Unbelievable facts
Millions of girls around the world admire Disney princesses, whose images are so beautiful that they want to imitate them and want to be like them.
As a rule, animated beauties have unusual standards of appearance. Most Disney princesses are characterized by plump lips, gorgeous hair, huge eyes, and impossible body proportions.
Disney heroines
Sleeping Beauty, Princess Jasmine, and beautiful Rapunzel won the hearts of viewers from all over the world and have become unique standards of female beauty in reality.
Thanks to the skills of Ryan Astamendi, an American photographer and character artist at Walt Disney Pictures, the beauty of famous cartoon characters has been brought to life.
The artist brought the images of beauties to real life. Everyone was able to visit the exhibition and see with the naked eye the similarities between real women and Disney characters.
Cartoon heroines
1. Princess from the cartoon “Beauty and the Beast”
Holly Madison, the ex-girlfriend of American show business star Hugh Hefner, is surprisingly similar to the heroine of the famous cartoon.
2. Princess Jasmine
The cartoon “Aladdin” was released on the big screen back in 1992. The audience was amazed by an oriental beauty with incredible body proportions: a narrow waist and lush hair left few people indifferent. Astamendi found a girl who looked like Jasmine, with a narrow waist and a burning black shock of hair.
3. Rapunzel
Who doesn't remember the famous phrase, “Rapunzel, let your hair loose?” For his exhibition, Astemedi found a blond beauty, surprisingly reminiscent of the heroine of the famous cartoon.
4. Snow white
This is probably the most famous beauty. The artist was able to find the owner of surprisingly white skin, peach-tinged cheeks, lush pink lips and black curls. The girl really looks like two drops of water like the famous cartoon princess.
5. Pocahontas
In 1995, the whole world recognized the Indian beauty. It should be added that this was the first movie released by Walt Disney Pictures based on real characters. An Indian woman named Pocahontas actually existed.
6. Princess Aurora
Princess Aurora, better known to viewers as Sleeping Beauty, can be recognized by her pink dress and blond hair. The artist found a girl who looks like a princess who has the same hair, blue eyes and an identical eyebrow arch.
7. Jessica Rabit
The famous red-haired girlfriend Roger Rabbit also found a copy in real life. The girl, indeed, looks and mannerly resembles bright and relaxed Jessica.
The Californian photographer has succeeded in the almost impossible: he has conveyed images of Disney beauties so realistically that looking at them, it seems that, in front of you, are really the very heroines whom each of us has fallen in love since childhood.
Astemendi “copied” the images in detail. The artist not only found similar girls, but also paid attention to every detail in their image. Hairstyle, outfit, makeup tones — all these elements helped ordinary beauties transform into heroines of famous cartoons.
Visitors to Disney theme parks in the US or Paris may have seen real-life princesses in the flesh. However, this is the first time a photographer has recreated princesses in such meticulous detail.
Astamendi, who has been working for the past 18 years as a character artist for the Walt Disney Company, says he was inspired by Disney animation from an early age. So when young Ryan was lucky enough to get a job at Walt Disney Pictures, he considered it a major success in life and was very enthusiastic about creating animated images.
According to the artist himself, the images of princesses are his favorite. He simply called his new project, loved by many, “The Princess Series”. According to Astamendi, only two elements are needed for his work to be successful: the perfect model and the perfect dress.
Unusual exhibitions
If you are bored with visiting classical museums and monotonous art galleries, you should pay attention to unusual exhibitions that surprise you with non-standard exhibits. So here they are, places that are really worth visiting.
1) Hollywood Celebrity Underwear Museum in the USA
Here are the most intimate pieces of celebrity wardrobe. In the museum, you can see Tom Hanks's boxers from the cult movie Forest Gump and the underwear of the entire female cast of the favorite teenage series of the 90s, Beverly Hills 90210.
During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Madonna's famous gold bra disappeared from the museum. However, it was later replaced by another identical one, and the museum itself was restored thanks to the efforts of its owners, as well as an impressive share of donations.
2) Leila Hair Museum
This unusual museum is also located in the USA, Montana. Its owner creates real masterpieces from hair. Here you can see both simple braids and whole herbariums made of cut hair. The oldest hair strands date back to the 18th century. The entrance to the museum costs 5 US dollars
3) Manila Footwear Museum
It would seem that every fashionista can assemble a collection of a couple thousand pairs of shoes. However, this museum is interesting primarily because each pair of shoes or boots comes with an amazing story, mystical or romantic, funny or frightening, but certainly related to this a pair of shoes.
4) Salt and Pepper Museum in the USA
Anthropologist Andrea Ludden's passion for salt and pepper shakers was so strong that the man decided to combine all the exhibits collected over the years in one building. The result is a collection of 22,000 salt and pepper bars.
5) The Museum of the Human Body in the Netherlands
The museum building is designed in the shape of a human body. Each floor and room of the museum represents a specific organ and system of our body. Thus, anyone can “visit” the stomach, lung or heart, and on the screens of specially displayed monitors, you can observe the processes that take place in a particular organ of the body person.
6) The Museum of Endless Beauty in Malaysia
The museum's exhibits are another confirmation that people have strived to be beautiful at all times, and also that the concepts of beauty have always been different. For example, some concepts of beauty today seem simply outrageous to us.
The museum features special vises for stupas so that they do not grow larger than they should be, round mouth discs, and neck rings to make this part of the body more elongated.
7) Death Museum in Hollywood, USA
As the title suggests, the main theme of the exhibition is death and everything related to this terrible phenomenon. This museum is popular with tourists who want to tickle their nerves.
Here you can see the head of the famous maniac Henri Désiré Landru, stuffed animals, as well as the clothes of members of the iconic “Gates of Paradise” sect, who have become are known for committing mass suicide.
8) Museum of Unhappy Love in Zagreb, Croatia
All the exhibits presented in the museum are dedicated to the theme of tragic love. Here you can see toys once presented to your soulmate, photos of couples, read letters from lovers.
Each item comes with a love story, which makes it clear that for one reason or another, this romantic relationship ended. Each love story that accompanies a particular exhibit is tragic and unhappy in its own way.
9) Burnt Food Museum in the USA
As strange as it may seem, hundreds of people visit the museum every day. Perhaps most visitors want to see firsthand that they are not the only ones who regularly forget to turn off the oven or remove the pan from the heat in time, which causes the food to burn.
10) The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, USA
The exhibition is better known as the “Museum of Medical Anomalies”, where anatomy lovers can get information about both the most common human diseases and the rarest physical anomalies in our country of the body. One of the most visited exhibitions is a stand on eye diseases.
The museum has been open to visitors since 1858. This is one of the oldest unusual museums in the world.