Can you imagine a product that got rid of dark circles, blemishes and wrinkles, made your pores disappear, your hair shinier and your face thinner? This product already exists, but you can’t find it at your local Sephora. In fact, your skin will virtually look perfect without any cream, power or laser treatment. What is this magical product, you ask? Photoshop by Adobé.
It’s no secret that society’s beauty standards are whack. This video pokes fun at the “perfection” we’re supposed to believe is plastered on magazine covers and shakin’ it in music videos. We know it’s all fake, but sometimes it can be hard to remember that these ideals are unattainable. Thanks to this video, I feel more confident in myself because I can laugh in the face of virtual perfection, blemishes and all.
What do you think about this “commercial”? How do you remind yourself that beauty isn’t about Photoshop?
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I like the video a lot. The problem is, everyone knows that celebrities and advertisements are photoshopped, but that doesn’t keep them from making us feel like shit about ourselves. Therefore does this ‘awareness’ help in any way?
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@sas07@xanga - Good point. I don’t think the awareness helps because there aren’t any companies making changes.
sunflower / 321 posts
Just lol’d real good at this.
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i think this is great. but i’m pretty sure it’s not gonna change our society’s idea of beauty.
peony / 1 posts
I think society is already changing, it’s just not happening fast enough to see it. I’m no spring chicken, I’m 60 years old but here’s what I’ve observed. When I was young, girls who were not pretty didn’t get dates. Girls and boys who were overweight were laughed at and only dated each other. Everything was based on looks. But now, I see hot guys dating girls who are very overweight, and I see pretty girls dating skinny guys with glasses. It is changing, but unfortunately we can’t see it when we’re in the middle of it. It’s only when you look back. Those of you who are in your 20s, think back to when you were in your mid-teens. I hear my kids who are 25, 30 and 35 saying all the time how different things were when they were younger. It would be awesome if we could speed up change without speeding up aging! But I do think videos like this help, and so do the Dove commercials because change can’t happen unless something makes it happen. And it happens in baby steps. Every time someone looks at a video like this and it helps them to accept themself for who they are, it’s another baby step. Just my opinion.