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Lists about the many ways makeup is used to make people look better, worse, and completely different.

About Face

Before & After

What do pop stars look like with and without makeup? While these fierce performers rock some wild makeup looks on the runway, there are plenty of <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/actors-with-no-eyebrows/jacob-shelton?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">pictures of famous singers</a> without makeup. Some of these pop stars are unrecognizable without their signature makeup looks, while some look just as flawless without makeup as they do with it on.&nbsp;Like our favorite&nbsp;female rappers without makeup, these pop stars are&nbsp;willing to show off their vulnerable side to fans by posting photos before their daily makeup routines. And makeup isn't just for the girls! These <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://www.ranker.com/list/male-celebrities-without-makeup/jacob-shelton">male celebs without their makeup</a> on will seriously surprise you. These pop stars' makeup looks are definitely amazing, but their non-makeup looks are just as amazing.&nbsp;

Pop Stars With And Without Makeup

Person

12 Eye-Opening Photos of Pop Stars With And Without Makeup

Kara Maddox

Pumpkin

These&nbsp;shockingly inappropriate pumpkin designs reveal Halloween isn't just for kids. Sure, pumpkin carvings featuring&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/pop-culture-pumpkin-carving-ideas/ashley-reign" target="_blank">pop culture favorites</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/pokemon-pumpkin-carvings/anna-lindwasser" target="_blank">Pok&eacute;mon</a> are cool, but they're not nearly as entertaining&nbsp;as these funny inappropriate pumpkins. Looking for an edgy decoration this Halloween? Scrap those bland triangle eyes and toothy smile designs for something a bit more adult.Some of these pumpkins take advantage of the gourd's, ahem, rounded shape. Others feature artwork that's outright scandalous – what are those unicorns doing? Even the most prim and proper will find something to laugh at here.From pumpkins eating babies to gourds that overindulged, it's clear adult pumpkin carving has become an outlet for the creative types out there. Check out these dirty Halloween pumpkins, and then get <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/pumpkin-carving-hacks/ashley-reign" target="_blank">carving</a>.

Shockingly Inappropriate Pumpkin Carvings That Are Scary For All The Wrong Reasons

General

15 Shockingly Inappropriate Pumpkin Carvings That'll Make You Laugh

Entertainment

Haunted house films, one of the horror genre's most beloved tropes, bring more to the table than just slammed doors, bleeding walls, and poltergeists galore. When you consider the implications of these homes and the people living in them, you begin to see a connection between the haunted houses and the psyche. Everyone&nbsp;experiences&nbsp;some sort of bump in the night. Dark closets,&nbsp;creaking floor boards, the vast universe of horror under the&nbsp;bed&nbsp;- all these&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/real-scientific-explanations-for-haunted-houses/mariel-loveland" target="_blank">feelings of being haunted</a>&nbsp;stem&nbsp;from your mind and how it processes external stimulus, your emotions, and the unknown. Basically, many haunted houses&nbsp;feel&nbsp;haunted simply because you believe them to be. That's some&nbsp;American Gods&nbsp;realness right there.Many&nbsp;of the <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-good-haunted-house-horror-movies/christopher-myers" target="_blank">best haunted house films</a>&nbsp;tackle some spooky houses, but sometimes the house is just the surface of the thrill itself. As you dig deeper into certain films, you realize the haunted house acts as an embodiment of a character's insecurities, mental illnesses, and emotional toil. So the next time you fear you've stepped into a haunted house, just remind yourself the monsters aren't in the house: they're in your head!

These Modern Horror Films Remind Us The Haunted House Is Just Metaphor For The Haunted Mind

Reasons The Haunted House Is Just Another Metaphor For The Haunted Mind

Photos

Ever wonder&nbsp;what it&#39;s like to be color blind? It&#39;s more common than you might think. About one&nbsp;in 12 men and one in 200 women in the world have some type of <a href="http://www.colourblindawareness.org/" target="_blank">color-vision deficiency</a>. But that doesn&#39;t mean they can&#39;t see color at all - the majority of people with color blindness can still differentiate between shades. But how people with color blindness see the world is quite different from most of the population.

These photos of different types of color blindness give you a glimpse of what the world looks like to a percentage of humanity.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.color-blindness.com/deuteranopia-red-green-color-blindness/" target="_blank">Deuteranomalia</a>&nbsp;occurs when greens are just a bit faded, <a href="http://www.color-blindness.com/tritanopia-blue-yellow-color-blindness/" target="_blank">tritanopia</a> tints everything&nbsp;greenish-pink, and <a href="http://www.color-blindness.com/protanopia-red-green-color-blindness/" target="_blank">protanopia</a> makes all colors look a bit greener.&nbsp;Many people with color blindness&nbsp;have a hard time distinguishing between similar colors, and some don&#39;t even know they have color-deficient vision. But if you&#39;re among&nbsp;that number, don&#39;t worry - plenty of <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/color-blind-celebrities/celebrity-lists" target="_blank">celebrities</a> are color blind, too.

Photos That Show How People With Color Blindness See The World

Bruce Lee

Before there was the Mother of Dragons, there was the dragon, Bruce Lee. When it comes to getting your point across, Bruce Lee memes impact the hardest. Despite only appearing in six films, one of them posthumously, Lee remains an icon not only for martial artists but action stars the world over. This man danced like a beast, caught rice mid-air with chopsticks, taught Kareem Abdul-Jabbar,&nbsp;and defeated a ping-pong champion using only a nun-chuck in place of a paddle. As such, Bruce Lee memes&nbsp;impact with the same un-blockable punches he made himself famous with. He's basically the unstoppable One Punch Man, but with a better head of hair.Blessed with <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/a-list-of-famous-bruce-lee-quotes/reference" target="_blank">Bruce Lee's own wisdom</a>, memes <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/little-known-bruce-lee-facts/philgibbons?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">about Bruce Lee</a> seek to teach you about yourself while simultaneously expressing yourself. Even the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/young-bruce-lee/brooke-wilson" target="_blank">young Bruce Lee</a> appeared to have his act together better than most of you ever do, and he did that without turning to comfort food. That in mind, let a true master of basically everything also be your master of memes.

Funniest Martial Arts Memes Only Bruce Lee Fans Will Get

Bruce Lee (1940-1973) was not just one of history's best, most influential martial artists, but also one of the greatest athletes of all time. 

Celebrating Bruce Lee

While famous to most of the world for his seminal roles in Hollywood&#39;s earliest <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-best-martial-art-movies/all-genre-movies-lists" target="_blank">martial arts movies</a>, Bruce Lee was known to many a celebrity as a brilliant teacher. Celebrities who trained with Bruce Lee spoke highly of his skill and temperament; even to this day, most <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/true-bruce-lee-stories/erin-mccann" target="_blank">Bruce Lee</a> apprentices still commend the legendary actor and his teachings. Each of them tells different stories of Lee&#39;s prowess and the profound effect he&nbsp;had on their acting careers and their own lives. Despite being a relative newcomer to the Hollywood scene, Lee trained among the biggest stars of the era. Celebs who were taught by Bruce Lee ranged from the late Sharon Tate to the towering Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Included below are some of&nbsp;Lee&#39;s most recognizable students, a few of which owe much of their career longevity to his training.&nbsp;In fact, three&nbsp;of his top students&nbsp;(Steve McQueen, James Coburn, and George Lazenby) served as&nbsp;pallbearers at Bruce&#39;s funeral&nbsp;when he died at the early age of 32. All of them understood&nbsp;a world prematurely robbed of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/a-list-of-famous-bruce-lee-quotes/reference" target="_blank">Lee&#39;s teachings</a>&nbsp;was a world robbed of a great talent far too soon.

Famous Students Who Studied Under Bruce Lee

Famous Bruce Lee Students | Celebs Who Trained With Bruce Lee

Pop Culture

You have probably&nbsp;seen these little spinning nuggets of fun,&nbsp;and chances are, you probably own one. Fidget spinners are addicting, easy to use, and perfectly weighted to give you that satisfying&nbsp;feeling you&nbsp;so desperately need during just about anything! From focusing in class to watching TV, there's an odd contentment in twirling this weird toy. But is it all too good to be true? Are fidget spinners dangerous?Fidget spinners may not be scary like those&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-talking-toys/lyra-radford" target="_blank">creepy talking toys</a>, but they definitely have the potential to draw blood.&nbsp;As of August 2017, the world hasn't&nbsp;seen any reports of fidget spinner deaths yet, but they have caused some pretty crazy ER visits. You&nbsp;can't help but wonder, are fidget spinners safe with these new designs boasting&nbsp;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTo1YjTq-ws" target="_blank">matches</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwwqos2fg4k" target="_blank">razor blades</a> (yes, razor blades - who wouldn't want razor blades on their fidget spinners)? You may be curious about what these fidget spinner injuries look like. Well, look no further!&nbsp;Compiled here are the absolute worst&nbsp;fidget spinner horror stories. They are fully loaded with cuts, bruises,&nbsp;realllly bad stomach aches, stitches, and surgeries. Read below to hear the gruesome&nbsp;tales.

These Fidget Spinner Horror Stories May Sound Like A Joke, But They're 100% Real

12 Insane Fidget Spinner Horror Stories

Lists about the codified systems of combat, like karate and "kung fu," and their practices and representations around the world in in popular culture.

Martial Artistry

Combat Sports

To understand real martial arts fights&nbsp;and how they evolve, you&nbsp;must first understand how fighting styles shifted during the rise of globalization in the 20th century. Before the 1960s, martial arts training was something largely restricted to people of Asian descent, so many Westerners only knew techniques like standard boxing. But thanks to famous fights by the likes of Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-disputed-fights-in-martial-arts/jacob-shelton?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Wong Jack Man</a>, different fighting techniques grew in popularity. Furthermore, as attitudes grew less sexist, such changes also allowed for women to enter the fray more freely. Because of changes in attitude and a number of <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/best-martial-artists-in-history?page=1" target="_blank">dedicated martial artists</a>, people may now choose between a wide variety of martial arts and fighting styles.Below are&nbsp;the seminal fights that led to the fighting scene of today. Some of them included fatalities while others ended in mere seconds. But each showcases how a different fighting style or mentality completely shifted the form of martial arts. Many martial artists still hold allegiance to one style over another, but when push comes to shove, the only style that'll save you is the one that works.&nbsp;

Famous Real Fights That Shaped Martial Arts

Lists about fascinating, icky, sometimes funny things going on inside our own bodies.

What's Happening Inside You

If you've ever seen Michael Bay's action-packed flick,&nbsp;Transformers, then you have a pretty good sense of how the microbes<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/creepy-facts-about-inside-your-body/jacob-shelton" target="_blank"> in our&nbsp;bodies</a>&nbsp;control us. Think of them as these little nuggets of wisdom&nbsp;- whole cities of them - coming&nbsp;together to ensure that they (and we) have the nutrients and environment needed to survive.They drive our most basic instincts by manipulating our bodies, our feelings, and our minds. Why? Because they've been here a lot longer than we have&nbsp;and they want to live, too. In fact, &quot;certain intercellular associations are up to <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2937523/" target="_blank">270 million</a> years old!&quot; And the sooner we learn to listen to these little guys, the better off we'll feel, smell, and look.&nbsp;What are microbes, anyway? You guessed it! &quot;Microbe&quot;&nbsp;is&nbsp;just a shortened term&nbsp;for microorganism, and these little guys can take the shape of different types of bacteria&nbsp;and fungi - just to name a few. The&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/disgusting-microorganisms-on-your-body/jacobybancroft" target="_blank">little&nbsp;creatures living inside us</a> are so tiny that most of them are invisible to the naked eye, and some bug cities are even unique to you and you only.Bottom line - these little guys&nbsp;outnumber us <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_knight_how_our_microbes_make_us_who_we_are" target="_blank">10 to 1</a>; the average person's body has&nbsp;100 trillion microbial cells and only 10 trillion human cells,&nbsp;which can only mean&nbsp;one thing:&nbsp;you're not really all that human at all.

10 Creepy Crawlers That Govern Our Bodies

10 Creepy Organisms That Live Inside Our Bodies

All things considered, 1946 was a pretty good year for movies. It's a Wonderful Life, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, Notorious, The Beast with Five Fingers. Maybe you've heard of some of those. The last one is&nbsp;among&nbsp;the more obscure horror movies about a disembodied hand playing&nbsp;piano and strangling&nbsp;people. It&nbsp;stars&nbsp;the inimitable Peter Lorre, and belongs to a rarefied class of weird old movies that were somehow taken seriously by those involved, despite their inherent preposterousness.&nbsp;Despite how bizarre and absurd it is, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038338/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt" target="_blank">The Beast with Five Fingers</a>&nbsp;is one of those bizarre old movies you might be inclined to include in the annals of classic horror films, despite a general&nbsp;lack of horror-ness as per 21st century standards. Like Universal monster&nbsp;classics The Mummy and Dracula, The Beast with Five Fingers is a genre hybrid, existing somewhere between thriller, horror, and drama, with prominent&nbsp;elements taken from&nbsp;horror mystery movies for good measure.If you ever found yourself kicking around a department store looking for cheap movies on VHS in the early-to-mid '90s, you may have purchased The Beast with Five Fingers, and various other 1940s horror movies, without really knowing what you were getting yourself in for.&nbsp;Depending on your taste and appreciation&nbsp;for WTF cinema, you might even count The Beast with Five Fingers as one of the <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/best-40s-horror-movies/ranker-film" target="_blank">best movies of the '40s</a>. How often do you get to see an actor as good as Peter Lorre encounter a scuttling disembodied hand, let alone wrestling&nbsp;with said appendage?&nbsp;&quot;This guy is in The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and M and&nbsp;he's wrestling with a f*cking&nbsp;disembodied hand!&quot; you might have said&nbsp;to yourself.&nbsp;Beyond its unique merits as one of the weirdest&nbsp;horror movies to ever exist, you could argue The Beast with Five Fingers&nbsp;paved the way for&nbsp;David Levy's The Addams Family series&nbsp;(specifically Thing)&nbsp;and Oliver Stone's The Hand (1981). Which, yes, before you ask, is a real thing. Influenced at least in part by the&nbsp;Gothic motifs of Edgar Allan&nbsp;Poe's &quot;The Tell Tale Heart,&quot;&nbsp;Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Beast with Five Fingers&nbsp;is&nbsp;a titillatingly&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/bizarre-horror-movies/lisa-a-flowers" target="_blank">bizarre masterpiece</a>&nbsp;carved out of a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/BeasWith840.shtml" target="_blank">short story</a> by WF&nbsp;Harvey published in 1919.&nbsp;If your head is exploding with questions right now, if you're&nbsp;dying to learn about the time Peter Lorre was choked IRL by a co-star during a take, this is the list for you. Prepare yourself for the madness.&nbsp;

The Beast With Five Fingers Is The Craziest Horror Film Ever Made

The Beast With Five Fingers: The Craziest Horror Movie You've Never Heard Of

Want to feel smart, but don't want to read an actual book? Check out these lists of movies, TV shows, and other forms of entertainment that will get your mind wheels spinning.

Really Makes You Think

You don't have to be a psych major to catch the gist of dream theory - especially if you're down to explore the deep abstractions of&nbsp;the human mind.Dreams, according to Freud,&nbsp;remove our cognitive filters; &quot;<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=nEq_OCM7mxYC&amp;pg=PA146&amp;lpg=PA146&amp;dq=%22they+are+disguised+fulfillments+of+repressed+wishes%22+freud&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=aMmnh8o6Ma&amp;sig=08VryLHhllF-lHiFTTM1BMo0SfY&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwib-4DRwfzTAhUB8GMKHR-YCoYQ6AEIKzAD#v=onepage&amp;q=%22they%20are%20disguised%20fulfillments%20of%20repressed%20wishes%22%20freud&amp;f=false">they are disguised fulfillments of repressed wishes</a>.&quot;&nbsp;They tell us what we really want, without all the whips and chains of society. Freud blames our repressed sexual desires, but it's simpler than that. In dreams, we have complete control, and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/the-most-oscar-worthy-directors-of-all-time">the best filmmakers</a> know how to use this control to&nbsp;sway audiences.&nbsp;To movie buffs, this is known as the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca/article.php?id=141">Oneiric&nbsp;Metaphor</a>,&nbsp;which expresses the intricacies of the human subconscious through picture. A closer look at&nbsp;these metaphors&nbsp;shows us a bit more about the creators of film&nbsp;and the people who watch them.

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