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I’m sorry, but I must have some time to rant today! The photo below is me, half of me is fact, the other half is faked. When you see me in person, you won’t be seeing the airbrushed version of me. I am 47 years old, I have wrinkles and a few age spots starting to show, and I have pores. I understand wanting to look good in photos, and I will be the first one to get rid of any blemishes on my skin in my own photos. But there is a point where it just becomes ridiculous. The new trend seems to be this plastic look on the skin, and it’s driving me crazy. In the music business the same thing has happened, that darn auto-tune effect that every singer seems to use. It’s as though our society won’t allow us to be human anymore, no mistakes allowed. We must be perfect in every way.

It seems that the stuff that drives me the most crazy starts in Hollywood. Honestly, if I was really on the war path today, a rant about Hollywood would be quite a few chapters. It’s bad enough that many of us “idolize” our celebrities, but when they are not honestly portrayed in print media, and we still try to become like them, that really gets me. Do you honestly think that the photos you see of these people on the covers of magazines and such are exactly how they look? They are airbrushed to the max, nipped and tucked in Photoshop. Little girls have a hard enough time with self esteem growing up, and when they are bombarded with these sort of “perfect” images of people, how are they expected to excel in anything meaningful when they spend their energy just trying to measure up to all this fakeness.

I think I have much more to say, but I better hold back a little bit. I’m just curious about the future and what we will hold as precious. Will it be the truth, or something we are hoping will pass for truth. With all the self esteem problems, the bullying in school, are any of us going to measure up, and who is going to be the ones judging. We are all so unique and why can’t we celebrate that? I am far from perfect, and I never want to let myself get lazy, or too far out of shape. But there is so much more about me than most people know from just looking at me. I guarantee that is the case for most other people as well.

I almost feel like a hypocrite, because it’s my job to make people look good in their photos. I guess I would answer my own question by saying that there is beauty in everyone and it’s my job to show it, not invent it.

Thanks for reading!!