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This is good news : ) Our famous people look like video game characters. The next logical step would be for them to all have samurai swords and flame throwers.

She also looks outwards cross-eyed. : )) Besides that, I really dislike this anti-beauty campaign. It is supposed to be in good intention, but It already became an exaggeration, just like reotuching. We are already just few steps away from a world where ugly fat women are supposed to be the beauty standard and everything else just has to be fake.... and if you disagree with ugly fat women that they are indeed beautiful, and dare to not find them attractive, you get labelled * jerk. Brave new world. : ))

I think the issue here is not beauty, but the false propaganda that buying a certain product will turn an aged skin in a smooth one, and using photo edition to corroborate the magic properties of a product. A soft, beautiful skin is a result of many factors - good nutrition products included - but you have to do something before major damage happens. You can soothe wrinkles, but not make them disappear.

Having said that, Lancôme products are my favourite.

Here is another link pertaining to the same story from the BBC News website today, Wednesday 27.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14304802

Thanks. Here's another from Campaign (an advertising and media magazine/online magazine in the UK).

http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/bulletin/campaign_daily_fix/article/1081978/loreal-cosmetics-ads-banned-mp-complains/

Heavily edited photos and heavy marketing sells. end of the story 

Well - I know that now because I've been around a while, and have grown wiser.  But I see my 12, 14 and 20 year old nieces getting sucked in by ads, just the same way I was at their ages.  Just as I didn't listen to my Mum's protestations, they don't listen to their aunt's  (their Mum still doesn't see it in her 40's).


Just found a Twiggy comparison shot:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23784637-twiggys-secret-in-airbrush-storm.do

I tire of your pathetic anti american propaganda. You should realize that there are people living here that doesnt resemble your vision of the clueless overweight hillbilly red neck american. Your screen name just screams intolerant to me    + 1 ignored

It might be due to a couple of big companies that control most of the published media in this world. Thats just my guess.

 

Similar story here - except I covered myself with enough make up to look like a completely different person.  It was like wearing a mask.

We sound like two halves of a Goth  

@ Bunhill - the only thing I can think of that is comparable is the way PR companies work, composing the article, choosing the pic and sending it out to the press with a publication date.   Not sure how that fits with a story like this though, as I was only ever involved in product launches and damage limitation exercises during my brief stint in that world.

That was another revelation - I hadn't realised until then that so many of those magazine articles about products were written by the manufacturer's PR agents or departments.  I'd thought they were genuinely impartial and were a positive 'thumbs up' from the magazine stuff.

Nah, here in europe too. I see this all the time: another article on how horrible anorexia is in some hyperbumd magazine -when they manage to find a single starved teen in the ocean of overweight ppl- gets everyone pent up about "our current beauty ideals" and the "fashion industry" : )) Then you get all the fat women (males seem to stay out of this, maybe bit more sense of self criticism) going around with that fake-worried, accusing look on their faces, very agressivly pushing the agenda the everything else besides them is fake. It has gone to the point when they say stuff like (and its commonly accepted by the uneducated plebs) liking slender women is a current perversion and for most of history fat women were the ideal. They even dare to cite poor old Rembrandt and that prehistoric statue from Willendorf, I'v heard that 10000 times in my life - interesting how art history got narrowed down for this cause, even to men : )  They say stuff like fat ppl were the true survivors back is prehistoric times because of frequent famines. I hear bullsheit like that all the time... this is more serious brainwashing than most would consider, an agressive attempt to make men feel ashamed for their most natural preferences. It's heavily backed by the media which mostly feminist oriented, and this messing around about retouching is just a small spinoff of this ' lets make ugliness a standard out of sour envy' movement.

I'm not sure why your feelings are so strong on this - or why you're talking about fat vs thin (which wasn't the topic), but FWIW, I think it's more 'Lets bring things a little closer to reality, so as not to crush people's confidence with standards that even the models themselves can't achieve'.

My own feeling is that there should be room for everyone to shine (or not, as they see fit).  Not just a select few.  None of that should interfere with your taste in women.  If men are being told 'You have to find large women beautiful or you're a jerk' in some version of America that I've never heard about, then clearly that's wrong.  Just as is the notion that 'You have to fancy thin women or there's something wrong with you'.  Taste is very personal and shouldn't be governed by edicts (yours or society's).  Each to their own.