FLICKA via AdLand
It's in a foreign language (Swedish?), so just click through and let the page finish loading (the LADDAR will keep flashing on and off until it's done). Then click on the orange splash. Check out how amazingly easy it is to take a standard photo and morph it into the image of beauty. And people wonder why we have a distorted sense of self-image. Or maybe people don't wonder. The problem is that with the market so tuned to giving us what we want if you had the above picture next on the cover of a magazine next to the touched up one, the touched up one would fly off the shelves. I'm not sure WHAT the way out of this mess is, but I don't think the magazine editors are going to be leading the charge on this one. It's going to take something from outside like the "Save the Dolphins" campaign around Tuna. Maybe "Save the Mental Health of the 15 year old"?
