Photoshop – The Naked Truth
24 May 2012 1 Comment
in Life
Recognize these beauties, donning the latest bikini styles with muffin top?
Joanna Douglas, Fashion Editor provided yahoo with a dose of reality in the article, Supermodels without photoshop.
Photoshop is an amazing program for the advertisement business. There’s no doubt about it. It’s capabilities of modifying images are near endless and extremely detrimental to the psyche and self esteem of women today. Why is that? Because women make up 3/4 of the consumer market. We love to sho
p and we buy everything. However what is put before women in magazines, billboards, and on television is not an accurate representation of the average woman thus provoking women and girls to scramble to live up to this fabricated unrealistic image of what a woman should look like. This alienates the majority of the very consumers these advertising agencies are targeting.
Whilst our favorite female celebrities are 100lbs wet with rib cage showing when parading around in barely there bikinis on cover of magazines, the women that are purchasing these magazines stand about 5’4″, weigh about 140 -150 lbs, and sport a dress size between 12-14. According to WebMD, the petite size 2 and size 4 women are far and few.
This begs the questions, is real just not beautiful? Are women being conditioned to be unhappy with themselves? We are bombarded with various images of “perfect” women day in and day out. Not a blemish, not a pore, nor a stretch mark is visible on these woman. We all see the end product but our young women, do not know all the effort behind putting together this facade of “perfection.” This ignorance to Photoshop and it’s miracle-like transformation on women in the media is dangerous.
Such is life, with trends and popular culture we are told to accept what is decided to be “in” at the moment, and what’s not. We can choose to conform to what’s “in” for now or be ostracized for being different or comfortable with not fitting in the cookie cutter mold of “fabulousness.” The one thing we all have in common as women supermodel or not, is that not a one of us truly fits the mold that we striving for… And that’s the truth!
