Two in one week... wow... so lucky!

Okay, I have another rant today... I know, seriously, I haven't blogged my random thoughts in months, and now here I am... twice in one week! So this one just boggles my mind. I hear women complaining all the time about how magazines photoshop super models. They get upset that we see these women, and they are unreal, because some graphic designer has enhanced, trimmed, and accentuated every aspect of them. (I don't have a beef with that part... I totally get that, it bothers me too.) What I can't understand is why these same women, who are upset with society for representing women in a way that is completely fake, and unattainable, will get portraits done of their children and essentially do the exact same thing!!!

I was looking at some pictures the other day done of some children. The photos had been edited to show flawless skin, bright (almost borderline creepy) enhanced eyes, the eyelashes had been darkened and it looked like the girls had eyeliner on, and the lips had been reddened so that they looked like they were wearing lipstick. One of the girls looked like JonBenet Ramsey, all done up and trying to be 17 instead of a little girl like she should be. NONE of the kids looked like themselves... and yet I don't get why it's okay to falsify these pictures, but not the super models?! It's totally a double standard. I'll be the first to admit that I will use photoshop to brighten up someones face, and make minor adjustments here or there... and if you happen to have a nice large zit, by all means, photoshop it out. But the whole perfect porcelain face on a child, or even adult, is just way too much for me. I hope in 20 years, these kids say, hey mom... don't you have any pictures of me that actually look like I did when I was kid? And these moms start to feel like idiots for having all these phony looking pictures with scary blue eyes that look nothing like their actual eye color. I don't know... it's just weird. I want to have family portraits done this spring and it seems almost impossible to find a photographer who can just take good pictures... and not take pictures and over edit them so they look professional, but then nothing like my actual family. If you know a good one, send them my way. I love the digital era... I know it really is much easier, but I have to say, sometimes I miss film. It didn't lie the way photoshop does ;)