Woman Sent Her Portrait To Over 25 Countries To Compare Their Different Beauty Standards
Kansas City-based freelance journalist Esther Honig held an international experiment exploring how women’s beauty standards vary from nation to nation. In her project, called “Before and After,” she sent a plain photograph of herself to amateur and professional freelance photo editors worldwide, asking them simply to make her beautiful.
Naturally, the cultural and aesthetical differences among these countries (and among the Photoshoppers who worked with her photo) made for a variety of results. “Seeing some jobs for the first time made me shriek… Other times images, like the one from Morocco, took my breath away because they were far more insightful than I could have expected,” Honig told Buzzfeed.
“What I’ve learned from the project is this: Photoshop [may] allow us to achieve our unobtainable standards of beauty, but when we compare those standards on a global scale, achieving the ideal remains all the more illusive.”
Original Photograph:
Argentina
Australia
Morocco
Germany
Ukraine
Bangladesh
Indonesia
USA
Pakistan
Philippines
Bulgaria
Chile
Sri Lanka
Kenya
Vietnam
Israel
Italy
Greece
Serbia
UK
India
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What a fake lame gimmick. All this photoshop work is awful.
i think germany version is really pure and beautiful xx
and also a bit sickly looking xx
Fail.
Freakin’ horrible article! Not only the features are not representative of that country, but the photoshopped work SUCKS! Demilked should stop churning out such rubbish… ..
& a Yorkshire makeover costing nothing using free internet software
& a Yorkshire makeover using free online internet software
nice one!
the prettiest is the original, by far.
Gorgeous without any Photoshop!
I think some of them are off but great and funny concept. I miss a Scandinavian portrait though :-)
LOL, I think the US one was sent to a 10 yo Photoshop Freelancer… :))