What's Wrong With This Picture? BuzzFeed's Video About Beauty Turns Many Women Off

Not as inspiring as it seems

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BuzzFeed's attempt at an inspiring, empowering video for women falls short, and the target audience is having no problem letting BuzzFeed know it.

"Photoshopping Real Women Into Cover Models" opens with four women lamenting that they'd never look like models in a magazine spread. Each woman then participates in a professional photo shoot—hair, makeup, styling and all—and then a Photoshop expert retouches the images to make them look like typical magazine cover models.

We watch the women's reactions as they see the photos for the first time.

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