What models look like before Photoshop

if so many models are actually as normal looking as working class people...why do you have to look flawless to be one?

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I fail to understand why any of them were photo-shopped in the first place!

why were they photoshopped anyway? the models were beautiful without the 'magic' of photoshop. The skin looked real, glowing, beautiful. i wanted to be a model until I saw the things that they do to models in order to get them 'perfect'. And to be honest, all the photoshopping made them uglier than they actully are. They were beautiful.

Its all well and good to say that airbrushing etc is an art form and that millions of women dye their hair, wear make up etc, but don't you remember how difficult being a teenager was? Seeing all those beautiful people in magazines and adverts and feeling bad about yourself for not looking as good? Ok, it doesn't happen to everyone but there is a significant percentage of the population who do feel that way. It isn't the airbrushing itself that isn't great, I'm sure it's a difficult and long process getting everything perfect. What sucks unfortunately is that impressionable people see these things and look at what happens. Eating disorders are more common that ever before, in men and women, and I'm talking both ends of the spectrum, obesity to anorexia and everything in between. People are spending ridiculous amounts of money to attempt to look better and all it causes is stress when it back fires, another leading cause of illness. What's wrong with just wanting to look normal, not to be perfect in every way. After all, beauty is fleeting! And one final point, with the shape the country is now you'd think image wouldn't be quite so important when you consider the money which goes into maintaining it!!

Y do they have to look skin lighter? i don't get it :( dark is beautiful too.

well, do you put makeup on? or does your wife/girlfriend? that is used to hide blemishes and such, even trying to make themselves more beautiful, the truth is that this photoshopping is doing the same, hiding blemishes and sutch so if you think about it when you or a friend puts makeup on somtimes they're doing more than just hiding blemishes so in a way thats worse than just hiding blemishes and such so really the photoshopers are doing FINE!

well said Boris

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Boris, I agree with your sentiment - how true that is -well said. I do however disagree with you, because I married "the sweetest lass of all the human race"

having suffered 23 years with Anorexia Nervosa and now in recovery air brushing is a big hate of mine teenagers are faced with these false images daily and teenagers believe them to be real and try to get a perfect image. Well there is no such thing. no one has perfect everything not even top models male or female. lets show the world we are proud of our uniqueness not ashamed of it as it does not live up to false ideals.

My lovely wife i met on a cold winters night>> she wore no make up then, but she was a pretty sight>>>. 2 yrs later on and i asked her for her hand,>>And she still was the prettiest lass in all the land.>>>40 yrs have passed and not one brush has touched her face>> and i still think she's the sweetest lass over all the human race.>>> Make up is only part time, The true you is for life. all women are as god made" Wonderfull"

I'm going to set up a modelling agency with Photoshop, a camera and a Pork Chop. I won't have to pay the model anything, and no one can say she wasn't in the flesh. I'll make loads and never go hungry.

If you think about it... Make up is like painting someones else face on top of your own... it's like admiting that it is something wrong with your face and also it's a false representation of the truth... No disrespect intended ladies, just think about it... I remember my ex hiding her face in the mornings... well, it's not like we (males) are after your paintings... We love you just the way you are, no makeup needed.

I am a professional artist and high end retoucher, the photos above are nothing compared to what some models have asked me to do for them.

Nothing new.Before computers did all the hard work,there were people with airbrushes ,paintbrush and inks,working on celebrity photographs to create the image the photographer couldn't manage with camera alone. If you go back far enough, it was portrait artists who were ordered by their clients to just make them more youthful,beautiful or flawless.

So, in reality, what's the difference between a model and any of us?

To be honest I though most of the models looked better before. There natural skin in some cases looked much better and was glowing with health, it looked real. I dont like photoshoping photographs, to me its for correcting a bad photographer's mistakes. No-one looks like an alabaster mannequinn. Natural beauty can look incredible with in a good photograph using a good photographer. No photoshop needed.

oh wow, are we supposed to get excited about this 'old' news that models are airbrushed?...also- anyone can look 'perfect' after a photoshop treatment.....paint shop pro does the trick too!

The point is that people aspire to look like the people in magazines, but the people in magazines don't actually look like that!