Photoshop Fun

[daphnep]

Jezebel.com commented on both of these things, but I want to draw them together in one place just to contrast them.

First of all, we have the Super-Photoshopped version of Michelle Obama on the cover of Good Housekeeping Magazine.

Then we have Marie Claire Magazine showing Jessica Simpson and bragging about "No makeup, no retouching!" Fascinating that these come out in the very same month. Interesting to see the two side by side.

One more of Jessica, just because I think she looks really good, this way. Of course, this still isn't "nature". It's all art, remember: the photographer, the designer, the editors--these images still came through layers and layers of "image-making process". But they're nice to see.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

Comments

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

There's a lot good lighting can do, but you can see the line of demarcation of color between what has been put on her lips and her actual lip color.

And the color on her cheeks is not coming from under the skin, as it would if she had simply pinched cheeks. It's subtle make up, certainly, but it most assuredly there.


D.

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

I should also add, when Jamie Lee Curtis did this sort of thing, she was much more seriously not...adjusted...in any way.


D.

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

Oh, I loved Jamie Lee Curtis for that one! I think there were even more photos in the magazine.

I'm trying to see what you mean on the photos, but they're not large enough for me to tell, and also I'm more used to trying to pick out Photoshop than makeup. I'm wary, though, of the commenters on Jezebel who were saying things like "That's got to be makeup, people's lips aren't really colored like that!" etcetera, because it's part of the whole "because MY body/skin/hair is this way, everyone's is" thinking that comes up in so many body-image discussions, a.k.a. "Real Women Have Curves" etc.

Some women really are naturally thin, and Jessica Simpson might have more perfectly flushed lips than I do, and maybe she blushes in a way people of my skin type don't.

And also, if the magazine is specifically promoting an agenda, like being able to say "No Makeup!" right on their cover, wouldn't they have an interest in, you know, doing the image with no makeup? I imagine the fun the photographer and stylists might have had, working with that challenge, and looking for alternatives, a photoshoot that went "okay, Jessica, now bite your lips, then lick them...good, good!"

But maybe that's too much good faith on my part.

[rougewench.livejournal.com]

I would say possibly so.

It's also possible that a fashion magazine has very different ideas of what "no makeup" means.


D.

[evilegg.livejournal.com]

Tinted moisturizer FTW!