Stick-thin models display the clothes girls think they're supposed to wear.
Dove tries to counteract fake-beautiful marketing with a campaign showing the bodies of real, unedited women. Women everywhere point at them in magazines and call them fat.
In reality, all it takes to make someone look beautiful in print is a happy proficiency in Photoshop or Gimp. I'm no expert, but I grabbed three photos of already beautiful women from Hotornot.com and enhanced them.
Women will never achieve the perfection we see on magazine covers. Models are not flawless; neither are celebrities. They have skin folds, zits, stubble in their armpits, flyaways, lines, wrinkles; they are human. We women cannot apply a Gaussian blur to our own faces. We cannot smudge the wrinkles away. And we shouldn't have to.
Here's to my undereye circles, and my perpetually dirty glasses. Here's to the wrinkles in my forehead and the lines around my mouth that will certainly get deeper the more I laugh. Here's to my face, which will never be perfect but will always be expressive and completely, utterly ME.
Care to toast to yours?
1 comment:
Got to the entry late (as MySpace buried the comment), but groovy, and too true, too true. I guess people assume models are born that way, but with digital editing, anyone can look super hot. And it's called lighting, so a soft lighting will naturally smooth out the wrinkles and some of the natural lines in a human face.
Kim
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