> On some of the breast enhancements, like for the middle woman in the sink photo, one goal is obviously to make them symmetrical to the viewer. But if you pause a moment and notice the angle of the woman's shoulders, your eyes compensate and she becomes very lopsided.

What really got me about that photo was that nothing seemed strange until I saw the original. Then I looked again at the retouched version and couldn't stand it. It just looked SO very wrong.

I started thinking about how many "anatomically impossible" (to use Ria's phrase) photos we look at without even realizing that anything is abnormal. It can't help but sink into your brain that at least some people look like this. And that has the potential to be an incredibly dangerous way of thinking, because even if you don't think that you're measuring yourself against the photos, you've come to think that somewhere, somehow, that standard of impossible perfection actually exists.

Gahalyn