A not so "young" Cinderella

[budbeerlady]

We have only met smashing princesses. Prince charming was out the night we went to 1900 Park fare (DD said he was christmas shopping for Cindy) We were lucky enough to have snow white instead. They were princess and actred like such. Princess Aurora at the tea was wonderful. Kids dont care, they met a princess. DD thinks they all share the castle!

I give the characters a ton of credit. I think when its hot, the dress is heavy, kids are being bratz, & parents are being worse it could be VERY HARD to be a princess. I dont want to be happy and nice, smiling all day and trying to look like a princess, just to be picked apart by a guest. I assume they arent getting rich playing a princess and good for them for taking on the challenge.

 

[Disneyrsh]

I have to add, being familiar with professional makeup, that it *really* ages you when you put it on.

The materials they use to absorb oil and mattify the face also have the nasty side effect of making your skin feel and look like leather.

The makeup will also 'remember' the lines you make as you smile or grimace-I really wonder why they make the princesses wear stage makeup instead of something made for taking the heat; like Revlon's Colorstay.

Stage makeup is supposed to be for a few hours only under the hot lights and viewed from a distance, or viewed through a lens under controlled lighting conditions and a careful LACK of facial expressions-not what the princesses are doing every day.

I suspect, under all that makeup that was going cakey on her (she may not have been expert at applying it, either) from the heat and the sweat, was probaby a fairly fresh faced 25-30 year old.

 

[cleo]

The DIS is indeed an open forum but I think most people appreciate the fact you are still talking to real, live people with emotions just like yours. Some of the people reading this thread are the people being talked about. That alone is reason enough to choose your words carefully, decide if what you think is worth saying even if it hurts someone and then post as you see fit. There is a difference between saying 'We saw a Cinderella who looked older than her part' and saying 'Look at this picture! Doesn't she look old?" One is 'generic', the other is personal.

If you were standing in a room with the characters you feel are not 'adequate' would you say to their face that you think they're not pretty enough, not sincere enough, not 'right' enough for their part? Would you hold up their picture and say 'You look really old (ugly, manly, wimpy.....)'?

If so, post away! If not, maybe pause a moment and decide how to say what you mean without BEING mean, or decide if you should say it at all.

 

[julia & nicks mom]

I would never intentionally hurt someone's feelings, and I don't think the OP meant to do so either. Unless the post was changed I never read the word ugly in there. She was probably just really surprised at what she saw. I have been too before.

The original post title was edited

it was initiallly titled - a not so attractive Cinderella - so some of the comments (including mine) were in response to that

 

[JRawkSteady]

I don't know - in my book, there's only one Cinderella and she is GORGEOUS! (not as gorgeous as the one Belle though...)

And if my DGf is looking no one is as beautiful as the one and only Teresa!

 

[amy4bruce]

Ariel is actually 16.. there's a line in the movie she says: "I'm sixteen years old, I'm not a child anymore"

I know this is but THANK YOU! It's been a very long time since I've seen the film (Ariel is DD6's favorite princess, but until recently, she's refused to see the first film. Go figure.), and I really didn't know.

This is even more off topic, but I've noticed that, as I grow older, everybody, including cartoon characters, is looking younger.

Bruce
(Edited because my grammar is beginning to annoy me....)

 

[Gangstarr]

I have a pic in my photobucket of mary poppins who really looks "old" from our last trip at CRT. and the Snow White was curvy wich i like better anyways. i'll post the link and you all can look if you want.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y181/GinaGrumpyDwarf/DSCF0168_0117.jpg

Finally I can post links! Here ya go... Her

 

[Aquagirl]

Finally I can post links! Here ya go... Her

Gangstarr,

I think that you make a very nice Mary Poppins, but you stole my name. I am redhead sara. Haha. I am a Disney nut too, not a graphic designer, but married one. Are you in FOTLK? We just met a couple that is in FOTLK on a cruise.

 

[abitjaded]

Poor girl. Its not her fault. She didn't pick herself for the role.

I sent you a PM, but while I was doing it, looks like I was too late.

Carla

 

[Gangstarr]

Gangstarr,

I think that you make a very nice Mary Poppins, but you stole my name. I am redhead sara. Haha. I am a Disney nut too, not a graphic designer, but married one. Are you in FOTLK? We just met a couple that is in FOTLK on a cruise.

Oh, no. That's not me. My name is Milie. I don't work at Disney.

 

[Disneyrsh]

I looked at that picture of Mary Poppins. While she's not as pretty as Julie Andrews (really, who is?!), she doesn't look "old" to me. At least not in the sense that she's too old to be Mary Poppins.

In our interactions with the princesses (and there have been a LOT; we have 6&7 yo girls), I've noticed that the slightly 'older' princesses often play their part MUCH better.

There's nothing worse than that slight stank of teenager je nais se quois when you run into a princess...

 

[GinaGrumpyDwarf]

I can see the resemblance in the myspace photos...she's very beautiful. The makeup i guess just makes her look "old" Like i said, comments arent to attack the CM's themselves, just the way the look to us. Personally I think she's too beautiful to be playing mary poppins!