1. The hot spread of "frozen age photos" on social media has aroused heated discussions about the contrast between the real images of celebrities
Recently, Ms. Zhao Yazhi posted a set of energetic and youthful photos on her personal social platform, with an emotional text: "Every day, let the warm sunshine shine in the depths of the whole soul."
As soon as this group of photos was launched, netizens were amazed and praised, especially for Ms. Zhao, who has entered the old age and can still maintain a girlish and beautiful appearance, everyone is even more envious.
However, some netizens questioned this, mercilessly pointing out: "If you don't have refinement, beautification, plastic surgery and other means, do you still dare to call yourself a girl?" Although such remarks are slightly sharp, they also reveal the cruelty of reality.
In addition, Ms. Liu Xiaoqing, the "girl" we are familiar with, is also keen to share her "beautiful photos" on social media. In these photos, she is over seventy years old at all, her skin is still fair and flawless, and her mental state is full of youthful vitality.
Netizens are extremely envious of her "reverse growth" phenomenon, and regard it as a model and idol of "eternal youth".
However, there are also some people who like to "pick thorns", they say: "If you don't have a beautiful face, Sister Xiaoqing, you are really amazingly beautiful! We are very much looking forward to seeing the real appearance of Mrs. Liu without a beauty camera, that is the real you."
Indeed, when we compare Ms. Liu Xiaoqing's untouched life photos, we find that no matter how much she pays attention to maintenance and anti-aging, those deep nasolabial folds and the marks left by the years still cannot be concealed.
Some of the photos even give a sense of horror.
2. Reveal the huge contrast between the "glamorous" of celebrities in public and their daily lives
Miss Yang Zi became famous with her sweet appearance, and whenever she walked on the red carpet, her three-dimensional and delicate facial features always attracted many eyes. However, when we look back at her life photos, we are surprised to find that there is a huge contrast between the two.
The unmodified Yang Zi not only lost her original aura, but also seemed to have gained weight, which contrasted sharply with the well-built red carpet look. To make matters worse, her face appears unusually swollen when certain exaggerated expressions appear in film and television dramas.
In terms of body management, Yang Zi's performance is also unsatisfactory. After a meticulous restoration, she has a stunning, flesh-free figure. However, when the unretouched images surfaced, her rounded figure was nowhere to hide – the upper body was fat, and the lower body was stout, as if Jia Ling had reappeared in front of her, and such a visual impact undoubtedly made the audience feel uncomfortable.
Ma Sichun wore a black tight dress to attend the event glamorously, but the fat on her waist and prominent lower abdomen were still quite eye-catching, giving people a sense of "blessing".
However, after the retoucher's skillful processing, Ma Sichun suddenly shrunk, especially her thin and slender waist, and it was almost impossible to detect any fat.
Although Yuan Shanshan appeared on the red carpet wearing a professional outfit, she still couldn't cover her "thick" leg line. In the unretouched photographs, her thighs appear extraordinarily thick and incongruously proportioned, making you laugh.
However, in the retouched pictures she posted, Yuan Shanshan showed amazing long legs against the sky, slender and straight, and almost no flaws could be found.
Yang Mi has always been shown as a "girl power", and she is like a delicate flower under the filter. However, the high-definition raw pictures ruthlessly revealed the nasolabial folds and eye bags at the corners of her eyes and eyelids, and the whole person looked dull, as if she was more than ten years older than her actual age.
Di Lieba has won many praises for its unique exotic beauty and is known as "Barbie in the world". However, in real life, her figure is not so perfect. Whether in film and television works or in daily life, we can see some of her shortcomings, such as her short height and thin body, which is too thin to support gorgeous clothes, and her facial contours are slightly sunken and her face shape is peculiar.
It is worth noting that Ju Jingyi has very few works in modern dramas, most of them are costume dramas, and they are also paired with complicated headdresses, which seems to be deliberately reducing people's attention to her face.
Does this mean that she relies too much on "packaging" methods such as retouching and beautifying her face to beautify her image?
In the face of the current cruelty of the real world, celebrities must rely on the unrivaled exquisite skills of retouchers to carefully shape the image of the "goddess" or "beauty" of their dreams, otherwise once the unretouched pictures are exposed, all kinds of shortcomings will immediately appear, which will bring people a great sense of disappointment, and even make doubts: Are we always being "deceived" by the appearance of these stars?
The deep-seated reason behind celebrities being so keen on retouching and beautifying is the excessive pursuit of "packaging" in today's entertainment industry. In this era of "appearance first", the appearance status of celebrities is highly respected, and they have to spend a lot of time and money to maintain their image.
Once the real no-makeup image is shown in front of the public, they will face the crisis of "disfigurement", and their careers may also suffer a major blow.
Fourth, the true image of the early stage of the star
Let's go back to the time when 48-year-old Zhou Xun was just emerging from the scene, when she was actually just an ordinary girl. At that time, she had obvious nasolabial folds at the corners of her mouth and her face was covered with marks from acne, and even a thick foundation could not completely hide those unsightly bulges.
However, today's Zhou Xun looks more than ten years older than when he was young.
Even Hua Chenyu, the "national husband" who is now full of appearance, has exposed his flaws of "not as good as pigs and dogs" in the life photos before his debut - dense big acne and blackheads on the top of his head, as well as dark skin and other problems.
Looking back on the no-makeup looks of these stars before their debut, it is not difficult to find that their appearance back then is far from the "natural beauty" rumored later. The reason why they were able to gradually "counterattack" and create today's high appearance is that in addition to relying on retouching and careful makeup, more importantly, they have been blessed by "packaging" means such as medical beauty through huge investments.
Judging from the "unpacking" status of these stars, their appearance at the beginning of their debut is no different from that of ordinary people, it can be said that it is their most simple and real appearance.
And the "beauty" we see now is just a kind of packaging created by virtue of strong economic strength.
5. Criticize the entertainment industry for over-pursuing the "packaging" culture
Celebrities must invest a lot of money and time to carefully construct and maintain that imaginary, highly glorified image of "perfection"! They would rather believe in the carefully packaged lies than face the naked truth of life.
Once the true state of the make-up situation is made public, they will be in the midst of a "devastating" crisis, with serious risks of career setbacks.
They flatly denied the fact of retouching the pictures and avoided the exposure of the pictures, which invisibly exacerbated the bad impact of the overall environment. Such a hypocritical attitude is really disappointing and disappointing.
At the same time, these highly retouched celebrity photos are quietly changing the public's perception of the perfect body. After long-term exposure to those "hot" celebrity images, we also began to feel anxious about our self-image and gradually deviated from the original pursuit of a "healthy" body.
This excessive pursuit of "packaging" has undoubtedly brought immeasurable negative effects to the entertainment industry and even the entire society.
6. Advocate cherishing the quality of natural gas, and celebrities should be committed to improving their professional quality
In the face of the exposure of celebrity life photos, we don't need to scoff or blame it at all, because everyone has a unique temperament beauty. More importantly, we should learn a valuable philosophy of life: learn to appreciate our own and others' unique temperament, and wholeheartedly cherish and care for our natural appearance.
From the cases of celebrities, it is not difficult to see that they are actually no different from us at the beginning of their entry into the entertainment industry, with the most simple and real faces. However, the fact that they were later able to "reincarnate" and create an enviable look is inseparable from the huge investment in "packaging" methods such as medical aesthetics, in addition to benefiting from retouching and careful makeup.
However, the value of celebrities should not be built on the basis of operating "packaging". Instead, they should shift their focus to improving their professionalism and creating excellent works of art.
Only in this way, no matter how ordinary their images are in life photos, their status in the minds of the majority of audiences will not be shaken.
The pursuit of "beauty" is indeed human nature, however, we should pay more attention to and strive to pursue a "healthy" lifestyle! In today's society, with the widespread dissemination of many well-retouched celebrity images, the public has gradually begun to suffer from excessive anxiety about the body, and gradually deviated from the initial and purest pursuit of "health".
Therefore, we should reinvent our understanding of the unpretentious and true nature of beauty.
Everyone's perception of beauty is very different. Since the publication of photos of celebrities' lives has clearly revealed the true meaning of "beauty", we should guide people to cherish and protect their own unique temperament, rather than blindly following those packaged "false phenomena".
We expect the stars to get rid of the preference for "packaging", devote more time and energy to the work itself, and reshape their image and status in the eyes of a wide audience with real talent and strength.