That’s cool. It definitely makes you think about the distorted reality that we live in.
Yep, thats how it with pretty much every single picture we see in magazines now.
I should try it out though. Most I do on photoshop is get rid of blemishes and then some airbrushing. Never though about stretching out and making eyes bigger and whatnot.
hah woah, im glad im not a girl:)
i think she looked kinda funny before and while they made her look better, then didn’t totally fix it.
wow thats freeky…id like to try that 
I really like that music! Does anyone know what it is?
I saw that on tv last night. Dove is a brand of soap and like other cosmetics. they are supposed to contain less chemicals and stuff in them, so they are like natural and all that
Ofcourse, the point is that people see these images and expect real women to live up to them. Men (or women) may look for that kind of beauty in a partner, not knowing that it doesn’t exist, and women may feel bad for not looking that beautiful and will therefore buy beauty products to try to look this perfect. This is how clothes and cosmetics are always sold to us and it promotes low self esteem and hatred of our bodies because we just can’t attain that kind of beauty because it’s not real. So we buy more beauty products. Or eat cos we feel bad - then the industries can sell us diets to make us look better too. Unfortunately as these images are all over the place - TV, magazines, billboards, shops, etc; knowing in your head that they are not ‘real’ does not really help. We continue to behave and feel as if they were.
Unfortunately true:( . I don’t know how it is on brits/US TV but here in France you’d be surprised (maybe shocked) to see how many times adds for diets (showing “perfect women”) are just followed by junk food adds. I heard that a social study was made wich tends to say that the more people feel far from the social models they’re faced with, or excluded, the more they eat.
This would be due to ancestral behavior: A long time ago if you wanted to eat sufficiently, you had to be integrated in your social group (tribe). If not, you just starved. So now when people feel excluded, they eat more, just in case they wouldn’t be able to purchase food.
Marketing will kill us!
Exactly…but it is more than just the images, those that attain or get near those images are then viewed as “better” or " more suitable" in so many ways. And there might even be something in it. Those prepared to go to such lengths to create their beauty, may well be prepared to go to similar lengths to get the job done. But this probably happens less often than getting the job simply on how you look on the day. That job to be done may be paid employment, it may be finding a mate, or whatever.
What you see can be what you get, but you won’t get it the whole day long. What you wake up with and what you go to the theatre with are going to be different. The two looks and feels are both part of the package you are buying. The theatre look may well not be real, but it genuinely does matter to most. No-one looks THAT beautiful without some work, and beauty has, for men and women, now been defined so rigorously that a sudden loss of media images will make no difference at all. The media images are merely idealising what people already think.
How you speak, act and look will all have a major effect on your life. The real difference between a truly stunning lady and an average girl in the street, is so often just a matter of well considered makeup and clothes. The apparent visual difference is far greater than the real difference, and like it or not, is always going to weigh heavily for or against her. Marketing does not just apply to what is sold in the shops. Each one of us is also marketing ourselves. Some of us do it better than others. Sadly some are dealt a difficult hand to play the game with. It may well be true to say that a skilful player can make the most of bad hand, but it is also true that he would be devastating with a good one. It may not be fair, but there are always going to be losers, someone will be going home alone from the nightclub. There are ways around that, but they require far more skill. Be a great conversationalist and you have a chance…but only once you manage to penetrate the visual surveillance zone. Some have to buy their tickets, others get them issued as complimentaries, FOC.
Fair is one thing that life will never be. There are rules to ensure it.
Nao …in Cinderella rant mode
I am not sure I understand what Naomi says.
In the video the girl has a sour face and after make-up and photoshop still has this sour face!
I mean there is not a single standard for being handsome (though marketing wants us to believe that): I knew a girl who was plump with a big nose … she knew she cannot be transformed in a “standard” star but by simply trying to be herself she looked indeed like a beautiful girl -because she really had a very unusual beauty- usually switching on your inner light changes your apparence much more than make-up or photoshop (please note I am not against make-up).
Ah, but we are rarely told this. Instead we are fed a constant diet of the need for physical perfection by the standards of advertisers. You cannot help but believe it, especially when you’re young. When you get a bit older (like me) you can be happier with who you really are (anyway since being old is OUT you know you are never going to attain perfect beauty now so you might as well come to terms with it.
I have known women, real people, who are more beautiful than those in film. A few that I’m thinking of are pure Italian. They just happen to have great genes, perfect facial structure, beauty I imagine they will keep well into their elder years. They don’t even need to wear makeup.
i wish they could do that to my last gf
jokes 
I actually prefer the natural look. No cosmetics.
The look where a woman has just gotten up and hair is messed up and going all which directions. The days where they just take a shower but then dress into some sweet pants or pajama bottoms and a regular shit and jsut relax around the house, not doing their hair and no reason for make-up.
That’s the look we fall in love with, that’s how that person truly looks, that’s their true beauty.
I also like make-up and dressing up, don’t get me wrong their. You do it right, or know just the tiny little touch up, you’ll get guys jaws dropping and double-taking at you everywhere you go.
Sometimes “model beauty” is different from “real beauty” (to my eyes anyway). It’s like if e.g. big eyes are good, then bigger eyes must be even better.
Agreed. There’s a lot of girls who wear way too much makeup at my school…like a girl who puts her makeup on on the bus (she rides the same bus that I do), and there is an incredible difference between when she gets on and when she gets off.
The other downside of always wearing makeup is that you can’t ever really look special (face-wise), because everyone is used to you wearing makeup.
Are you saying that you find it difficult to look special in the evening because you wear makeup during the day?
Yeah…