Beauty

[sidsmom]

Love how many scream 'Photoshopped!' whenever someone

shows their beauty to the World.

It's like someone walking into a Frank Lloyd Wright home,

looking at the former-owner pink walls & immediately turns around &

leaves, shaking your head 'no, no'.  The structure is beautiful,

but the paint came be changed....some people just can't get

beyond the window dressing.

The bones & foundation of the home is one-of-a-kind beautiful,

a classic.   The paint is just the 'photoshop' of the home.

Anyone who can see the positive in things can 'see' the beauty,

with or without photo manipulation.  When a model goes on a 

'go-see', she's not made up or special lighting following her.

The agency & photographer can 'see' the potential in her.

Obviously not everyone is in the industry nor has an artistic eye

so I might be wasting my breath in the forum, but yes, 

Helen Mirren, on a cover or in a bikini, is stunning no matter 

what liberties the photographer takes during editing.

You can't create a beautiful foundation like that with photoshop

and filters. 

I really wish more people could see that...it's lovely!

[Lipstickdiva]

I don't know that anyone was saying she isn't beautiful.  I certainly wasn't saying that.  The only reason I even brought up photoshopping myself was because the OP is denying it.  No one's photo goes without being photoshopped.  Sometimes they do such a bad job at photoshopping, the picture can't even be believed but that's another thread.

I remember a number of years ago when Katie Couric was going to be on the cover of a magazine and she talked about the covers that were done with her and she showed them during the piece she was doing.  I think this might have been when she was going to have her nightly news show.  Anyhow,  she showed one photoshopped picture where they made her thinner and then what a natural, untouched photo looked like. 

I think some are very naive to what exactly can be done and how photos can be altered.   

[Lipstickdiva]

My real opinion is that this thread is nothing more than a team "natural gray hair."

[Montana]

Gray does seem to be more popular. Some younger people are even coloring their hair gray,

[Sheilaray]

I am more confused by that floating arm wrapped around her. It's interesting that after editing probably hundreds of images, they would choose the floating arm.