Fake Beauty Commercial Pretends Photoshop Is a Kind of Makeup

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The debate about retouching beauty and fashion ads is not going away any time soon, especially in the UK, where some beauty ads have even been banned for using PhotoShop. Filmmaker Jesse Rosten made a spoof beauty commercial for "Fotoshop by Adobé," and he nails a lot of the usual conventions (Frenchification of the words, closeup product porn shots, etc). "This commercial isn’t real," Rosten said, "and neither are society’s standards of beauty."
•Jesse Rosten [Official Site]