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

[mayoini.livejournal.com]

There was an article on that in some woman's magazine, maybe glamour, last summer (I remember because I took it on the plane with me when going to Japan ^^;) and they took photos of a "normal" woman and using photoshop trasformed her into a "celebrity". ^^; And they explained it all step by step, that was cool. This woman who retouches photos is mostly seriously overdoing it for my taste... Ugh, her works don't even look like real people when you look closely... I mean, cosmopolitan came give Kate Winslet a vitrual liposuction, but they don't turn her into a kitschy virtual barbie doll. Eek. I don't like it. And everybody knows photos can be photoshopped. Who wants to be like someone they just saw in a photo anyway. :P I'm going to get dressed, I think, the time to do it has come. (It's 5pm. I suck so much. *sigh*).

[winter]

Heh, wait until you start working... I'm just gearing up to leave the office :P

I just think of the times I've heard guys (and girls) describe an average-weight woman as "OMG so fat", because they're comparing her to all those false photoshopped images ~_~ Or they think "she should look like Celebrity A", and they don't even know what Celebrity A's body looks like because they've never seen a real photo of her. And I think that's very much a Polish thing... there's lots and lots more skeleton-thin Polish girls than there are in Italy, and in Ireland there were none, period.