What would you think if a friend sent you photos and had digitally airbrushed you to look better?

[mrsmaidamess]

2 friends have done this to me now.

They have included photos in an email and proudly said 'I've airbrushed you to look better' or 'I've evened you out' I'm not the flippin elephant man!

It puts my trunk nose ever so slightly out of joint . What would you think?

I wouldn't mind if they had just done the red-eye, but anything else I would find a little odd really, and I'd be miffed.

Yes, thankyou. My 2 age spots...gone.

My crepey under eyes...gone.

Now, they are parts of me, that should I choose to, I would love to get removed.

But I find it a bit odd that a friend thinks its her job to do it for me!

I hate photos of me and would love someone to make me look better

but I can absolutely see why you are miffed...

Well if I had had a gigantic spot on my nose at the time and she had airbrushed it out, I would be pleased. Other than that, v rude.

How odd!
I'd be a bit scunnered myself.

wish my friend had done the same to be before issuing everyone with christmas cards that were made from her hen do pictures..

Im neckless.. awful picture...3 stone overweight, had given birth months previous and time spent looking after a sick and hospitalised ds had cleary taken its toll...

Actually.............I would be miffed. Totally.

I would send them all my photos

lol was it something along these lines?

"eyes replaced"

My god puppy, that is creepy! She looks lovely before but like a doll afterwards.

Oh, and I would be hugely pissed off that they thought you needed 'help' veyr rude.

bloody hell that website is really creepy puppydetox
he doesn't look real
and she looks spooky

AAAAAAARGHHHHHHHH!

I would consider it rude and indicative of the fact that they don't accept me as I am.

I would tell them they were a cheeky cow.

Eugh those are WRONG WRONG WRONG.

And re-touching photos is the thing that's making this world a terrible place.

That and expensive hen-dos.

I would "alter" a photo of them and send it to them!

lol the elephant man...
its a bit cheeky but that's power when it gets into people's hands, they use it!
tell them to leave their stalinest picture doctoring to themselves, perhaps..

its cheeky really but i think i would have a laugh about it

sorry but [spray] at your friends

what the merry hell do they think they are playing at

and LOL at adding a beret to every retouched photo on that link

The retouching of children's photos like that is seriously disturbed. What must the kids make of it? 'Even my mum thinks I'm so ugly she needs to change my face in photos'.

Nice.

Well one of my friends who decided I needed some 'help' is a slave to personal grooming herself.

We are talking twice weekly pedicures, manicures, blow drying, teeth whitening, spray tanning (even though she tans like David Dickenson) thread vein removal and so it goes on.

I'm obviously a BIG disappointment in the looks department! Yet when she was a teenager her Mum said she would be a good candidate for a nose job.

that website is gruesome.

This one made me feel sad - presumably she'd rather have had a doll than a child?

here

That is awful

Oh god, it's so disturbing, they are blatantly lightening the skin colour of these gorgeous kids.
Look at this
and there was a really cute asian girl whose eyes had been changed too. Who pays for this shit?

her MUM said she was a candidate for a nose job?

say no more poor woman

can't imagine saying anything like that about ds - hope not anyway.

Those websites are some of the sadest things I have ever seen.
My DCs are always going to be gorgeous in my eyes and I can'yt imagine what would make anyone think that airbrushing a child is a good ide.
Why have we reachedthe point where we think that sameness is beauty?
I can't imagine why anyone would do it notr how those children will feel when they realise that as small children their parents already think they weren't 'pretty' enough.