The Photoshop Look

A couple in America are trying to scrap the perfected images of women that we see everyday on magazine covers, on television and even on page 3.

[You can read the article here]

It is worrying that you can turn a grey, scaly coke head into a glamorous supermodel type idol so easily. No doubt kids have a different kind of pressure today to when I was growing up. Smooth skinned beauties were still on covers back then but the editing seems to come under more scrutiny each year and the waists are getting thinner, breasts bigger and skin so smooth it looks like they've been ironed.

Take Lindsay Lohan, who has just done a Playboy shoot. Why? What has she done so great to land such a prestigious offering? In the article you can clearly see the resemblance and link to Marylin Monroe. I think it's a disgrace to compare such a celebrated idol (with actual talent) to such a... what does she do? I remember watching her in Parent Trap but can't remember anything else...

'She's America's most fascinating Celebrity' they claim. Jesus, how desperate are they for a bit of gossip? To compare a legend, who girls worldwide looked up to and wanted to be, to Lohan is a joke. It's the same mentality we have over here. Talentless 'celebrities' whose work has dried up so the next logical step is to get their t*ts out or sell a story. Or release a sex tape. Or go on Big Brother, take your pick.

You can't deny that in the article they have made her look like a beautiful pin up girl from the past and somewhere, somehow, a young girl will see these images and feel that little bit smaller because even Lindsay Lohan, a celebrity charlatan can look like a Miss World competitor.

I honestly hope the couple I linked to make a breakthrough. Let's be honest, if we want to see a bit of skin we can find it on the internet with 20 seconds, so why fill shelves full of such images when kids are guaranteed to be present? I always thought Playboy had a certain classy, traditional reputation. But with this message of 'take drugs to get in the media and you can pose for us', I'm afraid they've let themselves down immensely.