For when you're feeling down about your body

[winter]

Glamour photos of celebrities - before and after Photoshop

Mouse over the images and see how bellies and buttocks were tucked in, skins smoothed, arms narrowed, cellulite erased. And those are the beauty queens. Erases all complexes with a touch of the retouch brush.

(Gacked from pl.rec.uroda.)

Comments

[winter]

And this is the baseline real women are compared against. Hell, I have less cellulite and better stomach muscles than a lot of these women really have :/

[tehta.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you're probably much younger than them. I hate the inexorable march of time, I really do.

On a more positive note, these pictures have reminded me that everyone's skin does weird things when they do weird twisty poses. When I was a teenager, I thought I was a freak because I was the only one who seemed to have that...

[winter]

Yeah, I'm a staggering total two years younger than Venus Williams or Kelis ;) I doubt many of them are older than 20-something, and I'm getting closer to the middle of that range.

On a more positive note, these pictures have reminded me that everyone's skin does weird things when they do weird twisty poses.

If only more people remembered that, we might be spared the sight of too many women in too-tight clothing that resembles a pond with an octopus somewhere down making waves, every time they move ;)