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Beautiful Boys

By Irina Aleksander 6/24/09 10:15pm
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    This week, we wrote about The New Male Beauty, an eerie new product of the Hollywood image factory. Our young leading actors have become increasingly indistinguishable–a series of slightly feminized faces flitting through romantic comedies and franchise action flicks. And there is a precise science to this face: the wide-set eyes, the narrow nose that flares up at the tip just so, the childish puffy cheeks and the not-too-rugged jaw lines, topped with carefully placed strands of layered hair.

     

    Flip through our slideshow of lookalikes. Captions provided, you’ll need ‘em!

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    This week, we wrote about The New Male Beauty, an eerie new product of the Hollywood image factory. Our young leading actors have become increasingly indistinguishable--a series of slightly feminized faces flitting through romantic comedies and franchise action flicks. And there is a precise science to this face: the wide-set eyes, the narrow nose that flares up at the tip just so, the childish puffy cheeks and the not-too-rugged jaw lines, topped with carefully placed strands of layered hair.

    Flip through our slideshow of lookalikes. Captions provided, you’ll need ‘em!

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