Comments on: “… so we went ahead and pieced together a new girl.”

By: Gin

Gin — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:37:38 +0000

I think Danielle is right… no matter how much information is available about photo retouching, the image itself is still more powerful. I am a grown woman and I feel happy and secure with my life, my body, and who I am. I know that the photos are retouched. (I know, I know, I know.) And yet, I still take a bit of a self-esteem hit when I see those pictures of women with smooth, toned thighs or beautiful poreless skin.

By: Ariah Fine

Ariah Fine — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:48:50 +0000

Thank you for sharing this!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:57:45 +0000

I loved it when Cindy Crawford said that. I think it was on the Tyra Banks show.

By: ovk

ovk — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:51:42 +0000

model’s themselves end up not resembling themselves, a paraphrase, of what the narrator said is so on the dot.

even cindy crawford once said, “after hours in the make-up chair i don’t even look like cindy crawford”…
some of the most noteably beautiful women don’t even look what the magazines and advertisments make them to be.

picaso, anyone?

By: Zairi Zaidi

Zairi Zaidi — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:14:33 +0000

Thanks

By: Danielle

Danielle — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:59:35 +0000

I just say stop retouching all together. Let magazines and websites show “natural” beauty–the real person–and not the false recreated image.
I mean, even models aren’t “perfect” enough and need retouching. It’s insanity!

I don’t think disclosing such information (amount of retouching) will do much. A lot of people I know never even read the print–they just look at those pictures. And, even if they did read about how much each image was altered, it still won’t do a lot.
Pictures are still going to be more powerful. They’re still going to stick in your mind–more so than those words on that page.
People are still going to compare themselves, even if they are informed about all the retouching. They’re still going to yearn to be that ‘perfect’, strive for it. Words on a page won’t change it.

We need to stop retouching images and let everyone see the unaltered, entirely natural humans instead of the unattainable, fake beauties that bombard us on a day-to-day, hour-to-hour, minute-to-minute basis.