From Daily Mail (caution: tabloid):
The Virgin of La Macarena is one of Spain‘s most famed Catholic effigies, and many Spaniards travel south every year to catch a glimpse of the wooden figure during the city’s Holy Week parades.
So when the Brotherhood of the Macarena unveiled the surprise restoration over the weekend, her devotees were outraged, with critics saying she had been disfigured. According to her worshippers, her face was given a glossier finish, while her eye lashes were made longer, which they say altered her gaze. ‘Her facial expression has completely changed,’ one outraged worshipper told Spanish newspaper El Pais. ‘It pains me deeply to say it, but she looks like a poor copy of the original.’