Beauty and the Media

Growing up I wanted to be like the celebrities in the cover of magazines. I would always look at their videos and pictures and think "Wow! I want to be like that someday." No matter how hard I tried, I would not look like the pictures in the covers. After watching a video in my 9th grade class on Photoshop, I realized that most pictures and videos are been fixed or made to look "better" by using photo shop. Some of the pictures were distorted to the point that the before picture looked like a totally different person than the after.

This is a vogue cover magazine of lady gaga.

Here is another picture of Harry Styles from One Direction.

This is a Madonna, picture photo shopped to make her look younger.

These pictures were altered to make the celebrities look skinnier:

 What is photo shop really saying? Why is it done? What does it tell the kids who are growing up looking at this?