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Agschmid

(28,749 posts)
Thu Dec 12, 2013, 01:07 AM Dec 2013

Who needs makeup when you can airbrush your photos?



That's the question photography major Anna Hill, a senior at East Carolina University, is asking with her new photo series, "Beauty Is Only Pixel Deep," self-portraits that mock the beauty industry's overuse of airbrushing applications that many magazines and other media use to retouch images. "I taught myself Photoshop when I was 14, and ever since, my eye is trained to see exactly where models have been altered," Hill tells Yahoo Shine.

The 24-year-old, who created the work as part of a class project, uploaded the series to Reddit on Monday night and says the response has been overwhelming. "I think people like to be reminded that the beautiful models we're surrounded by daily aren't actually as real as they seem - without extensive makeup and editing, many don't look that much better than the rest of us," says Hill.


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... I could use some of that work for my OkCupid profile
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Who needs makeup when you can airbrush your photos? (Original Post) Agschmid Dec 2013 OP
Alternately, who needs Photoshop when you have makeup? jmowreader Dec 2013 #1
it might work until that first date, then wamo its done loli phabay Dec 2013 #2

jmowreader

(50,567 posts)
1. Alternately, who needs Photoshop when you have makeup?
Thu Dec 12, 2013, 03:17 AM
Dec 2013

I don't care how fast you are with a mouse, you can do anything in that picture faster with actual makeup.

The reason there's so much Photoshop crap in advertising, is Photoshop operators who work out of their houses are cheaper than models and makeup artists.

 

loli phabay

(5,580 posts)
2. it might work until that first date, then wamo its done
Thu Dec 12, 2013, 04:49 AM
Dec 2013

makeup is acceptable but i dont think its possible to wear photoshop out. though it would be cool

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