Spinning on that dizzy edge

If we're going to be catty...dear, I think that *you* have better hair. Yours is nice and shiny. Her color might be nice, but look at those ends! Curly or not, there is NO excuse for that sort of split-end snarlfest. Get thee to the salon for a trim, I say, and then learn to use silicone detangler if necessary.

As for the complexion: TOTAL. MAKEUP. You, too can have a milkmaid complexion of you master the use of powder and blush. I'm sorry: It's artfully applied, but she does NOT have cheekbones like that IRL. Look at the last picture: We start to see the True Complexion, and its shiny and a tad on the red side. In other words, just like a Real Woman.

That being said, it's always amazing to me how you can describe a couple of features and people think "OOOOH, SO PRETTY!" and then you look at the actual *person* and, well--all the green eyes and red hair in the world won't do squat if you don't have good bone structure. Likewise, you can have El Nondescripto hair and eyes, but have a good overall package. Baryshnikov did not have especially memorable hair or eye color, but oh, the package....

When I think "Mary Sue", though, I get the exact opposite image. Instead of perfection, I think extremely dowdy frumptastic bluenosedness.