The entire Hollywood economy depends on you wanting to buy a bunch of bullshit bearing the logo of the last movie you liked. Does it matter if that merchandise has nothing to do with the movie, or even openly mocks all that the characters believed in? Let's put it this way: Asking such a question will get a studio executive killed.

6 Makeup Companies Sell The Fashion Of The Murderous Capitol In The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games series is about a dystopian future in which America's one percent live in luxury in "The Capitol," and host an annual reality TV show in which children from the subservient Districts are selected to fight each other to the death, for reasons that are never satisfactorily explained.

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The bloodthirsty elite citizens of The Capitol were notable for the gaudy and ridiculous fashions they sported. CoverGirl liked these looks so much that they released a tie-in makeup range celebrating the unique style of those casually murderous sociopaths.

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Please note that the heroes of the story, led by Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss, are simple farming folk who dress in outfits cobbled together from animal skins and potato sacks. It's only the entitled, narcissistic villains who paint themselves up like Cirque de Soleil performers, right before tuning in to an annual child murder spree for entertainment.

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It's one thing to dress up like a movie villain because you think they're badass -- many of us spent at least one Halloween dressed up like Heath Ledger's Joker. But The Hunger Games painted the villains' faces like this to make them look fucking stupid, in contrast with the salt-of-the-Earth heroes. So this would be like dressing up as, say, Jared Leto's Joker on Halloween, and then leaving the costume on the rest of the year.

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