Seventeen Magazine to Stop Airbrushing Models

miracole
miracole Posts: 492 Member
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Came across this article today:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/seventeen-magazine-makes-it-official-no-more-air-brushing/article4391028/

and wanted to share it. I hope this is a trend that continues, have long thought that we should have labels on photos, maybe a little symbol that notifies people that the photo has been airbrushed. I'm a strong believer in truth in advertising and that goes for identifying if an image is real or manipulated too. It's one thing for society to idolize the very fit, the naturally beautiful or the super skinny, it's another thing entirely if we are communicating an image to the young and/or impressionable that the ideal of beauty is people who don't actually exist in real life.

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  • FlaxMilk
    FlaxMilk Posts: 3,452 Member
    This is great! Real beauty should be enough as it is. What's the point in fake?
  • sktllmdrhmz
    sktllmdrhmz Posts: 1,799 Member
    That's great! It must suck to get paint all over you like that.
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    As an expert photoshopper and an ex pro photographer, how they will define this will be so distorted that I'm sure it will be close to meaningless. Every single image now is manipulated since its all digital. Cropping, color enhancemeant, popping the eyes, touching up hair. I don't know what this will mean, if it means anything at all. If they are saying they will no longer airbrush. That is a true statement. No one air brushes. That's a very old term. So, might be one of those political lies. They aren't airbrushing anymore. You can color me extremely skeptical.
  • cobracars
    cobracars Posts: 949 Member
    I would hope it means they won't enhance the bodies of the models, specifically to make them appear unrealistically skinny.

    I don't mind color enhancements or removing distracting objects from the background.
  • dreamingchild
    dreamingchild Posts: 208 Member
    Airbrushed or not....it still is a goal that most girls can't attain. I remember when I was a teen and they would post height/weight like 5'11" and 110 lbs....Um that is crazy thin. I starved for years to get below 110, my insides hurt when I lay one way or the other, and all i could think about was food. Models must be on a starvation high all the time is all I have to say or they must be created totally different from me.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    I would hope it means they won't enhance the bodies of the models, specifically to make them appear unrealistically skinny.

    I don't mind color enhancements or removing distracting objects from the background.

    Ditto. Though, quite frankly, I don't really mind them touching up acne or stray hairs or anything like that. The knowledge of airbrushing is so widespread that I don't think a little is a huge deal.
  • neverstray
    neverstray Posts: 3,845 Member
    I would hope it means they won't enhance the bodies of the models, specifically to make them appear unrealistically skinny.

    I don't mind color enhancements or removing distracting objects from the background.

    I'm just very curious how the term "enhance" will be defined. They are going to mess with it. They remove moles and skin that is may patchy, zits, and other things. If the only definition is not making them look thinner, then, that's a good move.

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