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

[deepdarkness.livejournal.com]

That is really...creepy. In some cases, I can understand why. I mean, I wouldn't want my very red pimples in a magazine, so a little touch-up is excusable. But with some of them it's very much a Night-and-Day change. Like Beyonce. They completely messed around with her body shape! I reminds me of that Showcase promo poster of Billie Piper. No matter how toned you are, if your body in in a V-shape, your stomach is not going to be flat. Hers very much is, and it's annoying. And in some of those photos, I prefer the before the touch-up shot! Freckles and lines make you look more human, instead of a plastic shop dummy.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Exactly. They look like shop dummies and not real people.

[killingfrost87.livejournal.com]

Which promo pic? ::is curious::

[deepdarkness.livejournal.com]

That one where she's sitting in a martini glass. Um...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Diary_of_a_Call_Girl here's the Wikipedia page. It's that one. If you look closely, her stomach is totally flat. And the entire picture is airbrushed to within an inch of its life on top of that. In some of the Showtime pictures, it barely looks like her at all.

[killingfrost87.livejournal.com]

Yeah, some of them were ridiculous, its a shame that this is what its come to