Gee...I wonder why women have body issues...
Vain_Witch
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Those are very slight photo-shopped corrections. They are just turning a 9.5 into a 10. NBD.0
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damn..0
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A little more makeup and perkier boobies.0
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Those are very slight photo-shopped corrections. They are just turning a 9.5 into a 10. NBD.
But in almost every one of them they're erasing curves. Curves are natural, but *sometimes* we're led to believe that we're fat if we don't look like a 12 year old boy...0 -
Erasing curves or erasing any signs of aging. Women with wrinkles are useless!
The Angelina Jolie GIF didn't load properly for me, so it just stayed in... well, I assume it's post-photoshop. Or maybe she is just that perfect... Hm.0 -
But in almost every one of them they're erasing curves. Curves are natural, but *sometimes* we're led to believe that we're fat if we don't look like a 12 year old boy...
Agreed - altering is altering, regardless of the degree.
Judge your appearance on the responses you get from people in real life, not those in your head.0 -
Not gonna lie, I spent like ten minutes watching Katy Perry's boobs grow and shrink.0
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If I want to see average girls, I'll just go outside and look around. I think magazine covers are a nice escape from reality where you can see perfection.
It also gives everyone something to shoot for. When I real Men's Health and see the guys with the perfect abs, it gives me something to strive for. I use it as motivation more than anything else.0 -
Not gonna lie, I spent like ten minutes watching Katy Perry's boobs grow and shrink.
Glad I wasn't the only one!0 -
This is only body issue inducing if you don't think that this is all common for like.... every picture in every magazine, ever.
They look like three sizes off of Kelly Clarkson, geeze.0 -
Yep it's quite funny how different they look.0
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If I want to see average girls, I'll just go outside and look around. I think magazine covers are a nice escape from reality where you can see perfection.
It also gives everyone something to shoot for. When I real Men's Health and see the guys with the perfect abs, it gives me something to strive for. I use it as motivation more than anything else.
Average girls??? That was pretty low. You must be one that makes women feel that they should be better than they are. Looking at a picture on magazine does not cause me to strive to look like them especially when clearly its not reality. Anyone can look good in photoshop.0 -
If I want to see average girls, I'll just go outside and look around. I think magazine covers are a nice escape from reality where you can see perfection.
It also gives everyone something to shoot for. When I real Men's Health and see the guys with the perfect abs, it gives me something to strive for. I use it as motivation more than anything else.
Average girls??? That was pretty low. You must be one that makes women feel that they should be better than they are. Looking at a picture on magazine does not cause me to strive to look like them especially when clearly its not reality. Anyone can look good in photoshop.
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It shouldn't create body image issues for grown a$$ed women who realize, it's a lot of photoshopping. Personally I judge myself to my own standards and my own standards alone.
Any body image issues I may have, have nothing to do with any woman I've seen in the media or on a magazine.
It only concerns me the body image issues that it creates in very young women/teens. That scares the crap out of me.
However, I truly think great parenting should solve that.
The more young women are taught that strong and fit is great, that their minds and hearts are much more important than the aesthetics in the long run.. the better.
It would be lovely if we were all fit with gorgeous faces. But we aren't all alike.0 -
If I want to see average girls, I'll just go outside and look around. I think magazine covers are a nice escape from reality where you can see perfection.
It also gives everyone something to shoot for. When I real Men's Health and see the guys with the perfect abs, it gives me something to strive for. I use it as motivation more than anything else.
Average girls??? That was pretty low. You must be one that makes women feel that they should be better than they are. Looking at a picture on magazine does not cause me to strive to look like them especially when clearly its not reality. Anyone can look good in photoshop.
Nope, not mad at all, just think that was pretty low of you. I see on your profile you would like to land a cute girl... hmm not with the attitude thinking a woman is average just bc shes not on a magazine cover. Good luck with that!0 -
Those are very slight photo-shopped corrections. They are just turning a 9.5 into a 10. NBD.
Not quite. They turned 10s into something completely unrealistic and unattainable.
In real life, everyone has some degree of pores, eye sockets, nasolabial folds, unruly tufts of hair, and various lumps, bumps and creases in the skin and clothes when in certain positions. It's a sad world when editors feel Katy Perry's spectacular boobs need "enhancing." :noway:0 -
there are some fairly significant body modifications going on - making ribcages smaller bums perkier boobs better
i think there should be disclaimers on all photos
it did remind me of this spoof makeup advert/ photoshop advert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8lNToO8CMA 0 -
Those aren't huge changes. They're photos for magazines and such. Why does this surprise so many? These people's jobs are to look a specific way..and they're beautiful to begin with. It's the reader who needs to decide whether or not they want to aim for that look...and to use common sense that a lot of this is glitz and sparkles and that these things are indeed photoshopped. They ALL are...men, women, children...any pic you see is photoshopped to a degree.
I am aiming to look like the best ME...whatever that may be.0 -
If I want to see average girls, I'll just go outside and look around. I think magazine covers are a nice escape from reality where you can see perfection.
It also gives everyone something to shoot for. When I real Men's Health and see the guys with the perfect abs, it gives me something to strive for. I use it as motivation more than anything else.
I think the point is that the girls on the magazine are not "perfection" they are "impossible" - if they happened in the real world, then no alterations, or enhancements would be needed. I don't know if abs or musculature are doctored for Men's Health or not, so i don['t know to what degree men are subjected to the same photo manipulaiton0 -
No....has nothing to do with magazines....all those women are already beautiful w/o photoshop0
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makes me thankful my last photo shoot wasn't Photoshopped... but, those ladies were already 10's.0
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Man, the amount of gaslighting in this thread is pretty amazing given it's not even a page long yet.0
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Those are very slight photo-shopped corrections. They are just turning a 9.5 into a 10. NBD.
Agreed for some of it. They are very beautiful women who only look a little more polished when they're photoshopped. However, if even what we consider to be the most beautiful women are having bags under their eyes removed, a tiny trace of a stomach roll (simply because she's hunched over), and any natural blemishes removed, it really shows that the average person can't attain it. So we try for magazine perfection that no one, not even the girl in the photo can get, and then are depressed and feel bad about our own bodies when we can't get there.0 -
Erasing curves or erasing any signs of aging. Women with wrinkles are useless!
The Angelina Jolie GIF didn't load properly for me, so it just stayed in... well, I assume it's post-photoshop. Or maybe she is just that perfect... Hm.
Right click on the picture and hit "open in new tab/window", the really only altered her complexion. I also was surprised at how little Britney was altered.
The second one is hilarious, it looks like she's pushing her boobies up and down :laugh:0 -
i've seen one of these where they photoshopped out someone's ARMPIT fat. how are we supposed to compete with that? ignoring the media bombardment of what a woman's body should look like is easier said than done. even if i don't read a bunch of magazines with those photos, i still see the women on the red carpet whose stomachs are flat, partly because they work out and eat right, and partly because they've had their entire colon evaculated and are wearing spanx in order to be as thin as possible. there's still the fact that it's nearly impossible to be a successful actress (in a lead role, at least) if you're over a size 6. when people think that kate upton is fat (yeah, that's a thread on here right now) even WITH all that photoshop, how are the rest of us supposed to combat that without completely withdrawing from the media world?0
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The more young women are taught that strong and fit is great, that their minds and hearts are much more important than the aesthetics in the long run.. the better.
^^^ This! Hopefully we can start creating a new generation of women that are exercising and eating right for the purpose of being healthy and not for some ideal body type.0 -
lets be real here.... the madonna one and britney one were pretty shocking lol.... those are not 9.5s....0
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If I want to see average girls, I'll just go outside and look around. I think magazine covers are a nice escape from reality where you can see perfection.
It also gives everyone something to shoot for. When I real Men's Health and see the guys with the perfect abs, it gives me something to strive for. I use it as motivation more than anything else.
I think the problem is you are striving for something that is not anatomically possible (even for the person you see it on).0 -
Erasing curves or erasing any signs of aging. Women with wrinkles are useless!
The Angelina Jolie GIF didn't load properly for me, so it just stayed in... well, I assume it's post-photoshop. Or maybe she is just that perfect... Hm.
That was the most bizarre one because the major change they made was giving her a dark iris ring. Strange.
Anyway, I just want real life photoshop to touch me up every few frames as I go through my day. :laugh:0
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