Beauty is Pixel Deep

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Okay I feel sick to my stomach and dirty every time I see these pods or even face the reality that fashion is what ruins our young culture. I am a photographer and fashion photography is my passion, but the idea of that perfect ideal woman urks me being that there is only about maybe 1% of our entire population that actually meets those standards and yet even they have to be retouched. We are such a screwed up society because we are seeking perfection and want to be that perfect flawless person that isn't on this earth. That would be that Iconic figure you may pray to at your leisure. I need to Shower I feel dirty.

This should be mandatory viewing for all people, especially women and girls

photoshop skillz.

Just think of how many porn stars have their "blemishes" covered...ewwwwww!!!

While I'm so glad that this retoucher did this fantastic interview, I'm so perplexed at how she could say that she doesn't have a moral issue with it?

its clips like this that make me feel that if more girls saw this they would definetly feel better about themselves.

I don't know how i came to the beauty section, but i did. This is nothing that artists for centuries haven't been doing. Did Michael Angelo sculpt every body with every wrinkle, wart, boil, bump, scar or imperfection since birth?
I studied mostly commercial art before computers when we did it with a brush or air brush and it was perfectly acceptable to fix things. I worked a lot in pastels and don't recall adding every wrinkle to a face and in fact just about got my head bitten off once in a drawing class after I added all the stretch marks one model had. ;) It looked just like her and she was ugly, but my instructor didn't think it was one bit funny. LOL
This is just making people look more appealing to sell a product. It's not your official state photo ID folks. if you want a shitty picture go get a drivers license shot and publish it on the pages of glamor mag. I bet you'll sell a lot of widgets that way.

I like real women with imperfections better. Something about a women who accepts being uniquely imperfect gives me butterflies in my stomach.

great little film. bravo

Is there any major magazine out there that doesnt retouch? That magazine should get passed around by young women.

I admit that I don't consciously pay attention to the ads to comment on how fake they are, I just accept it as the truth and it's disgusting.

Many have commented that touch-ups are common knowledge, which i dont believe is true. Even if you do know, you are still affected by it because that IS what we are forced to value. If we didnt value this unrealistic idea of beauty we would not have millions of magazines for women and professions as photoshoppers making tons of money out of the manipulation of people’s forced insecurities. People have to ask themselves how much of marketing manipulation are they willing to accept.
All please watch a great documentary called
THE CENTURY OF THE SELF, it gives a concise explanation of the rise of marketing with the fundamental help of psychoanalyst. You dont need to add 1 egg to your Betty Crocker recipe, its just a marketing ploy for us not to feel guilty that a cake is so easy to make.

Aah, digital nirvana! It was great to see that not one person in ANY magazine is that perfect. Me, I can be 6'2", super buff, and skin like butter.

The photographer in the video describes the point that she wonders why she continues to do this work a: "superficial moment." In fact this self-reflection is the least superficial point of the entire video. Too bad she didn't expand more on her own question.

This isn't news to me, but like dawnacrawford wrote, this is an important pod for young women to view. It is all too common for women to hold their standards up to this artificial sense of beauty.

Sometimes at the supermarket check-out, I see the tabloid mags lined up, revealing celebrities with their bad hair days, zits and weight gains. This is the antithesis that doesn't serve to create a balance - it further antagonizes the twisted concept of "perfect beauty"

i always knew that this happens to pics in and on mags, but as "common" folk and not celebs, we forget that they are just people like us with blemishes too.

If you really think about it, its kinda creepy....

Ah... keeps food on my table !!

I hate how much retouching is done on any photo... it really bothers me that people can't just take the picture right the first time. If you actually learn how to use a camera the right way, you can achieve amazing results without retouching. There are so many model photographers that are basically... photoshoppers. I dislike the use of digital cameras and photoshop even though it is so common, exactly because of the point this pod is making.

This information really isn't anything new, but I'm glad she addressed her own hypocrisy in that if she actually had a moral problem with it, retouching wouldn't be her job.

This is such an important pod for little girls and all ladies to see - we are held to an unrealistic standard. Everyone is beautiful in thier own unique way

I do find it entertaining that the pod on imperfect beuty has a makeup ad attached...ahhh society.

retouching is a lot of fun, but isn't this a way to make celebs more self conscious because this makes them a total disappointment when they show up to events in real life? And is this not a perpetuate of plastic surgery? I think this is sad for those people getting retouched and probably makes a person who does this as a job really judgmental towards people thinking "oh man, I could totally fix her eyebrows and get rid of those wrinkles"

how can she not have a moral issue with formulating massive lies?

this is just one of the many reasons that women everywhere are killing themselves for a completely unrealistic ideal that is created with a computer.

i definitely couldn't do that for a living.

nothing new to me. but its always fun to see them do it :D

It was nice to see the retouching being done, and it was also nice to hear about what goes on from someone who does this professionally. Really though, this isn't a new story, ladies! This has been going on since forever, yet us women need to be reminded of this so often! It's sad. There is nothing wrong with trying to look your best, but don't beat yourself up when you don't live up to unrealistic standards. I think it's great to have this video up for women all over to see, but at the same time, it's sad that women need to see this yet again.

Really enjoyed this. I started doing photography just last year and when it comes to doing wedding pics, it's all about fixing up these people so that they can feel that on their special day they looked absolutely flawless.

I think there is too much of an uproar when it comes photos being retouched or the facade that the media is putting out there. Really, we should know that these images we see day in and day out aren't real. I know it's always in the back of my mind when I'm flipping through magazines.

I also think, for those who don't know much about photography, that there's a different look to us all when we're under strobes and hot lights. When it comes to magazines these stars and models are in bare white studios and that definitely doesn't allow the real you to shine. I've done many portraits in natural lighting and in natural settings where the subject comes out perfect; not a lot of fixing is needed. It's hard to recreate that in a studio setting. Hence, the need for retouchers in the magazine and advertisement business.

i have learned so much after becoming a photographer that just taking the picture is the beginning its so much work on the backend to take that "perfect" shot..... :::..62

so how many women forget that they have been doing this for years....so what women or man is real that is on film now an days? None, we all can be fake and fabulous