STYLETHREAD -- LET'S TALK SHOP!

Luv2Shop · Kate Spade

Well it's about time if you ask me!!!

gossipgirl · Dooney & Bourke

That's fantastic! I'm tired of my S/O looking at covers of magazines and ads as if they are real images. Real women can't ever compete with digitally altered thighs and wrinkles and whatever!

Kelly · Hermes

gossipgirl wrote:

That's fantastic! I'm tired of my S/O looking at covers of magazines and ads as if they are real images. Real women can't ever compete with digitally altered thighs and wrinkles and whatever!

This is what I hate the most. Airbrushed images don't make me feel bad about myself because I know they're fake. But I don't want BF thinking they are real!

To be fair he understands photoshop full well, has even helped me fix up a few pictures of myself

and he has never said anything to make me believe he is comparing me to women in ads. But I feel like being bombarded by airbrushed pics everywhere has to set up false expectations.

I know I sound like I'm contradicting myself - that the images don't make me feel bad, but other people seeing the images does. I don't know a better way to explain it! ahhh!

blink · Coach

Kelly...

I know exactly what you mean.

Knowing that the majority of the population likely isn't as savvy about these sorts of marketing practices is a little depressing because it's a standard of flawless and unchanging beauty that "somebody" out there, like a man because men are so visual, believes really exists, 100% of the time, all made up and camera ready. It sucks!

Boots · Gucci

Very true. ANd you know, it's not even this adult generation I'm worried about. It's the next one coming up that has never known what a non-photoshopped woman looks like. I've overheard my teenage cousins discussing women and it's so frustrating. They just don't get that real people don't look like what they see in the magazines, not even the models themselves.