No Makeup, No Retouching? No, Really?

Oh there’s retouching going on there, sure as this bra I’m wearing is padded. I'm glad you brought this up since it's been floating around the ole Facebook for a while with the zeal of the second coming of Christ. I've got my share of first hand experience where deciding how much retouching to apply on celebrities is concerned, so when this cover arrived in the mail, I spotted some phoney baloney right off the bat. Not that I would sanction any of this (ahem) but from benign stripping of backdrops and burning in more shadows to full-scale “Franken-heading” one shot’s head on another shot’s pose, nothing is as it was delivered, right out of the camera, and we all know and adhere to that, otherwise we wouldn’t have jobs. And you partner a brand like Marie Claire, who sure, successfully traffics in the notion that $975 dollar shoes have a logical place positioned next to gripping essays on tribal vaginal mutilation, with a celebrity with a “real beauty” show to promote, (who’s BFF is a hairstylist who’s claim to fame is giant blonde wigs) and eyebrows MUST be raised about not only the gimmick being painfully transparent but inherently false. For sure, based on the interior shots of JS, she’s a pretty girl, otherwise she wouldn’t have HER job. I see eyelash extensions/probably dyed, obvious zit removal and smoothing of scars, and an expertly subtle removal of a couple of key wrinkles (see page 184 where they magically reappear). No question.

Speaking of “Franken-heading”, have you seen this SHAPE masterpiece:

http://tinyurl.com/SHAPE-Franken-heading

I read really fast, perhaps too fast for my own good at times. A few years ago, I was reading a Marie Claire article on junk food or something, and turned the page and , before I knew it, had read the most horrific 2 or 3 sentences about a gang rape, pretty much ever. Literally had nightmares, won't touch the magazine with a 10 ft pole ever since.

Also pretty scary, the new SATC 2 movie poster

http://jezebel.com/5528266/new-sex-and-the-city-2-poster-a-photoshop-oasis