Because culture says that women never look good enough.

[butterfly]

I'm mostly putting this here as a personal reminder of how Western (specifically American, in this case) society works to destroy female self-image.

At the Iwanex Studio website, under their portfolio section, you can see some of the retouched photos of celebrities that they've done... when you scroll over the image, you can see what the picture looked like before it was photoshopped. See Cameron Diaz's breasts reshaped and her arms and legs made smaller! See freckles disappear! See Julia Stiles' breasts and hips grow! Watch as women are given uniform 'hourglass' figures!

They fuck with some guys' appearances, too, but not to the same extent.

Comments

[supacat.livejournal.com]

I was just going to write exactly that. Without the work, most of the women look beautiful in interesting, unique ways. Cate Blanchett looks gorgeous, her skin looks much prettier and more delicate to my eye when you can see its freckles and its fineness. Cameron Diaz ditto looks gorgeous without the work, she has this aggressive feline quality. WITH the retouching, they all just look . . . the same. Blah, blah, blah.

[auntie-angora.livejournal.com]

Me too. Most of them looked just fine without the retouching, but Cate Blanchett and Cameron Diaz looked GREAT beforehand. I'm not sure where I draw the line on airbrushing, personally, but sometimes I find it comforting to look at pictures of celebrities that haven't been airbrushed, just to reassure myself that they aren't a race of androids or something.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

sometimes I find it comforting to look at pictures of celebrities that haven't been airbrushed, just to reassure myself that they aren't a race of androids or something.

Hee!

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. It makes them all (these interesting, gorgeous women) look more bland and cookie-cutter.