Connecting with your inner celebrity

I used to read Jane Magazine a lot. They had this feature where people sent in pictures of themselves and the celebrities they freakishly resembled. Why did I so enjoy this? I have no idea, but as with all my pleasures I sought to replicate it on Facebook.

First I tried Likeness, an application many of my friends have added which for some reason I thought would help me compare myself to celebrities. (You mean Angelina Jolie hates skiing too? Gasp! We’re practically twins!) But it turns out that Likeness just helps me compare my likes and dislikes with my friends’ likes and dislikes (another of those ingroup-defining apps I wrote about before), and that of course is no good to me.

Then I tried FaceDouble Celebrity Look-alike. Aha, I thought, this is obviously the thing I want. Some scanning robot will no doubt compare my picture to its database containing millions of celebrities and determine that I look like some forgotten tennis queen from 1986. It’ll be just like in spy movies!

But once again I was disappointed. This app, while fun, lets you compare your friends to celebrities, or lets you suggest the celebrity you feel you most resemble. Not having a spy movie database with millions of entries — or a subscription to People — I cannot say which tennis queen I most look like, so this app is not for me.

Groups like Celebrity Look-Alike and What celebrity do you look-alike?, though fun, also lack a spy database. Basically, what I am looking for is something that does this work for me, something tailor-made to suit my laziness and complete lack of knowledge surrounding the celebrity world. Does anyone know of an app like this? And if I did find such an application, what practical use would I have for it? These are some questions.

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