Anywhere you look in your everyday life you will see images of women everywhere, in magazines, billboards, advertisements on television, posters, or movies. But the images that we all see in these things are fake. Most of the photos in magazines have been photoshopped to make the women look the absolute best that she can, they make her flawless. They edit out wrinlkles in her face to make her have perfect skin, photoshop her hips to make them smaller or make her boobs bigger for example. The reason that almost every photo in the media is edited is because our view on beauty is distored. These images aren't true beauty, they are fake. Why do magazine editors feel like they need to edit these images of girls? Aren't they fine the way they are?
In these images of celebrities we can see that they have been photoshopped. These images affect the lives of teenage girls the most because they are the ones that are trying to be skinnier, taller, blonder, sexier and prettier because this is what the media is telling them that they should be striving to look for. They photoshop out tiny little imperfections from the girls photos which gives the messages to teenage girls that they are actually perfect, which they aren't. This then will give them the idea that they are ugly because they have flaws but everyone does.
These images from the media are favouring the perfection in women. They give out the idea that these women actually look like this because most of the girls looking at them won't know that they are photoshopped.
I think that it is stupid that magazines and commericals change the looks of womens body's to make them even better than they were in the first place, i think that they should just leave them they way they were because there is nothing wrong with some imperfections, it says that we are all human but beautiful anyway.
Teenage girls are being extremely affected with theses images that they see everywhere and then get involved in the media world aswell . This French model, Thylane Loubry Blondeau is only ten years old and is already modelling shoes for Vogue. Anyone else see something wrong with this? No ten year-old should be modelling for a commerical with make-up on and her hair done perfectly.
Another great discusssion. What about questioning what is wrong with the original image? Even the original, unphotoshopped image is a difficult image to attain, so why do the media feel like they need to make it even worse? And when did this begin? AND WHO ? WHO is the 'god like' person out there that through the ages has decided... YOU are beauiful and YOU ARE NOT???
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