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Essay 'A goal no one can achieve', an essay about the ideal of beauty and the photo shop that is applied to this.
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9 september 2021A goal no one can achieve
naam
From advertisement to magazine, we are endlessly surrounded by unrealistic images. White
teeth, egal skin, small waist: everyting about models seems so perfect. But this is not reality.
Little by little editors, celebrities and models admit that almost every photo is photoshopped.
Most of the things are absolutely fake. But why is everyone creating images that do not even
look like their self? Does nobody love themselves the way they are? We are creating a ideal
image for ourselves that isn’t even possible, except on a photo. Photoshop of models should be
banned in order to ensure a realistic body and beauty standard.
First of all, photoshopped images can cause health issues like anorexia nervosa. Producers are
creating ideals, which are far from healthy. Images of extremely skinny models, it affects you
whether you want it or not. A study of 548 girls shows that girls who regularly read magazines
are twice as likely to lose weight. Unrealistic, edited bodies lower your body image. ‘Am I fat?’
‘What workout should I do to get that body?’ People will try and try again, but they will never
reach the ‘perfect body’. That is because the perfect body does not exist. It is fake, it is edited.
But the images are saying something else. This makes people try to reach the unreachable. Lose
weight, lose more weight, lose to much weight. But in their head it will be never enough,
because they do not look like a photo.
Secondly, edited advertisement creates
misleading expectations. ‘Wow she has a
perfectly smooth skin, should I also buy that
body cream?’ Consumers are easily fooled,
desperately trying to be ‘perfect’. For example
the comparison on the right. It’s not the product
that makes her look like that. Anti-aging cream
may work, but photoshopped images of women
with almost no wrinkles are not the way they
work. The consumers are influenced to buy the
products by photoshop, which is not fair. Let us
protect the consumer.
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