Could these have been test shots (for lighting/composition), before the makeup artist did their thing?

Two things struck me in reading the comments here. Firstly, Photoshop is so overtly 'normal' now, for any photo shoot. Most do not, or cannot, recognise and accept that Photoshop is always employed, especially with a high profile person as the subject. It appears that most accept that that's how a person looks, with a…

Yes. Everyone that lives in a tailor is trash and could never be beautiful. That is for white women that are raised in suburbia and are middle class. Ugh.

Human nature being what it is, I'm sure we're not the only ones whose minds reflexively went "there". It's the $10,000 question, no two ways about it. ;=)

It seems like they added makeup to her with photoshop. Is this normal?

I think she looks pretty in both, but that hair looks flat out like straw in the unretouched ones.

Thank you for directing me to Caprice Crane's tweets. They are hilariously on point - some examples:

When you can't stop moving your mouth and jaw because you've done so much cocaine. Some people grind. Some people chew. Some people clench.

For the same reason we both clicked on this post.

It's probably the plastic slip covers she removed before the pix were taken.

No worries, as we typically take our shoes off at the front door anyways in Canada. You wear them in the house, and your mamma would give you some serious grief.

There is no aspect of the story that is not heartbreaking: this woman epitomizes how difficult it is to claw your way out of crippling poverty and the many "damned if you do, damned if you don't" choices one has to make in doing so. Her children were in real danger. Very real, very serious danger, and that should not…

MAC cosmetics, whom I so desperately wish I could repudiate because of their animal testing, pulls me in with each advertising campaign. Although this backfired for me with Rihanna. But simply through naming a number of products in their upcoming Alluring Aquatics after a lust for the sea and/or mermaids- they have…

I've bought brands or gone to places for politics (switched to Costco, bought Oreos, etc) but I'm hard pressed to think of a commercial that made me want something I didn't already have. Like, I think the Samsung watch phone is super cool, but not enough to switch from iPhone.

However, I do distinctly remember reading…

I got all the way to the check-out at the supermarket today when I realized I forgot my Honey Maid Graham Crackers and I left the line to go stock up. "This is wholesome" FTW!

I'll admit that I started buying a lot more Dove products after their "Real Beauty" campaign went into effect about eight years ago.

Vintage. Get off my lawn.

THIS

I think you mean Five Old White Dudes and Their 600 Facebook Friends.

I must go NOW to buy all of the Honey Maid products I can find. Thank you for giving me a lovely break from studying for my teaching reading competency exam tomorrow!

Thank you for responding more eloquently than I could.