Heres my video…FINALLY!! I had some difficulty posting this on YouTube because of their ridiculous copyright laws.  However, I’ve come around that 🙂  My video focuses on the idea of photoshop and retouching.  How much is too much?  How can soemone be more beautiful than someone else when beauty is an opinion?  When looking at my ”before and after” pictures, I look liek a completely different person, but I am the same.  Photoshop today is quite deceiving, and takes the character away from the way people truly look.  In addition, many consumers look at magazines, and want to achieve a similar look to the celebrities they are looking at on many magazine covers without realizing the amount of editing and makeup that is used to achieve this look.  People tend to lose them selves, thinking too much on their appearance forgetting who they truly are.  in addition, another underlying message given in this video is that self esteem is something that can be brought down instantly due to the opinions of other people.  Not to sound cliche, forget them!  Love your self for who you are, and what you really look like because the physical appearance of an individual is just as I stated-physical.  People can be made to look beautiful and strive for perfection;however, perfection lies in those who do not strive for it but are born with it, through their personality which most people can never change.  In the end, you are yourself when stripped away from the ”falsity” of this world( I know its not a word, but couldn’t find a better one to match!)
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dang, nice video, i liked it, you could have given an extra second or two for the photos so that we could appreciate each change as it occurred, but still, very impressive, i liked it 😀 and DAMN, the after pic is a little ridiculous, looks like you lost everything about you that made you… well.. you, it seemed to change you completely.
Thanks!..Yea I intentionally over-re-touched the photo for that affect. Funny part is, it’s nothing compared to the neck lengthening, face thinning, etc. type of retouching that goes on today. You definitely got the message i was trying to portray!
Wow! Malisa, your video is so amazing! And you’re very, very brave to have done yourself as the model for this video. I don’t think I would’ve had the guts to, but you got your message across very clearly. I like how it progresses to, “Wow she looks so pretty!” and then it keeps getting retouched and retouched to the point that your features are blurred and you’re almost a bit unrecognizable. I also love that you reversed the process at the end, and wow..I don’t know, this is just so amazing. 🙂 And you’re beautiful whichever way you are and I’m glad you chose to do a video on this topic, because we’re all used to accepting photoshopped images of models as the “norm” and not many people question the negative effects it has on the way we view ourselves and others. 🙂 just simply, amazing in the span of like a minute.