Can’t help but sigh, time is too gentle for this woman.
Even Zhou Xun himself couldn’t help exclaiming when he saw this group of photos:
“This person is Who? It’s me? How can you be so beautiful?”
At the same time, some people questioned this group of photos——
“Is this called plain makeup?”
“Who knows if there is any fine-tuning?”
“Obviously light makeup and post-production!”
Today, we don’t want to speculate on the psychology behind the comments, but want to discuss from another angle: Did you also write the same question mark in your heart when you looked at the various “perfect beauties” on the screen?
Part 1
The filter makes us doubt the “reality” on the screen
With the rapid development of photography technology and post-production technology, I believe everyone has seen a lot of Before&After that surprised you. This is also As a result, the public became more and more curious about celebrities’ “birth pictures”.
Instagram even gave birth to a “PS police” (ins: Celebrity Plastic), who specially published comparison pictures of celebrities before and after PS.
For example, the high-profile model Kendall Jenner was exposed to the truth of her perfect figure—
Compared with the real video figure, the photos are overall thinner, her waistline is higher, and her curves are more prominent Obviously.
In addition, this account also collected a lot of “evidence”, such as Khloe Kardashian’s video using beauty filters;
Madison Beer’s original picture and The comparison of refined pictures;
The gap between Chantel Jeffries’ reality and the network map, etc.
When the gap between the original picture becomes larger each time, we are more concerned about the screen. The doubts about the beauty of the head are even deeper.
What’s more, the deception of beauty is also staged on major social platforms. “Pictures with original sense”, “natural beauty”, “imitation camera filter “Mirror”…Picture skills that can be searched at any time are becoming more and more popular, and everyone regards a good picture as a manifestation of the ability of contemporary network socialization.
While we understand the falsehood of the Internet, we are caught in the self-anxiety of every perfect photo.
I have seen too many examples like this, those actresses who pretend to eat food in variety shows to maintain the “eat-not-fat personality”, those amateur beauties who take pictures for 5 minutes and P pictures for half an hour, are all persuading us step by step: most of the effortless beauty on the screen is actually It is over pretending.
In the world of electronic screens, the authenticity of beauty always has question marks.
Part 2
Real = not cute?
The filter is a protective color, and it also makes people lose trust.
Adobe, the parent company of Photoshop, believes that the overwhelming image beautification has made digital media lose their sense of trust and authority. So actively developed the anti-PS tool, which has the function of identifying the traces of P pictures and restoring the original pictures.
Although Adobe was ridiculed as “I made a fake myself to fight”, the logic behind it is proving the irreplaceability of authenticity .
PS is like an assembly line factory, dealing with shortcomings in a model, and shaping everyone into a beautiful template. And this is why the vast majority of women feel insecure, because they have established a “standard of beauty” that was originally untenable.
The reason why the truth is cute is because it is not perfect.
French women know how to love their own flaws too much , represents a style. They compare foundation to a “shroud”, thinking that it kills the real skin texture and eliminates personality.
This point is also mentioned in the book “Being an Elegant Parisian Woman”:
“Parisian women consciously preserve some imperfections, and even cherish these imperfections-wrinkles when smiling, slightly straight teeth, protruding eyebrows or a big nose”.
Ines de la Fressange, the muse of Karl Lagerfeld, the typical representative of “Chanel on earth”, and the most famous French model in the 1980s – Ines de la Fressange – is The most authentic and free and easy existence.
When Ines de la Fressange was interviewed by VOGUE Taiwan at the age of 58, he generously and truly showed his wrinkles and smiles, aged skin, and cute selfies in front of the camera” mistakes”.
These “shortcomings” that could have been erased by PS have become the most eye-catching charm.
The characteristics we hold all commend Cuteness varies from person to person.
In front of every real bloom, perfection becomes eclipsed.
Part 3
If everyone is willing to embrace” Real”,
Are you joining?
In today’s perfect world, it takes more than courage to stay true. Every software/platform has its own beauty function, set upA trap, if you are not careful, you will be drawn in.
However, an app has recently appeared, and I choose to be the willful one.
This beauty social media platform invested by the Biebers is called Supergreat, and its waywardness is that it does not provide any filters. Every user will truly present the original appearance. If you want to publish photos of PS, you need to make a special statement.
“True skin” and “uncoverable blemishes” are the ideas it encourages and implements. A large number of 16-28-year-old users are expressing the anti-filter sentiment of the younger generation and their willingness to embrace the truth.
Although Supergreat users lose the perfect protective color, they also gain a sense of security in appearance that other platforms do not have.
Blogger Georgie Clarke is doing the same. On her ins, she published a series of comparisons between pictures taken in a deliberately concave position and pictures taken in a relaxed state, in order to encourage women to appreciate their own truth.
Look, we have abdominal muscles, and we also have stomachs when we relax-
Tight breathing is a healthy-looking body, not concave A healthy body is also a healthy body——
This does not affect the beauty.
With a large number of KOL/KOC creating an atmosphere that can be beautiful inadvertently, Georgie Clarke personally exposed their cunning-
“The sitting position on the left is actually very uncomfortable and It’s awkward, the normal one on the right can relax and laugh!”
“Stop comparing, so those normal photos won’t be posted.”
“I need to lean forward and tighten Stretching can achieve the effect on the left. Internet celebrities can pose this pose very skillfully, but don’t be fooled, who looks like this in real lifewalking? “
I believe that after reading these comparison pictures, people’s attention will not be on the gap in the photos at all, but can only see her honesty and generosity revealing her true loveliness.
Every time she posts a comparison photo, she has to attach a large text to tell the girls: Don’t be fooled by perfection, what you see is not real!
Tiktok also set off #Embrace imperfection# There was a burst of “Internet self-exposure”. In order to tell everyone to stop worrying about their appearance on the Internet, girls have posted their “imperfections” and told everyone “the truth behind perfection”.
Small pimples, lovely growth lines on the skin, underarm hair on the legs, belly when sitting, blackheads on the nose, and half-lost manicures. …..
When these “unrefined” pictures are presented together, It brought great shock, but this shock came from the resonance in my heart—isn’t this just us in our daily life?
I often hear a girl who is good enough, because on the Internet You can see beautiful women everywhere, but she feels inferior. Her dissatisfaction with her appearance can be mistaken for “Versailles”. But I know that she really thinks that she has lost in the comparison scale.
Those girls who search for “double eyelid surgery” because of their big eyes on the Internet; those fat girls who cry in the mirror after watching the hot photos on the beach; those girls who compare the real world with the falsehood of the Internet, you should stop all abuse Self-doubt.
I hope all the girls—especially those of Generation Z who are surrounded by the online world—know that you don’t need to be called “ “Perfect life” kidnapping, look at those lovely people who have so many imperfections in reality, those blemishes full of vitality are actually the most precious gifts.
The best way to eliminate “shortcomings”,
Just embrace it.
