Do you think Beauty in Magazines is Distorted?

Question

Why do models get retouched when they are already beautiful?

Answer 1

yeah they're giving people the wrong perception about real beauty

Answer 2

According to the serious fashion photographers in their mags and journals if you have the patience to read them there are some models who don't need retouching and others sometimes do.

But models are just like the rest of us. They have bad days, periods,
pimples, sleepless nights. Makeup alone doesn't solve this.

If you're referring to the recent Photoshopped pix on the Net of hyhper skinny models, know that these were a joke and the real life models are nothing like this.

Bottom line is that nobody's perfect and models always have to make the garments they're wearing look good and fashion look like fun.

An example might be the movie 'Hot Chick'. Check out the
paparazzi pix of the girl star. Not only was she about 14 years older than the teenage role she was playing, but she'd been
retouched frame by frame to look younger.

Weird. Why not give the role to an actor exactly the right age in the first place? But that's Hollywood. British films are more honest and maybe that's good because there's less silly expense in post production retouching.

Opinion? No, I don't think "beauty" as a concept in magazines is distorted. Sometimes it is misrepresented, mostly in supermarket and garbage popular mags that make sales by headlining front cover "sensationalism", usually shock horror
beat ups that wrongly protest about a model's or an actor's, well actress's alleged "anorexia" or "bad hair and skin day" when the
celebrity pictured has been idiotically photographed through a super long lens hand held by a tacky photographer hiding in the bushes as she strips toplessor naked on a private boat or beach.

Yechhh....

Anyway, unless you are talking genuine art and true beauty, the notion of "beauty" is culturally subjective and therefore impossible to define unless you establish terms of reference.

For example, the most honest concept of pictorial representation of beauty surely must be a healthy face and body? Physical fitness, slim figure, shiny hair, healthy skin and physique that is understated and not American style adolescent as in the American magazines, is classical beauty.

You see this in the work of Da Vinci and the classical Roman sculptures as much as you do in quality mags like Marie Claire, Vogue, or She.

In another post elsewhere the thought of the 1960s 70s Hungarian actress Audrey Hepburn came up. Reading the film prod mags it is recorded that she was the opposite of the mostly American large breasted and fleshy actresses of the time because she used little make and her stills photographs rarely if ever required retouching.

Her health later deteriorated but she had something even more valuable than popular appeal, she had individuality and an awsome inner beauty that shone right through.

She was not politically correct or trendy, but she was beautiful.

Answer 3

beauty has become such a tool for marketing, that big companies refuse to look at the impact on the public.

air brushing has become common practice making models look perfect, when in fact they have spots, freckles and scars like the rest of us.

the most disturbing thing about the beauty product industry is that they now use models as young as 12 to advertise products aimed at older women. Surely this is false advertising.

Answer 4

Ooh, I know this one! People are just trying to make girls look unrealistic. I can`t believe it! And beautiful girls try to look like that by starving and piercing themselves, and when they don`t succeed, they end up totally killing themselves. The magazine designer people don`t care about what those poor girls do to themselves. I hate those magizines. I only look at magazines with Narnia news or the American Girls, or those food magizines. That`s it. I also think pictures of models look horrible because they`re not real. Sorry, I`m a huge self-esteem booster.

Answer 5

My sister is a model, and she gets mad when they retouch her stuff. It is an industry norm though. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Answer 6

I'm gonna start off by saying everyone who is beautiful inside is outside too. But yes, all the touch ups and makeup is unrealistic. anyone could look like they do with all that airbrushing!

Answer 7

Yes

Answer 8

"Beauty" in magazines is airbrushed. For the truely beautiful an airbrush wouldn't be needed.

Answer 9

to make them more photogenic they have to be retouched. to print it on magazine you need good photographs. for photography purpose they need proper makeup

Answer 10

They are beautiful but not always perfect they have blemishes just like we do... they have their imperfections too.....