Too Much Smoothing!

Has the world of advertising gone crazy? Nearly every face I am seeing in ads has been photoshopped beyond what is reasonable. It's not just the older faces. The faces of younger models and actors, male and female, have been taken to absolute smoothness. Not a pore or a tiny wrinkle to be seen. The faces don't look real because along with the pores and wrinkles, they took character. The faces look like masks made of something besides skin.

Advertisers have already created the image of a body size and shape which is unreachable for most people. Now they are adding faces to the mix. As a teenager, I studied the faces of models in magazines to see how they did their makeup. I always envied that their skin was zit free. If today's teenage girls keep seeing absolutely smooth faces, what will they want their faces to look like.

If you are over the age of puberty, you are going to have noticeable pores and tiny wrinkles. Your skin cannot function without pores. And lines give a face some character. I certainly wouldn't want to be in a world where everyone looks like they are wearing a mask.