Some people often say that they will prefer the past era of original beauty to the era of developed technology and beauty technology.
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Because everyone tacitly acknowledges that in that era, the technology is not developed enough, everyone will not p-map, there is no convenient medical beauty environment, can be active on the screen and famous so far, must be born with a good appearance, they do not have to do any "beauty" action is also good-looking...
Compared with today's hard-working beauties, their beauty seems to be more providential and rarer.
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But Uncle Oxygen does not fully agree with this statement.
It is true that the beauty that still shines after time is a rare gift, but no matter when, whether the technology is convenient or not, people cannot resist the pursuit of beauty, and cannot stop studying the way to become beautiful.
"World Standard Beauty Shape" published in the magazine of the Republic of China period
The fanatical pursuit of "becoming better" in the past, we have only never understood, but this does not mean that it does not exist.
The truth is that all the means and paths of beauty that we are now enthusiastic about have already taken shape more than 100 years ago.
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People of what era love p-charts
In the past few years, the Internet liked to use the "era without ps" to highlight the natural beauty of the past beauty.
But in fact, before the birth of photoshop, people would also try their best to beautify their portraits through more complex and original means.
The most famous and the most primitive means is the first lover of the p-chart Empress Dowager Cixi.
Because the more mature means of recording at that time was portraits, she always had to intervene in the creation of painters in the early stage to achieve the purpose of self-beautification.
She had ordered the painter Wals Huber to paint her portrait before she painted her: don't have shadows on any part of her face (she doesn't know bone beauty), and her eyes should be big! The mouth should be plump, and all wrinkles should be removed... Notice that cixi is 70 years old in the picture on the right, and at the same time she is in the untouched photo as in the long left picture.
"Peel Effect"
Portraits can be artificially intervened, so film photos can't be p, right? Yes.
In order to make up for the lack of instant photo recording, people picked up various tools and learned to manually modify the negatives using contrast, occlusion and temperature control to achieve later "beauty".
The photo of Joan Crawford taken from the 1930s, the retoucher worked for 6 hours, and finally removed her neck lines, inter-eyebrow lines, wrinkles, eyelid grooves, cheek grooves, cheek arches were highlighted, the jaw margin was tightened and lifted, and the whole face was polished and tendered.
It seems that no matter when, everyone's demand for beauty is similar.
People in the past also had a systematic p-image awareness, and the retoucher would have a series of operations to beautify the photos for customers.
I think every retoucher at that time could be a makeup master now, not only able to work skillfully in the darkroom, but also fully understand the beauty and structure of the human face.
Lack of three-dimensional sense, by controlling the exposure to create chiaroscuro contrast, the face is not delicate and white, through the tool scraping for skin and modify the blemishes.
Manual shadows and highlights strengthen bones, while manual concealer brightens and beautifies the skin.
The super powerful darkroom master Pabrub Inillio is a picture of Hepburn Hugh
In 1987, photographer Dong Min took a picture of the 90-year-old Song Meiling, when Song Meiling could not draw exquisite lipstick and eyebrows by herself, when shooting, Song Meiling's lipstick was applied to the lips, the eyebrows were also intermittent, Dong Min did not remind, and finally he manually modified Song Meiling's lipstick and eyebrows on the negative.
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Only those who know how to become beautiful are proud
Beauty is not ashamed of being "unauthentic"
Along with the "era without PS", there is also a word called "era without plastic surgery".
This description is even more wrong, because people in the past not only have plastic surgery, but even love the good changes that plastic surgery brings to themselves, and they will not be "ashamed of it".
Medical plastic surgery technology was introduced to China from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China period, and this period did pass a major change of thinking and controversy.
Most of the plastic surgery that was first introduced to China was aimed at remedying physical disabilities, so some literati believed that this was to repair the body given by their parents, which was in line with traditional morality.
However, there are also some literati who do not agree with this approach.
In 1897, the "Declaration" reported a report called "disfigurement": it recorded the story of an old French woman who underwent a skinlift and immediately became younger, and the report was not optimistic about this method.
"There is a certain surgeon in paris in France who thinks that the old woman has started a family with a huge family of tens of thousands. The method is to cut the skin between the old woman's ears, and then sew the skin tightly, so that the wrinkles on the face are flat, like a young woman, and the old woman can only endure pain. Hey, weird. ”
At the same time, they also criticized the psychology of women seeking beauty:
"Plastic surgery is really 'smelting and fornicating', which violates the ancient precept of 'three from four virtues', and the heart of a husband and groom may not be obscene." However, if a person tries to be lascivious because of the beauty of his appearance, he is tantamount to fornication."
The implication is that plastic surgery can indeed be beautiful, but isn't your pursuit of beauty deliberately making people sin???
Until the Republic of China period, this debate and the knowledge gap of plastic surgery technology has greatly improved with the opening of the mind and the maturity of technology.
At that time, everyone sought beauty, and everyone would be proud of their own better understanding of beauty and more willing to pursue fashionable beauty.
The big star Hu Di will teach everyone to make up
At this time, the plastic surgery technology has been relatively mature, from the end of the 20s to the 40s in the past few decades, the projects that can be done in the plastic surgery hospital have expanded from simple freckle removal, wrinkle reduction and anti-aging to double eyelids, correction of strabismus, rhinoplasty, correction of ear shape, dimples, reduction of lips and so on.
Influenced by Western culture, the overall plastic surgery aesthetic is Europeanized.
Here, the most likely to bring up the trend of seeking beauty are public figures.
At that time, there was a very magical phenomenon, the big star did plastic surgery not only not to hide it, but also to publicize it, eager to send their own before and after comparison pictures all over the street, plastic surgery hospital is easy to obtain the consent of the star to publish advertisements in the newspaper.
Plastic surgery hospital advertisements in the Republic of China period used celebrities as examples
Not only do it yourself, but also start a business!
Actress Wang Hanlun began to set up her own beauty salon after she stopped filming, but the situation was turbulent, and the beauty salon was forced to close for a long time.
At that time, people were not ashamed of plastic surgery, but wanted to make people think that I was the most beautiful and the most beautiful person, which would help them strengthen their opinion leader label and be more sought after.
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The mutual achievement of technology and beauty
I think that precisely because we live in the era of technological development, we often ignore the mutual achievements of technology and beauty.
Because people have a sincere heart for beauty at all times, the technology related to "beauty" can be continuously innovated and optimized in this process.
And the technology of beauty that has grown up rapidly under supervision can take us back at the right time to take us back to feel the visual shock of the past that we could not have felt.
The 1976 Iranian film masterpiece "Chess game of the wind" lost the negative after the Islamic Revolution, and there was only an ultra-low-definition VHS version circulating at that time, and we could not appreciate the beauty and color of the film that originally belonged to it.
Fortunately, more than forty years later, the film's negatives were found at the flea market, and after a painstaking restoration process, we finally saw what it really was, seeing the white pearl necklace and the beating candlelight that matched the red carpet.
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I have always believed that we should take a learning attitude towards technology and emerging things and aesthetics, not to mention that we now have an absolute advantage in approaching beauty compared to before.
We are in the best era of appreciating beauty, we want to have a beautiful picture, we don't have to exhaust 6 hours, just click on the mobile app, a few minutes can p a picture.
If we want to fight against aging and improve, we do not have to threaten painters or accept criticism in the face of criticism, we have various ways to do our homework, have a variety of advanced medical aesthetic techniques, and have more than just Westernized pluralistic aesthetics.
124 years ago, people would have lamented that the old French woman who was pulling the skin was "hey, weird".
Nowadays, when some people are troubled by old age, sagging, and collapsed faces, many people will say, "Do Thermaki!" ", this is a great shift in consciousness.
Technological innovation, so that more people on the road to beauty to find more shortcuts, we have gradually learned to become scientific beauty, we all know that one of the reasons for facial aging is because of collagen loss, we can solve the problem from the most fundamental.