Problem with
today’s world is that people are more focused on the outside beauty rather than
inside beauty. Our view on beauty changed over time and it underwent lots of
changes. We try to innovate and create perfection in almost everything in this
modern world, it does not matter if it comes to food, technology, machines or human
being. The human race is brainwashed by photoshopped pictures on social media. Celebrities
and media sometimes overedit pictures to unrealistic measures. People follow and
want to create perfection at all costs, it does not matter how much we have to
change someone’s appearance to get a picture to please the human eye. It is an “apron”
to cover and adjust shortcomings and truth from society.
All the media want to promote perfection in a target of profit and growth of popularity of the media. There are many cases in which the pictures were unnaturally photoshopped and posted. Sometimes society finds out about those edits and scandal is born. Over the years many photoshop scandals happened. Some celebrities are against photoshopping and they are trying to promote the natural beauty and not fakery.
All the media want to promote perfection in a target of profit and growth of popularity of the media. There are many cases in which the pictures were unnaturally photoshopped and posted. Sometimes society finds out about those edits and scandal is born. Over the years many photoshop scandals happened. Some celebrities are against photoshopping and they are trying to promote the natural beauty and not fakery.
Out of all
scandals I chose one which happened in 2015. It is not the most recent case but
this case is significant for me because when I was 15 years old this post
helped me perceive reality more clearly. This unpleasantness happened to
model-actress Zendaya Coleman. Zendaya is one of the celebrities who stands up against retouches. When
the magazine Modeliste edited and printed the modified picture instead of the
original one Zendaya was “shocked”(CNN Staff, 2015) when she discovered that her hips and
waist were slimmed. Therefore, the magazine wanted to achieve so-called
perfection.
Because of all
of the fakery we are exposed to, it is becoming harder to recognize retouched
pictures from the original if it is done right. This issue may lead to low self-esteem
and perceiving yourself as not beautiful enough if you do not meet standards of
beauty set by society. People all around the world use photoshop and various
editors to make the picture and the person flawless. But after looking at the “perfect”
people in pictures online we tent to start to believe that the flawless look is
normal and natural for the human race. Thus, frustrations begin which are followed by
low self-esteem and after all depression. In the next post, we will dive into plastic
surgery and depression.
CNN Staff. (2015, October 22). Zendaya 'shocked' to find herself Photoshopped. Retrieved from https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/22/living/zendaya-modeliste-photoshop-feat/index.html.
Your blog had some elements in common with mine, so It was really interesting to see someone else's opinion on the matter in a different way. I totally agree with you that social media and advertsiements can have really bad affects on people's mental health and self esteem, which is something that we as a society need to work on combatting. Something else that you touched on that I didn't was the plastic surgery trend. I feel like so many celebrities get plastic surgery, and its causing many young people to do the same in order to look like them. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, and people are absolutely free to do what they like, but there are risks involved with such surgeries and it may be important for people to be informed on how to safely have these procedures.
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