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Post by Admin on Dec 3, 2013 6:52:36 GMT
Can you imagine living in a world in which every being was rounded?
Believe it or not, many people base their entire perception of people and things based on their exterior appearance.
Would you like to change your body shape?
Share your opinion with us!
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Post by Admin on Dec 3, 2013 7:05:35 GMT
Airbrushing to the extremes!Eating disorder charity Beat is calling for a ban on airbrushing that changes the shape of the body. Susan Ringwood, its chief executive, says people have become so used to this alternative norm that they no longer notice. "Because it's everywhere we've lost some of our critical faculties in understanding this is no longer real."
There's an alternative view - that this is just an inevitable part of technological change. "In the old days it was lots of make-up, very careful selection of models and good lighting and countless takes with cameramen and lighting engineers, who made sure the absolutely perfect take was got," says Ian Twinn of the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers. "Now it can be done more quickly, people can manipulate and change, airbrush and digitally enhance the image afterwards."
Consumers are not stupid, he says. They know and want to buy into a dream, he argues. The same could be said for magazine readers or TV viewers.
It's not clear what effect this is having on today's teenagers.
Read more on:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24522060
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Post by Corine on Dec 11, 2013 10:53:43 GMT
I definitely don't think people are able to see through all the airbrushing. The thing is, it's no longer only light and make-up. Entire body parts are corrected, or made longer, so that the final image is just physically impossible to reach without starving yourself half to death. If people would consciously look at every media image they saw, they might indeed be able to look through it. But since there's so many being shot at people every day, it just becomes the standard of what pretty people look like. I really think it has a bad effect not only on teenagers, but on everyone's beauty standards.
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Post by watatatow on Dec 12, 2013 12:20:12 GMT
I can't but agree. How many girls were rushing to the tanning salon before their prom? because that's what is pretty.... How many have I heard trying to be a diet to fit those prom dresses? Because they had bought them a size smaller for some motivation..... and then their friend that had always been skinnier than the others, whose body was so envied, complained how she lacked curves to look live a "woman" body not a child.. so many contradictions that only undermines girls self-confidence ( same for men obsessed with the gym and proteins diets etc.
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