Gallery: 11 of Your Favorite Emoji, Done Up in Real Life
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Liza Nelson recreates emoji IRL. For the eggplant, she went to the store and found an actual eggplant, painted it a deeper purple hue and painted the stem, too. *Image: Liza Nelson*
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Nelson's girlfriend dressed up in a red outfit and struck a pose. *Image: Liza Nelson*
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Nelson's girlfriend dressed up in a red outfit and struck a pose. *Image: Liza Nelson*
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Cardboard raindrops hung from the ceiling. *Image: Liza Nelson*
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But she does doctor them in Photoshop and adds a mono-colored background to make them pop. *Image: Liza Nelson*
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Nelson painted the toy gun silver and black to replicate the emoji gun. *Image: Liza Nelson*
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Here Nelson took a photo of herself with cardboard triangles strung above her head. She cropped out the rest of her body. *Image: Liza Nelson*
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Nelson says she only uses tangible items to create the emoji shots. *Image: Liza Nelson*
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Fist bump with a real fist. *Image: Liza Nelson*
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This is Nelson's friend Alex. He looks uncannily similar to the mustachioed emoji man. *Image: Liza Nelson*
