Au Naturel

Much had been said about the maligned cover photographs of Charice Pempengco and Jinkee Pacquiao in two of the country's leading Fashion rag Preview & Mega respectively. Accusations of overly photo-shopping and air brushing was hurled at the said covers by the general public. In defense the publishers of the said magazines released a video of the photo shoot to dispel the accusations.

But then again I think that there is no need for the said defense from the Mega and Summit Publications, primarily because those are fashion shoots or rather beauty shots for as mentioned fashion magazines , I actually would be surprised if no airbrushing or photo shop is done and the two ladies showed up on the cover Au naturel. That would be shocking indeed.

Plus the fact that the video released is also altered especially Charice's. Which reminds me of the Mariah Carey video wherein stills showing Ms. Carey with her gut hanging out really fat and flabby but when the final video was released she was elongated and slender and if you put it in reverse thats what happened to Charice only this time both medium the cover photo and the video is altered.

And case to point the covers as mentioned are Beauty shots and not really endorsing any beauty products, Air brushing and photoshop is part and parcel in making the cover attractive to readers of the rag and we do live in the Philippines where the ad board is not that strict I mean if it were a product endorsement and were in UK definitely it would suffer the fate of the L'Oreal Julia Roberts Christy Turlington's ads that was eventually pulled out due to overly airbrushed images.

Bottom line is if the public doesn't like the pictures they see then don't buy it. Personally i think the pictures looks great and actually beautiful but i do agree that it was photo shopped but I don't really care. I wouldn't wanna see Charice looking like a SIOPAO on the cover of a magazine.
The Jinkee pictures reminds me of Tina Maristela when she used to model. Fierce actually as Tyra always say in ANTM.

Disclaimer: I actually don't like both ladies but I'm just confused that it had become a hot issue even trending on twitter. Its a freakin Beauty shot and if a dash of airbrushing and Photoshop is what it takes to make the cover attractive then i don't see a problem in it. Just don't do a Demi Moore where in a chunk of her hip was chopped in the W cover LOL. But wait, Isn't it that is what exactly what they did on Charice's face thats why theres a Jaw and high cheekbone where theres none before hehehe.

And now lets talk about Sharon Cuneta's Marie France ad BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!