“Make Me Beautiful”

Earlier this month, one of my fellow bloggers, Ailin Li, wrote a post on Esther Honig’s “Before and After” project. I was very intrigued by Ailin’s post, so I decided to do a-bit more research on the “Before and After” project. I learned that Esther Honig is a human interest reporter who set out to find what other countries viewed as beautiful. Honig hired 40 freelancers from around the world and sent out a makeup-less picture of herself to each freelancer, requesting them to “make me beautiful”.  Soon enough, Esther began to receive edits of her picture. And these were the results:

Original

Germany

India

Chile

Indonesia

Morocco

Bangladesh

Philippines

United Kingdom

Vietnam

United States

Italy

Venezuela 

Kenya

Pakistan

Argentina

Australia

Bulgaria

Israel

Serbia

Greece

Ukraine

Sri Lanka

These images are very intriguing, they give you a look into what different people view as beautiful. The pictures show that beauty is a language of it’s own, it can be interpreted in many different ways.

“Each one is a reflection of both the personal and cultural concepts of beauty that pertain to their creator. Photoshop allows 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 elusive.”

I was so inspired by these images that I decided to photoshop the picture of Honig as well. I though long and hard about what beauty means to me, and I believe I successfully translated it into my edit.

Davinder’s Edit