All In One Beauty
This is a perfect example of how unrealistic models look in advertisements. In this one, a model is displayed in an advertisement showing only half of herself that has makeup and the other without. You can clearly tell the difference between both sides. As I mentioned in one of my other papers for this class, our perception of beauty and power has changed over the years due to how the media uses women in its ads that are so thin, perfect looking and seems to have it all. It makes the public feel like they need to look like that and if they can’t — it creates self issues such as low self esteem, confidence and such.
I particularly liked this image because it clearly shows how much of an alteration has been done to the woman portrayed after the photo has been taken. It showcases the fact that nearly all of the ads we see are indeed photoshopped in order to make them 'better' and more attractive to the viewers as well as showing the unrealistic expectations that we have of ourselves based on what we are being shown daily. This ad in particular even has the 'information' of what one would need in order to immortalize their beauty. This is the definition of what photoshop does for you on the computer without the actual work being done on the model. The model is a normal person like us but it's the media that adjusts their image through photoshop to make them look like an entirely different person.