A 24 year old should not look like this

[cbc5g]

I'm 24 and I've never seen anyone my age like this. But I also have never seen severe addicts who abuse alcohol and other drugs like meth crack and heroine.



Amy Winehouse, the poor celebrity addict recently...not a good role model for young adults :(

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/02/amy-winehouse-goes-to-see_n_104819.html

Not one for arriving on time to visit her husband in prison, Amy Winehouse today spent more than an hour in court supporting her husband who faces charges of assault and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

The troubled star sat in the front row of the public gallery as Snaresbrook Crown Court, east London, and smiled lovingly at Blake Fielder-Civil, who smiled back at her from the dock.

Winehouse wore a short blue spotted dress in a clear effort to look smart for her husband's trial, but the classy clothes failed to hide her alarmingly bad skin.

The singer's ragged appearance shocked onlookers as she arrived at court

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Maybe she has some sort of skin rash of somekind.

I don't know that much about dematology, but people have things break out on their skin, regardless of age.

[cbc5g]

4. It's most likely meth sores

[Kerrytravelers]

6. OMG! I've never seen this before.

That is terrible.

[Warpy]

13. Meth is the only drug I know that will do that to a person

and I've seen world class alcoholics who died of liver failure in their late 20s.

I wonder how many people would do meth, considering what negative examples users provide, were more benign drugs safe, available and legal?

My guess is not many.

This is a public health issue, not a law enforcement one. We need to get all the conservatives the hell out of office so we can change bad law.

[MindPilot]

49. Yep. Meth used to be a very useful, fun, and inexpensive drug.

Back in my car biz days I made a boatload of money being able to work 48 hours straight with only piss breaks. And customers were just ecstatic to be able to drop their car off at 4:00pm and pick it up on their way to work in the morning.

And then law enforcement decided the way to fight meth was to make the precursor chemicals unavailable. So the cookers just substituted other chemicals like drain cleaner and battery acid; the result is the poison that we see today.

[Warpy]

55. Good cookers make pretty pure meth

although they fuck up the environment doing it.

The gummint says (and I think they can be trusted on this one) that the cycle of meth addiction numbers has pretty closely followed the purity of the drug on the market.

What they don't say is that since the more benign drugs are illegal and quite often hard to find, people have turned to bathtub drugs like meth.

I did meth for a couple of months in the late 60s, once a week just so I could get my flat clean and the laundry done after a tiring work week. The toll on my body was so great that I gave it up quickly and just decided to live in relative squalor.

Some people just don't have that kind of insight and end up addicted and with a body that is cooked from the inside out. It's a horrible drug.

[nosmokes]

56. *pure* meth is an oxymorn as meth by it's nature is toxic.

[Warpy]

57. Of course it is. That's what "a bad drug" means

but the product that most labs are turning out is very pure methamphetamine.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

45. That is horrible looking.

Any idea why meth causes something like that? I see lots of meth users with sores on their faces and have always been told they make them worse because they can't stop picking at them. I don't know if that's true or not, but I did see a pitiful girl Sunday strung tighter than a piano wire picking at sores on her face constantly. I've always wondered why the get sores in the first place? :shrug:

[Raksha]

46. That's horrible...I've never seen it before either.

I knew meth was bad news, but I had no idea it destroyed a person's skin like that.

[izquierdista]

8. And meth brings it out.

Check out this link: http://www.methanddeath.com/thefacesofmeth.htm (if you can stomach it)

Meth is a horrible addiction that is made worse by using law enforcement instead of public health to combat the problem.

[Kerrytravelers]

10. Oh, that is horrible.

And I totally agree. Making addiction a crime rather than a medical condition has destroyed so many lives.

[cbc5g]

12. This is why I posted the other day Obama's position on this in GDP

He supports treatment instead of prison. She obviously needs help badly.

[Squatch]

2. Yikes!

[Poll_Blind]

3. "They tried to make me go to rehab- I say: No! NO! NO!"

Shoulda bought a squirrel, Amy. Shoulda bought a squirrel.

PB

[Happyhippychick]

5. I know little about this but I saw a show about crystal meth and it showed that it did that to skin.

[Swede]

7. That's meth.

That stuff is the worst thing ever.

[Poll_Blind]

9. Yeah, you're probably right. I never seen anything like what meth does to a person.

  Right out of a fucking zombie movie, and I ain't joking.

PB

[cbc5g]

11. More reason to be okay with marijuana and even alcohol in moderation and condemn these hard drugs

Kids are worried about appearance. Amy Winehouse is doing a good job showing teens what NOT to do in order to look decent.


By D.A.R.E comparing marijuana and hard drugs they are doing a disservice to our nation. Because once a young adult tries marijuana and realizes its not as bad as they said, they will try other drugs and maybe end up like Amy Winehouse.

[Ghost in the Machine]

14. Damn! I thought that was Keith Richards!

She sure is giving him a run for his money...

The face that launched a thousand mascara ads....

[bdamomma]

16. geez, poor Amy

she is a mess, looks like Keith Richards too. But love her singing.

[gatorboy]

15. I'm not going to say she's not looking rough these days but doesn't that seem a little Photoshopped?

Here's another shot also taken the same day as she's leaving for the courthouse. Notice that they brushed out the eye-liner in the "older" shot.



The girl's got massive problems. And you can see her skin isn't that great, even under the make-up. But that photo form the OP's post has been tinkered with somewhat.

[cbc5g]

18. Which one is, which one isnt? hard to say but the purported reaction from people says it all..

Both those photos are on the same page.

[gatorboy]

21. It's not a Huffington Post story in the first place. It's a Dailymail story.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1023711/Amy-scrubs-Blake-court--hide-shocking-skin.html

[cbc5g]

23. I don't know much about british tabloid media but thats one hell of a photoshop if it is..

One looks like she has makeup on , the other doesnt...who knows. Might depend on the lighting and type of exposure too.

[pitohui]

25. she ALWAYS wears a lot of make-up, she has bad skin

i had bad skin when i was (much) younger than she is and it wasn't caused by drugs, it had unknown causes that stumped the docs, having bad skin is one of the reasons that young girls eventually might decide drugs are a good idea, if you ask me, our society is very judgmental and she is in the public eye

she certainly needs to get away from the drugs but when i see a young woman who has to heavily wear make-up because of her bad skin i can't assume the cause was the drugs, sometimes the cause is the other way round

i once read skin disease causes more suicides than cancer, probably an exaggeration and yet in my heart i believe it

[jmowreader]

51. She's had really bad permanent eyeliner done

Look at the photos at the top of the thread; you can see a really blotchy, nearly vestigial trace of the stuff where it's good and dark in the bottom picture.

What would REALLY suck is to go through THAT procedure--it's eyelid tattooing, which couldn't be a pleasant experience--then have to cover it up with more eyeliner so you don't look like shit.

[Ghost in the Machine]

28. Yeah, it's just *gotta be* a Photoshop because gawd knows she'd never do something like...

... oh, I don't know, maybe use the "powder room" to "freshen up a bit" before coming outside where throngs of reporters with cameras were waiting..... right?

Naw... no celebrity has *ever* done *that* before...

[gatorboy]

33. That doesn't even make sense.

:rofl:

The "older" pic IS taken outside. Oy, you people... You'll argue about anything (And now you got me doing it! :P)

[Ghost in the Machine]

39. Did you miss the part where she "arrived late" and "looked ragged"?

She could have overslept, or lost track of time while getting high, and had to rush to the court house. She gets there, sees reporters there, but has to get inside anyways. Knowing the reporters are still outside, she decides to freshen up a bit, fix her makeup, before leaving...

[gatorboy]

40. Okay, I'll post it one more time. I can't help you if you're not going to read the original source.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1023711/Amy-scrubs-Blake-court--hide-shocking-skin.html



Support: Amy Winehouse leaving her home, enroute to Snaresbrook Crown Court to attend the trial of her husband Blake





Got it?

[Ghost in the Machine]

44. Boy do I feel like a dummy...

I read your post as " Here's another shot also taken the same day as she's leaving FROM the courthouse.

Eh, I guess it's just one of those days...

:hi:

[gatorboy]

47. I can't believe I'm getting this worked up about it.

And I really hate coming off like an asshole (So apologies to you, sir! :hi:). It's just that this girl has enough problems as it is without some tabloid making up extra shit. She's got incredible talent. I just hope she can clean herself up from the real problems she has.

[Ghost in the Machine]

48. "Never back down when you know in your heart that you're right"...

Words of wisdom from my dad, many years ago...

You were right, I was wrong... you stood your ground and proved your point... no need to apologize...

PEACE!

Ghost

[ColbertWatcher]

42. I'm no expert, but I have to agree with you.

Looking at the images in the OP, you can see the line from the eye down along the side of the nose to the mouth is vastly different than the one you show here.

Plus, the shading is not subtle enough to make any sense. It looks more like a line drawn down her face than a curve of a face. Even if the line is, say, mascara running down her face, the eye looks flat.

And did she get a nose job while in court, too?

[bean fidhleir]

53. It's been viciously pshopped - look at the alleged jawline and chin

Until I saw the more complete photo, where it's obvious her jaw and chin are not small or receding, I couldn't imagine why she hadn't got CF surgery for it.

[BeHereNow]

17. Someone get that girl to a rehab with a HAIR salon!~

There could be rats and spiders living in that hair do!
BHN

[Lex]

19. looks photoshopped

as hell

[gatorboy]

22. It is!

Check post #15.

[cbc5g]

24. One's a closeup and one isn't , sure some of it may be but you can't add sores and scabs to pics

or saggy skin for that matter.

[pitohui]

26. maybe you can't, i sure can with photoshop cs2

i'm seeing some suspicious looking "artifacts" in that top pic

don't get me wrong, she's an unattractive woman with shitty skin, but i think somebody simply couldn't resist kicking a girl while she's down

[cbc5g]

31. Do British tabloids place scabs and sores on peoples faces to get attention?

If so that is just sick.

[pitohui]

32. they do a lot of things to get attention, that's why they call 'em tabloids

some even have a scantly clad/topless girl included inside, which would never fly in america

they just have different standards i guess

[gatorboy]

30. They're from the same day. She's wearing make-up in one and then at the courthouse the makeups gone?

And yes you can add scabs, sores, etc to pics. Why couldn't you? That's the beauty of digital manipulation. You could had a friggin third eyeball if you like. I work in Photoshop on a daily basis (I design ads). Send me a pic of yourself and I could rough you up pretty good. :)

[cbc5g]

35. I don't think they added scabs but I think the camera lighting may be disingenuous

I don't think it's legal to pass off a faked pic as real. Isnt that defamation?


God knows when I was a teen with acne some lighting in cameras made it look like i had satans skin.

[gatorboy]

36. It's a tabloid.

You've never seen tabloid before?

[cbc5g]

38. Nope but I got this from Huffington post, so I guess they do.

[ET Awful]

52. Hell, just messing with the sharpness, contrast, hilights and shadows, etc. could make someone look

10 times as bad as they do naturally.

It doesn't take much manipulation to make someone look that rough.

[IndependentDem]

20. Formication; aka, speed bumps, meth sores, crank bugs...

here's a bit of information for ya:

http://www.kci.org/meth_info/msg_board_posts/June_2004/formication%20speed%20bumps%20meth%20sores.htm

[anonymous171]

27. Meth will do that to you.

[lonestarnot]

29. Ackety poor ting.

[Beaverhausen]

34. I hope she gets it together, cause she is amazingly talented

Please Amy, get help, get off the junk and keep on singing!

[originalpckelly]

37. BREAKING: Amy Winehouse has changed her name to The Tweaker formerly known as Amy Winehouse.

:scared:

Damn, meth is a mofo!

[greenbriar]

41. uggggggggg

that is just scarey

[OhioChick]

43. OMG....24 Years Old??

She should be the poster girl for drug abuse.

[Ilsa]

50. Bad skin can be helped by a dermatologst with meds and other

newer treatments. I hope those aren't meth sores.

I'm turning 50 soon, and my skin looks better than the lady's skin in the pic, whether it is Amy W. or not.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

54. I feel so badly for her. Addiction is a horrible thing whether you are rich or poor.

I hope someone intervenes like they did for Britney.