original.
AstridGediman 10 years ago
Looks like either photoshop or creepy. Probably because the lighting is too much and wig line in some pictures too obvious
Luciano Scrocchio 10 years ago
JULIA ROBERTS, MARIAH CAREY AND ARIANA GRANDE ARE AWESOME...A GREAT MAKEUP ARTIST....
LucianoScrocchio 10 years ago
GREAT MAKEUP ARTIST....JULIA ROBERTS AND ARIANA GRANDE ARE AWESOME !!!!!
Chris Taylor 10 years ago
Nothin' weird about that to me. Shakespearean males actors used to do that all the time.
JohnWayneGacy 10 years ago
All of these are horrid. And I can't tell if the guy just looks like s**t or if these are really ugly women.
John Vossos 10 years ago
I think this guy has too much time and money on his hands. Why does he do this? It's nuts.
amielreyes 10 years ago
Its not Photoshop. please watch the link provided below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7LnRJqwqaE
BenetteDanila 10 years ago
It's just make up, he's the great grandson of the Philippines national artist Fernando Amorsolo(great painter of the country)
Jesse Heinonen 10 years ago
I would have liked if the Jennifer Lawrence makeup was a little bit closer!
vanessa.prefontaine 10 years ago
huge fan of RuPaul and sorry to say but this is amateur work, bad wigs, side burns showing, hair on chinychinchin. what's the T!!!
Lacey Tucker 10 years ago
Looks like a very successful drag queen, but I'd like to see the pictures without the photo retouching.
BeccaBrewer 10 years ago
yes, the makeup is real but the filters they used on the after pics are horrible! Way too much saturation! Not to mention his eyes are huge!
Itsu Saurio 10 years ago
Anyway, some of his transformations are pretty good, like his JLaw, Britney &Mariah Carey.
Itsu Saurio 10 years ago
It seems like he's using makeup BUT then finishing the pic on Photoshop.If you look closer you can see some kind of image overlaping&effects
VinWeathermon 10 years ago
Over the top Photoshop. Hard to appreciate what is certainly good work.
MiguelLaurenceCFrancisco 10 years ago
the quality of the photos sucks but his talent is really amazing
NathanPaulin 10 years ago
he's Paolo and he really do the make-up thing! he's a Artist In the Philippines by the way :)
JanekKofroň 10 years ago
It is make up plus brushing in PS and most of all it is creepy as f-cks
Mike Jarvis 10 years ago
Makes you wonder what some women really look like under all that makeup..
JessicaPennington-Squires 10 years ago
So not real. Look at the pictures they are not photographs they are paint or something elts photo shop probably
Zhe Ena 10 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqczi9PR9aQ its not photoshopped.. check the link..
Load More Replies... Spinstapink 10 years ago
meh... I wouldn't mistake any of those incarnations for the real thing! Keep trying, buddy. You will probably get better at it.
Spinstapink 10 years ago
meh... I wouldn't mistake any of his creations for the real thing! Keep at it, buddy. You might get better.
MandyMonaco 10 years ago
That Jennifer Lawrence is uncanny!!!! He should be an SNL makeup artist and make the comedians look like who they are imitating! Kudos
KhirstyMaeFilio 10 years ago
Funny how people think the photos were edited in photoshop! :D Great job youve done here Paolo!
kryzzle bori 10 years ago
He even do his hosting gigs in this make up transformation. like recently, in a prod he did the miley and t swift for hosting.
kryzzle bori 10 years ago
his post are not photoshoped not filtered. check out his ig. better yet, look for his vids in yt im sure there are some.
kryzzlebori 10 years ago
check out his instagram account. the photos used in this post have added effects making them look like they are photoshoped.
AprilBagoChu 10 years ago
Hi, for those people whose saying that it's Photoshop, please check this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqczi9PR9aQ thanks
HarveyColasino 10 years ago
Those are not manipulated by Photoshop. He appears on live television w/ his make up on: http://i.ytimg.com/v...xresdefault.jpg
AndrewsEmpire 10 years ago
i think those photos are photoshopped. it is better to watch his transformations on tv.
JohnAaronGatdula 10 years ago
those photos are not photoshopped, he's actually a Filipino comedian/ impersonator/host in a Philippine variety show.
Zhe Ena 10 years ago
its make up transformation' search on YouTube Paolo Ballesteros..
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JelaiSicad 10 years ago
the photos presented are photoshopped! So stop arguing that theyre not! apparently some people just saw this guy on this post! Some dumbass
Zhe Ena 10 years ago
no its not photoshopped.. here's the link of him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqczi9PR9aQ thanks
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John Ojhn 10 years ago
Wouldn't a gay man rather try to look as male as possible ?
Load More Replies... MarieMclatchey 10 years ago
Would love to see the haters try and master make-up like this!!! Very clever man xxx
BarbaraWood 10 years ago
Excellent artistry! He captures specific facial features unique to each celebrity some with more success than others, but all in all, great!
AnikAshraf 10 years ago
No way close to Meryl Streep & many others & later heavily photos hopped.... Bored panda really trying to make us bored or what ??
AnaPangilinan 10 years ago
no photoshop used... all make up and pure talent.
Load More Replies... RowRusDin 10 years ago
It's not weir... It's an amazing talent of a Filipino actor...so proud of him!!!
Load More Replies... PaulaRaymundo 10 years ago
Paolo Ballesteros! You deserve to be here. He's an actor from the Philippines!
RuruAlvarez-deAsis 10 years ago
why all the hate guys? photoshop or not he's just a guy having fun with his make-up.
MayickDumandan 10 years ago
He is an afternoon tv show host. And he sometimes come in to the show looking like those shown here. So NO. THESE WERE NOT PHOTOSHOPPED!
ShaunaElyseYancha 10 years ago
I want to see how he did it,like video because for me it is fake.
NicoleMcGregor 10 years ago
Some are really good, and look similar to the people he is trying to look like, but others, not so much.
Michelle Erba 10 years ago
how the heck does he do this!! Its so impressive...makes ya think about beauty standards too.
FloParedes 10 years ago
Paolo is a great grandson of a great philippine painter fernando amorsolo. Google it gor your doubts...
Maria Feramie Sanchez 10 years ago
He performs everyday on a noontime show here in the Philippines .. you can search him "Paolo Ballesteros" to watch all his makeup transform
Maria Feramie Sanchez 10 years ago
he's sooooooo amazing ! he even impersonated Miley Cyrus very well ....
Maria Feramie Sanchez 10 years ago
This is not photoshopped .. I watch him everyday on Eat Bulaga Show .. he performs and impersonate lots of famous public figure ..
Crackr Jax 10 years ago
Wow. Very impressive. Though most of those wouldn't fool anyone. He's so talented though, that's crazy. But Mariah and Julia were spot on!!
MargusKlemetti 10 years ago
This guy's boyfriend is very lucky. He can f***s all these celebrities.
J.a.Awa-ao 10 years ago
yes greepy for haters hahahaha, did you known guys paolo is grandson of famous painter
Linda Shade 10 years ago
mariah carey looks good, the rest kinda freaks me out haha. but still..nice job dude
Bella Cabrera 10 years ago
and to think that he was also color blind but still he can achieve these looks!
NikkiStrasser 10 years ago
I agree most are horrible. The best ones he did were Katy perry 1st and Julia Roberts, second. The rest scare me. LoL
Row Rus Din 10 years ago
To whoever says it's photoshop...ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! Just watch him on Youtube if how he did the make-up transformation & you'll be amazed!
KristineCruz 10 years ago
He is a known actor in Philippines. You can google him and his works and you'll find out that this is about make-up and proper projection.
EirinEdvardsen 10 years ago
So impressing! The power of make-up, and how to use it. Some of them are better than others, but still... really impressing!
JennalynFragata 10 years ago
photoshop????? common.... TRY TO READ THE TITLE.... "ITS MAKE UP NOT PHOTOSHOP..........
FranceSaniel 10 years ago
its not photshop or anything u said.. he is very talented host here in our country, very talented doing hes art in makeup.
BeatrizCarvajal 10 years ago
It's not surprising though because he is the grandson of Amorsolo, the national artist in the Philippines.
XenaCastillo 10 years ago
these pics are full of filters. i hope the real pictures without filters are uploaded soon.
Annalyn Flores 10 years ago
to all basher watch eat bulaga show on youtube..... then tell us if its photoshop or not....
Marta Urbańska 10 years ago
Without makeup looks better:-P Handsome guy :-) And in general, I would like to know how to make yourself a makeup like this.
AnnalynFlores 10 years ago
it's a talent no photoshop or anything... you can watch him on youtube... he do that weekly on there tv show eat bulaga... search it
MilesVinarao 10 years ago
Its really plain make up.thats how brilliant he is,his art is so great you would think its photoshopped,but its not.very talented man.
LalethMendoza 10 years ago
I really believe that he is a better make up artist than a photoshop editor. You can see him perform in some TV shows wearing those make ups
SundanceArias 10 years ago
This is actually his blood line. Because his great great grand father is a NATIONAL ARTIST.
stellamarieyruma 10 years ago
All your 'photoshop' comments only prove how convincing his make up transformations are.Go search his live acts on YT and be mind blown
Ragnhild Andersson 10 years ago
Some of them are great! Others looks to much like a painting...like Tyra Banks and Daenerys Targaryen.
Virginia Lee Hostman 10 years ago
They have lots of drag queen acts in Las Vegas. Maybe there's an opportunity waiting for him on The Strip.
ShellyPowers 10 years ago
You are real good at what you do I am a passable (CD) but I which I could change my facial look with makeup like you but I am not good enoug
R.l. Procter 10 years ago
I guess I just don't get it. The coloring is so off to me I can't appreciate the effort.
Paula Raymundo 10 years ago
More in: http://www.thesoshalnetwork.com/2014/06/10/the-manwoman-with-a-thousand-faces/
Alfredo Eduardo López Liñares 10 years ago
This guy must have too much free time. Most are creepy as hell. Just two or three have some resemblance to the original.
AstridGediman 10 years ago
Looks like either photoshop or creepy. Probably because the lighting is too much and wig line in some pictures too obvious
Luciano Scrocchio 10 years ago
JULIA ROBERTS, MARIAH CAREY AND ARIANA GRANDE ARE AWESOME...A GREAT MAKEUP ARTIST....
LucianoScrocchio 10 years ago
GREAT MAKEUP ARTIST....JULIA ROBERTS AND ARIANA GRANDE ARE AWESOME !!!!!
Chris Taylor 10 years ago
Nothin' weird about that to me. Shakespearean males actors used to do that all the time.
JohnWayneGacy 10 years ago
All of these are horrid. And I can't tell if the guy just looks like s**t or if these are really ugly women.
John Vossos 10 years ago
I think this guy has too much time and money on his hands. Why does he do this? It's nuts.
amielreyes 10 years ago
Its not Photoshop. please watch the link provided below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7LnRJqwqaE
BenetteDanila 10 years ago
It's just make up, he's the great grandson of the Philippines national artist Fernando Amorsolo(great painter of the country)
Jesse Heinonen 10 years ago
I would have liked if the Jennifer Lawrence makeup was a little bit closer!
vanessa.prefontaine 10 years ago
huge fan of RuPaul and sorry to say but this is amateur work, bad wigs, side burns showing, hair on chinychinchin. what's the T!!!
Lacey Tucker 10 years ago
Looks like a very successful drag queen, but I'd like to see the pictures without the photo retouching.
BeccaBrewer 10 years ago
yes, the makeup is real but the filters they used on the after pics are horrible! Way too much saturation! Not to mention his eyes are huge!
Itsu Saurio 10 years ago
Anyway, some of his transformations are pretty good, like his JLaw, Britney &Mariah Carey.
Itsu Saurio 10 years ago
It seems like he's using makeup BUT then finishing the pic on Photoshop.If you look closer you can see some kind of image overlaping&effects
VinWeathermon 10 years ago
Over the top Photoshop. Hard to appreciate what is certainly good work.
MiguelLaurenceCFrancisco 10 years ago
the quality of the photos sucks but his talent is really amazing
NathanPaulin 10 years ago
he's Paolo and he really do the make-up thing! he's a Artist In the Philippines by the way :)
JanekKofroň 10 years ago
It is make up plus brushing in PS and most of all it is creepy as f-cks
Mike Jarvis 10 years ago
Makes you wonder what some women really look like under all that makeup..
JessicaPennington-Squires 10 years ago
So not real. Look at the pictures they are not photographs they are paint or something elts photo shop probably
Zhe Ena 10 years ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqczi9PR9aQ its not photoshopped.. check the link..
Load More Replies... Spinstapink 10 years ago
meh... I wouldn't mistake any of those incarnations for the real thing! Keep trying, buddy. You will probably get better at it.
Spinstapink 10 years ago
meh... I wouldn't mistake any of his creations for the real thing! Keep at it, buddy. You might get better.
MandyMonaco 10 years ago
That Jennifer Lawrence is uncanny!!!! He should be an SNL makeup artist and make the comedians look like who they are imitating! Kudos
KhirstyMaeFilio 10 years ago
Funny how people think the photos were edited in photoshop! :D Great job youve done here Paolo!
kryzzle bori 10 years ago
He even do his hosting gigs in this make up transformation. like recently, in a prod he did the miley and t swift for hosting.
kryzzle bori 10 years ago
his post are not photoshoped not filtered. check out his ig. better yet, look for his vids in yt im sure there are some.
kryzzlebori 10 years ago
check out his instagram account. the photos used in this post have added effects making them look like they are photoshoped.
AprilBagoChu 10 years ago
Hi, for those people whose saying that it's Photoshop, please check this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqczi9PR9aQ thanks
HarveyColasino 10 years ago
Those are not manipulated by Photoshop. He appears on live television w/ his make up on: http://i.ytimg.com/v...xresdefault.jpg
AndrewsEmpire 10 years ago
i think those photos are photoshopped. it is better to watch his transformations on tv.
JohnAaronGatdula 10 years ago
those photos are not photoshopped, he's actually a Filipino comedian/ impersonator/host in a Philippine variety show.
Zhe Ena 10 years ago
its make up transformation' search on YouTube Paolo Ballesteros..
Load More Replies... JelaiSicad 10 years ago
the photos presented are photoshopped! So stop arguing that theyre not! apparently some people just saw this guy on this post! Some dumbass
Zhe Ena 10 years ago
no its not photoshopped.. here's the link of him http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqczi9PR9aQ thanks
Load More Replies... John Ojhn 10 years ago
Wouldn't a gay man rather try to look as male as possible ?
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