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Airbrushing: It Does a Body Good
All around us, everyday, advertising products, posing for magazine covers, inhabiting our favorite sitcoms, are seemingly perfect people – nary a spot, stretch mark or single cell of unwanted fat on any of them. They make it easy for us regular folk to get down on ourselves, with our dirty jeans and ponytails. It’s especially easy for us women and and girls to feel fat and frumpy, when confronted large, bright images of Heidi Klum’s rockin’ ass, Naomi Watts’ perfectly pale, dewy skin, or Cameron Diaz’s chiseled hip bones.
These images are presented to us as totally normal, realistic and utterly truthful. But they’re not.
Which is why you need to go to iWANEX STUDIO‘s website right now (click on “portfolio” to get to the dirt). The “professional photo re-touching service” has before and after pics of airbrushed stars who, it must be said, look kind of normal (Kelly Clarkson). Some even look tired (Cate Blanchett). A few look – I’m sorry, but it must be said – shockingly pedestrian (Jonathan Rhys-Myers! What the…?). And I love them for it.
I wish this kind of false representation was talked about more in the media. I wish I could tell every preteen in the world, “Those models? They’re airbrushed! NO ONE has hair that shiny! And guess what? Her boobs/his pecs are fake!” I wish I could put the “before” pictures of magazine cover girls (and boys) on the inside of each magazine, instead of the laundry list of designer make up products that are shellacked on their faces. Better still, I wish I could eliminate airbrushing all together, like Kate Winslet did for her new Lancome campaign. Because beauty isn’t about make up and hair – it’s about being real. Not real fake.
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lionandmagicboy commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amWow, every single one of those celebs is beautiful before the airbrushing. Wonder what we regular people would look like WITH it?
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amPingback from Reality check: increasingly celebrity airbrushing | Diet,Nutrition,Exercise,Weight Loss
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI’m surprised no one mentioned the Dove commercial that made the rounds… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibyAJOSW8U
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amjust an obvious kind of lealousy try to do so airbrush who knows may be you will look good.these people have talents other common people like you and me or those who commene has nothing but a computer they use it to solve their failture to be like the talented people and they found it easier to be critic and offensive ! much pity
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amPingback from University Update-Kelly Clarkson-Airbrushing: It Does a Body Good
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amWow! What an amazing site. Kelly Clarkson definitely got thinner and Penelope Cruz’s boobs moved!
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amPingback from University Update-UN Studio-Airbrushing: It Does a Body Good
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