Dear models, I realize it’s not your fault, you get paid to put on whatever the company wants to advertise. But don’t your midsections get cold?
It wouldn’t be so bad if you weren’t airbrushed to the point where you seriously look like a painting, not a photograph.
I love your store, but this is just ridiculous. Nobody is flawless, please make your models look like real people! —Not Fat, But Not Perfect
This article appears in Sep 29 – Oct 5, 2011.
Your favorite shop airbrushes the model in their ads and expects their models to expose naked parts of their bodies in the cold?! How rare and strange!!!!
…..must. have. caffeine.
As someone who makes a living using Photoshop, it disgusts me how far ads have gone to present ‘perfection’ of female form. Seeing is not believing anymore and these posing coat racks are probably a ‘huge’ size 8 in real life – after all, isn’t size 0 the most popular size for North American women? Or is that size 20?
Photoshopping in ads has gotten to the point where it distracts from the message, IMO. Because you’re too busy doing a double take at how waxen everyone looks.
I was trying to explain to my niece that these images aren’t real. And she’s not buying it. So i used photoshop to turn myself asian. And i said “Does that look real?” Now every time she sees a woman in an ad or on tv, she asks “I wonder if that’s real..?”
Intelligence: 1. Artifice: 0.
Yes but…you are all powerless to resist…..
MAGNUM!!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/–MEn3WfMevU/Tkm9…
OP, just try not to let it reflect how you feel about yourself. It has nothing to do you.
Not Fat, But Not Perfect but jealous. You wish you were in those mags and had those pics of yourself though I bet.
Ignore Beener, OP. Send your photos to me. I can do to you what is done to them.
See there ya go. Stop complaining you have someone that can do it for you too.
We ‘photoshop’ ourselves every day.
Have you ever bought a pair of pants that makes your ass look just a little better (or dare I say ‘hot’? I’ve heard that more than once in a clothing store “MY GOD these pants make my ass look great!”) or bought a bra that made your tits look awesome?
I know I have.
Yes I know, it’s not quite the same thing, but in a way it is — we’re all trying to hide the things we’re not quite satisfied with. Some women wear heels for height or to elongate their legs and some wear a-line skirts to hide the fact that they have a fat gut/ass. It’s all relative.
Also: anyone hear about that julia roberts ad campaign for lancome that was banned in the UK for being TOO airbrushed? They said it amounted to false advertising!
And ever see those pics of celebrities without their make up on in the tabloids? I’m sure many of us would look as hot as they do if we had the make up artists and hair stylists they did. They’re just normal lookin’ people who have access to a lot more beauty resources than your average joe.
reminds me of the skinny mirror from seinfeld
The mirror in the locker room at the Canada Games Centre (the wet change room — not the dry one) is a skinny mirror.
Because there’s no way in HELL I look that good.
Either that or my bathroom mirror at home is just a torture device designed to crush my self esteem on a daily basis.
Either or.
“the wet change room”
Mother of God, does such a place exist or is it just a utopian myth for those who dream of a better life – like the Kingdom of Prester John, Atlantis, The Grotto at the Playboy Mansion or Fort MacMurray?
I’ll be in my bunk.
good little video for your niece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
Must be complaining about the fat-chick clothing store in Bayers Lake.
I love how pretty much everyone who posts ere gets a reply of some sort- even if it’s Moleman calling you an unctuous gulliver, or something.
Sebastian drops in, says the same predictable crap, ad leaves. Noone, except Donairius(who has reason), even notices Seb. I wonder if Sebastian even has friends in real life, because he can’t even get splashback here.
Just an observation.
i love that too mr paul. if i can answer the question, i will. the other stuff you speak of, i don’t cur no more
petty kitty….its not often we agree on something. But as a person who sees the ‘stars’ before & after their trip to the ‘hair & make up’ people at base camp.
What these people can do is nothing short of amazing.
Give them whatever equipment they want & they can make anyone look like anyone else or any hybrid alien you name it …& they can make it look real & believable.
shit o.p., you aren’t flawless, damn, here i thought we all were. but then again, who would we good looking people fuck, surely not the unflawed ones, ohno, they are too fucking good for anyone, except maybe some crack dealer.
and kitty, i think your bum is cute, and your boobs, well, we’ll let that go. gord mooning all. i’m either up too fucking early, or going to bed too late. but kitty does have a nice ass.
This, sadly, is why the Irish will never have a space program, or a super-collider, or…even electricity…
http://www.antiguaobserver.com/?p=65222
Vision, people. You need vision.
chortle, i read about that. guess farmer guy has never seen her videos
I beleive it was Ian Paisley who said “Pretty, Mocha-toned Island girls who undulate provocatively are the Devil’s Pint Of Guinness”
Father Jack had a much more progressive outlook.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vlOhj4eTpA