Lady Gaga Criticizes Own Glamour Cover
Performance Marketing
When it comes to overzealous airbrushing on magazine covers, there's no shortage of media outlets ready to call out the perpetrators. But rarely do complaints come from cover stars themselves—and [...]
Teen’s Petition Leads to ‘Seventeen’ Body Image Pledge
Performance Marketing
Two months ago, 14-year-old Julia Bluhm of Waterville, ME decided that she was tired of listening to her ballet classmates complain about their bodies, which weren’t always as rail-thin or [...]
The Lash Stand
Performance Marketing
The Very Famous Pop Diva insisted that her magazine headshots were absolutely not retouched. That straight white smile? Hers. That luminous skin? Hers. The big beautiful eyes? Hers, all hers, [...]
Ad in Target Circular Either Photoshopped or Features an Alien
Creativity
Photoshop fails can range from annoying to awesome. Here's one for the latter pile—a Target circular with a dad who appears to have one too many appendages. The best part [...]
World’s Most Stunning Beauty Product: Fotoshop by Adobé
Creativity
Wait, advertising and mass media perpetuate a bogus standard of fair-faced, rock-abbed, slim-framed beauty that's unattainable for most folks in real life? Whoa, when did that happen? Cue California filmmaker [...]
Maybe She’s Born With It. Maybe It’s Photoshop
Creativity
Models' images retouched for cosmetics ads? No. Freaking. Way. It's true! And the U.K.'s ad watchdog is having none of it, banishing separate L'Oréal ads featuring Julia Roberts and Christy [...]