We had a whole thread about that one time. I made this magazine cover for it. Something tells me I’m not doing it right.
My OP-related question is this: what is it about ‘whiter’ eye-whites which is appealing? Do we think it makes the person look ‘fresh’ or young? Curious.
Hey, it works for eggs.
The funny thing is that while we are all saying “yeesh”, I doubt that those in the advertising and magazine game haven’t done their homework: this stuff must presumably be what sells.
Sorry. I forgot to mention this is one I didn’t tidy up. That’s probably a bit of feather; for which, blame cat.
Yes, Expano, that’s a hand, not a dwarf, and unremarkable except that one of those finger tips was detached and sewn back on sometime in the '60s. It took longer than 20 minutes.
I guess for a thread about faking pictures, mine was a lousy example, because it’s raw off the camera. On the other hand, my point was more or less that I don’t take pictures worth retouching anymore (if I ever did), so, as off-topic goes… well never mind. It is a silly link.
(Actually, if I was keen to clean up the picture, I’d have started by cleaning up more of those welds. But for that I’d use an angle grinder.)
Oh my God! These people are actually humans? And have wrinkles and blemishes! I don’t think I’ll sleep tonight now!
The humanities…
A friend of mine was running for office and had an opportunity to have a five minute speech run by a Ukiah T V station several times before the election. She found a small video studio in San Francisco that had reasonable rates and talked me into driving her up there. Since she doesn’t wear any make up at all, she was totally at a loss of what to do, but she had some other friends who were stage-crafty that knew make-up techniques. The result was absolutely garish* to the eye, but under the studio lights, it flattened to normal.
*When we were walking the couple blocks from the parking garage to the studio in a seedy part of the city, I quipped, “I had a sudden thought on how you can raise some money for your campaign.”
“Shaddup,” she said. “I’m feeling conspicuous enough as it is.”
Darling, kidding! (apologies for leaving off the smilies: 
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Silly link, yes, and delightful, and it made me smile, so shaddup.
You only wrote this so people would look at me as I laughed, just as before.
I’m surprised no one linked this one yet: Dove Evolution video. A model goes from cute to gorgeous with makeup, and you’d think that was good enough, but no, then they start in with the photoshop.
*** Ponder
This will all look as bizarre to people from the future as the flat white makeup on traditional geisha looks to modern people. Standards of beauty range over a fairly wide area, taking into account both time and culture.
