The most beautiful models – the really famous ones – are intimidatingly flawless genetic exceptions as atypical as Stephen Hawking and Michael Jordan but in far less inspiring ways. For the rest of us trolls there’s Photoshop and even in 2007 few people understand what an artist with the ability to do more than crop, paste and colorize can do if asked.
Normally changes tend towards the subtle but because it’s easiest to start as close to your intended result as possible. If you have the skill, the inclination and the armagnac (the secret of all great creative personalities) but not the models to match, you can remake people Steve Austin style as this video shows.
Hence the ’she looks like what?’ faces you see at porn conventions and the make-up artists who travel with most major celebrities. Depressing until you realise it vaults the person you’re diddling into the ranks of world-class poon.
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There’s a Dove ‘real beauty’ campaign commercial (at http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/flat4.asp?id=6909) along the same idea – in which a fairly plain but strong-boned woman is made up, blow-dryed, lit and photoshopped into the model we see on the billboard. Jamie Lee Curtis did a photo shoot in underwear and no makeup for Marie Claire a while ago to make the same point. But’s damn hard as a woman to remember that they don’t look like that when they roll out of bed, or even when they make themselves up.
Mandy – Thanks for the link. I saw that one. It’s less radical for sure and the woman’s clearly cute to start with. This is just ridiculous though. Truth is a few women do look that good but you’re mad for thinking that’s any more attainable than other genetic peculiarities.
I’m speechless.
Not good when I’m supposed to be the one doing the talking.
I’m also close to tears.
Vanessa – Don’t cry. It’s good to know you might be hotter than you thought right?