Please ignore the retoucher behind the curtain

[gement]

From officialgaiman:

Before and After magazine covers

Scroll the mouse over to see the skin lose its unreally rosy glow, the cheekbones reshape, the butt tuck in, and the foot move to its original ackward angle!

It's amazing what people look like with their real waistlines. I'd like to make this required viewing for every junior high student and see what it does to anorexia statistics.

Comments

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

I'd like to make this required viewing for every junior high student and see what it does to anorexia statistics.

Damn straight! There was a short at the film festival called "Wet Dreams and False Images" that showed retouchers at work, and the reactions of some young men to the before and after shots. It was painfully funny.

[gement.livejournal.com]

I saw that one! It's why I leaped on this immediately. The nineteen year old barber who was willing to go to the mat that this ass was real... heehee.

The photo I remember most clearly was the one of a woman face-on in a long black dress, where they took something like 6 inches out of her waist because she looked too "imposing and masculine" with the nearly straight hang of the dress, and they were going for "willowy". That's the particular slope that I always think looks WRONG on myself, so it was nice to figure out why.