Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for May 29, 2016

We’ve been down this road before:

Aah, the booming cosmetic industry. -A moment you let loose on your hard earned “grip”, a lifetime you spend, tightening up your lips….

Luann won’t be able to talk or eat (or even kiss Quill) if she had lips THAT huge in the imagine spot.

Heh. This reminds Me of the old Arch Obler “Chicken Heart” Story from the old “Lights Out” album.

And Playing THAT LP in the Dark, MIGHT be a much better option than whatever Silent Film You “accidently” end showing, Bernie….,

“Lip Service”“Serum And Coca Cola” (♬)“The In-Flaming Lips” (♪)“Whistler’s Estranged Mother”“No Thanks, I’m Full!”“The Chap Mishap Of ’93”“A Field Of Raspberries”

“The In-human Beat Box”“Chapsticks And Stones”“You Never Wanna Talk, Anymore!”“Nothing To Gloss Over”

or“Speak Now, Or Forever Hold Your Peas”

Welcome back, Jay!

Don’t let Brad get ahold of this stuff he just might try and make his manhood bigger.

I thought this might be Bernice’s nightmare, since she might have watched that silent movie in order to be ready for her showing of it to Piro…

You never really know until you try,But you get a good idea by watching otherswho try and die.

If Sheriff is out there, it would be nice to learn who won an award at the cartoonist confab. Any one we know?

HAH! I liked the little stick figure of Bernice running with her arms in the air in the 5th panel!

The Chicken Heart That Ate Chicago? More like unto The Spittlebug That Phootooied Anchorage.

somehow I think today’s strip was dedicated to ones who say ducklips about certain characters ;)

Okay… this is so ‘not Luann!’

Becoming a bizarre kaiju does not phase Luann.

Lol, funny how the number of those commercials are starting to increase….desperately attempting to maximize their profits, hoping for their business to grow…

The Mick Jagger look really doesn’t suit her…

Angelina Jolie eat your heart out.

I’ve never figured out the “trout pout” attraction. Stars that have done those injections and so on have ended up looking completely ridiculous, ugly, scary, alien, you name it. Meg Ryan, Abbey Crouch, Melanie Griffith. Then there’s a woman named Hannah Page who evidently deliberately set out to have the biggest trout lips ever. Weird stuff. And in all cases, I find the “before” pictures to be infinitely more attractive than the “after.”

Funny, Luann doesn’t usually give everybody lip.

Damn those Kardashian role models!

It is all a balance of features. Some look truly gorgeous with large lips while the features of others simply can not balance them. When i was young there was a much more narrow definition of beauty in the U.S. than now. It was also a very racist one, and even very regionally restricted. Heck, there were people who claimed that Sophia Loren, one of the great beauties, was alien and weird looking back then.Some people foolishly go overboard. For me that is kind of like people who go for chicklet white teeth because they seem too unnatural to me personally. Actually, my finding chicklet teeth objectionable is weird because i like unusually colored hair on younger people, and wish there was a safe way for them to play with unusually colored skin dyes.

A true girl’s cartoon. Guys don’t ponder this stuff. The ordinary Luann doesn’t need any enhancements.

Yes, the actual concern w such dyes is the possibility of toxicity, though certainly some types have been used in the film industry, such as when Bernie and Howard were made to look dark blue for Hallowean costumes. (There is a film of her telling about an embarrassing incident during removal, BTW. Funny but adult.)

Oh, the Bernadette and Howard skin dyeing and dye removal incident were related to filming that Smurf Halloween episode for the show, Big Bang

Bill Cosby recorded “Chicken Heart” in 1966.

Hey, BW, you have to admit that you set yourself up.

In fact, the Mythbusters (Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, if you’re one of the three people on the planet who never heard of them) debunked the Goldfinger myth on their third show, way back in 2003, and it is posted at Dailymotion:.http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2rgbuw

She’s a Kardashian!!

Now that’s scary! At least the stuff is (apparently) not botox (botulinum toxin)….Reminds me of using too many tana leaves with your mummy. too.

I have news for you, there are also pale women with naturally large lips. How they look on any individual again depends on the facial proportions.Meanwhile, what is wrong with people admiring what is more common in other groups? It has gone on with things like hair texture, and hair color for a great many decades. There is nothing wrong w appreciating what is beautiful on someone else as well as what is found more commonly in one’s ethnic group.

I am pale amd naturally blonde and even at my age still have larger than normal lips. They never caused me any difficulty in getting dates when i was young and single, but honestly, if a man woukd not have wanted to know me better based on any physical characteristic then he woukd not have been worth my time, anyway, and the same shoukd go for how men feel about women who reject them for superfiscial reasons, too.

“The fact of the matter is it matters not how much of the skin is blocked by paint or anything else…as long as a person can take in oxygen through the mouth or nose, he or she will not suffocate.”.I remember thinking at the time, the paint might block perspiration and induce a heat stroke to kill the lady. (Not that she was dressed warmly at the time.)

SukieCrandall “what is wrong with people admiring what is more common in other groups? It has gone on with things like hair texture, and hair color for a great many decades. There is nothing wrong w appreciating what is beautiful on someone else as well as what is found more commonly in one’s ethnic group.”.I keep remembering sitting with a group of fellow students in the basement of the Haley Center at Auburn when a girl walked by..“Pretty,” I mumbled to myself..A Pakistani student sitting beside me wanted to know who and then why I could thing SHE was pretty..“Back in Pakistan, she is considered quite plain.”.“Well, then I am glad she had enough sense to come to America where her beauty is appreciated.”.If beauty is common, is it less beautiful?

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David, excellent post.What is considered attractive also varies across the centuries:http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-the-most-alluring-women-of-17th-century-england-looked-like?There are some truly wonderful men i never would have known if i had only dated them based on my favorite physical characteristics. I dated absolutely magnificent men who ranged from a half foot shorter than me to over a foot taller, from thin to fat, all sorts of hair colors or lack of same, with many different voice pitches, etc. Truth be known, i am not Steve’s physical ideal and was not when young since he liked thin and very tall rather than slightly tall and hourglass (now apple with age), and he was not my physical ideal, either. Yet, we are truly perfect together and will have our 36th wedding anniversary this week. I know each day how fortunate i am.(BTW, elderly ferret Pivot still is defying the odds, especially now that the malignancy she has has spread as well as her having her heart disease and kidney disease (the esophageal problem she also has is under control now) so as long as she enjoys life we fascilitate that, meaning i strongly suspect we will have takeout or delivery for our anniversary, and that is fine. We plan to have many more.)

It’s ironic that today’s ‘LuannAgainn’ has Luann asking Bernice to open a window…

Ha, Ha, Ha!-And don’t forget Steven Tyler!

I remember reading about that, as well… it was also covered in a book featuring all the JB films (up to just before the last one) with facts, accounts, pics, and all…

Good catch with Tiffany, Puzz!

Luann is a nut but a sweet nut. She symbolizes so many aspects of modern femalehood. Poofy lips! She is comic babe enough, as are all the young women, and one middle-aged woman, Nancy, are in this strip.

You ask why not change completely? A more telling question might be, “Why should one feel obligated to do so?” Life comes in many forms and a number of the most interesting looking people on the planet have unexpected but beautifully balanced features. We do not have to each fit within a few narrow combination ranges for features.Besides, a person dyeing his or her hair, or putting on a wig, or getting a perm or straightening, or plumping lips is not trying for a new identity, just for a fun visual enhancement. The person is unlikely to want to look in the mirror and not see herself or hisself. One of the hard things people have to deal w when they have glaucoma can be seeing a face which looks different. One of the classes of meds can darken light eyes, lowering pressure makes eyes look smaller, having some nerve damage to the face is not unusual with bleb surgery or certain implant surgeries. Of course, another version of this is when we look at our own aging faces and learn to adjust to seeing less and less of ourselves in our primes.Sometimes the ways people change their appearances just does not work on them but they do not see it at first. That is okay, but one change does not mean they shoukd then move themselves fully into fitting a pattern rather than fitting theur own life choices.Does that make sense?

Remember what happened to Buddy Ebsen when he was to play the Tin Woodsman in The Wizard of Oz?

Himself… (Not “hisself”)I hate it when a mistyping sounds so grating (esp when i mistype so often).

Spoiler: Props in place, MUA work done. Act 1, Scene 1.

A good thing she didn’t read the ones about breast enhancement.