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

[artela.livejournal.com]

Am I alone in thinking that some of them looked better *pre* photoshopping?

And the one where they tilted the foreground picture - would've been better if they'd noticed the mirror behind and photoshopped it to match *LOL* - talk about inattentive!

How are we supposed to try and measure up, though, if it's all make believe anyway - there are young girls out there seriously ill due to trying to look like this sort of unrealistic image :-/

[littleshebear.livejournal.com]

Am I alone in thinking that some of them looked better *pre* photoshopping?

No, I thought that too. The ones of Halle Berry where she actually had *gasp* one or two lines on her face in the non-airbrushed versions? She looked better there, IMO. In the retouched ones she looks like a waxwork. Some of them were totally over-done, no one's skin is THAT smooth and shiny.

[winter]

Definitely, especially the faces - you lose all expression with this kind of heavy airbrushing. But it was the tummies and the butts that pissed me off the most ;)

[mayoini.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing too. :)