“Make Me Beautiful” – Creative Translation of Female Beauty Hits Social Media
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One woman’s personal exploration into global perceptions of beauty was doing the rounds on social media last week. Ester Honig, a freelance American journalist, sent an image of herself to graphic designers in 25 different countries, with a simple brief: “make me beautiful”. The outcome of the creative translation experiment is an intriguing series of before and after photographs, documenting the designers’ digital permutations. Localisations of beauty differed vastly, with some even altering eye colour and skin tone.
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