The statistics posted by Ariadna below wouldn't be so hard to swallow if the images that young girls were looking at were real; instead young girls are creating their beliefs of "the ideal woman" based upon photoshopped media images.
Before photographs are printed, professionals spends hours upon hours removing "imperfections" to create the perfect image, when in reality they are removing the aspects of these women which make them who they truly are: Lines around their eyes and mouths from a life of laughter, bags around the eyes and stretch marks inevitably gained from having children, a little excess weight gained from having a great time at university with your friends. These life experiences leave marks on our bodies, and rather than embrace this, the media is choosing to make us feel bad about it.
Do you think that Katy Perry would be used to advertise expensive makeup if the world saw her naturally slightly blemished skin? I highly doubt it! Advertisers are selling us perfection, so they have to create the perfect images in order to do so. What better way to get women to delve deep into their pockets than to make them bad about themselves, and proceed to tell them that the only way that they can feel good is to buy your diet products, or your miracle moisturiser, or your overly priced foundation to give you that perfect looking skin. If only that perfect look wasn't only achievable through hours of photoshop editing.
Cindy Crawford herself has even been quoted saying "I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford."
Before photographs are printed, professionals spends hours upon hours removing "imperfections" to create the perfect image, when in reality they are removing the aspects of these women which make them who they truly are: Lines around their eyes and mouths from a life of laughter, bags around the eyes and stretch marks inevitably gained from having children, a little excess weight gained from having a great time at university with your friends. These life experiences leave marks on our bodies, and rather than embrace this, the media is choosing to make us feel bad about it.
Do you think that Katy Perry would be used to advertise expensive makeup if the world saw her naturally slightly blemished skin? I highly doubt it! Advertisers are selling us perfection, so they have to create the perfect images in order to do so. What better way to get women to delve deep into their pockets than to make them bad about themselves, and proceed to tell them that the only way that they can feel good is to buy your diet products, or your miracle moisturiser, or your overly priced foundation to give you that perfect looking skin. If only that perfect look wasn't only achievable through hours of photoshop editing.
Cindy Crawford herself has even been quoted saying "I wish I looked like Cindy Crawford."
As shown in the Dove Intervention video posted below, the pictures you see of models in magazines and on TV look considerably different to how they do in real life.
Look through the images below (found via a search of google images), and you can see that celebrities have all of the same, beautiful imperfections that we do; they just have the power of photoshop behind them:
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