How do models always look so flawless? One word: Photoshop. By now, we all know that what we see on magazine pages is not real, but you may still be shocked by the unbelievable photo tricks that make celebrities look flawless.
Photoshop tricks have been used by retouchers for years to make models look thinner or more curvaceous. But it's not all retouching - there are some other tricks employed by the fashion industry to make models look better. We can thank Kim K for revealing her contouring secrets, but stylists have used bronzer, hair extensions, fake eyelashes, padded bras, and the art of perfectly tailored clothes for years.
So before you start shaming into yourself for not looking like all those models, remember that even those models don't look like those models.
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"When you’re wearing a strapless bikini, in no way, shape, or form [can] you have cleavage," she explained. "It’s physically impossible with the way gravity works.”
No one's breasts look like that - not even the model's breasts. In most cases, the shapes of breasts are retouched to look rounder, bigger, or higher. They sometimes even remove nipples, according to one retoucher.
“The first thing they do is they put in [hair] extensions,” explained one Photoshopper. “I don’t think I ever was on a shoot with a model that had real hair.”
As Clinton Kelly of What Not To Wear explained to a woman that had won a consultation with him, everything you will ever see on a celebrity’s body, including outfits for when they’re just out and about and caught by a paparazzo, has been tailored to fit them. So don't be surprised if you don't get the same fit buying off the rack.
As Victoria's Secret model Adriana Lima explained, she stops drinking water twelve hours before the show. "No liquids at all so you dry out, sometimes you can lose up to eight pounds just from that."
She also abstains from eating any solid food for nine days before a show, subsisting only on protein shakes.
