Basic Trope: A normal girl is made over to be truly stunning.
- Straight: A Hollywood Homely girl drops the glasses, takes down her hair, and becomes Hollywood beautiful.
- Exaggerated: A girl with a hunchback, hairlip, and no hair becomes as glamorous as a supermodel after a slight makeover.
- Downplayed: A few people notice our heroine's new appearance and some comment that she looks different. She may get a few people telling her that she looks nice but no big fuss is made over the change.
- Justified:
- The girl just doesn't care enough to clean herself up, so looks rather frumpy despite being physically attractive.
- The girl knows she's pretty, but either doesn't care about it as mentioned above, or actively dresses down to avoid unwanted attention.
- Inverted:
- The "ugly" girl shows the makeover-er just how beautiful "ugly" can be.
- A beautiful girl becomes ugly after a makeover.
- As part of a disguise, a conspicuously beautiful girl undergoes a makeover to make her look ordinary.
- A girl puts on glasses, puts her hair up, dresses conservatively, and...whoa.
- Subverted:
- After the makeover, she still looks Hollywood Homely...or worse.
- A Hollywood Homely tomboy gets convinced by her friend to get a makeover. We see the results...and her hair looks ridiculous, her clothes too frilly, and her makeup is way too heavy.
- Double Subverted: And yet, people think her new look is beautiful!
- Parodied: A Hollywood Homely girl is made over rather than the girl with a hunchback, harelip, and no hair.
- Zig Zagged: See the Monday after almost any Prom.
- Averted: She gets the guy while never actually being made over.
- Enforced: See Unnecessary Makeover.
- Lampshaded: "What did you expect? That once my glasses were off I would turn into Winona Ryder?"
- Invoked: She makes herself over into the girl of her love interest's dreams.
- Exploited: The girl looks so different after the makeover, people can't tell it's her. She uses this to conceal her identity.
- Defied: She refuses every attempt to make her over.
- Discussed: "Sometimes, it is just as easy as letting your hair down."
- Conversed: "Gee, another teen movie where Rachel Leigh Cook wears prop glasses and a ponytail?"
- Implied: People mention how Alice is pretty when she puts on some effort, but the audience never sees her do so.
- Played For Drama: Alice is Troubled, but Cute and used to look prettier before she changed schools and started dressing down to avoid attention thanks to her social anxiety. Her new school hosts an event during which someone who attended the same school as Alice mentions how she used to look quite pretty before she changed her look, and she's picked out of the crowd and given an involuntary makeover. After her glasses go and her hair is let down, people notice how pretty she is, but because of her anxiety she can't handle being the center of attention and runs away crying. For the next few days she tries being even more distant but after people keep bringing the event up, she starts avoiding school altogether.
- Deconstructed: A girl who is considered "ugly" by her peers, but is at most Hollywood Homely, gets a makeover to make her look beautiful. After the makeover, she gets lots of attention, and seemingly everyone wants to befriend or date her. She realizes that her peers only care about her because of the makeup and clothing she's wearing, and comes to believe that the world is shallow and no one will ever truly appreciate her for who she is.
- Reconstructed: See almost any Prom.
Take off the glasses, let down the hair, and become Beautiful All Along.
