Photoshops : Blessing or Cursing?

The controversy of the week , look at this photo of Twiggy below as the face of Olay. She is 59 years of former Supermodel.

And this is still Twiggy in her real life.

Another hot topic is from SELF cover magazine of Kelly Clarkson

And this is how she looked just a few days before the magazine hit the new stand.

And remember my old post about Kim Kardashian's photos ?

And here is her respond to it :

While photoshopping is a great way for digital imaging industry, I wonder , does it got more harm that good ?

I am all agree when it is used to enhanced the background , make the photo more stand out, and special , like these ( taken from benny's blog):

But how if the technology is used to create the perfect image , and to create unrealistic figure and made many of us feel bad about ourself (specially teenagers) and more mature women are dying to have more and more plastic surgeries to look younger and younger like the celebrities .

There goes the many cases of bulimic and anorexic , many are cases are even taking the life of the young ones.

What is the limit ? And where to draw the lines? For me as long as the " correction " is not too much , that should be fine and as long as they don't use it to sell "certain" image or products with the photoshoped images.

And I wonder , how does it feel to the celebs ( like Kelly Clarkson here) to see that her body has been "corrected" or " airbrushed" but she knows that is not the real her. And what kind of message will be send out to the fans out there?

And I wonder how real is these photos ( and many other photos from the slimming centres).Can you really trust the before and after picture in this digital era? I am sure Christy Chung has reclaimed her figure back. But how much? As much as the photo below? Or do you think the digital technology had something to do with it? ( beside the hours of profesional hair and make up)

Photoshop is an art, I love to learn it myself just for my personal fun. I want to see how will I "look" to be perfect. To have the high nose, defined cheek bones, fuller lips. Six packs abs? WOW.... it's a dream came true.

So ladies... if you have the bad hair day, bad skin day, bloated day, big pores, chubby chin, or just saw your not so good photos. Be happy. Well , we do not have special trainer, gourmet chef, nutritionist , personal stylist or a professional make up artist/hair stylist to help us getting ready or put a look together. And our photos are all un-touched and un-airbrushed!
If we had all of that, sure we can also look like the glam up celebs.

So we don't look bad after all !

Have a Fun-taboulus week!!!