Tag: surgery
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Animation Perfectly Comments On Our Warped Standards of the Female Body
It takes great lengths for a woman to meet today’s unattainable beauty standards. You need to work. Shave it, brush it, lift it, tuck it. Some things need to be smaller, the others — bigger. And all for that glorious moment when somebody says you are beautiful, feminine, divine. But is it worth it? French…
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Supervenus: a Graphic Animation That Explores Female Body Image Issues (NSFW)
“Supervenus”, by French artist Frédéric Doazan, is an animation that uses knives, botox needles and liposuction to completely makeover a woman’s body until it’s unrecognizable. It’s terrifying, to be honest, but is something that is becoming more and more common in our celebrity culture where beautiful bodies are turned into monsters in the quest for perfection. Doazan…
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Unique Ultraviolet Portraits Reveal Beauty within Flaws
Brooklyn-based photographer Cara Phillips developed this intriguing portrait project that uses ultraviolet light to reveal every tiny little imperfection across a person’s face. To produce the black and white series, the artist set up on the streets of New York with a sign that said “Free Portraits.” Any willing participants agreed to sit down right…