We all positive actresses get airbrushed to death in ads and magazines, even in supposedly candid shots. Do you actually think Madonna looks younger at 50 than she did at 28? No, I didn’t assume so. But sometimes, looking at women who seem so perfectly flawless that they make any normal girl feel like a troll, it can be strenuously to remember that many of the pictures we’re comparing ourselves to are so airbrushed that they’re basically animated.
Jo Swinson, Liberal MP in the British Parliament, is out to do something about it. Swinson has logged complaints with the Advertising Standards Officialdom in Britain over two L’Oreal magazine campaigns featuring Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington. Both campaigns are for anti-aging products, and both highlight images of these two beautiful women that look a look more like digital avatars than they do like real ladies. The ASA agreed with Swinson and asked L’Oreal brands Lancome and Maybelline to root for a drive up the ads, which it believe breach advertising standards codes for exaggeration and misleading promises.