very neat explanation of how to make people in magazines look better than they actually do

what about dove's "real women" ads? the first time i saw them, i thought, "those are not the kind of "real women" i see every day," because they're all still gorgeous and i doubt any of them was over a size 12, but i'm sure they've been retouched, etc, so i don't feel quite so bad.

the coolest example of the unretouched woman was when jamie lee curtis did that spread with no makeup in her underwear and showed everyone how imperfect she was.

They were all on Oprah in their underwear over the holidays and still looked exactly like that ad, so I think it's mostly makeup as opposed to hardcore retouching.

on this one, they added to the ass!
http://www.glennferon.com/portfolio1/portfolio02.html

I liked the Shanghai incarnation of this ad campaign the Banterist guy posted:

http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/images/dove2.jpg

-- tres letraj (boringstandardaddres...), January 11th, 2006 9:39 AM.

I'm sure no one's dog could look that hideous.

Please tell me US sizes are way different to AU's - a size 10 here is someone who weighs 90 pounds soaking wet.