Am I Beautiful Enough?

This is gonna' sound funny, but last night I had the idea for a project in my dream. After I was done dreaming about having a cute white bunny that went with me wherever I went, I found myself in a store reminiscent of The Warehouse. The display TVs were all tuned to the music channel and there was a brand new video playing in which a well known pop beauty was singing a song with a chorus that went "Am I beautiful enough for you now?" In the video she was wearing no makeup or fancy clothes and her hair was as if she'd just got out of bed. Some people agreed that she was still just as stunning without all the wall paint, while I heard young men saying "that looks nothing like her!" disapprovingly.

When I woke up I knew this was a good idea for a project, but I was a little hazy on what words were being sung, which gave me another idea. While I was trying to remember I thought of "Am I beautiful enough for you yet?" which would be fantastic to use as well. I figured I could create a photo of myself with no makeup captioned "Am I beautiful enough for you now?", followed by another photo of me with tonnes of makeup on with the caption "Am I beautiful enough for you yet?" highlighting the contrast between wholesome beauty and unachievable perfection.

When it came to actually processing the first photo, I took things one step further and used photoshop in the opposite way to what a beauty photographer would. I made sure all the details of my skin were in tact and even did my best to highlight my blemishes and dark circles. I tried to magnify the truth rather than concealing it.



I considered finding the text for this elsewhere and copying and pasting it like I did in my previous project, but I decided that I couldn't justify the reasoning behind it and that the plain text was more personal and thus suited the image.