Reading a piece on MSN.com today about how some magazine are retouching the pictures of models. Not that this is news in and of itself, as there has been plenty written about how models are airbrushed and (controversially) made to look thinner.
But this piece, which is actually from Blisstree.com, is about the more sinister trend of taking thin models, and making them look, well, fuller.
It's called "reverse retouching" where a skinny model has weight added to the thighs, midsection and arms.
Which begs this question, as far as I am concerned: Why not used models that are fuller in the first place?
Don't tell me that there is a lack of beautiful women that are not size 00. They exist; I see them every day out here where I live in the Las Vegas area. There are beautiful women of all shapes and sizes.
I don't see the need to expend the extra effort to now perpetuate a myth at all.
If you want a thin model, use a thin model. Don't take someone and make them skinny.
If you want a fuller model, then for goodness sake, go out and find them.
The artificiality of these major fashion magazine and ads makes me want to vomit.
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