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Picture Perfect
Airbrushing and touching pictures is a common thing
nowales Everybody knows that the images of models
on magazine covers with their pearly white teeth perfect
gures and shiny hair are visibly improved We're
a culture obsessed with perfection. But what does it really
mean to be perfectly beautiful Treee journalists decided
to find out
Esther Honig Marie Ospina and Praca Yuki Wilson sent
pictures of themselves to photo editors around the world
who promised to do whatever was necessary to make
them beautiful. The results were quite surprising Esther
and Mane are both white and although in most pictures
their skin appears smoother and Marie's mole is missing
ther skin colour is basically unchanged b To Marie's
surprise her face is still plump and double-chinned, her
tousled hair still messy So, while both of them consider
themselves plain the beautiful versions of themselves
aren't much different from the original
The new photos of the third journalist, Priscilla Yuk Wilson
present a slightly different picture. Priscilla's features (eyes
nose ips) are a mixture of black and Japanese which
seems to make people unsure of how to judge her looks
As a result most editors decided to fix her and make her
look more one than the other e
Editors from countries with more mixed populations,
on the other hand, seemed to be happy to accept different
kinds of beauty.
b These changes were upsetting at first, but soon both learned
to laugh about them and started looking for deeper analysis
of the results
c In some pictures their eyes are bigger, in some they have heavy
make-up or thicker eyebrows, but these are minor changes.
A closer analysis of the results of rumemu such
tors from countries with more homogeneous populations
introduced more changes to the photos especially to
mages showing people with mosed heritage. They seen
to have very defined standards of beauty rooted in thes
cultures and wanted their modes to resemble them
And fortunately, they're not the only ones
More and more women, including celebrities, rebel again
the idea of promoting perfection Models and actresses
refuse to have their pictures in magazines retouched, even a
it means visible cellulite or wrinkles on the cover of Glamour
The new message seems to be this is the real me and I'm
proud of it. We're all different and that's what makes us us
There's beauty in diversity and in being real
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d Smartphones and cameras have modes that can,
for instance, smooth out your face in pictures, and people
do not think twice about posting selfies or creating online
profiles showing better versions of themselves.
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e There are pictures where her complexion is lighter, her nose
slimmer, her eyes wider to a point where she has difficulty
recognising herself at all.