Before and After - Lara
Images by Macey J. Foronda for BuzzFeed and True You Retouching
Previously, we featured an eye-opening feature that reveals how “one size fits most” clothes look like on different body sizes.
Here is another interesting feature, created by the BuzzFeed team, that shows us how five average women look like when they are Photoshopped to look like magazine cover models, who tend to have features like “small waists” and “thin legs”.
The team paired Photoshopped portraits of each woman, created by LA-based photo retoucher Francesca Ling, with their unretouched photographs to “demonstrate how far from reality magazine standards for beauty can be”.
Reactions from the five women struck a common chord—they seemed to be impressed and enthused with their retouched photos at first glance.
However, most of them later opined that by brushing away their unique features, such as freckles and scars, it made them appear “less genuine” and “inauthentic”.
What are your thoughts on this revealing Photoshop project?
Scroll down to view the before-and-after photographs of these women, or hop over here to read more about this interesting project.
Before - Kristin
Image by Macey J. Foronda for BuzzFeed
After - Kristin
Image by Macey J. Foronda and True You Retouching
Before - Allison
Image by Macey J. Foronda for BuzzFeed
After - Allison
Image by Macey J. Foronda and True You Retouching
[via BuzzFeed]