Yeah, like I'm looking at her eyelashes when I see one of her ads.

/end Dirty Old Man mode 

hmmm, one ad down, 7,904,269,135 more to go! If they hadn't added the honest blurb at the bottom of the image that it had been PS'd do you think that anyone would have noticed or called attention to it? The whole point of these ads is to sell a fantasy to those willing to buy into it. Bet your butt they'll be removing that blurb long before they ever stop photoshopping images. Their "mea culpa" in this case was making excessive claims as to what the product will do then trying to back it up with a PS'd image. Remove the excessive claims and no one will squawk too much.

I'd love to see the image before the PS work was done in this case just to see how much it was enhanced. IMO they did a damn good job with the editing here.

Show me real "au natural" non edited shots in any major magazine's ads, as they're gonna be rarer than hen's teeth! Is it not a cosmetic's basic function to make it's user look other than their natural look? Likewise hair dyes? How about shaving anywhere, as it's natural for hair to sprout in various locations on one's body. I've yet to see ads where the fashion/glamour model's legs or armpits resemble that of a male soccer player! Natural is not where it's at and hasn't been since pre Egyptians.

I find it amusing that the truth with this "truth in advertising" debate regarding this image & product is "you won't really look quite this unnatural using this product as shown! The truth is you'll still look more like you really are!"

Even I as a graphic illustration, and a super like for Taylor, photoshopping reality is annoying. Don't use someone who can't actually portray it in reality. Remember, teen girls are looking at all of this. They need not have anymore of this, for them to engadge in more self esteem issues.

Brandon Richard Gould wrote:

Even I as a graphic illustration, and a super like for Taylor, photoshopping reality is annoying. Don't use someone who can't actually portray it in reality. Remember, teen girls are looking at all of this. They need not have anymore of this, for them to engadge in more self esteem issues.

A movement towards greater visual honesty in advertisements is a good thing.

But pandering to the continual young-female-self-esteem machine is becoming obnoxious (in addition to the 'ridiculous' status it has had throughout) in modern culture.