Retouching going too far

In the first photo,Britney Murphy's skin is touched up and she is given a glowing look. Eva Longoria is slimmed done around her arms and legs,she has a glow to her skin in the retouched photo. Her hair is also a couple of shades lighter.

Advertising in those days were not about exploiting women and using them for sex symbols, today image is everything. Unfortunately it destroys self confidence in people and makes them insecure about the bodies they have at the moment.

Bette Page

In the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s showed women advertising for various products for magazines and products. During these times women in these advertisements had close up shots or from the breast onward up. These ads were classy and chic. These ads also showed women’s natural beauty or beauty in general, some showed women with books, others in cars with fancy hats, women baking pies and cooking food, to name a few.

Bootylicious

Just exactly how much junk in the trunk is the right amount?


With Beyonce’s booty pads its not really fair that she is known for her Voluptuous body.

Celebrities are trying to be sex symbols, yet masking their imperfections (based on the media’s outlook)

D&G Commercial

This new Dolce & Gabbana commercial for watches is very misleading. That advertisement was for D & G Watches but to me it seemed like a mini soft porno clip. What will young boys and girls understand when they see this commercial? Will they think it’s sexy to have watches? Will they think in order to have sex they must buy these D&G watches? Will these young teenagers interpret this advertisement correctly?

Dove's Evolution

With Photoshop and tons of make up on her face, does this woman look the same in the final shot on the Billboard? Her lips are edited; the neck is made longer, they arch and retouch her eyebrows. What do you think, too drastic or no.

Music Videos/Music's Powerful Impact

If you watch music videos,you are aware that sometimes there is girls dancing in the videos. Sometimes the girls have no reason to be in the video as it relates to the song,but they are there and they are clearly shaking their booty for the camera. Shouldn't there be some type of limit to booty shaking,if any at all? From time to time I catch my own eight year old brother singing songs that are clearly inappropriate for his age. I heard him singing the following lyrics...." I like a long haired thick red bone. Open up her legs then fillet Mignon" I COULDN'T BELIEVE MY EARS, HE IS A BABY. HE IS EIGHT YEARS OLD. What can he possibly know about fillet Mignon...??? I turned the radio OFF!! I asked him,what is fillet Mignon,he had no idea,yet he knew the words to that song. I know he will hear that song again but these kids don't really understand what they are singing,but they clearly jump on the band wagon and sing along to songs they shouldn't be listening to in the first place.

Disturbia in children/teens

"She's too fat."
"She's too thin."
"My lips aren't plump enough."
"Her eyes are too close together."
"Her teeth aren't straight or white enough."
"Her nose is too tiny."
"Her nose is too long."
"My cheeks aren't high enough."
"Her breasts are too small."
"Her breasts are too large."
"My legs are too short."
"Her hair is too thin."
"Her hair is too curly."
"My eyes are too large."
"Her butt is too big."
"She has no butt."
"She's too old."
"She has too many wrinkles."
"She was such a beauty when she was younger, thinner."
"I hate the way I look."
"I'm so ugly."

You are Beautiful the way you are!!

It is sad to see or know that a little girl can look in the mirror and get upset at what she sees. She looks at the mirror and begins to cry,she thinks her nose is crooked,she thinks that she is ugly and fat, she hates her hair color, she doesnt like her eye color and wants contacts. We need to encourage these little girls to embrace themselves.

Dove takes a Stand or so it seems

Dove's onslaught commercial





I am happy that FINALLY some beauty line is trying to bring awareness to the beauty pressure that little girls must deal with. Little girls and women are constantly bombarded with Botox ads, high cheekbones, perfectly shaped eyebrows, and beautiful full lashes, products that will make your lips plump and fuller. Products that make you look younger, smaller, firmer, lighter, softer, tighter, thinner….etc.

Advertisements for Perfect skin, implants, women in bikinis with seemingly perfect shapes and hourglass figures. The advertisements for dieting and the variety of diet pills that help you lose weight. Dove’s P.S.A. is moving and makes me want to tell all the young little girls that they are beautiful just the way they are, and to not be easily influenced by what you see on TV and in the magazines because looks can be deceiving. I wonder if Dove is putting this out to seem as if they are a caring beauty line to gain the respect of others.

The Advertising Industry/Beauty Industry

I am Worried about the little girls and women with low self esteem issues.

The perfect lie………….. The perfect face and the perfect body…… Who sets the standards on how we should look? I am a huge beyonce fan however I worry that her image she advertises is harmful to those that fall victim. Sex appeal Sells!!!! We all know this, yet are these celebs really going to portrait themselves in a false light to make sales, YES. Beyonce is a very attractive woman but yet all of her pictures must have some Photoshop. In the double picture above,the right is the original picture; is it really necessary to make her body look orange? Was her skin not the right color? Or was it that her skin tone SHOULD have been a little more TAN? (I can see the women rushing to the stores to buy tanning lotion to get this fake glow.)

Her hips and legs seemingly shrunk (I guess her hips/legs were too thick to actually model) her arms slimmed down, and her “love handle” doesn’t exist in this million dollar picture. Must all celebs aspire to have this hourglass figure? Why do these celebs have airbrushed abs? Why can’t we love our bodies as it is?