Beauty standards

"What's under the clothes, Brooke Davis?"

Breast implants, lip fillers, nose jobs, Brazilian butt lifts – we’re a nation obsessed with our looks. But many believe such risky, painful procedures in the name of fashion may be hiding deeper questions about our impossible beauty standards

“The images we take of ourselves have gone from less than 20 a year to sometimes thousands a month, in some cases,” photography duo SHSadler tell It’s Nice That. This terrifying observation of our self-obsession is the idea behind a recent series the pair, made up of Los Angeles-based Julia SH and Nic Sadler, “out of a desire to subvert current beauty standards in photography and confront the de-humanisation that it has created.”

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"Remind the world that everyone is beautiful." These are the words of Ilka Brühl - a 32-year-old woman from Germany, who took it upon herself to spread positivity and empowerment by telling her own story.

BRUNO METRA and Laurence Jeanson have created a photo series of people who appear to have had cosmetic surgery.

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The idea I had for this was to use a strong icon of ideal beauty and society's achievement of true beauty, plastic surgery lines to contradict each other. I wanted to convey the idea that "Why should beauty standards matter?"

beauty standards collage

This experiment by journalist Esther Honig is really something interesting to watch! During the experiment, she took a simple and plain photo of herself. After that, she asked Photoshop artists from around the world to alter it, according to beauty standards in their countries. 23 artists gave her a completely different look - the results are quite astonishing and tell us a lot about beauty standards around the world! Have a look for yourself:

"Remind the world that everyone is beautiful." These are the words of Ilka Brühl - a 32-year-old woman from Germany, who took it upon herself to spread positivity and empowerment by telling her own story.