When Enrique Iglesias makes a video or an album cover shot he's surrounded by a crew consisting of 20 professionals whose only goal and purpose is to make Enrique look 10 years younger than he actually is. Enrique has millions of dollars and a lot of people are counting on him to make them a lot of money as well.
Taking off those 10 years for the camera is the number one priority and before that issue has been cleared no one even mutters "do we have any music to go with this?".

Just like Enrique I appear on my albumcovers and in my videos.
I have about 2 dollars and a "free medium french fries" coupon at Burger King. Luckily nobody's expecting to make a dime out of me.
HOWEVER....I also want to look cool but I don't have
A: a crew of photographers, stylists, make-up artists, light designers etc
B: a decent camera
so how do I make myself look ten years younger?
Well the equation is easy. I use photos that are 10 years old.
Not only have my looks gone from fairly handsome young man to the Elephantman meets Charles Bukowski in 10 years, but I can't even find a recent photo of me where I don't
A: carry a baby all misty eyed with a stupid grin on my face
B: carry a child like some slimey politician around election time or
C: carry some drunk jerk/friend making the devil sign over my head while leaning in front of me and completely ruining my worked up seductive mood

My first album came out in 2002 and the photos on the cover was from 1998.
That's 4 years of wrinkles out the window.
The second album came out in 2003 and the photos on the cover was from 1996. That's 7 years of lost hair down the drain.
The third album came out in 2006 and those photos on the cover was actually from that year but extremely manipulated for "artistic" reasons.
On album cover number 4 I'm shaved bald and shot from a distance while inside the sleeve I'm sporting a beard that completely hides all my features except for a roman emperor kind of nose that just won't be ignored.

Just made a video for the song Moving To Che City.
The original idea was to use only still shots so I started taking some of those (with the beard) but stopped when I realised I would need hundreds of pictures and my cellphone (with camera, hey it's flashy but that's the kind of modern man I am) was running out of memory.
That's when I remembered those tourist handycam movies I had in the attic.
One from New York City 1995 and one from London 1997.

I'm often certain I'm a genious even though this has never been confirmed by anyone who ever met me. This time I have proof.
Not only would it make me look 11 but sometimes even 13 years younger. I figured I could throw those clips in with the approriate lyrics. I mention NYC and London and sadly Paris which I didn't have any footage of but to make it up to the parisians I put a clip of the "rip off arc de triomphe" from Washington Square. Right when I sing the words "Salut Paris". Magic.

I guess the reason I'm writing this blog is so you don't have to wonder why I have different beard and hairdos (some horrendous, some ok) and also to help you look like a strapping young lad for the camera even though you clearly lost the last inch of your youthful charm some time at the end of the last millenium. Styling advice if you will. You too can become a swan! I've seen it and it works, by god it works.

For my next album cover I will use that picture of me when I was nine and went on my first rollercoaster. Cotton candy beard an' all. Must have beard.
People take you seriously if you have a beard. Get one for Enrique.
He could use it.

That's it folks
I'm out of here like Enriques vocal pitch
Ciao

All I neeeeeeeeeeeeed