FASCINATING PHOTOSHOP FACTS
#nomakeup, #nofilter, I never really believe them. Even with the famous LINDA cover where all the cover ladies wore no makeup, there was indeed a foundation applied and they were heavily at work with the magic wand called photoshop. Because while we might not have seen mascara-coated lashes and painted lips, a pore or a pimple was nowhere to be found.
Now, I don't want to bash LINDA in my story at all, it's one of the nicest magazines in the country and Linda is the queen of the media world, but I do want to point out that photoshop is on a grand triumphal march. In my opinion, a slightly too grand triumphal march.
Website www.xojane.com spoke with a retoucher (that's what they call someone who photoshops abroad) and his revelations were not mild. Here they come.
- Thin, thinner, thinnest is the motto. Up to 10 kilos can be photoshopped off a celebrity, and this retoucher is still of the conservative kind.
- The only woman who never wanted to be photoshopped is Mary J. Blige. She has a scar on her face that means a lot to her, hence.
- Women always want to be shopped (thinner, fewer wrinkles, no pores), while men, on the other hand, do not wish for photoshop.
- Thinner is more important in photoshop request land than fewer wrinkles. Arms, thighs, hips, everything must go.
- One of the stranger requests was to make a celebrity's nose shorter and their eyes bigger. That can be quite a shock when you suddenly see that person moving on TV, right?
- Photoshoppers are now extremely skilled at applying makeup to makeup-free faces. Applying mascara, lipstick, even nail polish is no problem. So remember, what you see is not what you get. That was once.
Just to shatter a dream for a moment. Beyonce photoshops herself silly. Not that she needs it, but she does it anyway. Take a look at the images below and then I ask for special attention to the slanted step between her thighs and the shadow that leads a life of its own, or at least a different one, than the real body.
