When do you cross the line when editing photos?

So in today's lesson we discussed when do magazine companies go too far when they edit their photos?

What happened to natural beauty? When did it become such a thing to edit someone so much that you don't even recognise their face? It's truly worrying that an industry can manipulate a whole audience of young teenage girls into thinking that what you see on front of their cover, is what you should look like. We have teenagers obsessing over the latest trends and trying to find ways to look like women that don't even look like themselves.

But because of the internet, nothing is kept a secret anymore. There is leaked photos of Queen B (Beyonce) that are unedited. I think it's great to show people (specially young girls) that nobody is perfect. That even someone as famous as Beyonce doesn't always look flattering under certain lightings. It is necessary for photos to be edited as the lighting could be wrong or the lipstick might have smuged and you didn't see it till after the shoot. 

In one lesson we tested an app called 'facetune' to see how much you could edit yourself. In group of 4 we all tested the app by taking selfies of ourselves. Down below you will see the before and after photos we edited on each other. We used a selection of tools such as; Smooth skin, detail, reshape and certain filters. We all applied the same tools on each photo and this is the results:

As you can tell there is a big difference between the before and afters. I also know neither of us can edit with a phone app. But with the basic tools on this app, you can easily reshape your whole entire face. I think you could easily spend a whole evening playing around with the tools on this app and with how quickly you get carried away with it all. In the 21st Century we shouldn't be teaching kids that it's okay to want to change yourself like this. We need to teach children about inner beauty rather then the high expectations we have on women.