Oscars 2014: Disney’s Frozen inspires more online hair and make-up tutorials than American Hustle

Animated Snow Queen Elsa beats Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams in the battle of the YouTube get-the-look videos

BY Sarah Royce-Greensill | 27 February 2014

Photo: Disney / Rex

The voluminous hairstyles and seventies make-up sported by Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence in the Best Picture nominated film American Hustle won the team responsible - Evelyne Noraz, Lori McCoy-Bell and Kathrine Gordon - a Best Make-up and Hair Bafta, so it's no surprise that the looks have garnered their fair share of attention in the beauty blogosphere. But not as much, it seems, as the cartoon features of the characters in Disney's Best Animated Picture nominee, Frozen.

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Type 'Frozen hair tutorial' or 'Frozen make-up tutorial' into YouTube and you'll see 99,300 and 186,000 results respectively, while the same searches for American Hustle generate a comparatively paltry 11,500 and 13,500 results. It seems that, not content with trying to emulate genetically blessed Hollywood stars, cartoon characters are the newest unobtainable beauty ideal.

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According to Fashionista.com, most of the Frozen how-to videos focus on a pivotal scene where the Snow Queen Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel) casts aside her bookish gown and demure chignon in favour of a sparkly, off-the-shoulder number and enormous backcombed braid, complete with sassy purple eye shadow.

It's a look that's not for the faint-hearted - and one that's probably easier to carry off in a computer-generated fairytale than in real life - but that hasn't stopped Disney-obsessed make-up maestros giving it a go. "I never knew that Disney characters could have such fun make-up!" enthuses one amethyst-eyed Elsa impersonator.

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Meanwhile, American Hustle tutorials seem fairly evenly split between recreating the high octane glamour of Amy Adams's character Sydney, and the perpetually made-up façade of Jennifer Lawrence's Rosalyn - who, with her blonde bouffant and penchant for over-the-top eye shadow, isn't a million miles away from Elsa the Snow Queen. Funnily enough, none yet demonstrate how to recreate Bradley Cooper's micro perm or Christian Bale's comb over. Better luck next time, guys.