Who is the fakest of them all?
Print models who get airbrushed to look more mannequin than human? Or ordinary women who paint themselves to look like print models?
And the winner is … a tie:
I will assert here that the deception inherent in airbrushing images is only a more high-tech form of the deception inherent in plastering one’s face with makeup. And nothing demonstrates this quite like magazine issues featuring celebrities ‘caught’ without their masks, um, er, makeup:
For what it’s worth, I would be irretrievably turned off if the difference between the way a woman looks the first time we go to bed and the way she looks after washing her face the next morning were like night and day.
And don’t get me started on deceptive features like hair extensions and boob implants…. Yikes!
(“Airbrushed Models Banned in UK. Hallelujah!” The iPINIONS Journal, July 29, 2011)
Case in point, I give you “supermodel” Tyra Banks … looking like night and day:
I rest my case.
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