week 7

Megan La Bianca

Today natural beauty is distorted by Photoshop, today we can easily hide the acne, the wrinkles, and the baggie eyes. We can change everything about someone with a few quick clicks of a button. Today there is no such thing as natural beauty, because the media is selling to us, that we need these beauty products to look and feel young and pretty. Really when we look in the magazines, look up at the build boards, were not seeing the “big picture”, we don’t see how this is not natural beauty, this is hours of make up and hair work, hours of Photoshop, touching up every inch. The media paints over what we think is natural and we get frustrated when we wish we could be that beautiful when really no one is, its all an illusion.

Did you change your original views from Week Six?

No my views are still the same, women are being portrayed as people there not, being all touched up with make up and hours of editing, women everyday look at these women and are getting the wrong message, everyday women fight with them self in the mirror, they wish they had this, and looked like that, but really no one does because the media has painted a picture of what we “want to see” not what we really see.

Did it make you think differently about what we see in the media and what reality is?

Yes, we don’t see the big picture like I said before, we think were seeing this naturally beautiful women, but in reality, there being warped and rearranged in Photoshop and other editing programs. We wish we could be so naturally pretty and skinny and this and that but really no one is, the media shows us what we want to see, not what is really there.