The Man Who Makes Faces

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ROBERT BARRON IS THE MAN WHO MAKES FACES. FOR TWO DECADES HE SERVED AROUND THE WORLD IN THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WHERE HE WAS KNOWN AS A MASTER OF DISGUISE. NOW RETIRED FROM SPYING, BARRON HAS TURNED TO HELPING PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST FINGERS, HANDS, EYES AND FACES IN ACCIDENTS AND FIRES.THE FACE ON BARRON'S WORK DESK WILL GO TO FIRE VICTIM JIM ALEXANDER. PHOTO FROM EDIT INTERNATIONAL.

Mission Impossible type masks were and are used by the CIA during missions that change young into old, old into young. The face on the left hasn't yet had living flesh color placed into it. Photo from Edit international

A full face mask is taken from a woman and will be used to disguise someone else to look like her. Photo from Edit International

Jim Alexander a few years ago before he had his terrible accident in which a fiery car crash burned off his entire face, ears, nose and scalp. After the accident he remained a recluse, unwilling to go outside - but then his daughter and son-in-law, both nurses, researched what can be done and brought him to Robert Barron, ex-CIA master of disguise and the ex spy made Jim Alexander a new face. Photo from Jim Alexander for Edit International.

JIM ALEXANDER HAD NO FACE. IT WAS LOST IN A FIERY AUTO ACCIDENT. JIM WAS DOOMED TO A LIFE OF BEING KEPT OUT OF SIGHT UNTIL EX CIA SPY ROBERT BARRON, A MASTER OF DISGUISE, MADE HIM A NEW FACE WHICH IS SO GOOD HE DID BUSINESS AGAIN. HE EVEN WON FIRST PRIZE AT AN AUTO SHOW WITHOUT ANYONE SUSPECTING HE WORE A FALSE FACE. AFTER MANY OPERATIONS JIM REGAINED SIGHT IN ONE OF HIS EYES. HIS HEAD IS BANDAGED IN THIS PHOTOGRAPH BECAUSE OF FIRE WOUNDS WHICH HAD NOT HEALED. PHOTO FROM EDIT INTERNATIONAL COURTESY OF JIM ALEXANDER.

JIM ALEXANDER WEARING HIS FULL FACE AND HEAD MASK STANDS OUTSIDE THE BIG HOME HIS CAR CRASH SETTLEMENT BOUGHT HIM. "I WOULD HAVE KILLED MYSELF BUT MY BELIEVE IN GOD IS A REASON FOR ME LIVING ON." AFTER THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN JIM REGAINED SIGHT IN ONE EYE. A FEW YEARS LATER JIM FELL ASLEEP IN BED SMOKING AND BURNED TO DEATH. PHOTO FROM JIM ALEXANDER VIA EDIT INTERNATIONAL.

This ear is the result of a Plastic Surgeon's Ear Reconstructive Surgery before coming to Robert Barron. Photo Edit International

Before a false ear can be placed a plastic surgeon had to completely remove all traces of the "cauliflower" botched previous surgery. Photo from Edit International.

It is very difficult to distinguish between one of Barron's attached false ears and a natural one. Photo Edit International

A SEVERED HAND IS A SEVERE HANDICAP BUT THE EMOTIONAL DISTRESS IT CAUSES MAKES THE PROBLEM EVEN WORSE. BARRON CAN MAKE UP A NEW HAND THAT SO CLOSELY MATCHES THE OTHER HAND, THAT THE ONLY WAY TO TELL IT'S NOT REAL IS TO FEEL IT. PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBERT BARRON VIA EDIT INTERNATIONAL.

THE HAND REPLACED IS A WORK OF ART WITH PORES, WRINKLES, VEINS AND EVEN TUFTS OF HAIR. IT IS A COMPLETE COPY OF THE HAND THE VICTIM HAD BEEN LEFT WITH AND DRAWS NO ATTENTION. PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBERT BARRON VIA EDIT INERNATIONAL.

PAULINE MILLINER LOST HER LEFT EYE TO CANCER AND DIDN'T WANT TO WEAR AN EYE PATCH THE REST OF HER LIFE - SO ROBERT BARRRON MADE HER AN ORBITAL/OCULAR PROSTHESIS TO COVER THE PROBLEM. PAULINE SAYS, "PEOPLE WHO KNOW ABOUT MY EYE BEING REPLACED DON'T EVEN NOTICE WHAT'S HAPPENED. THEY THINK THE EYE THEY SEE IS PART OF ME." PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBERT BARRON VIA EDIT INTERNATIONAL.

PAULINE MILLINER WHO LOST HER LEFT EYE TO CANCER IS HAPPY WITH THE NEW LEFT EYE CREATED BY EX-CIA MASTER OF DISGUISE ROBERT BARRON WHO HAS TURNED TO HELPING PEOPLE LOOK NORMAL AGAIN. PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBERT BARRON, VIA EDIT INTERNATIONAL

WHEN SOMEONE HAS NO EAR BECAUSE OF A BIRTH DEFECT OR ACCIDENT BARRON HAS AN ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT JOB. HE MUST REPLACE THE EAR AND STILL ALLOW SOUND TO FUNNEL INSIDE FOR HEARING. BARRON PLACES PINS INTO THE BONES OF THE HEAD OR TO SKIN AND THE EAR COMES ON AND OFF IN SECONDS. PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBERT BARRON VIA EDIT INTERNATIONAL.

HAPPINESS IS HAVING A NORMAL EAR - ROBERT BARRON MADE THIS MAN'S LIFE NORMAL BY CREATING A FULL AND ORDINARY-LOOKING LEFT EAR FOR HIM. HE CAME TO THE US ALL THE WAY FROM SINGAPORE. PHOTO COURTESY OF ROBERT BARRON VIA EDIT INTERNATIONAL.

Zahida Parveen, a beautiful 24-year-old woman was six months pregnant when she was attacked and tortured by her abusive and jealous barber husband after he thought she looked at another man over her veil. He took her home, stripped her naked, tied her hands and feet, hung her upside down on a rope he had fastened earlier to a pipe in the ceiling, gouged out her eyes with a metal rod, then, using his barber’s straight razor, sliced off his wife’s nose and ears. He tried to grab her tongue but couldn’t catch hold of it. Then he cut her down so his blind wife could hear him take her children away.. Photo from Edit international.

ZANIDA PARVEEN CAN NOW SEE HER CHILDREN WITHOUT HAVING THEM RUN AWAY SCREAMING. SHE IS WEARING FLSE EYES, FALSE NOSE AND FALSE EARS FASHIONED BY ROBERT BARRON. PHOTO FROM EDIT INTERNATIONAL.

ROBERT BARRON, THE MAN WHO MAKES FACES, SHOWN WITH ZANIDA PARVEEN WITH HER IMITATION EYES, NOSE AND EARS, HAPPY THAT HER CHILDREN DO NOT RUN AWAY SCREAMING ANY LONGER AT HER SIGHT. ZANIDA NOW WORKS IN PAKISTAN FOR GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TEACHING PEOPLE NOT TO CONTINUE WITH 'HONOR KILLINGS'. PHOTO FROM ROBERT BARRON, VIA EDIT INTERNATIONAL.

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