Is it really that important to look perfect...?

[kellifer]

I like having the television on while I'm doing other stuff, even if it's muted. I had one of the cable music channels on muted and I glanced up in the midst of making Rudolph cupcakes and they had on a One Direction documentary thingie. I put the volume on because one of the members (forgive me the peeps on my flist who actually know who the individual members are, I have no idea! I think I'm doing pretty well recognising that they are One Direction) was holding a picture of himself published in one of those teen magazines and he was obviously pretty surprised that they'd air-brushed his moles out.

Their fans know what these boys look like. From what I can tell, their fans seem to be pretty passionate so I can imagine all their fangirls know exactly what they look like, including the location of each and every mole and yet some magazine/photo editor still felt compelled to remove one of this boy's features. Sure, airbrush out a zit or whatever, I'm sure they'd appreciate that, but a fairly prominent mole he was born with?

I know this happens to basically every person that's appeared in a magazine EVER but it just seems so ludicrous to me. We are who we are, moles, bingo wings, unfortunate hair lines and all.

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[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

They did that to Jared Padalecki once and I was saring at the pic because it looked so weird, but I wasn't sure why. Then another fan photoshopped the moles back in and it was all good. Bleh to airbrushing out normal attractive features!

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember they'd done it to him too. It's so OBVIOUS when they do it to someone well known and his well-known moles. :D

[johanirae.livejournal.com]

Those zines photoshopping makes me so angry sometimes. As if the sudden appearances of one light flaw may drastically plummet magazine sales or something -_-

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

I mean fine, get rid of a temporary blemish but don't remove something that's a prominent feature.

[noxelementalist.livejournal.com]

The sad part is they do it because they figure more people would be attracted to them without the moles. like, the reasoning goes, "okay, the fans like their moles, but they like them anyway, and everyone else will like them if they don't have moles, so let's do that and get more people to buy the mags cause they think the photos are good."

Yeah. Exactly.

This is also why, after multiple semesters of photo work and advertising work in high school, i dropped journalism and helped create a lit mag. Where I could put pics of people who actually had flaws and stuff.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Bleah, I suppose I will just never understand.

[tabaqui]

Yeah, i've always found that pretty lame. You'd think after Cindy Crawford and her mole they'd give it up, but no....

The do that to Mr. Padalecki, too. Whatever, promo people.

Uh. What are 'bingo wings'?

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Heh, it's an Aussie term for the soft part under your arm that flaps around when you wave.

[tabaqui]

Heee! Omg. :)