How can I get flawless skin? I was looking at this picture of a model with absolutely perfect skin at Allure. How can I get skin like that model? I have acne.
Honestly? Photoshop. ALL of that perfection is created with blur or sharp filters and clone tools. I could do it myself.
I need to go looking for those few links I found of before-and-after pictures of famous people, even made up and lighted, shown before the photoshop retouching crew had gotten to them and after. Trust me, those people are absolutely NO more perfect than any other bipedal primate in the cold light of day. The model's not perfect; the photo is.
got them: I haven't checked them, so I don't know how many of these are still up:
http://www.fluideffect.com/ -- go to "portfolio" then "before and after."
A few more: http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/bikini/bikini1.html
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=14537
http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/03/26/celebrity_retouching_10_reasons_to_revise_your_reality.php
A good example is to look at a recent issue of Newsweek. That had a picture of Sarah Palin in which they did not Photoshop it and you can see what natural skin really looks like. The pictures in magazines are mostly illusions.