Who’s This Girl?
September 11, 2009 in Makeover or Makeunder?, Take a Guess!, Then and Now by Versus
Looks familiar?
Of course she does… but you can’t deny that this girl has transformed A LOT since this picture!
Still not sure who this is?
Turn the page to find out!
And now… Shakira!
She definitely Hollywood-ized in the past years!
I didn’t recognize her at all!
Neither did I…. what the hell… looks like two different people Ummmmmmm
Wow! That is what I call a successful make-over!
i wouldn’t recognize her in a million years… so, yes, she doesn’t look familiar (to me)
i did would not have guessed that was her at all
wow she has chaaanged
I disagree that she’s Hollywood-ized. Did you want her to keep the same outfit and style for the next 20 years? She’s creative and fun, and she’s had her hair all colours of the rainbow – red, black, brown, auburn, platinum, streaked, and golden. She has always realeased a spanish album for almost every english one in the last 7 years and she studies at UCLA when she’s not on tour.
I think she’s quite the opposite of Hollywood-ized!
I’m blonde and colour my hair black and brown sometimes (once upon a tie very often) because I wanted a change! Why is it for a blonde to go black its okay, but for a brunette to go lighter people say they’re selling out??
I dont figure…
you’re right… this picture is like 15 years old…and it’s silly to compare them… although i think she looked great back then (minus the hair of course)
I loved Shakira Then and I love her Now too, so “Hollywood-ized” wasn’t necessarily meant to be a negative remark.
I never said or implied that it’s not ok to go blonde if you’re dark, nor that she is selling out because of the hair color (?). Secondly, I never implied that she should keep the same outfit for 20 years (??)
… but I do notice that:
- she is sexualizing her image more (less clothes, the cage, the moves)
- that she is wearing something that most female singers wear: the overly popular leotard + fishnets combo (like Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Madonna and Britney, including Beyonce’s shoes)
- that she is thinner (not compared to the first pic, but compared to 6 years ago)
- that she glammed up
- that her hair and eyebrows look completely different, that her nose looks different too and that her look is more… let’s call it commercial / actual
I agree completely!
I agree too
i agree can’t expect her to look the same…i’m also glad she did something about that unibrow
Alyssa- I AGREE! ugh i hate the ‘ooo she’s not a REAL blonde!’ but they never say ‘ohh she’s not a real redhead or a real brunette’ ! and i am also blonde and dye my hair dark =o) i feel like it complements my light skin and green eyes better than my natural colour- or i go red…i dont bother telling people im naturally blonde because i feel like there is a negative connotation to it like ‘everyone wants to be blonde and all girls say they are naturally blonde’ so when i say i am naturally blonde it’s like ‘yeah right! if you were you wouldnt dye your hair dark!’ ugh whatever society…whatever ! =p i am obsessed with red hair atm…so i am in the process of lifting the black dye to go red and all the hair dressers go ‘wow your hairs really light naturally!’…uh yep…i know…
versus- sorry, i just read your reply to alyssa just then…i wasnt talking about anything you said in your comments about Shakira, I agree she is hollywoodized too..just read Alyssa’s comment and replyed generally =o)…(just incase you saw my comment and thought i was having a go)…
I do the same thing…I have fair skin, light eyes, and naturally blonde hair. Right now it’s auburn. It changes with my mood. Go girl.
Sorry, but it is true that she Hollywood-ized. I understand her appeal now, but she lost something… she lost a big part of her unicity and originality. She definitely lost part of ethnic influences and latina vibe. She lost her latina look as well; I am not saying she is not beautiful now, because she obviously is.
As Versus said, we’ve seen this exact same outfit on so many other singers… no one says that you have to keep the same style for 10 years, but you can have YOUR OWN UNIQUE style… and her recent outfits are not unique, they are just modern and very popular among celebs.
Also, I agree that she is thinner. This is not her natural weight, she has been a little softer for years… Also, she used to dance in a latin style and she is doing less of it now.
I loved her with long curly hair in a darker shade of blonde and with her short tops that were perfect for those belly dance moves. She was the perfect combination between the original Shakira and the new Shakira.
completely agree!!
she’s now pretty in an kind of normal style, kind of american girl-nexgt-door (nothing wrong with)
makeover is okay but i think you should keep a little bit of the ;same;
and she became soo commercial with her music not only the style I love her back in the PIES DESCALZOS era.. :S hate she wolf or whatever her song is
where did you get that pic? I’m from south america.. and we saw her grow up.. and she never looked like this!>.. idk.. i have seen pictures of her around that age.. and she does not look like that
The pic is very old – it’s from 1991… and it’s available in many places online.
Check it out here:
http://www.laviejaguardiax.com/2009/03/shakira-1991-magia.html
http://www.gossiprocks.com/forum/rhinoplasty/41727-shakira-had-nose-job.html
she is also HALF LEBANESE… sooooo not all south americans know her.
she used to look like a latina. now, she looks caucasian.
Yes ,she looks different but lations come in all colors from black to white.
Yes! I´m pale, have blue eyes and dark blonde hair and I´m as latina as it gets… And have cousins that have the oposite coloring, but whenever I go to the States people think I´m either American or when they hear my accent think european… So yes latins come in all colors and sizes.
i tottaly agree blond wasnt nesesary …u should do this but whit a pic from 10 years ago…when she was just coming out and she was only famous here in latinamerica…..black haired and a little bit bigger
like here http://www.shakira.ru/music/shbmega3.jpg
Wow… it looks so different.
I think she looks great in both though, and she is allowed to chose how she looks, even if it is the common look for right now.
She looks black in the first pic!
Exactly, so losing her Latina look? She looks Caucasian?
Fail.
She still looks like a Latina. You can tell in her face.
Before, she just looked like she belonged on The Fresh Prince.
‘just looked like she belonged on the Fresh Prince’????
sounds a bit dodgy but i’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.
Anyway, I just meant that she looks darker in the first photo and I thought it was a black woman. I wasn’t inferring that she doesn’t look Latina anymore.
Fresh Prince? I IMMEDIATELY thought “Saved by the Bell” when I saw that first picture, lol.
That’s what I thought! My first guess was Lisa from Saved by the Bell or Ashley from Fresh Prince.
ahahah i recognized her
i’ve seen some photos of her some yearg ago ^^
she looks much better now, good 4 her i luv her <3
I agree with Versus and some of the other posters. She has little by little gotten rid of everything that was unique about her, from her physique ( she was much curvier before she even released her first English album) to her style of dress.
i thought it was denise richards!!!
LOL! probably because of the uni-brow. Thank God she took care of that!
Holy cow! I thought it was a young black girl in that first picture. She has definitely changed. Even these days, she looks so different when she goes from casual and curly hair to made up and straight. too much of a contrast if you ask me.
How did she go white skinned?
yea i could tell it was her by her face- granted she looks VERY different but the face is still the same! she figure was and is very nice! very toned and slim and hourglass shaped =o) meh no biggie- it was the 80’s! they all looked like that! lol! look at anyone thats famous now in the 80’s!!!
think about it….. 90’s style. Time’s a-changing. Fashion’s totally different. Doesn’t mean she totally hollywood-ized herself. she just got into the “know” about fashion and trends.
successful makeover?
i think she looks beautiful in both ways.. its sooo not comparable!
i agree she looked like a black girl, def. surprising to see it’s her. I’ve seen pics of her when she was just beginning her career and yes she had dark curls and all, but looked very Latina. Well i’m not actually an expert so maybe she does look like a Latina here too
anyway she was adorable!
Haha, I thought it was Teri Hatcher
I thought it was michelle williams lol
People Latino is an ethnitity (sp?) Not a race. You can be black and latino and white and latino!!!
Hey you have the same name as me!
Anyway, the definitions of race and ethnicity are fuzzy in studies, and even fuzzier when people use them from day to day. Based on a few college courses, most experts will agree that there are 5 predominant “races.” However, if you look at gene studies based on very early people and their settlements, there are either way more, or way less, depending on the side you take.
So basically, in most cases Latino is considered a race (although sometimes it’s grouped as Caucasian). Ethnicity would be like, Mexican, Cuban or Puerto Rican.
Aren’t Mexican, Cuban and Puerto Rican are all nationalities?
Yes, they can be if you live there or were born there. Nationality is about where you live. For example, I am American because I live in America. But if my family was from Mexico, and I embraced the Mexican culture as a big part of who I am, my ethnicity would be Mexican. My race would be Latino-Caucasian.
(by the way I’m just American, I was just giving an example
).
Why does race/ethnicity matter? Why cant we just be people. i dont think people need to be classified at all. Haha i feel like im in a sociology class….but i think she looks great then and now!
I think one of the reasons why it’s can be so difficult classifying race and ethnicity is because they are social constructs (…for the most part.)
Unfortunately, it does matter. Even if, thousands of years from now, every single race repeatedly mixed over and over and over until everybody had the exact same physical features — people would probably still attempt to classify themselves into some sort of physical group and set a hierarchy within it.
Damn, I was thinking Ashanti or something! (due to the unibrows) Well, Shakira’s certainly a swan now.
Haha… I knew it was Shakira!
skinny vs.curvy…
do u think she had a nose job.?
I can’t know that – but I notice that her nose looks different, it may be just the angles, the weight loss, the make-up and the hair (they all affect how the nose looks).
Check out these pictures:
http://news.makemeheal.com/images/shakira-nose-job.jpg
skinny.vs.curvy..
i think its the lighting….i feel shakira is one of those celebs who are jus natural as possible.
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I thought she was one of Jacksons.
I think it’s stupid to make such a comparison. She was probably in her teens when that first picture was taken. If you were to look at a progression of her looks and styles over the past few years, you’ll see that she has been experimenting and changing. Yes, she DOES look Hollywoodized, but I don’t think it’s accurate or fair to say that she had a “total transformation” or even a makeover. I mean, come on she must have been what, 15 in that first picture? And now she’s in her 30’s! You really expect her to look the same?