A few months ago I stumbled across this site. It offers professional retouching of photographs for the entertainment business. If you visit the portfolio section of the site, you will see before and after shots of people such as Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Halle Berry. If you click on the thumbnail and roll your cursor off and on the image you can see the work that has been done to each shot. Some people are naturally beautiful and need no touching up (Cate Blanchett, for example). Others need help to look so incredible and otherworldly.

This kind of thing happens to every photo in the magazines, except the paparazzi shots where they want someone to look rough! These images are unrealistic simply because they aren't real. With such an increasing emphasis placed on the physical nowadays, trying to emulate these images is impossible as the subject in the photos don't even look like that!

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