Now You See it...

Many people perceive the ordinary human body to be that of the super models seen in magazines and on television advertisements but that is not the way any real person actually looks. In fact, there is a lot of work done to that picture before it is published in order to make the picture "perfect". As shown in the above picture, I have made it look as if my face is on Vanessa Hudgens' head. As you can see, the skin complexion is completely different.

I feel that the edited picture looks nothing like the original. Considering the edited picture contains only my face from my eyebrows to my bottom lip, it does not look like me. The only things that look the same are the smile and the nose shape. Every other aspect of the picture was edited to make the two pictures come together as one. I added color on my eyelids and my cheek bones to add eyeshadow and blush.

As I was completing this task, I realized just how much work is put into making pictures look absolutely perfect before being published in magazines and on advertisements. I used to think that all famous people were flawless but after this I realize that is not always the case.

Today's view of the perfect body image is highly distorted. Everyone assumes that the perfect body image is what is seen on the cover of magazines because that is what publishers want people to think. There is actually no such thing as the "perfect body image"; it is impossible.

There are a few things that I think I did very well on. One of those things is copying the face over to Vanessa Hudgens. Another thing I think I did well is adding the facial makeup. I feel that these were my two strongest points because I was able to make not only the copied face but also the face makeup look natural, not as if it had been faked.

Although I did some things right, I also think there are some areas that I should have added some extra effort into. One of these parts of the picture that needed extra effort is aligning the facial features to match the second picture. Another thing was getting her original skin complexion to match the edited facial complexion. these were issues because looking at her neck and her chest, you can tell that her facial complexion is different from the rest of her body.

This is one example of how much editting is done to a photo and how the image of the perfect body is not exactly accurate and should therefore not be a goal to reach for anyone.