Esther Honig has created this fascinating project to find out whether or not a global beauty standard actually exists.
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Esther Honi is a freelance journalist who lives in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. In order to find out whether or not a global beauty standard really does exist she sent a photograph of herself to 40 well known photoshop wizards and enthusiasts, all from various countries around the world. She sent the photo with a simple request “make me beautiful”. The title of the project is Before & After
The responses she got were sometimes heavily altered images, other times the alterations were far more subtle. All of them however offer a fascinating insight on what is considered beautiful in different countries. Did this project help her find the answer she was looking for?
“What I’ve learned from the project is this: Photoshop [may] allow us to achieve our unobtainable standards of beauty, but when we compare those standards on a global scale, achieving the ideal remains all the more illusive.
Argentina
Australia
Bangladesh
Chile
India
Germany
Greece
Indonesia
Philippines
Israel
Italy
Kenya
Morocco
Pakistan
USA
Romania
Serbia
Sri Lanka
U.K.
Ukraine
Vietnam
Venezuela
via BuzzFeed
