Lia Trageser Beautiful People

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In this summary essay will discuss about an article called “Touch It Up! The Art of Making “Beautiful People”” written by Lia Trageser, a cosmetologist expert. She talks about magazine photo cover are seductive advertisement to gain viewer’s attention. The viewers are led to believe in order to achieve perfect beauty that you must copy what the magazine is producing. However Trageser states that these photo cover are mere aesthetic painting to look at. The image of photo cover are manipulated to alter someone appears to be more attractive. The artful digital retouched used several techniques to produce the perfect image. She tells that anyone who is drawn to these desirable magazine cover knows that its artful piece with hidden flaws and improvement are meant to sell. …show more content…

The viewers are led to believe in order to achieve happiness; they must copy exactly the photo on the cover. The fashion and cosmetics industry profits millions dollar off of the viewers by tricking them to need purchase products to obtain happiness. And the models of the photo covers are look perfect but in reality they are fakes. Even famous models don’t like art of digital retouch because they felt misrepresented. Trageser said the viewers are led to believe these famous models are on a successful diet but don’t know these photo are just inaccurate.
Trageser said the first step to create the whole perfect image is to have a model that is almost perfect. A standard woman model has to have extremely feminist with tiny hips, long limbs, big lips and eyes. For male, they have to very build muscle, strong jawline, and extremely manly to photo well. She emphasizes on models that photograph effortlessly is because they were born good gene. Trageser states that make-up is next step to enhance look to make total appearance. Make-up helps to hide the model’s flaw and improve

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