If you’re like most people, you’ve looked through beauty and fashion magazines time and time again, admiring those models with their unattainable beauty. Am I right?
You’ve noted the baby-smooth skin, bright eyes, perfect figures, and, let’s be honest here, cellulite-free limbs, and you’ve undoubtedly thought to yourself, “I could NEVER look THAT good in photos.” Am I right?
Sure you have. But have you ever acknowledged that you weren’t quite comparing apples to apples, oranges to oranges?
As “renegade” models like Tyra Banks and others have said, beauty, or perhaps more to the point, “perfection” is almost always an illusion. Those perfect limbs? Most likely they were subjected to a painstaking and meticulous process of smoothing, and maybe even artificial lengthening. That skin? Undoubtedly healed, smoothed, airbrushed, retouched, and enhanced to look youthful and radiant. Those figures? Surely those were tweaked, pinched, or maybe even bloated in certain strategic spots—all in pursuit of (and simultaneously shaping) our ideal image of beauty.
So every time you thought “I could NEVER look THAT good in photos” you were wrong. Yes, absolutely. You were wrong.
You were comparing apples to tomatoes, oranges to guava fruit, a pinto to a……I think you get the idea. There is no comparison, because you haven’t had the benefit of perfect makeup, softly diffused lighting, a photographer with an eye capable of finding and capturing the beauty in every single person—whether short or tall, skinny or voluptuous, pale or brown. And just as importantly, you haven’t had the benefit of the digital techniques that truly make photography a creative art form and that allow you to, at last, compare apples to apples.
So, check out my new program – “Modelesque Makeovers” – and you’ll see. You’ll never again utter those words – “I could NEVER look THAT good in photos.”
Have a great day!
Susan Eckert
www.liartphotography.com
