I guess it just shows me how much retouching they must do in ads and magazines... pretty crazy.
I did a body image group years ago when I worked with at-risk girls. I remember bringing in 2 magazines that had an identical picture of Madonna's daughter (taken at the same time, same event). She was maybe 5 or 6? One magazine had kept her pic natural (or close to), the other one had blatantly photo-shopped it. Evened out her skin, smoothed her hair, and most obviously had shaped her eyebrows (she had a pretty noticeable uni-brow in the first pic). The girls were all quite horrified by it, and it was sad as they were all pretty oblivious to the fact that magazines altered pretty much every picture. I think there's more awareness among teens now, but it's still frustrating.
I'm going to go all Debbie Downer for a minute and point out how awful it is that we've reached a point where kids are going to take their effing school pictures to some crap place like this and photoshop their chin, freckles, eyebrow line, whatever out of them. Come on. It's not enough for Kate Winslet to be suing Elle for slicing off 3/4 of her thighs. Now we've got people photoshopping their toddler's face in family photos. That's fucked up, man.
I usually only photoshop out the schmutz on Ben's face.