We all know it`s done http://www.idigitdesign.com/blog/2006/10/20/the-photoshop-art-of-beauty Move mouse over photos to see how they've been touched up
Thanks for that - I have 3 children. 2 of them are girls. I also have a wonderful wife, but over the last few years of being married and raising daughters I have become incredibly aware of how body image is so important to them, how young children and impressionable teenagers are bombarded with imagery and also how my wife views her self. It is incredible the amount of pressure they put on themselves and the negativity they have when faced with photographs. Sometimes it is impossible to just take an ordinary family photograph without one or all of them preening themselves for 10mins prior to the photo being finally taken. Having worked in media before I was aware of this kind of image manipulation, but the site you have pointed out is something I can show them. Cheers!
pictures aside, a nice body derives from a proper diet and right exercise , without going to extremes. Anorexic people and other such fashion victims are not examples to be followed.
It's all about a person's perception of self-worth and how that interacts with our natural desire to conform with the status quo. Most people are insecure in this area and advertising agencies play on this weakness. As the video illustrates, no one matches the "ideal look", not even a beautiful model like the one they used in the video. By pushing this idea of unattainable perfection cosmetic companies can continually push the next new product and people will blindly buy it in the hope it might take them that little bit closer. The only way to get past this is to work on the spiritual self, finding value in our own unique abilities and individual qualities - the things that make us beautiful people in our own right beyond the kind of clothes we wear, the make-up we might use or the car we might drive. Only then image becomes less important. The most attractive thing about a person is self confidence. Great video from Dove, but it's just another advertising technique to sell Dove products. Hypocritical you could argue, and I'm sure Dove have used many similar photoshopped images in the past. Just now adays, "Real Beauty" is a more unique selling point.
That was pretty interesting. They probably mostly do that to "older" people that have wrinkles and stuff, though. That, or I don't really notice stuff like that in people often.
