What change in someones "outer appearance" would bring the most transformation?

nigel_wilson

Outer appearance also taking into account voice (accent and language). I suppose that's not exactly a physical thing but still is external and definitely as noticeable as your hair or eye color when making a first impression.

If you were to either dye your hair/change the style, wear contacts/'laser' your iris if you have brown eyes to blue, change your voice pitch/language you speak/accent, what do you think would make you "unrecognizable" to people who know you?

razorblunt

Not about myself, but some girls look unrecognisable when they go from (unnatural) blond to (probably closer to natural) brunette hair colours.


I dropped about 3 stone a few years back and some folk didn't recognise me, it seemed to drop off my face and upper body mostly. I'm now training a lot so my body shape has changed significantly from what it used to be. That's probably quite a drastic change admittedly.
Wearing contact lenses instead of glasses sometimes has the same reaction!

Sleepy

Barring a full-on gender reassignment and a few years of not seeing them whilst on hormones, I can't think of any physical change that would make me unrecognizable to anyone who knows me.

I suspect a change of wardrobe and accent would have the most effect on someone socially / professionally however.

Grayson

Going bald. Trust me.

BuyersRemorse

nigel_wilson wrote: »

Outer appearance also taking into account voice (accent and language). I suppose that's not exactly a physical thing but still is external and definitely as noticeable as your hair or eye color when making a first impression.

If you were to either dye your hair/change the style, wear contacts/'laser' your iris if you have brown eyes to blue, change your voice pitch/language you speak/accent, what do you think would make you "unrecognizable" to people who know you?

I don't know what you've done, but just hand yourself in - it'll be best for everyone.

Samaris

Tbh, someone removing their glasses does it for me. I have fairly poor ability at recognising faces (I do much better with word descriptions that can be pinned down rather than fixing something as subtle and variable as a face in my mind; I'm not that visual). If they dye or cut their hair, I've had it! I more have to fix certain words in a check-list until I know someone well enough to automatically recognise them. "Blonde, round face, blueish eyes, small chin, voice like this, shorter than me, smiles". Faces don't really lend themselves to being broken down in that way. And, ofc, I can think of at least four people that the list above would check off for, despite having applied it to one person in my head.

I once gave an unrecognised guy in my apartment a confused nod of greeting before looking for flatmate before it was indicated to me that the strange guy in the main room was in fact a close friend I'd lived with because he'd cut all his hair off.

...And yet, I can generally tell apart my partner's identical twin nieces, but not his decidedly non-identical sisters if I see them apart. Tis a mystery to me.


Obviously, the lack of my being able to do that for other people means that I have no idea what I'd change about myself to make myself unrecognisable. Hair, probably, I'd say that's my most noticeable feature.

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diomed

Put on a hat and sunglasses and crimeline will be baffled.
Good luck with the robbing.