Tired of fighting with your shape? Why eat healthy and exercise when you can look like you do! These are just a few lines from this video that I found on beauty blog site Beaut.ie, which takes a look at the unrealistic expectations that the beauty industry bombards us with in advertisements.
Although we all know that Photoshop use is rampant in the fashion and beauty industries but this epidemic has spilled out into real life. Many people have Adobe Photoshop in their homes and they use it on photos for their Facebook pages, Twitter images and blog pages. But what happens when reality set it and that reality does not match the expectations created by a Photoshop illusion?
By creating images like this, insecure women choose to use Photoshop to compete with images of perfection that they’re bombarded with. Why not create healthier images of real women with imperfections, real fine lines and real scars? Real people, not just women, have acne, dark circles and cellulite.
How do you feel about the excessive use of Photoshop in photography?
They make Eva Mendes look about 20 years younger and give Kim Kardashian an unrealistically perfect body when her own body is already close to perfect. A big danger is that men (straight men that is) look at these images and think it’s attainable. People love to deny it, but they do compare “real “women to these images.
I totally agree. The worse part IS that men think this is attainable. And that makes women’s self esteem go dooooown. No bueno.
I can’t stand it. They give an image of perfection that clearly doesn’t exist no matter how much money, resources or help the person might have. Girls & women aspire to become the ‘after’ photo which is immediately setting one up for failure. If they’d only run the real images, everybody would feel a heck of a lot better about themselves and the world would still go on.