I have a daughter and a wife who are both beautiful. I worry about what they see as the ideal of beauty that is presented relentlessly in all forms of media. This site gives a wonderful example of how all that glitters is not gold. See the before and after retouching of a cover model photo step by step.
Photoshop retouching of model – Mark Frauenfelder:
Interesting interactive Flash movie shows model retouching before and after.
Link
(Via Boing Boing)
Model’s age?
I just realized that the model in question is 14 freaking years old. Dude. This is some fucked up shit. It would be fucked up regardless, but seems even more so now.
Your wife and daughter are both beautiful, man, and more to the point, they’re both smart. Smart enough, I trust, that they won’t allow themselves to buy into this freakish notion of what women are supposed to look like.