Saturday, December 5, 2009

messed up

Okay, am I the only one who thinks this is totally screwed up?

http://www.portraitprofessional.com/gallery/?p=3

The before-and-afters are frightening. Not because the of the "before"s, either. The software makes eyes and lips bigger and zits and moles and uneven skin completely disappear. It can make foreheads shrink and stray hairs vanish. Now, at the risk of sounding like a Dove add, I'd like to point out that those before and afters are to advertise the actual software, not show the evils of it. The software even claims that it "has been trained with hundred of examples of human beauty" to edit the photographs. Which makes it even more messed up. Girls drown themselves in fashion magazines and in photos of people that truly don't exist. Girls try to be this when it's obviously impossible. Why is the vision of beauty always more impossible to accomplish? People need to open their eyes. Beauty is in the flaws; in every wrinkle and freckle. It's what makes us unique. I'm sick of this idea of beauty no one can live up to.

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