The Mystery of the Make-Up Photo - was it taken on the same day as the Last Photo?

So beautiful, astonishingly bright, and I’d have to say very charismatic. She would shine out of a crowd. So—God forgive me—maybe that’s part of the problem. That special quality. Some bastard picked up on that.

Jon Corner [Vanity Fair]

Verdi wrote:

So beautiful, astonishingly bright, and I’d have to say very charismatic. She would shine out of a crowd.  So—God forgive me—maybe that’s part of the problem. That special quality. Some bastard picked up on that.

Jon Corner   [Vanity Fair]

Tony Bennett wrote:Whilst this topic is active on the forum, it may well be useful to post a reminder of why the Make-Up Photo may be critical to a proper understanding of what really happened to Madeleine McCann:


21 reasons for thinking the Make-Up Photo was taken on Sunday 29 April 2007


1 The Make-Up photo first appeared in a 2-minute video made by Jon Corner

2 He clearly had access to the photo in order to make the video.

3 For some reason he was in possession of lots of photos of Madeleine  

4 The original story from the McCanns was that it was taken “when Maddie was playing with Mummy’s make-up”, No details of place or time were given

5 That seems unlikely in the extreme. Madeleine is wearing a necklace and a hair-bead/elastic. At the age of three it is impossible that she could have put these on herself.

6 Madeleine clearly has eye shadow, which seems neatly applied and not the sort of mess a child would make. Many observers say she is wearing lipstick and even eye-liner. If we forget about the lipstick and the eyeliner, that still leaves the question of who applied the eye shadow

7 It seems probable that this photograph was not taken on the McCanns’ camera. It certainly wasn’t among the photos handed in to the Portuguese Police by Gerry McCann, Michael Wright and Bell Pottinger’s Head of Risk on 8 and 9 May 2007     

8 The background to this photo is a stucco wall apparently of yellow, dark cream or light ochre colour. This is extremely untypical of homes in the United Kingdom but extreme;y typical of houses and apartments on the Algarve coast

9 The presence of what is almost certainly an outside thermometer in the shot is another typical feature of Mediterranean houses

10 Madeleine’s face looks precisely the same age as it is on the so-called ‘Last Photo’, which many have concluded was overwhelmingly likely to have been taken on Sunday lunchtime, Sunday 29 April

11 Madeleine’s hair length is identical to that on the Last Photo

12 Madeleine’s hair colour is identical to that on the Last Photo

13 There are several indications that the Last Photo and the Make-Up photo were aken close together in time

14 In both photos, Madeleine is wearing a pink/white hair-bead or elastic. Admittedly they are in different positions but it is suggestive of an adult dressing her up

15 In both photos, Madeleine is wearing a pink dress or smock, very possibly the same dress  

16 The photo is disturbing. We have four pictures of Madeleine enjoying herself on the Saturday and Sunday (Playground Photo, two Wendy House photos, and the ‘Last Photo’). Why does she look vacant, unhappy and sad?

17 Why is her head tipped back like that? Was she asked to pose like that?

18 The cameraman, whoever it was, seems to have taken this photo with the camera held below Madeleine’s waist. Why such a strange camera angle and why is her head tipped back?

19 Why are there no other photos of her in this location? Was this a one-off, or were there more photos of her?

20 Why, if this photo was indeed taken on Sunday 29 April, and if the Last Photo was also taken on 29 April, are there no other confirmed photos of Madeleine that week? (The Tennis Balls Photo doesn’t count, it was said to have been taken by up to three different people  on at least two different days. Moreover, the description by Kate McCann of her charging back to get her camera, while Madeleine waited for several minutes holding some tennis balls, doesn’t ring true – see PeterMac’s two chapters on the Tennis Balls Photo in his ebook).

21 Did Madeleine suffer a ‘serious event’ of some kind soon after the Make-Up Photo was taken?                                

nyxy wrote:

Tony Bennett wrote:Whilst this topic is active on the forum, it may well be useful to post a reminder of why the Make-Up Photo may be critical to a proper understanding of what really happened to Madeleine McCann:


21 reasons for thinking the Make-Up Photo was taken on Sunday 29 April 2007


1 The Make-Up photo first appeared in a 2-minute video made by Jon Corner

2 He clearly had access to the photo in order to make the video.

3 For some reason he was in possession of lots of photos of Madeleine  

4 The original story from the McCanns was that it was taken “when Maddie was playing with Mummy’s make-up”, No details of place or time were given

5 That seems unlikely in the extreme. Madeleine is wearing a necklace and a hair-bead/elastic. At the age of three it is impossible that she could have put these on herself.

6 Madeleine clearly has eye shadow, which seems neatly applied and not the sort of mess a child would make. Many observers say she is wearing lipstick and even eye-liner. If we forget about the lipstick and the eyeliner, that still leaves the question of who applied the eye shadow

7 It seems probable that this photograph was not taken on the McCanns’ camera. It certainly wasn’t among the photos handed in to the Portuguese Police by Gerry McCann, Michael Wright and Bell Pottinger’s Head of Risk on 8 and 9 May 2007     

8 The background to this photo is a stucco wall apparently of yellow, dark cream or light ochre colour. This is extremely untypical of homes in the United Kingdom but extreme;y typical of houses and apartments on the Algarve coast

9 The presence of what is almost certainly an outside thermometer in the shot is another typical feature of Mediterranean houses

10 Madeleine’s face looks precisely the same age as it is on the so-called ‘Last Photo’, which many have concluded was overwhelmingly likely to have been taken on Sunday lunchtime, Sunday 29 April

11 Madeleine’s hair length is identical to that on the Last Photo

12 Madeleine’s hair colour is identical to that on the Last Photo

13 There are several indications that the Last Photo and the Make-Up photo were aken close together in time

14 In both photos, Madeleine is wearing a pink/white hair-bead or elastic. Admittedly they are in different positions but it is suggestive of an adult dressing her up

15 In both photos, Madeleine is wearing a pink dress or smock, very possibly the same dress  

16 The photo is disturbing. We have four pictures of Madeleine enjoying herself on the Saturday and Sunday (Playground Photo, two Wendy House photos, and the ‘Last Photo’). Why does she look vacant, unhappy and sad?

17 Why is her head tipped back like that? Was she asked to pose like that?

18 The cameraman, whoever it was, seems to have taken this photo with the camera held below Madeleine’s waist. Why such a strange camera angle and why is her head tipped back?

19 Why are there no other photos of her in this location? Was this a one-off, or were there more photos of her?

20 Why, if this photo was indeed taken on Sunday 29 April, and if the Last Photo was also taken on 29 April, are there no other confirmed photos of Madeleine that week? (The Tennis Balls Photo doesn’t count, it was said to have been taken by up to three different people  on at least two different days. Moreover, the description by Kate McCann of her charging back to get her camera, while Madeleine waited for several minutes holding some tennis balls, doesn’t ring true – see PeterMac’s two chapters on the Tennis Balls Photo in his ebook).

21 Did Madeleine suffer a ‘serious event’ of some kind soon after the Make-Up Photo was taken?                                

None of these 21 reasons indicate the picture is taken on 29 April and might as well been taken on 3 May or another day on their vacation.

ETA:

Why might this photo have been taken on Sunday 29 April and not later in the week?

Here are at least four good reasons:

1.  Madeleine appears to be wearing the same pink dress/smock that she was wearing in the 'Last Photo', which we can be certain was taken on 29 April, the only sunny, warm day that week

2.  In both the Last Photo and the Make-Up Photo, Madeleine is wearing a hair bead or piece of elastic. That suggests that someone was dressing her up that day

3.  We have no other photos of her that week, apart from the highly dubious and disputed Tennis Balls Photo. Thus the most likely date it was taken was Sunday

4.  Lizzy HideHo has shown in her research that there are no credible, independent sightings of Madeleine after Sunday. Once again, that points us to this disturbing Make-Up Photo having been taken on Sunday

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[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]  joined today, Monday 20 May 2019. Very first post, straight in there, challenging the very idea that the Make-Up Photo might have been taken in Praia da Luz on Sunday 29 April 2007. Why do some people seem so desperate to avoid this possibility at all costs?
 
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MayMuse wrote:I had a disturbing though. Gave me shivers down my spine. I almost felt sick. My thought was is the make up photo maddie after death? The victorians would do this disturbing thing with their kids, take photos and alter the images by adding make up to the corpse. Which would explain why the eyes seem lifeless and also would explain why the make up photo was altered. I really hope this is not the case. It may have been a warning to somebody. 

Verdi wrote:Your question is shared by many an observer coati mundi, including me.  Indeed, the entire content of Jon Corner's 2010 video appeal raises eyebrows, to say the least.

Sadly, it's the people behind sick videos that are feeding the child pornography industry.

Like every insalubrious aspect of life - if you don't feed it, it will starve and die.

PinkPanther wrote:Sorry to repost on an old thread but I only saw this photo the other night and struggled to sleep, felt uneasy. Like a sick feeling in my stomach and yet I don't even have children yet. 

I actually showed this to a few friends who have discussed the case before. Interestingly, 3 of them suggested that the blue object is a shoulder and her hair is being pulled back. One of them also suggested that she thinks Maddie could be dead in the photo due to the angle. 

I note that Tony touched on the hidden messages in the initial post however he cannot see these. The video also makes me feel weird, not sure why the word information needs to come up so many times. Considering Jon Corner is a "professional". 

Even worse, if this photo was taken on the Sunday and Maddie was alive. Could she have died in an incident following this picture? Still makes me feel sickly writing this now. Eww

MTSTAR wrote:

PinkPanther wrote:Sorry to repost on an old thread but I only saw this photo the other night and struggled to sleep, felt uneasy. Like a sick feeling in my stomach and yet I don't even have children yet. 

I actually showed this to a few friends who have discussed the case before. Interestingly, 3 of them suggested that the blue object is a shoulder and her hair is being pulled back. One of them also suggested that she thinks Maddie could be dead in the photo due to the angle. 

I note that Tony touched on the hidden messages in the initial post however he cannot see these. The video also makes me feel weird, not sure why the word information needs to come up so many times. Considering Jon Corner is a "professional". 

Even worse, if this photo was taken on the Sunday and Maddie was alive. Could she have died in an incident following this picture? Still makes me feel sickly writing this now. Eww

I’ve thought the same as your friend in that she’s dead.  I would like to know who the ‘they’ are that Kate referred to when she called out to Gerry that ‘They’ve taken her’.  Were  K &G allowing people to go into their apartment to look at the children? Everything I think of feels sick and twisted but I can’t help feeling something vile went horribly wrong.

PeterMac wrote:The book was written for the twins.  And now they are old enough to understand the terms, I wonder how they feel about it.
I wonder, incidentally, whether there is a copy in the house for them to see, and show to their little friends who pop round for tea and dinner at the bottom of the garden.

PeterMac wrote:The book was written for the twins.  And now they are old enough to understand the terms, I wonder how they feel about it.
I wonder, incidentally, whether there is a copy in the house for them to see, and show to their little friends who pop round for tea and dinner at the bottom of the garden.

Hobs wrote:

I wonder if the twins have...

...just things to ponder about 

[REST SNIPPED]

Tony Bennett wrote:

Hobs wrote:

I wonder if the twins have...

...just things to ponder about 

[REST SNIPPED]

The twins seem to be doing very well, actually.

For several years, they have been competing successfully in competitive sports such as swimming, athletics and cross-country, representing their school and athletics club at regional and even national events.

Kate McCann has for some time been the joint manager of the athletics club's Under-15 girls' cross-country team, a sport in which Amelia has competed very successfully for years.

This is publicly-available information on the internet, and reports about their athletic prowess regularly feature in their local newspaper, the Loughborough Echo, this one for example:

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Lance De Boils wrote:As in "chapel of rest."

But this would be too sick. Surely they wouldn't put that out!?

And then I remember the words in K's book - as mentioned above. They clearly are that sick.

cookiemuncher wrote:

Lance De Boils wrote:As in "chapel of rest."

But this would be too sick. Surely they wouldn't put that out!?

And then I remember the words in K's book - as mentioned above. They clearly are that sick.

I don't think you can come up with some of those suggestions unless you've actually lived them i.e. what KM has mentioned in her book (for the twins to read when they're older, ffs.    )

I can't imagine what that would do to the twins' minds.

Lance De Boils wrote:Tried and failed to multi quote.