Someone Is Editing Celeb Pics To Fit Today’s Influencer Beauty Standards And People Have Mixed Feelings (30 New Pics)
Today’s influencer beauty standards are unobtainable without the power of Photoshop. What you see in your social media feed doesn’t match up with reality. But some people tend to forget that.
Even beloved celebrities who spend a huge amount of time on their image can fall short of the standard that social media now seems to demand. The founder of the ‘Goddess Women’ Instagram page photoshops pics of well-known stars to show what they would look like if they actually did look like some influencers.
The account has amassed a whopping 377k followers. However, the project has split the internet and people have mixed opinions on it. Some believe that the account promotes unrealistic beauty standards. Meanwhile, others believe that the project starts up an important discussion about these very same standards.
Bored Panda got in touch with the founder of ‘Goddess Women’ and spoke with her about the entire project. She explained that her main goal is to create art with photo-editing software. She aims to see what can be done with Photoshop and actually supports natural looks. And her skills have already been noticed by celebrities themselves. Read on for our full interview. Meanwhile, we also got in touch with LA-based celebrity expert Mike Sington, known as Hollywood's Ultimate Insider. Scroll down to see what he had to say, too.
When you’re done scrolling through this list, you can have a read through Bored Panda’s previous articles about the ‘Goddess Women’ project here: Part 1 and Part 2.
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Jennifer Aniston
Cameron Diaz
Irina Shayk
Imagine being so good looking that there is no difference after photoshopping? Mind you imagine being so ugly you still ugly after photoshopping!!
Bored Panda wanted to understand what the founder of ‘Goddess Women’ thinks of her critics who believe that she promotes unrealistic body standards by photoshopping celeb photos.
“I understand them, but they should know it's just Photoshop, it's art,” she told us, suggesting that her critics are taking everything a bit too seriously.
Emma Watson
On the left we have Hermione Granger, and on the right we have Haamion, her anime character.
Dakota Johnson
No. Nope. Nuh uh. Definitely not Dakota Johnson in the 2nd pic. She's gorgeous dude, WHY WOULD YOU EDIT HER!?
Jessica Alba
“No one needs these filters and skills, but it's amazing what we can create with them. Sometimes, I show before-and-after Photoshop in my stories.”
The creator of the Instagram page shared how she first got started. “I started this account in September 2018. I just posted some edits for fun and then I saw how many people liked my work and that motivated me!”
Megan Fox
Monica Bellucci
Selena Gomez
Her very first edit that went viral was of Gigi Hadid’s interview for Variety magazine. “I was shocked when celebrities started to notice my page. To be honest, I never expected to get so much attention.”
Bored Panda was also interested to get the founder of the Instagram account’s opinion on looking ‘perfect’ on social media.
Angelina Jolie And Jennifer Aniston
Kate Winslet
Jennifer Aniston And Brad Pitt
“I think that people are obsessed to look perfect because of the followers and likes they get with their ‘perfection.’ It's sad, but you get a lot more attention on social media when you look good.”
She added: “I just wanna say to all the girls and boys be yourself. You are beautiful the way you are! And I wanna thank all my followers for supporting my work, I love y'all so much!”
Shakira
Dakota Johnson
Jennifer Aniston
Meanwhile, celebrity expert Mike told Bored Panda a bit about celebrities and their image.
"I think it’s sad we actually have ‘modern beauty standards’ celebrities feel they have to meet. We’re all expected to look flawless, celebrities and their fans too. The celebrities, and ourselves, have created a false image of how people are supposed to look," Mike told us.
Lily Collins
The photo to the right is called: “Still miserable, but with a plastic coat”.
Keira Knightley
They pick some of the stupidest/unflattering pictures to Photoshop. Probably to make it more dramatic.
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I don't think they are photoshoping to change original looks of people because they think it looks nicer. I think they are doing it to prove a point. You are beautiful the way you are. Y'all don't need to be bashing the person who did this. I think it's good that we are able to see (in a clearer veiw) that this photoshoping isn't worth it. And it's not beautiful.
How can you even Photoshop Keira? Wouldn't the program simply read "error"? I mean, look at the woman - she's the result people want when they use Photoshop!! 😫
Did she really need a sharper jawline? This woman is gorgeous! Leave her out
Seems like their idea of "beauty" is to take a beautiful face add even more makeup.
All of these are so fake they're not natural or ideal this can really hurt people that think that this is what a person should look like
Adriana Lima
Why is no one talking about that blurring filter they put on that man? He looked good
He told us that many celebrities today are their image. Things have certainly changed from how they used to be. "In the past, you had to have talent, now though, a photoshopped image is often all that’s needed to be famous. Celebrities that don’t rely on image have greater staying power," Mike said.
Natalie Portman
Sandra Bullock
Angelina Jolie
"The public is aware of a photoshopped image, because so many people are photoshopping their own images. Both fans and celebrities can create a false image with an app, but no one can create talent using an app," he said.
Angelina Jolie
Cindy Kimberly
Adele
Mike added that English actress Helen Mirren is his fave star who embraces how she looks with no makeup and no photo-editing of her pics. "Her extraordinary talent is her image, and it transcends her appearance… which, by the way, is fabulous!"
Salma Hayek
Miranda Kerr
Dakota Johnson And Jamie Dornan
Nicole Kidman And Tom Cruise
Vanessa Paradis
The original is on the right. I'm sure no would fail to notice otherwise.
Monica Bellucci
Just realized how bitchy the influencer beauty Standard really is. Ever girl looks like fresh from a porn, disgusting! Their natural beauty is way more than a dumb f**k-me-face.
Note: this post originally had 78 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
First of all, why and what the f**k. Secondly, it's really unnerving that more than 70% of these are only women celebrities. And lastly, dear Pandas be sure to go through the heading and the paragraph before commenting as @Charlotte A. suggested.
And please tell me, who the hell decides how we should look???? Some random idiot on internet who started a trend??? A piece of Kardashian trash?? some other idiot?? WHO
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Thanks to the goddess women project I learned that with photoshop you can turn even the most beautiful people into the soulless husks society demands.
I am so sick of the current makeup/face trend where women try to look like Bratz dolls. It's just gross.
It's not exactly a brillant art project if you have to read the disclaimer to get the idea behind it. I also wonder if the creators ever thought about the ethics behind changing the appearances of these women. Shouldn't they have the right to be depicted as they wish, not as some sort of über-photoshopped Barbie doll with dead eyes? Even considering the intention behind this post, I really take an issue with how these women's bodies are instrumentalized to prove a point.
I don't see an ethical dilemma. No one has the right to control how others portray or perceive them. No public figure who got that way on purpose is entitled to rope themselves off from my right to engage in commentary or parody by altering images of them. You would have been better off trying to make an intellectual property argument on behalf of the unsung magazine photographers, and you'd lose that, too. Freedom of expression's a b***h.
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I'm confused why an account called "Goddess Women" thinks this is a good use of anyone's time and resources.
They're women we have agreed to agree meet a ridiculous standard of feminine beauty; I find it hard to believe that anyone could recognize even half of those women but have yet to literally have seen in print a line eithwr comparing one of the ones they know to or outright calling her a goddess. Hence the celebrities are "goddess women;" we almost built an actual temple, but we forgot what we were doing and it ended up building a mall instead, I guess? Woo, tangent! Speaking of tangents, what if you went and just took the phrase "goddess women" literally? What would that mean? That it's possible for a woman to be an actual goddess in terms of what she gives others (a pretty face in exchange for getting to be in the public sphere, where people can see your face; 2.5 full time volunteer opportunities all with the position title "stay-at-home mom whose every action will be condemned no matter what she does" to go back to work and now have 3.65 full-time jobs all called "adult", etc.)
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It's so sad. And it's right to provoke the conversation. We are quite literally forgetting was it is to look natural and the damage that is doing to mental health and self-esteem cannot be underestimated.
Indeed. The simple fact is no one looks like those pictures naturally not even the "influencers" people need to understand that and never compare themselves or strive to look like that. Be healthy and be yourself. There's no one exactly like you and that is a good thing!
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Methinks some of the commenters should have read the intro before being let loose on the images...
...yes, I should have gone through it first 😶🤐😅
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So they took the most beautiful women in the world and told them even they are not pretty enough.
After 80+ examples of the art, I think the process has been proven. Continuing to work on the same types of examples became an exercise in objectification many photos ago. Calling it The Goddess Project only underscores the objectification of the women depicted. I suppose Bored Panda deserves some credit for bringing this to light, but... oh wait, they already did. Twice before. So what was the point of an apparently thoughtless reiteration?
The app maker speaks from both sides of her mouth. On one hand, "it's just for fun,"and on the other hand, "no one will like you if you don't look good." Don't Y'ALL get sick of the hypocrisy? Who cares what your readers think. Doesn't it make y'all at BP disgusted that with all our issues on this planet, this is the level of the room? Wake up.
What rages me is people on Instagram doing this to princess Diana pictures. NO
So everyone f*****g looks the same 🙄 Boring! I hate that everyone uses the same damn filters...geesus STOP!
I wouldn't say this a "beauty standard". Irl, these people cannot look like this. This is a photoshop standard. It what you make your photos look like. You can also change your photos to give yourself wings, a horse body, whatever. People need to quit mixing up the two. A "cat-eye" makeup look (sorry, I know next to nothing about "looks") is a beauty standard. Giving yourself a fishtail is a photo look. Not equivalent.
Let's all be honest about something - men will look at these pictures, but we aren't the primary consumer of them and we're not the ones obsessing over whether or not we can meet these beauty standards - nor are we looking for women that look like that; hard enough just finding real women that will even talk to us without playing games. The current buzzword is toxic masculinity, but this is some toxic feminity if ever because it is primarily female influencers pushing these fake ideals.
wow these altered pics all suck. who ever did this, must have a thing for wax dummies
They're screwing with their EYE COLOR. Like, seriously? Apparently having dark eyes and/or freckles goes against today's bEaUtY sTaNdArDs.
I'm so happy that everyone hates this. These are abominations and never should have been made or published. Whoever did this should needs to rethink their life.
I'm not picking up on this "everyone" vibe you seem to feel. Who else--like, other than you--were you counting?
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Makes me appreciate how good looking they all are in reality number one photos.
I feel the images, noses, lips and cheeks are not edited enough to claim to represent today's beauty standards, or the lack of them. Put the same nose and lip jobs on all of them, and we can put this title.
Everyone of these photoshop jobs is revolting. The trend of making people look like plastic mannequins with no features other than lips and unrealistically shiny eyes is disturbing and deeply unhealthy. We have lines and pores and freckles and moles because we’re f*****g human beings.
These are scary. Way to take the soul out of them. Most of them are unrecognizable. And why all the blue eyes? It’s creepy!
So photoshop also means changing the eye colour of these women - WTF? And turning tanned women white and vv. These are just awful. And to think that they chose the most beautiful women to 're-arrange'. Ya I get it. Influencers and turning them into those beasts. I read the headline
This is not OK. Basically you are saying the more make up the more beautiful you are. This doesn't give out a good message go the younger generation. No wonder why a lot of people have low self esteem with social media putting it out there that more make up worn is beauty when uniqueness and individuality should be celebrated
All these women are already beautiful! It just looks like someone has smacked more makeup on them and edited their eye colours to make them pop more. No wonder people have low self esteem especially women, people social media is giving out the message that you need more make up to be seen as beautiful in today's society when we should be celebrating unique individuality as beautiful
Firstly, in some of these the original photos are just bad photos. Unflattering light, flash gun pointed straight to their face etc. Secondly, some of these edits are really bad making the subject look like they are made of plastic. But that's the point. Some of these so called influencers do that, they retouch their photos heavily to look more "attractive" which obviously sometimes (often?) doesn't include looking like human. I can think many reasons why they do that but mostly, go look at the follower count of these people who successfully complete their twisting of reality. Additionally and to be fair, no, you don't always need heavy retouching to distort the limits of reality. You just need a good photographer.
My take on it is that she's not saying that they would look better if they used photoshop - Clearly, they don't - but that this has become a real influencer identikit look. Very much Kardashian by photoshop which makes sense as their photos all seem to have had work done on them on top of the work that the Kardashians have done on themselves. So, she's done it to show what you can do with photoshop and how it makes everyone look not quite but almost identical and not how any actual person looks in real life. She's basically taken already beautiful women and taken away their personality to show how fake photoshop is and how it robs photos of anything that hints at the person being a living breathing person who is more than just their looks.
None of these needed the edit to look beautiful. No one is ugly, so what's a beauty standard? Something to harm people into thinking they're not good enough. Everyone is fine, no need to change yourself, let everyone else change to realize that everyone is beautiful just the way they are.
I don't think they are photoshoping to change original looks of people because they think it looks nicer. I think they are doing it to prove a point. You are beautiful the way you are. Y'all don't need to be bashing the person who did this. I think it's good that we are able to see (in a clearer veiw) that this photoshoping isn't worth it 24/7. And it's not beautiful. Be you. I don't under why you all are pissed off at whoever did this. I agree it's not right what the industry is pushing. But I think this article is good because it shows even more of the BS there is in the world.
Influencers and filters have ruined beauty. Everyone looks like some version of a Kardashian with Photoshop. Nobody ends up looking real or with their own unique beauty that every single one of these women have before the Photoshop. I really hope we leave this idea soon that we need to look fake to be pretty
Absolutely hated this post. I get the point, but do we really need this kind of "art project" when we see the same crap all day on social media? Sure, make a creative comment on unrealistic beauty standards, but make it true art. This was not it. BP, the vast majority of your readers disliked this post. Learn from your mistakes and stop sharing these.
Search engine photoshop turn pizza into a model. It is absolutely CRAZY what can be done with photoshop. I like this photo essay. In most cases I feel they look like they have less personality in the after shots because they are made so flawless. I think this is why there is a big trend for especially fashion models and stars to have a "flaw" that is their signature like gap tooth, alopecia, their brows or the ever famois mona lisa's crooked smile
As one commenter stated, they all look like they're set up for a porn shoot.
I really can't wrap my head around whatever the devil is wrong with saying "I'm picking women who are members of the extremely small group of women whom we've all agreed to agree look "okay, I guess" and used Photoshop to enhance them to the even more ridiculous heights of unrealistic and unattainable standards female beauty being peddled via social media by influencers in order to make an important point about the damage being done by the lie women are inexplicably still telling--telling ourselves, each other, our children. This is the lie that says that we will never be enough, and not just pretty enough and thin enough, but likeable enough, sincere enough, which leads straight to nice enough, then good enough. So is it any great wonder that people don't like us? It's our own fault for not being good enough people, so we can easily conclude that we don't deserve to be liked or even treated with civility and respect, and if we don't deserve that, we definitely don't deserve to be...
...loved. We absolutely for sure don't dare love ourselves--not even by loving each other, and telling them to wake up because this has all been a damned lie That's horrific psychological damage. So this project is that wake-up call: even the chosen few we have imbued with our collective need to have someone to fall short of by seeking "like, maybe just not my type, but it's not like she's hideous" (aka "beautiful") and shown that we can choose to put them to shame and get to say we have a "job" as an "influencer" [I'm keeping those air quotes, just like you can keep yours for when I tell you that the proper term is "maelstrom at the center of a storm of senseless materialism, rampant commercialisation and commodification of female bodies, naked misogyny, and whatever German word we can borrow to describe the state of being in possession of more money than good sense"] and laugh all the way to the bank until we are, unsurprisingly to all but ourselves, surpassed in turn."
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Ok I kinda understand why everyone got upset over the editing, but the title made it pretty clear that this was just editing to fit into the social media beauty standards of today. Quote from the paragraph: "Today’s influencer beauty standards are unobtainable without the power of Photoshop. What you see in your social media feed doesn’t match up with reality."
Most of the internet was picking a side in The Great Mid-Aughts War of Boaty McBoatface v. Hitler Did Nothing Wrong during that literally only one time ever they covered reading comprehension in school. The rest of them aren't sure what "Mid-Aughts" even means because they weren't alive yet.
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You all sound like a bunch of children. A lot of these honestly do look better in their after pictures and the truth is you're upset that it's true. Beauty standards change. How we do make up has changed. All of you bitching and moaning would be doing it no matter how this was done. You just want a reason to complain. Not one of you has an empty make-up draw and your fake outrage is more disgusting than this entire post.
I think the people complaining about the edited photos being too fake, too plastic, etc., missed the point of this whole post. They did not understand the assignment.
First of all, why and what the f**k. Secondly, it's really unnerving that more than 70% of these are only women celebrities. And lastly, dear Pandas be sure to go through the heading and the paragraph before commenting as @Charlotte A. suggested.
And please tell me, who the hell decides how we should look???? Some random idiot on internet who started a trend??? A piece of Kardashian trash?? some other idiot?? WHO
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I am so sick of the current makeup/face trend where women try to look like Bratz dolls. It's just gross.
It's not exactly a brillant art project if you have to read the disclaimer to get the idea behind it. I also wonder if the creators ever thought about the ethics behind changing the appearances of these women. Shouldn't they have the right to be depicted as they wish, not as some sort of über-photoshopped Barbie doll with dead eyes? Even considering the intention behind this post, I really take an issue with how these women's bodies are instrumentalized to prove a point.
I don't see an ethical dilemma. No one has the right to control how others portray or perceive them. No public figure who got that way on purpose is entitled to rope themselves off from my right to engage in commentary or parody by altering images of them. You would have been better off trying to make an intellectual property argument on behalf of the unsung magazine photographers, and you'd lose that, too. Freedom of expression's a b***h.
Load More Replies... I'm confused why an account called "Goddess Women" thinks this is a good use of anyone's time and resources.
They're women we have agreed to agree meet a ridiculous standard of feminine beauty; I find it hard to believe that anyone could recognize even half of those women but have yet to literally have seen in print a line eithwr comparing one of the ones they know to or outright calling her a goddess. Hence the celebrities are "goddess women;" we almost built an actual temple, but we forgot what we were doing and it ended up building a mall instead, I guess? Woo, tangent! Speaking of tangents, what if you went and just took the phrase "goddess women" literally? What would that mean? That it's possible for a woman to be an actual goddess in terms of what she gives others (a pretty face in exchange for getting to be in the public sphere, where people can see your face; 2.5 full time volunteer opportunities all with the position title "stay-at-home mom whose every action will be condemned no matter what she does" to go back to work and now have 3.65 full-time jobs all called "adult", etc.)
Load More Replies... It's so sad. And it's right to provoke the conversation. We are quite literally forgetting was it is to look natural and the damage that is doing to mental health and self-esteem cannot be underestimated.
Indeed. The simple fact is no one looks like those pictures naturally not even the "influencers" people need to understand that and never compare themselves or strive to look like that. Be healthy and be yourself. There's no one exactly like you and that is a good thing!
Load More Replies... Methinks some of the commenters should have read the intro before being let loose on the images...
...yes, I should have gone through it first 😶🤐😅
Load More Replies... So they took the most beautiful women in the world and told them even they are not pretty enough.
After 80+ examples of the art, I think the process has been proven. Continuing to work on the same types of examples became an exercise in objectification many photos ago. Calling it The Goddess Project only underscores the objectification of the women depicted. I suppose Bored Panda deserves some credit for bringing this to light, but... oh wait, they already did. Twice before. So what was the point of an apparently thoughtless reiteration?
The app maker speaks from both sides of her mouth. On one hand, "it's just for fun,"and on the other hand, "no one will like you if you don't look good." Don't Y'ALL get sick of the hypocrisy? Who cares what your readers think. Doesn't it make y'all at BP disgusted that with all our issues on this planet, this is the level of the room? Wake up.
What rages me is people on Instagram doing this to princess Diana pictures. NO
So everyone f*****g looks the same 🙄 Boring! I hate that everyone uses the same damn filters...geesus STOP!
I wouldn't say this a "beauty standard". Irl, these people cannot look like this. This is a photoshop standard. It what you make your photos look like. You can also change your photos to give yourself wings, a horse body, whatever. People need to quit mixing up the two. A "cat-eye" makeup look (sorry, I know next to nothing about "looks") is a beauty standard. Giving yourself a fishtail is a photo look. Not equivalent.
Let's all be honest about something - men will look at these pictures, but we aren't the primary consumer of them and we're not the ones obsessing over whether or not we can meet these beauty standards - nor are we looking for women that look like that; hard enough just finding real women that will even talk to us without playing games. The current buzzword is toxic masculinity, but this is some toxic feminity if ever because it is primarily female influencers pushing these fake ideals.
wow these altered pics all suck. who ever did this, must have a thing for wax dummies
They're screwing with their EYE COLOR. Like, seriously? Apparently having dark eyes and/or freckles goes against today's bEaUtY sTaNdArDs.
I'm so happy that everyone hates this. These are abominations and never should have been made or published. Whoever did this should needs to rethink their life.
I'm not picking up on this "everyone" vibe you seem to feel. Who else--like, other than you--were you counting?
Load More Replies... Makes me appreciate how good looking they all are in reality number one photos.
I feel the images, noses, lips and cheeks are not edited enough to claim to represent today's beauty standards, or the lack of them. Put the same nose and lip jobs on all of them, and we can put this title.
Everyone of these photoshop jobs is revolting. The trend of making people look like plastic mannequins with no features other than lips and unrealistically shiny eyes is disturbing and deeply unhealthy. We have lines and pores and freckles and moles because we’re f*****g human beings.
These are scary. Way to take the soul out of them. Most of them are unrecognizable. And why all the blue eyes? It’s creepy!
So photoshop also means changing the eye colour of these women - WTF? And turning tanned women white and vv. These are just awful. And to think that they chose the most beautiful women to 're-arrange'. Ya I get it. Influencers and turning them into those beasts. I read the headline
This is not OK. Basically you are saying the more make up the more beautiful you are. This doesn't give out a good message go the younger generation. No wonder why a lot of people have low self esteem with social media putting it out there that more make up worn is beauty when uniqueness and individuality should be celebrated
All these women are already beautiful! It just looks like someone has smacked more makeup on them and edited their eye colours to make them pop more. No wonder people have low self esteem especially women, people social media is giving out the message that you need more make up to be seen as beautiful in today's society when we should be celebrating unique individuality as beautiful
Firstly, in some of these the original photos are just bad photos. Unflattering light, flash gun pointed straight to their face etc. Secondly, some of these edits are really bad making the subject look like they are made of plastic. But that's the point. Some of these so called influencers do that, they retouch their photos heavily to look more "attractive" which obviously sometimes (often?) doesn't include looking like human. I can think many reasons why they do that but mostly, go look at the follower count of these people who successfully complete their twisting of reality. Additionally and to be fair, no, you don't always need heavy retouching to distort the limits of reality. You just need a good photographer.
My take on it is that she's not saying that they would look better if they used photoshop - Clearly, they don't - but that this has become a real influencer identikit look. Very much Kardashian by photoshop which makes sense as their photos all seem to have had work done on them on top of the work that the Kardashians have done on themselves. So, she's done it to show what you can do with photoshop and how it makes everyone look not quite but almost identical and not how any actual person looks in real life. She's basically taken already beautiful women and taken away their personality to show how fake photoshop is and how it robs photos of anything that hints at the person being a living breathing person who is more than just their looks.
None of these needed the edit to look beautiful. No one is ugly, so what's a beauty standard? Something to harm people into thinking they're not good enough. Everyone is fine, no need to change yourself, let everyone else change to realize that everyone is beautiful just the way they are.
I don't think they are photoshoping to change original looks of people because they think it looks nicer. I think they are doing it to prove a point. You are beautiful the way you are. Y'all don't need to be bashing the person who did this. I think it's good that we are able to see (in a clearer veiw) that this photoshoping isn't worth it 24/7. And it's not beautiful. Be you. I don't under why you all are pissed off at whoever did this. I agree it's not right what the industry is pushing. But I think this article is good because it shows even more of the BS there is in the world.
Influencers and filters have ruined beauty. Everyone looks like some version of a Kardashian with Photoshop. Nobody ends up looking real or with their own unique beauty that every single one of these women have before the Photoshop. I really hope we leave this idea soon that we need to look fake to be pretty
Absolutely hated this post. I get the point, but do we really need this kind of "art project" when we see the same crap all day on social media? Sure, make a creative comment on unrealistic beauty standards, but make it true art. This was not it. BP, the vast majority of your readers disliked this post. Learn from your mistakes and stop sharing these.
Search engine photoshop turn pizza into a model. It is absolutely CRAZY what can be done with photoshop. I like this photo essay. In most cases I feel they look like they have less personality in the after shots because they are made so flawless. I think this is why there is a big trend for especially fashion models and stars to have a "flaw" that is their signature like gap tooth, alopecia, their brows or the ever famois mona lisa's crooked smile
As one commenter stated, they all look like they're set up for a porn shoot.
I really can't wrap my head around whatever the devil is wrong with saying "I'm picking women who are members of the extremely small group of women whom we've all agreed to agree look "okay, I guess" and used Photoshop to enhance them to the even more ridiculous heights of unrealistic and unattainable standards female beauty being peddled via social media by influencers in order to make an important point about the damage being done by the lie women are inexplicably still telling--telling ourselves, each other, our children. This is the lie that says that we will never be enough, and not just pretty enough and thin enough, but likeable enough, sincere enough, which leads straight to nice enough, then good enough. So is it any great wonder that people don't like us? It's our own fault for not being good enough people, so we can easily conclude that we don't deserve to be liked or even treated with civility and respect, and if we don't deserve that, we definitely don't deserve to be...
...loved. We absolutely for sure don't dare love ourselves--not even by loving each other, and telling them to wake up because this has all been a damned lie That's horrific psychological damage. So this project is that wake-up call: even the chosen few we have imbued with our collective need to have someone to fall short of by seeking "like, maybe just not my type, but it's not like she's hideous" (aka "beautiful") and shown that we can choose to put them to shame and get to say we have a "job" as an "influencer" [I'm keeping those air quotes, just like you can keep yours for when I tell you that the proper term is "maelstrom at the center of a storm of senseless materialism, rampant commercialisation and commodification of female bodies, naked misogyny, and whatever German word we can borrow to describe the state of being in possession of more money than good sense"] and laugh all the way to the bank until we are, unsurprisingly to all but ourselves, surpassed in turn."
Load More Replies... Ok I kinda understand why everyone got upset over the editing, but the title made it pretty clear that this was just editing to fit into the social media beauty standards of today. Quote from the paragraph: "Today’s influencer beauty standards are unobtainable without the power of Photoshop. What you see in your social media feed doesn’t match up with reality."
Most of the internet was picking a side in The Great Mid-Aughts War of Boaty McBoatface v. Hitler Did Nothing Wrong during that literally only one time ever they covered reading comprehension in school. The rest of them aren't sure what "Mid-Aughts" even means because they weren't alive yet.
Load More Replies... You all sound like a bunch of children. A lot of these honestly do look better in their after pictures and the truth is you're upset that it's true. Beauty standards change. How we do make up has changed. All of you bitching and moaning would be doing it no matter how this was done. You just want a reason to complain. Not one of you has an empty make-up draw and your fake outrage is more disgusting than this entire post.
I think the people complaining about the edited photos being too fake, too plastic, etc., missed the point of this whole post. They did not understand the assignment.
