Maybe She’s Born With It?
Posted by Michelle Moquin on January 14th, 2012
Good morning!
Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.
This faux commercial, written and directed by Jesse Rosten, introduces “the next revolution in beauty”–a product that promises to give you “full lips, sparkling eyes, and lashes that never end,” as well as pore-less skin, and a banging new bikini bod. The name of this ingenious new beauty product? You guessed it: Photoshop. Or, as Rosten cleverly calls it, Fotoshop by Adobé. From “simply erasing” blemishes with the product’s “pro-pixel intensifying fauxtanical hydro-jargon microbead extract” to changing hair, eye color and even “adjusting your race” with the “breakthrough” hue/saturation technology, there’s pretty much nothing this miraculous product can’t do.
But here’s the scary part: Besides the fact that it’s for a fake product, Rosten’s video completely nails the tone and format of the average beauty commercial. There are before and after comparisons, animated illustrations of pores being filled in by “micro-beads,” and spliced together images of women smiling, swishing their hair and boxing–”Want to be a total knockout?” Then there’s the peppy female narrator, who says things like “revolutionary technology,” and “breakthrough system,”–buzzwords that have become de rigeur in nearly every beauty commercial–as well as asks questions like, “Why eat healthy and exercise when you can just look like you do?”
Of course that’s exactly the point and this faux ad draws attention to a very real problem: The use of photoshop in cosmetic ads can be extremely misleading to consumers–a problem that the U.S. has recently taken steps to combat.
Rosten, who says of the video, “This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty,” is certainly doing his part to keep that conversation going.
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Readers: Love the point of this video. We know women of all ages want to look their best, but who many women, mostly young women, want to be like…strive to look like…are just not real. And although we know that what we see is not always what is real, this video really does drive it home. I encourage you to pass it along.
On a similar vein, in 2009, Glamour Magazine featured Lizzi Miller a 20-year old Plus Size model baring her tummy, and…it wasn’t toned.
A single photo used for an article on self confidence in September’s issue of Glamour magazine has caused a buzz in the modeling world. Meet Lizzi Miller: a 20-year-old, 180-pound, 5-foot-11 bombshell whose size 12-to-14 body matches that of the average American female. After she was captured smiling and showing a bit of a tummy, the Glamour website was immediately overrun with positive comments, inspiring editor-in-chief Cindi Leive to reconsider the models shown in the magazine’s pages. Read Leive’s blog post on the photo and the model.
WATCH as Lizzi tells The Today Show’s Matt Lauer, “I’m not saying that a size 2 isn’t normal…but my normal is this.”
To see the video interview click here.
The issue created so much buzz because women related to it. I love the photo – I think she looks beautiful. Although no one really considered this model as a “Plus Size” model, they were delighted that this woman was featured, with her real body, tummy and all. Yet here we are over two years later and not much has changed.
Thoughts? Comments? Blog me.
Candi: Thanks for the “details” – Happy it all worked out.
Jackie: I had to come back and add in a comment to you because I read your comment and forgot to address it, and wanted to. I hear you. – I, like you, don’t always read the posts by Human Events – I agree with you, and I do see where this is going…and it is unbelievable. I just may have to blog this again just in case many readers missed it.
Tsarmi: Speaking of beauty, we watched the movie “Power and Beauty – White House Love Scandal” last night. Not great acting but a very interesting movie. There was a line in the movie – I can’t remember exactly what the words were, but it basically said that the most powerful men were the ones that had all the dirt on everyone. Besides the gross amount of greed, and the zero respect for human life displayed, the chronicles you posted about Nixon/Rebozo etc., pretty much proves that point. Thank you – I found the information that you shared shocking and fascinating. If you can share more, please do.
Peace out.
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January 14th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
I love this I am always reposting articles on FaceBook about ads that have been banned due to massive amounts of airbrushing, so yes, I posted this as well. It’s important that young girls get this, the pressure to be perfect and beautiful and this/that has got them completely stressed out and feeling insecure (to their detriment and the benefit of boys who want to take advantage of the situation) by the time their 13, I oughta know, my girl turns 13 tomorrow : D
Have a good weekend, Luv Zen Lill
January 14th, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Zen Lill, tomorrow you will be the proud mother of a teenager, good luck with all that. I know you have a good kid, good luck all the same. Hope you won’t need it.
I think the above model looks just fine, tummy and all. Todays quest for perfection is causing a lot of unnecessary stress and anxiety.
Be just as you are, not as you are not. Those who do this are the happiest lot.
Al
January 14th, 2012 at 10:27 pm
Michelle, I spent most of the day trying from time to time to get in to say. I love this topic. Most of us “full figure girls” need to be reminded how beautiful we are.
Thanks Michelle
Carol
January 14th, 2012 at 11:28 pm
When my boyfriend saw the pictures he spent time knocking each and every asset that he didn’t think fit the perfect.
I waited patiently until he finished and I brought out many of the things said on the blog by some of the real romantics(thanks Ym).
When I asked him why he was deficient in the area of romantics he said I’m a real man. I said those women and I are real women.
He laughed and said “yeah but have to admit those bodies could use some improvement.” I said since you are into honesty about bodies that penis of your could use a bit more length.
He froze for about 2 minutes and he looked at me and said “this relationship is over.” He left, but since we live together I expected him back.
He called me about an hour ago and said that he would be by in a couple of days to pick up his clothes
I cried for a bit, then I thought what would Michelle do? I spent that hour packing his shit in anything I could find.
Men as soon as you say something that pisses them off they could care less about any of the good times you had together. They are so about themselves.
Good riddance is what I’m saying about that asshole.
Nancy
January 15th, 2012 at 1:35 am
Today Steve Jobs petitioned to have his sentence computed to time served. He argued that the harm he caused by the production of his products was out weighed by the overwhelming good his products brought to the planet earth.
The Emperor’s Council will be argued by the opposing party that that his petition be denied.
The Events leading to the case. There is not enough room to list all the details:
Hence this brief summary will have to do. – It waa argued to the Emperor’s Council decades back. That if the wrong road to riches were taken by Steve Jobs he would be made to answer for that.
It was argued and accepted by the Council that Steve Jobs had violated the agreement he made with the aliens to use the technology to bring the humans to a pre-agreed level.
It was then proposed that when the five hundredth thousand person had suffered in Shenzhen as a result of Apple’s product production, Steve Jobs would be visited with a ailment reflecting the pain and futility of recovery that those workers had suffered. It happen and he was.
It was then proposed and accepted that when the one millionth worker died in China as a result of working on an apple product, Steve Jobs would be removed from earth and punished accordingly.
It did, and he was.
It is from that punishment that this petition arrives.
Luc
January 15th, 2012 at 8:03 am
Al, thank you, I think I’ll need all the luck I can get, this kid of mine is older than her years…I’m out of here for the day now : ) b’day celebration time when she wakes up!
Nancy, I’m sure you’ll have a few more cries if you lived with the man and thought (do) love him, but anyone who expects women to look and be perfect is just setting you up for disaster, Im going to hope for you something and someone better. And next time, if he hasn’t got what you want under the hood, just politely walk away…there’s a lot of people on this planet, find someone else.
Luv, Zen Lill
January 15th, 2012 at 10:31 am
Nancy, i was going to tell you the same thing Zen Lill did. There are too many men out there to put up with an asshole.
When my sister’s husband made a play for me while she was on vacation. I called her. She didn’t believe me. She called me a slut and told him what I had said.
He told her it was me coming on to him and that I was angry because he had spurned my advances. She called mother and told her. Mother took her word and my two brothers and three other sisters ostracized me.
I hated them for 2 years. But I decided to put my hate to work. I decided to show them who was correct. I went after the bastard.
I didn’t fuck him, but I let him go down on me on tape and I got his confession on tape. I put them both on the internet.
My mother said that she was sorry that she did not believe me, then she said that I should have kept the family dirt within the family.
I reminded her that when she thought I was the family dirt she had no problem airing it to the world. Then I told her to kiss my ass and to get the fuck out of my house.
The rest of the family has since made peace with me. Most are embarrassed that they never gave me an opportunity to tell my side.
My sister forgave the bastard and discovered a year later that our cousin Silvia’s three year old son was his. Then she decided to get a divorce.
She reached out to my new husband to act as her attorney. I told him if he helped the traitorous bitch he would have two divorces to deal with.
That was more that 10 years ago. Today we are all friends again. My mother passed away a year ago. She left the bulk of her estate to me and made me the executrix of her will.
I still piss on the bitch’s grave. For me women who take a man’s word without proof(women lie too) is a useless pawn of men. They get no respect from me.
Dead or alive
Julie
January 15th, 2012 at 10:43 am
THE KIND OF MELANOMA TO LOOK OUT FOR
It’s no surprise that a new study has found that among both new and established patients, dermatologists are better, overall, at detecting melanomas. I should hope so! After all, they are trained professionals.
But more interestingly, the research also found that “established” patients — those who had been seeing a dermatologist for at least three months — were just as good as their dermatologists at detecting thin (early-stage) melanomas, in particular.
That’s hopeful news, since early detection can make all the difference with this aggressive type of cancer.
At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Pigmented Lesion Clinic (PLC) in New York City, researchers reviewed 394 patient records dated from January 1998 to December 2008, which included men and women ages 17 to 91 (average age about 62).
The PLC sees patients at high risk for melanoma. Patients are given total body skin exams at least annually and are also given brochures and a personal lesson on how to perform a skin self-exam.
The researchers split the patients into two groups: New and established. Then they compared melanoma detection by dermatologists with detection by each group of patients.
Overall, the majority of melanomas (63% to 82%) were missed by patients and discovered by dermatologists during office exams.
But there was one area, in particular, where certain patients did measure up — which provides a glimmer of hope. Established patients (those who were taught how to inspect their own skin and did) were just as successful as their dermatologists in detecting thin, early-stage melanomas (lesions less than 1 millimeter thick).
So learning how to perform a proper self-exam certainly isn’t useless information. These study results appeared in the July 18, 2011, edition of the Archives of Dermatology.
To find out more, I called Stephen Dusza, DrPH, a research epidemiologist and member of Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s Melanoma Disease Management Team and a coauthor of the study.
THE SKINNY ON SKIN CANCER
The fact that established patients were able to detect thin melanomas just as well as dermatologists is wonderful news, said Dr. Dusza, because the survival rate for melanoma is much higher
– 95% — when lesions are detected at that stage. In contrast, with lesions detected at 1.01 mm to 2.00 mm, five-year survival is about 88%… and at greater than 4 millimeters thick, the survival rate is only about 57%.
In other words, with guidance from our dermatologists and by practicing self-exams, we can become more skilled at detecting thin melanomas — and catching them at their earliest, most beatable stage.
The bottom line is that both physician screening and self-examination are essential and work in concert, said Dr. Dusza.
So ask your dermatologist to teach you how to perform a thorough skin exam that looks specifically for thin lesions.
And make sure that you also visit him or her at least once a year (more often if you’re at high risk for skin cancer), since you can’t see your whole body.
For more information on how to do a skin exam, check out Daily Health News, July 12, 2007.
Source:
Stephen Dusza, DrPH, research epidemiologist, Melanoma Disease Management Team, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), New York City.
January 15th, 2012 at 10:53 am
Michelle, not all republicans are stupid. I get the Human Events emails also. I Read them all. This one slipped by me. It had a ring of making sense until I read Jackie.
My daughter sent me your blog. I respect her opinions so I took the time to read Jackie. I can’t believe that I have been so complacent.
George
January 15th, 2012 at 11:20 am
Michelle, did you notice in that movie that even the president of the US and his attorney general(the top Lawman in the country) couldn’t stop Hoover from doing what he wanted to do.
Hoover’s thugs with badges could commit any violation of the constitutional rights of the country’s citizens with impunity. Remember the scene when the thug said to the lady “who you going to call we are the police.?”
As you pointed out, Hoover got the power from the fact that he had the “dirt” on the president.
Under every previous president the leaders of any of the top secret agencies have gone in with the expressed intent of using that agency to get the dirt on their opponents and friends alike.
When they are not using their powers to collect dirt they are using them to make money by spying on the financial institutions to get insider information.
Tsarmi