Anyone can look good on Photoshop.
Doves had an awareness campaign in 2006 with the aim at making young women aware about the truth of images that are portrayed in Media. The main message of this campaign was to show young women what is done to the images, in terms of the twiggs and changes that are done on Billboard models using photoshop. Wikipedia defines Photoshop as a graphic editing programme that edits, organise, restore, crop and slice images, pictures, drawings, and logo's. Ideally this changes how things actually look, I wanted to specifically focus on how we view beauty.
What is beauty?
Beauty is the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, this is how Dictionary.com defines beauty.
However, how do you define beauty, my Media Lecturer shared the Doves video in class with us, I went and looked at it again. The video made me question why is it that we know that most images and people on television, magazines and Billboards are photoshoped but we still continue aspiring be to like that people portrayed in these mediums? The definition says that beauty is a quality in a person that gives intense pleasure or deep satifaction to the mind. Does this mean that we find satisfaction in the images we see in these mediums, is that why we continue to aspire to be like the portrayed models, and this is what leads to the satisfaction of our beauty. I was told that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and I have learned to love and appreciate myself they way I am, even though I wish to like a bit different or should i say a little prettier. It doesn't mean you should change yourself into someone who is not real, even if the person in the magazine know that that's not how they really look.
Beauty should be seen as something that you live in content with, and let letting someone else define haw you should look. Love, live and admire your beauty.