Woman asks different cultures to photoshop her picture into their ideal of beauty....

[Deleted]

Seems like it's disingenuous to call it a "cultures" vision of beauty, more like the random individual who photoshopped it.

Saying "Still, the project dispels the myth of a singular beauty norm" seems dumb too, isn't that obvious without dumping time into a study? I'm pretty sure my ideal environment of beauty would be different from just about any other random internet posters or the guy nextdoor.

[Netherspark]

Yeah this is completely flawed... you'd have to get at least 10 from each country and check for correlation. I guarantee most of these are personal preferences rather than "cultural".

[Deleted]

The Philippines: "Hair, needs much more hair."

But the US one has to be kidding. WTF?

[Reeve]

I think all the people bitching about how bad people's photoshop skills are should take a crack at this themselves and load it up to the forums.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Let's see what you come up with using the original photo.

Did I offend you somehow? Oh you made the US one then? I certainly won't waste my take faking pictures of a random women, besides I don't have the gusto to pirate a version of photoshop at the moment. That is also probably the reason why I didn't volunteer to make one of these for some kind of random blog post .

[Reeve]

Did I offend you somehow? Oh you made the US one then? I certainly won't waste my take faking pictures of a random women, besides I don't have the gusto to pirate a version of photoshop at the moment. That is also probably the reason why I didn't volunteer to make one of these for some kind of random blog post .

It's not about being offended. I'm just curious what people come up with, and there's a bit of a glass houses don't throw stones angle to my comment.

And don't pirate photoshop. Just use GIMP or something.

[apepi]

Australia one, the makeup, lawl


India reminds me of the painting that a women screwed up on.

Rominia looks pretty average, they just prettied her up. Though there seems to be a certain correlation(to the actual serious photshops.

[slickwilly]

I'd like to tap everyone of them

[Deleted]

I'd like to tap everyone of them

Odd fetish you have there, most men would rather have sex with her.

[Ratboy]

I'm going to guess if they asked Japan it's probably NSFW.

[Senathor]

She didn't look good in any picture in my opinion. I have high facial standards. You don't need huge boobs. You don't need a huge ass. Your BMI value does not have to be 17. But you damn well better have a cute face. Just sayin'.

[Wildtree]

good lord.... some of those are worse than horrible....
The ones that made US and Germany need to be banned for life, from using a computer..
The Morocco one deserves kudos... She actually looks best with that one.
I'd give the Philippines the second place.

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Odd fetish you have there, most men would rather have sex with her.

lmao..... good one..

[minteK917]

Most of them simply look like the same picture with weird contrast color. Im not sure what is more pretty about most of them, the only thing that i see upgraded is that many of the pictures arrange her hair, but thats kinda like not a real factor of beauty to me, anyone can change their hair. She is already a very attractive young women in the original picture.

[Deleted]

This looks like when I tried my hand at photoshop that one time. What were they trying to accomplish? Most of them just look odd because of bad editing. I thought "different cultures find different things attractive" was the obvious. You don't need to do something like this to know that.

[Spectral]

That cultures have specific makeup preferences isn't surprising.

The most notable thing is that not a single one chose to make her significantly overweight. For all of the blather about beauty being a cultural construct (which is obviously at least partially true), it appears that most countries can agree on a healthy weight being attractive.

That said, this is obviously not a representative sample.

[minteK917]

That cultures have specific makeup preferences isn't surprising.

The most notable thing is that not a single one chose to make her significantly overweight. For all of the blather about beauty being a cultural construct (which is obviously at least partially true), it appears that most countries can agree on a healthy weight being attractive.

That said, this is obviously not a representative sample.

There is 2 factor that can be recorded in history as being the average standard of beauty. Being healthy( overweight people dont look like that) and having a skin in good condition(not talking about the color).

[Deleted]

The most notable thing is that not a single one chose to make her significantly overweight. For all of the blather about beauty being a cultural construct (which is obviously at least partially true), it appears that most countries can agree on a healthy weight being attractive.

I would be interested in a repeat of this using a full body shot of a larger woman. Not obese, just carrying a few extra pounds, to see what about her body would be altered.

[Tastyfish]

But the US one has to be kidding. WTF?

Emma Watson + coloring book?

[Deleted]

UK one looks the best to me. Working as intended I suppose.

[Velaniz]

The most notable thing is that not a single one chose to make her significantly overweight. For all of the blather about beauty being a cultural construct (which is obviously at least partially true), it appears that most countries can agree on a healthy weight being attractive.

The plumpness of her face varies in some of those photoshops. I think there was also probably a tacit understanding here that the question was of facial beauty, rather than body mass.