Posted: January 13th, 2009 | Author: elena | Filed under: body, breast surgery, corporate hypocrisy, cosmetic surgery, health, self-image | Tags: breast implants, corporate hypocrisy, deception, FDA, manipulation | No Comments »
Regarding breast implants and FDA testings:
Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women and Families, said the Bush administration had “finally made the device approval process so meaningless that it’s intolerable to the scientists who work there.” Ms. Zucker, a longtime critic of the agency’s device approval process, particularly as it relates to breast implants, added, “Virtually everything gets approved, no matter what.”
The F.D.A. has a three-tiered approval process for medical devices that, depending on their newness or complexity, requires varying amounts of proof.
A growing chorus of critics contends that the agency requires few devices to complete the most rigorous of these reviews and instead allows most devices to be cleared with minimal oversight. In 2007, 41 devices went through the most rigorous process, compared with 3,052 that had abbreviated reviews.
(Emphasis mine)
Full article here.
To learn more about the downsides of breast implants – and their potentially disastrous consequences for women’s health – check out Kacey’s site: Implants Out. Essential read.
Posted: January 10th, 2009 | Author: elena | Filed under: airbrushing, corporate hypocrisy, image manipulation, media, print, women's magazines | Tags: airbrushing, blooper, deception, image manipulation, mass media, media, photoshop, photoshop disasters, print, women's magazines | No Comments »
via Jezebel & Photoshop Disasters:
In the September 2008 issue of an international edition of Marie Claire, some of the staff at the top of the masthead — creative director, photo director, deputy editor, associate editor, acting features director — posed for a photo in what looks like the office conference room. They all look fresh-faced and wrinkle-free. However, as Photoshop Disasters points out, the reflection in the conference room table suggests a different reality.
Posted: January 8th, 2009 | Author: elena | Filed under: airbrushing, body, censorship, corporate hypocrisy, dieting, health, hidden propaganda, image manipulation, media, print, self-image, women's magazines | Tags: airbrusing, deception, dieting, health, hypocrisy, mass media, media, photoshop, retouching, self-image, women's magazines | No Comments »
Life & Style Magazine!
Take a look:
“Jessica Alba lost 40 lbs. in three months.”
Compare the photo above with the one below:
They used the retouched photo!!!
via Jezebel.
Posted: December 30th, 2008 | Author: elena | Filed under: airbrushing, print | Tags: airbrushing, deception, magazines, manipulation, mass media, photoshop, print | No Comments »
From US Magazine
:
Yoga isn’t the only reason Jennifer Aniston looks good naked!
The actress made a confession about her sexy GQ cover when she appeared on The View on Wednesday.
“What happened to the girl next door from Friends?”Barbara Walters asked, holding up the January issue, where Aniston appears wearing only a tie.
“She’s there! Photoshopped!” Aniston, 39, replied.
Posted: October 15th, 2008 | Author: elena | Filed under: advertising, airbrushing, corporate hypocrisy | Tags: advertising, airbrushing, anti-aging, deception, illusions, myths, photoshop, wrinkles | No Comments »
My first thought upon seeing this ad in the back of a French magazine: “You have to be kidding me!”
This is obviously a BEFORE-and-AFTER Photoshop photo, not an illustration of BEFORE-and-AFTER “I have used Vichy Normaderm“. Unless the cream erases your skin pores, that is.
