Chapter 129 Player's Skill Points
Taking photos is not a new thing. There is a photo studio in Mary Street Market that not only takes black and white photos, but also takes color images for twice the price.
But the ladies had never heard of the technology to take a photo of Mrs. Anita's beauty that was completely different from the real person, and to make Anita herself look like the person in the painting. Ms. Will's hostess was so impatient to listen to Anita continue to brag about how real and restored her photos were, that she hurriedly ended her favorite chat and ran into the store with her skirt lifted.
The other ladies apparently had the same idea.
The storefront of No. 063 Plant Avenue is very small. One needs to pass through a foyer that is only as wide as a carriage and push open a double wooden door to enter the lobby hidden deep inside.
In the foyer stood a strong man dressed in waiter's clothes, who looked like the security guard of a respectable family. When the ladies came in from the shop door facing the street, the waiter bowed slightly and pushed open the double wooden doors for the ladies.
Entering the lobby, the ladies all exclaimed in amazement...
The interior of the store, which is only slightly more spacious than the living room of a lady's home, is not extremely luxuriously decorated, but it is undoubtedly very "professional":
Opposite the door are two rows of steel hangers, hung with long and short dresses of various styles (actually wedding dresses rented from photo studios and long skirts rented from Lolita experience stores).
On the left side of the lobby, there are several small compartments with bright lights and decorations of different styles (the kind of COS studios commonly seen in comic conventions) .
On the right side of the lobby, there are dressing tables lined up in a row (actually rented from the hair salon...), and huge display cabinets filled with exquisite glassware (cosmetics) and various luxurious and gorgeous jewelry (rented from jewelry stores and silver jewelry stores).
The ladies who claimed to be very close to the lives of noble ladies could not recognize most of the furnishings in this room. Even Ms. Will's hostess could not help but be a little reserved...
"Good day, ladies." A stunningly beautiful woman in a floor-length dress walked out from the counter next to the dress rack. She smiled and bowed slightly to the guests. "Welcome to the Perfect Dream Photo Studio. I'm Vivian."
"Good day." The ladies nodded slightly in return with dignity, and their eyes all swept towards Vivian's face.
If the ladies had not seen the familiar Anita's drastic change, they would definitely be amazed at the beauty of the woman in front of them... Now, the ladies only have one thought: Could it be that this woman also used that kind of magical technology to change her appearance?
Vivian was obviously a lady who was very familiar with the social scene. She warmly invited several ladies and their maids to sit in the lounge area on the side of the hall, served them snacks and tea in exquisite glass cups and plates, and chatted with the ladies about the weather in a very "social" manner.
The "habit" of the aristocracy is to be slow, elegant, and laborious... to have a sense of ritual; if Vivian had gotten straight to the point right away, she might have been looked down upon by these middle-class women, but by taking her time like this, she was able to win the favor of the middle-class women who admired the aristocratic spirit.
It was almost time before Vivian introduced the business philosophy of the "Perfect Shop", saying a bunch of nonsense like "Every woman has the most perfect appearance given by the gods, but there are always many unsatisfactory things in life that obscure the beauty given by the gods to women"...
This also accurately hits the soft spot of the target customers - who is willing to admit that they are ugly and hope to save themselves with makeup!
Then they put forward the banner of "service purpose", trying their best to restore the truest appearance of women and preserve it forever, and warmly invite ladies to experience it...
When Ms. Will's hostess sat in front of the dressing table, she was filled with the expectation of "restoring her beauty". The makeup artists who came in from the back hall were all wearing black cloaks covering their entire bodies, wearing exaggerated ball masks, and even their hands were covered with leather gloves. This weird situation was not something she cared about at all...
Ms. Will herself was not able to experience the experience. Unlike the hostess, she was not overwhelmed by the "restoration of beauty". When she saw the "makeup artist" who looked like a gangster , she was so scared that she screamed on the spot.
"Please calm down, Madam Housekeeper." Vivian still smiled, "According to the rules of the Perfection House, the makeup artists of this house cannot be touched or talked to. Please abide by our rules."
"Will." The hostess said softly with a gloomy face.
Ms. Will quickly covered her mouth and lowered her head.
Vivian bowed formally to the "makeup artists" with a very respectful and pious attitude: "Please start."
Her behavior really raised the status of a "makeup artist". The ladies who were waiting to "restore their beauty" could not help but be affected and sat upright.
Next, during the "restoration" process with the "makeup artist" making gestures and Vivian reminding them to "open their eyes and close their eyes", the mouths of the ladies who were being "restored" and the housekeepers and maids standing by opened wider and wider...
If Hal, who was born in the Kenyan Empire, looks like a mixture of Slavs and Latin Americans, with white skin, wider facial bones and thicker hair, then the Rhine people are very much like a mixture of Central Asians and Aryans - narrower facial bones, more prominent upper skull bones, more sunken eye sockets, and the upper part of the face is slightly more three-dimensional than that of Central Asians, but not very high noses and deep eyes.
As for the deep eye sockets (when viewed from the side, there is a clear line between the brow bone and the eye sockets), small and relatively concentrated facial features, anyone with a little knowledge of makeup knows that they are very suitable for heavy makeup...
Among casual players who have enough free time and can get a good reputation with the Undead Chamber of Commerce, there are quite a few who have chosen the makeup skill - for example, Miaobishenghua, who is not only a writer but also a Hanfu and Lolita girl; another example is a girl with the ID "Runaway Goldfish", who is a makeup artist who often attends comic exhibitions in real life.
There is also a nurse player with the ID "I am super obedient", who is actually a beauty blogger in real life; a nurse player with the ID "Flip Fish", who is actually a makeup imitator anchor...
The makeup skill point is never used in normal games, but this time they actually have the opportunity to show their skills in the mission. These female players are so happy.
The makeup artist for Will's hostess was very skilled. She first used a cotton pad to remove the fake white powder on her face, then applied toner and primer, concealer to cover up freckles, applied two different shades of foundation, and used a sponge to create layers. The deft hands, who could write, draw, and do makeup, used a small brush to apply the makeup. In forty minutes, they made the hostess, whose only advantage was her pretty facial features, look like a supermodel who was going to walk the runway.
After the makeup was done, he happily took two screenshots with his magic pen, and then started to do the hostess's hair... She played Lolita, and she was great at doing hair!
She hadn't finished the process yet. The hostess, who was sitting in a high-back chair, was looking at her radiant self in the makeup mirror and was so excited that she almost cried.
Ms. Will's mouth opened wide as she watched her hostess undergo a transformation step by step.
After tying up her hair and putting on jewelry that matched the style of the hostess's long dress, she clapped her hands and said, "It's done!"
The hostess, who was so excited about her beauty, didn't notice the "clicking" sound made by the wonderful brush. Vivian was so nervous that she almost sweated. She smiled and tried to smooth things over: "Mrs. Gerry, our makeup artist said that your facial features are very good. She is honored to restore your appearance."
Miaobishenghua looked at Vivian strangely. What did this NPC say? She didn’t say that?
Vivian was invited by the young Brooke. She knew the identities of these so-called makeup artists very well and didn't dare to look at the wonderful brushes. She immediately and enthusiastically invited Mrs. Will's hostess, Mrs. Gerry, to the studio on the other side to take pictures...
The person taking the photo...is also a player, of course.
Huanling, a rich second-generation, and Youzhi Orange Cat, a clumsy RMB player, just happen to have photography skills.
Immersed in her own beauty, Mrs. Gerry happily picked the most expensive set of "portraits" at 8.8 gold coins. The other ladies were not as wealthy as Mrs. Gerry, but they also chose the "packages" priced in gold coins - these photo packages all included two-meter-high color half-length portraits that could be hung in the living room to show off to guests.
Three hours (in the other world) later, several ladies left radiantly, wearing heavy makeup that would last them a whole day and carrying A4 half-length photos that could be printed out instantly. They were discussing which party they would go to to show off their "restored" beauty while it was still there.
In the back hall, the young Brook counted the twenty or so gold coins that Vivian brought in, and was amazed: "Can you really make money by making people look pretty and then printing them out?"
"For women, preserving their appearance forever is always tempting in any world," Zhao Zhenzhen said with a smile.
This method was something Zhao Zhenzhen came up with naturally when she was reading the Innadeli Daily and referring to the advertisement pages in each newspaper to collect and judge intelligence information about this world.
The magic technology of this world is not backward, and some parts even surpass the technology on Earth.
For example, the magic steam pneumatic car, a specialty of the Kenyan Empire, which has long been advertised in the Innadri Daily, the schematic diagram of the small pneumatic engine released by the merchant exceeds the physical common sense of earthlings - a power device that burns dangerous gas instead of gasoline and diesel and can provide 100 metric horsepower can be so small that it is less than half a meter high, and the weight of the engine and gas storage device is less than 300 kilograms, and it can be stuffed into a standard-sized pneumatic car compartment.
The biggest reason why humans on Earth are replacing steam engines with fuel engines is that the thermal efficiency of steam engines is too low. The highest thermal efficiency is only over 20%. The power that a steam engine of the same volume can provide is far less than that of a fuel engine.
By 2018, 100-horsepower fuel engines will be common enough to surprise anyone on Earth, and the 100-horsepower steam engines built by steam power enthusiasts using modern technology are still extremely large and cannot shake the position of internal combustion fuel engines at all.
Judging from the limited information, it is not difficult for Zhao Zhenzhen to conclude that some areas of the magic technology tree in this world have surpassed the earth's technology - at least in terms of engine thermal efficiency and materials science, this world's magic technology is better than the earth's technology.
And this is why Zhao Zhenzhen has to come to the big city of Innadelli to take a look... There is no hope of getting in touch with the magic pneumatic car, at least in Westram.
