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Just Noticing: Observations of a Blogger

Posted by Michelle Moquin on September 28th, 2014

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From The Huff Po:

What Happened When A Biracial Woman Was Photoshopped In 18 Different Countries

What makes someone “beautiful”? It’s a difficult question to answer, as we learned earlier this year from journalist Esther Honig‘s Photoshop experiment, in which she sent a picture of herself to photo editors in 25 countries around the world and asked them to “Make me beautiful.” The variety of results she received — some lightening her already pale skin, some darkening it, some adding makeup, some adjusting the skeletal structure of her face – challenged the idea that there is an ultimate kind of beauty, a “perfect” woman.

But when journalist Priscilla Yuki Wilson replicated Honig’s experiment, she found that her biracial identity caused things to play out differently.

(Story continues below.)

The photo Wilson sent out to Photoshoppers around the world. 

“In contrast to Honig’s results, where her face became a canvas to express more than a dozen contrasting beauty standards, I found that my face actually challenged the application of photoshop in this instance,” Wilson wrote in a post on her personal blog. “As a biracial women there is no standard of beauty or mold that can easily fit my face.”

Half Japanese and half black, Wilson has fielded the question “What are you?” far too often, compounding her struggle with society’s unattainable standards of beauty.

“I am living in a culture that’s still adjusting to my kind of face,” she explains. “I was taught that my natural self did not comply with conventional standards set forth by society, saying fairer skin is better, straighter hair is more attractive, and that skinny tastes good.”

How photo editors in 18 countries and the European Union responded to Wilson’s request is representative of the variety of expectations that cultures around the world have for women, and how universally difficult it can be to fit in.

Check out Wilson’s collection of paradigm-challenging edits:

• Vietnam
  
• India
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• Mexico
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• USA
  

 

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• United Kingdom
  

 

• The Netherlands
  
• Switzerland
  
• Sri Lanka
  
• Slovenia
  
• Singapore
  
• Algeria
  
• Macedonia
  
• Macedonia
  
• Portugal
  
• Montenegro
  
• Israel
  
• European Union
  

This photo was not identified by Wilson as having been edited in a specific country. Instead, it was attributed to the European Union as a whole.

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• Albania
  

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this post said incorrectly that Wilson’s image was Photoshopped by editors in 21 different countries and the European Union. In fact, the photo was edited in 18 countries and the EU.

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Interesting, huh? Notice which country did the most photoshopping. Thoughts? Bog me. 

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17 Responses to “Just Noticing: Observations of a Blogger”

1. Aimee Says:
   September 28th, 2014 at 11:19 am

   I would love for you to add Mark to that list of LSOS. He definitely deserves a post.

2. Irene Says:
   September 28th, 2014 at 11:20 am

   White men feel entitled to decide what is attractive for the rest of us.

3. Helen Says:
   September 28th, 2014 at 11:20 am

   It seems that beauty is truly in the eye of the beholder.

4. HOWIE Says:
   September 28th, 2014 at 1:57 pm

   Faaiz #17 September 28 (September 27th Post “Wonderful World of Women“)

   Your unsubstantiated guess that Israel is really ISIS is the stupidest thing I have read in a very long time.

   Your hypothesis is this: ISIS bombs hospitals, therefore they must be Israeli because a few retaliatory strikes in Gaza forced Israel to bomb hospitals to reach Hamas Terrorists.

   You are sending nonsense into cyberspace which is nothing more than one person’s ridiculous opinion.

   HOWIE

5. Merino Says:
   September 29th, 2014 at 5:48 am

   My sentiments exactly Howie. Idiots abound and this one is just keeps the streak alive.

6. Donnie Says:
   September 29th, 2014 at 5:49 am

   What the hell was the artist from Montenegro thinking? Is there even an original portion of the photo left? Damn…

7. Fred Says:
   September 29th, 2014 at 5:51 am

   WTF is up with that USA pic? For my money any of the others would have been better.

8. Wilma Says:
   September 29th, 2014 at 5:52 am

   Donnie#7, That’s the point.

9. Vivian Says:
   September 29th, 2014 at 5:53 am

   Fred#7, Whoever did the false hair for the US is a beginner in PhShop. We`ve got kids here 12 years old who could`ve done it better.

10. Heidi Says:
    September 29th, 2014 at 5:55 am

    How many times do we have to go over this? The European Union is not a country. It is a partnership between 28 widely different countries, and actually includes three of the other countries posted here: The Netherlands, Portugal, and Slovenia.

    Using one image by one (apparently racist) artist to represent the standard of beauty in all of these countries is ridiculous. As is the whole deal with using one image by any particular artist to represent a whole country, honestly. A sample size of 1 – 3 people per country doesn’t exactly scream reliability. There is absolutely no control for personal taste in this or any similar project.

    Don’t get me wrong, I think the concept is fascinating, but it has to be tested properly to be of any use.

11. Donnie Says:
    September 29th, 2014 at 5:57 am

    Wilma#8, I guess I hoped by photoshopping there would still be some resemblance left. But yeah, I guess thats the point.

12. Wilma Says:
    September 29th, 2014 at 6:21 am

    Donnie#11, The thing is they try to photoshop the same woman into a near perfect woman according to popular view of the country, which could change for a number of reasons.

    I guess Montenegro’s is just not at all like the original woman, but the resemblance isn’t the point of it, it’s the difference, and that’s what makes it interesting.

    I still think Algeria’s is weird. Looks like an OS X wallpaper, but I guess the Algerian artist’s perception of a perfect woman would be a goddess.

13. BJ Says:
    September 29th, 2014 at 6:21 am

    she looks really attractive in the first Macedonia picture. sexy as hell

14. Wade Says:
    September 29th, 2014 at 6:22 am

    Fred#7, Did the U.S even try?

15. Heinrich Says:
    September 29th, 2014 at 6:23 am

    Whoa, Algeria. Relax.

16. Donnie Says:
    September 29th, 2014 at 6:27 am

    Wilma#12, I didn’t even notice the Montenegro photoshop (had to go back and take a second look), just scrolled over it thinking it was some ad.

    I stand corrected, that is now the weirdest one out of them all. But yeah, its crazy how much each image differs due to the geo location of the artist.

17. Michelle Moquin's "A day in the life of…" » Blog Archive » The Secret Service Sucks Says:
    September 30th, 2014 at 10:08 am

    […] Aimee: As I mentioned, Ruth didn’t need anyone else to agree with her nomination of Mark, but I did ask if anyone else wanted to nominate him and you gave your vote. :) He is a member. […]