The Divine Miss C sent this very informative link to me.  It’s a very short video (about a minute) that shows the transformation models go through to look “beautiful”.  I’ve posted screen shots below.

“It’s crazy to think that we sometimes see these extraordinarily modelesque women and feel awe at their beauty: when the old cliches that they look just like us and really are just ordinary women is totally true.”

The “perfect” women on magazine covers are unattainable because they’re not even truly real.  No wonder a woman’s ideals of beauty are so skewed.