Measuring Retouching

It’s a well known fact that beauty and fashion ads as well as magazine photo spreads are retouched. Photoshop turns already beautiful people into unbelievably perfect human beings. The problem is that we do believe it. This has resulted in a society with an unrealistic standard of beauty. The idea that models and celebrities are flawless is absurd, yet we buy it.

After a Death, Sri Lanka Health Ministry will Inspect Beauty Parlors

Sri Lanka’s 57,000 salons and beauty parlors will be inspected by the health ministry after the death of a customer on November 2, 2011. The woman died due to a severe allergic reaction caused by products applied to her skin during a facial treatment.