Woman asks people in 25 countries to photoshop her pic and "make her beautiful"

[marylander1940]

Photoshop shows the concept of beauty by each culture!

 

Journalist Esther Honig wanted to see what beauty standards were like in different cultures. She could have simply bought a magazine or watched some films, but instead she decided to try an experiment.

 

For her Before & After project, Honig used the power of crowd sourcing to see how different illustrators around the world see beauty in their own cultures.

 

[video=youtube;nPkRTabtasM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPkRTabtasM

[+ FreshFluff]

The differences between the artists from these countries may be the product of personal taste and ability rather than inter-cultural differences.

[+ quoththeraven]

Here's a link to a Mail Online article that provides more context and explains the process (yes, I know, the Mail is a rag):

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2670945/What-does-perfect-face-look-like-Global-ideal-beauty-standards-revealed-woman-asks-25-countries-Photoshop-image.html

 

And Ms. Honig's website where the photos first appeared:

 

http://www.estherhonig.com/#!before--after-/cvkn

 

Both links mention that personal concepts of beauty as well as cultural ones are at play here. The Mail article notes that when she commissioned more than one image from a specific county, the retouchers came up with wildly different results, suggesting more than culture was at work. Her website also mentions that some of the retouchers were professionals and others, amateurs. So this was far from a controlled experiment from which we can derive hard conclusions. But it's still interesting, and a more careful approach could yield more useful data, for example if a more diverse group did this in a more scientifically rigorous way.

[tyro]

I saw these and thought, "Damn...Photoshop can do all kinds of cray-cray!"

T

[+ quoththeraven]

I saw these and thought, "Damn...Photoshop can do all kinds of cray-cray!"

T

 

No kidding! But I'm rather fond of the one done by someone from Morocco, which she singles out for praise in the Mail article. It doesn't look a lot like her (imo), but I like what they did with her face. The way the scarf frames her face may have something to do with it.

[tyro]

Anyone else notice that only we ladies are responding to this thread?

T

[bigvalboy]

The differences between the artists from these countries may be the product of personal taste and ability rather than inter-cultural differences.

 

Anyone else notice that only we ladies are responding to this thread?

T

 

Well I'm no lady, but I'll respond with a quick observation. In regards to FF's comment. I would think that personal taste and cultural differences would be intertwined into ones work. Ones culture is part of who they are.

[marylander1940]

Anyone else notice that only we ladies are responding to this thread?

T

 

Maybe I need to upload pics of Christopher Daniels before and after photoshop...

 

here yinz have some pics of celebrities.

 

Enjoy!

 

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-73o-0Edmw9c/Txic1Ge249I/AAAAAAAAEgw/v7tw5ijLP6w/s1600/before-after-photoshop.jpg

 

There was a thread about this lady's photoshop transformation a month ago.

 

http://saltedscarletry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/extreme-photoshop-before-after-500x568.jpg

 

[video=youtube;mamamIeBmek]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mamamIeBmek