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

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

As rollick pointed out, it's interesting to see how no matter how incredibly unbelievably skinny a woman is, she still apparently needs a tummy tuck. And rounder boobs.

I was also interested in some of the tattoo removal going on. Some were left, and others removed. I wonder what their criteria are.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

It's clear that tattoos are in a cultural middle-ground, where a LOT is shockingly unacceptable, but a little is cool. I saw one used to disguise a navel, but the creepyskinny woman with the major ones all up and down her arms was ruthlessly bleached.

[gement.livejournal.com]

Erykah Badu (she's a fairly funky singer, who was on the Lilith Fair tour I attended).

Here's the funny part: If you go to "work", which has final magazine covers, you can see that the splash caption on her is "Erykah Badu - Natural Beauty" and they've erased all the little tribal tattooing around her eyes.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

That's doubly creepy. Trebly, even. She's WAY too skinny in her natural state: one of the few people they plumped up a little during retouching.