scary retouching

[Rye]

Yeah, I saw the Dove commercial which was pretty scary, even when you do know how much companies photoshop people, because you see it for yourself, as Nomunius Experse put it. But the celebrity before and after... it certainly did make me feel better. xD

This reminds me of someone who goes to my school. She's a fashion model, because she's 5'9" and extremely skinny. She's has a nasty attitude, and really is not pretty, in my opinion, but she's rather condescending to me, because even though she considers me her friend, she constantly likes to subtly call me fat and say how no one finds people like me beautiful because I'm a size 8 and 5'0" and she's a size 4 and so model tall. She always likes to go on about how anyone over a size 5 or 6 is so fat and such. It used to really bother me, but it just amuses me now, because I've seen her model photos and photoshop completely makes over her face and body. She needs all that to feel beautiful, and she needs to constantly tell everyone she's a model to feel beautiful, when there are so many people who she'd consider fat and ugly who don't need that to be beautiful, because they naturally are beautiful. Not fake super skinny super soft beautiful, but really beautiful.

Photoshop is quite a tool.