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Looking at the Hairspray Premiere (Summer 2007) picture to the right, it seems that Michelle Pfeiffer is a timeless beauty. 

So, it's often debated whether or not Michelle Pfeiffer has had plastic surgery.  

The three arguments are:

 1. Her nose. 

Possibly the biggest argument, since her nose is thin. People who don't know anything about her assume that she's had it hacked because of Michael Jackson. Anyway, I will prove that her nose is naturally thin, and very much not perfect, as it is slightly crooked and pointed up.

2. Her lips. 

A second argument, but not many people bitch about this since it is generally accepted that they are real. This one is easier to prove, since who the hell would want their lips to be like hers anyway? You will see that her lips are real, and definitely imperfect : )

3. Her skin.

The last thing people rant about is her impossibly perfect skin. People say she's used Botox when they see her pics, and of course again, I have to say it isn't true. Lighting and make up go a long way, mostly lighting is what helps. People who have met her in real life claim she is aging gracefully, but who cares about hearsay.

Of course I understand why people would make some of these claims, dispelling her beauty, since she does look amazing for 49!

(I don't know if anyone will look at this site in the future but it's made today in 2007 so by next year she'll be 50, ANYWAY).

By the way, I am an artist (I graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts), so my analysis is somewhat relevant.

Compare the first picture of Michelle Pfeiffer in Fantasy Island (1980) to a more current one, from I Could Never Be Your Woman (2006):

 Notice that her small, pointy nose, is the same. The only difference is the lighting and her head tilt and angle. 

Here is a better look of her lips (and jaw, there are some people out there who even go as far to say she had jaw implants):

As you can see here, her lips from Fantasy Island (1980) in the middle is the same as the ones on the other two sides, I could Never Be Your Woman (2006). I am pointing out her unique upper lip:

Finally, even when the lighting doesn't really highlight the point of her nose, you can generally see the shadows filling in the same places: (I Could Never Be Your Woman 2006, The Hollywood Knights, 1980) (Also notice her beautiful, strong jawline in the 1980 picture):

To debate: http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/michelle.php (Actually, they changed their Michelle Pfeiffer page to an even more ridiculous one, but they used to use the picture below with the green arrow to claim she had rhinoplasty). Their new pictures are even worse. They are lit differently, in different angles, and also present no basis for comparison. They also marked the time period of their pictures wrong.

Anyway, my above example shows exactly the same nose, albeit in the 1979 one, her face is slightly turned to the side, but you can totally see it's the same thing unless you have bad spatial intelligence. Notice her eyes, brow line, CHEEKBONES, lips, and everything is the same now as it was then. The ridiculous cheekbone allegation should be out now.

Here's a closer view of the  "crookedness" of MP's nose on a side by side comparison (1995, 1979):

Awfulplasticsurgery.com claims that Michelle Pfeiffer's nose was different in Grease 2 than it is now, which is completely bogus. Here is their claim: (they took the page down). 

Well here are 4 pictures, a mix of Grease 2 promo shots and recent candid press shots (originally to combat the awfulplasticsurgery Grease 2 claim): (By the way, the pictures will look SLIGHTLY different because they are different sides of her face, and we already know that her nose is slightly crooked so there will be slight differences):

Awfulplasticsurgery did present a new page: http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/2007/04/05/a-nice-fat-upper-lip-for-michelle-pfeiffer/ about her lips. We'll get to her lips later, but for now, the "80s" picture they used can be seen in Fran's archive: http://www.pfeiffertheface.com/Magaz_1979_Berliner.htm. 

Here is their example below, and a different picture I pulled up from the same archive underneath it:

Obviously, in their example, of course Michelle's lips will look thinner when you are not looking from below and she is also smiling. In the picture I present, it is a more fair comparison since she is not smiling, and it is also a below looking up angle.

Anyway, back to her nose:

This is a profile comparison between Michelle in Frankie and Johnny (1991) and Michelle in The Hollywood Knights (1980):

As you can see, from the side, her nose always points up a little.

Here is a few more comparison shots from the two movies:

The significance of the next picture is that it shows Michelle Pfeiffer in her first television appearance ever, in "Fantasy Island" (1978), the all time earliest footage of her (well, besides the pageant). It was replayed in a recent episode of The Late Show with David Lettermen (July 16th, 2007). Next to it is a picture of Michelle from Summer '07.

Besides the difference in lighting and angle, again, her nose is the same. (The camera in the first pic shoots her directly, whereas the camera in the second pic is slightly above her, looking down).

Now let's move onto another aspect. We know that her nose is slightly crooked, but it should also be noted that her nose points up, too. Here is a clip of Michelle Pfeiffer in a TV show, The Children That Nobody Wanted (1980), and a "recent" hit, What Lies Beneath (1999):

And there's more! Because this guy always keeps harassing us about Michelle Pfeiffer's nose on IMDB, here are just a few more comparison shots. I actually don't remember where I got the first picture from except I know it's from the 90's (If a pfan can help that'd be nice). The second shot is from the 1980 movie The Hollywood Knights.

The first picture is from a TV movie Splendor in the Grass (1981) and the second picture is from I Could Never Be Your Woman (2006).

 Finally, the first picture here is from BAD Cats (1980) and the second picture is from the premiere of What Lies Beneath (2001):

Alright, by now you should know that her nose has been the same since the very beginning of her career to now. Since I have used the earliest footage of Michelle Pfeiffer ever, there is no other basis for comparison.

With that in mind, some people still argue that she had work done beforehand. There is no way to prove this, since her career did not begin yet, and therefore there were no real pictures of her released. There is the possibility of using her pictures from her High School yearbook and childhood, which I have considered. 

Remember, I am an artist, so I restored the pictures via photoshop.

Here she is in              1975 (age 17)                                  1975 (Age 17)                               1973 (Age 15)

Keep in mind that the original quality of the picture is so low that it is difficult to restore the picture, and details are minimal.

In the pictures, one from 1975 and the other 2001, you can see that her facial features and bone structure are the same. Though she has aged, of course, and as you can see, she hasn't used Botox, even though critics assumed she did since What Lies Beneath (1999).

Here, you see her from the side in 1975 and 1999 (What Lies Beneath), where she certainly does look her age. Although the 1975 picture is of low resolution, you can still see that her bone structure, including her cheekbones, were intact, and also her nose is pointed up as it is now, and her lips are the same shape as they are now.

By the way, Michelle Pfeiffer has said that she used to be teased for her lips, which she says make her look like a duck.

 Speaking of her lips, awfulplasticsurgery.com made a new  article about Michelle Pfeiffer, this time focusing on her lips - http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com/archives/007274.html. 

There, they compare a picture from 2007 and 1980, saying that her upper lip is now fuller than it used to be. They did not consider that her face is clearly tilted up in the first picture, or that her smile is much wider in the second picture, stretching out her lips more. They need to fill their balloon juice site with something, so I guess they targeted our gal since she's in the limelight again ; )  Anyway.

These next pics are from 1973 (when she was 15), 1979, and 1999.

Although the first picture is low resolution, you can at least see her general lip shape. They are full lips, with the top lip extending beyond the bottom lip. It is the same as the more recent pictures, one from 1979 (taken at the same time as the picture in awfulplasticsurgery.com where it claims that her upper lip did not look like this), and 1999, when What Lies Beneath hit theaters. 

Unless she started using collagen injections consistently since she was 15, I'd like to affirm that her lips are real.

Most people say that Michelle had a broad nose in high school, which is completely unfounded.  If you measure the dimensions of her nose, it fits right between her eyes in every picture. By the way, Michelle Pfeiffer's face does follow the perfect symmetry measurements. (So does Angelina Jolie's). (I haven't tried it with many other celebrities).

Of course in this picture, her face is slightly off center, but you get the idea. Plastic surgery was not necessary because her nose fits in the optimal range of falling right between her eyes. Most of us would kill to have these proportions, and she had it since she was 15. I highly doubt she had plastic surgery on her nose before this age, and this is the earliest picture of her (besides one of her when she was a baby which will not be used to debate whether or not she had plastic surgery as an infant).

 I want you to know that as I restored this picture, I did not use color to give her nose definition. You can clearly see the straightness and the point, because of the shadow on the right (and left). Even in the small picture, you can see those shadows. That point has always been there. Try restoring this picture yourself, and you will see this is true.

Back to her lips, In a final effort to confirm that her lips are real, here is more evidence, stills from an upcoming 2007 movie, I Could Never Be Your Woman:

Who in the world would want their lips to look like that on purpose??

In the second picture, I think that her lips are beautiful anyway, because they make her look different. I remember Michelle saying in an interview that she used to be teased mercilessly for them, but they turned out to be one of her greatest assets.

Her nose and lips may be very much imperfect, but in my opinion, they are what make her unique. 

Now we are moving onto the final part of the program, her natural aging.

Some people claim that she looks exactly the same through the years and that it isn't possible. Well, she doesn't look the same (1980, 1991, 2006):

In the first picture, she has a lot of baby fat, but all of her features are the same, including her jaw. In the second picture, her jaw is more apparent thanks to the loss of the that "extra" youth, which marked her beauty in the 90's. In the last picture, you can clearly see that she is getting older, her jowls are starting to sag and everything (no offense MP : )

The first picture is from 1991, the second picture is ten years later, in 2001:

 I often hear people say things like "She uses Botox, there is no way she looks the same as she used to ten years ago." Well, she doesn't look like she used to at all, she has definitely gained lines over the years and isn't trying to hide them with poison injections.

Here she is during her 2007 comeback (summer):

You see all of her lines in her forehead, as well as around her eyes.

She also looks older in her movies. Ok, I always hear people say that she must have had work done after they see Stardust. Well, in the first example, if they light you to death of course you will look younger. But take a look at the second pic, Michelle has a shot in the movie where she is lit by unflattering sunlight, which definitely shows her true age. I use the last picture to show my favorite shot of her in the movie. She looks her age and she is still the most beautiful woman in the world (to me).

In addition, during 2007, the press had a field day releasing a picture of Michelle Pfeiffer looking old. I do not see how it is surprising, because from the shots in Stardust, you can see the same aging in her face. Notice the shadow where her jowl really shows.

Finally, at age 50, Michelle Pfeiffer is still going strong with a beautiful, natural look, in this 2009 pic. Compare Michelle's 50 year old face to the plastic 50 year old face of Madonna:

I think that is why, even in some pictures where you can't totally see Michelle's lines, she still looks very natural, while the woman next to her looks like a rock:

In a pic where the resolution isn't high enough for you to see her lines, Michelle looks relaxed, Madonna looks like her face is frozen and uncomfortable like she's wearing a mask or something (Notice I did not stoop low enough to take any cheap shots at Madonna's steroidal body):

Battling The Other Websites

So it seems that nowadays, bogus sites are coming out besides awfulplasticsurgery.com that want to accuse Michelle Pfeiffer of having plastic surgery, just so they have something in their stupid site. So here is how I am going to counter those arguments.

This is a picture from makemeheal.com (http://www.makemeheal.com/news/michelle-pfeiffer-plastic-surgery/272)

The "Before" picture is from her TV Show promos, B.A.D. Cats, 1980. The second is from 2001. The debate of course is her nose, that it used to be broader and now it is more narrow. The flaw with this comparison  is the angle. In the first picture, she is facing us more, in the second, her face is slightly to the other side. 

Now, compare the picture to one I pulled up from 2009 where her head tilt is more accurate. As you can see, the broadness of her nose is the same, even without smiling.

Compare their "After" pic to one from 2007. When MP smiles more, her nostrils will stretched outward more, which is similar to the "Before" picture they had.

Now here is a picture from plasticsergeant.com (http://plasticsergeant.com/celebrity/michelle-pfeiffer-nose-job):

The comparison is flawed because of the difference in lighting. The "Before" picture is from One Fine Day, 1996, the "After" picture is from 2003. Let's recompare the new 2003 picture to some pictures of Michelle from 1996, the first is from a One Fine Day press conference and the second is from the One Fine Day premiere:

You should see by now that her nose is the same under various lighting. Since the light doesn't really make the point in her nose as apparent in the first picture, I put in the third picture for you to see it. Let's move on.

The last site that is retarded is goingplastic.com (http://goingplastic.blogspot.com/2006/07/michelle-pfeiffers-perfect-lips-and.html). Here is their picture analysis:

Their claim is against both her nose and her lips. The claim is flawed because of the angle you are viewing her nose and the fact that she is smiling in the first picture so her lips look thinner.

In my comparison, I have pulled up pictures from the show B.A.D. Cats in 1980 (from the same show as their "Before" picture) to compare:

As you can see, the structure of her nose is exactly the same under the accurate angle. As for her lips, again, you see the fullness of her upper lip in these pictures.

Now I can sort of see why people constantly debate the authenticity of her nose. Maybe it was because I was a film major, but I can see how lighting really impacts how a person can look. Some people say that Michelle used to have a "button nose" and I can see why. 

In the first picture here, from Grease 2, her nose does indeed look like it is a button nose. But look at the picture from more contemporary times, 1996 (One Fine Day). Notice the lighting is "flooded" or more dispersed, like the first picture, so her nose appears to be a "button" nose and not pointy. We already established before that her nose has been pointy in 1996, as it ALWAYS has been.

Below is another example of Michelle Pfeiffer in flooded light. People say that in the B&W picture, her nose is button like and flat. Well, the same look was achieved in the color picture from 2009, when the lighting on her was flooded.

 Now we can make a comparison with spot light, where it highlights her features, making her nose look pointy (I am Sam, 2001, and Grease 2, 1982):

 Here is another shot of spot light, making her nose look pointy: (Grease 2, 1982, Frankie and Johnny 1991):

Let's move on to the present day.

You already know that Michelle has kept all of her lines and is botox free, when I compared her to Madonna before, who is the same age as her (51). Here is another picture of Michelle when she was in Berlin for the premiere of Cheri, in February of 2009:

Now it is June, getting close to June 26th, the opening of Cheri in America (can you determine when I have updated this site?) and she is going to be everywhere, and people are going to accuse her left and right of getting all kinds of work done.

And who can blame them, when they see her looking like this (June 2009):

I want you all to remember that up close, her face does have all of its lines in it:

You can't really see the lines as well as in the February '09 picture, because she is wearing a lot more make up it seems and the lighting is extremely good. Plus, her hair is blocking the lines you might have seen around her eyes. At least in the second picture, it is slightly darker, so you could see more. You can still tell that she did not have botox, unlike:

Even from far away, you can see MP's lines, and none on Madge:

Again, Michelle's expression looks natural to me, whereas Madonna's expression is that of a mannequin.

Michelle Pfeiffer is aging gracefully and still looking fine in my opinion. All of her features are completely natural, as I tried to prove. If you really need more proof, you have problems if this entire page really wasn't proof enough. 

One day, Michelle will age to a point where she can obviously no longer retain the beauty of her prime, but I hope she continues to work because...

I do love the memories she leaves behind ; )