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

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

Good lord, that's just scary. Mostly they're inflating boobs and butts, and smoothing out skin folds from odd postures, but the virtual tummy tucks and de-emphasis of bones are what freaks me out.

Especially when they soften the ribs and collarbones of models who are so underweight -- that's just going to make normal women looking at those people mad, thinking THAT is what they are supposed to look like.

They're not doing the same thing to the men, except for eliminating skin folds from weird poses. The only man who was a focus of picture just had the lighting changed for him. He wasn't enhanced in any way that I could really notice.

[winter]

Exactly - because it's all right for a guy to be decently muscular, but a woman has to be a skeleton. Check out the Kelis and Venus Williams photos - Kelis' arms get slimmed down by 50%, and Serena's muscles get heavily de-emphasized. It's just completely unnatural.

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

They de-emphasize the muscles on an athelete? WTF