Upvote for the Philippines (@1:50), which took the exact approach I was thinking of!

That be charging money for doing no work approach. Nice.

I wish they'd actually asked people in various countries which portrait they prefer (with the countries hidden). To see if it's a cultural taste, or just shit photoshop work.

There were two more from the Philippines - only shown here in the collage at the end:
http://www.estherhonig.com/#!Philippines/zoom/cvkn/image1d3e
http://www.estherhonig.com/#!Philippines/zoom/cvkn/imagee7f

..Looking at the images on the website in much higher resolution was even more interesting..

Yeah, I do think it's just a random smattering of the Photoshoppery you can expect from mechanical turk and fiver, and can't be taken to express the standards of the culture.

. . . But, that was fun, and a great idea. It would be interesting to see how genuine experts working in fashion magazines or advertizing around the world would approach it.

But of course, none of those are better than just her. No need to cover her up with pixels.

Interesting that Serbia made her eyes bigger, but everyone else either left them or made smaller.

Looks like a couple of them just sent back the original with a bit of digital "concealer".

I also gotta say, she must have self esteem issues if she thinks anyone would need to do much to "make her" beautiful.

Wow, there's some really incredibly bad photoshop going on there.

I believe it was an experiment to see what alterations people in other cultures would perform to "make her beautiful", not an attempt to get people to give her a photo that made her feel better about herself. Obviously, there were differences, but I think the lack of skill on the part of the photo editors kind of washed them out.

Lol Morocco. Even I could do that.

I was objecting to the nomenclature. I realize the intent.

Those "experts" sure use a lot of blur.

And whatever the guy in Germany was on, no we don't like our women looking like fresh out of the morgue. I would have send the photo back unedited btw.

Likewise, but I'd insist that I had spent days making subtle changes to enhance her natural beauty. Then it would be my experiment to see if you can convince somebody that a placebo unedited picture of themselves is more beautiful than an unedited picture of themselves.

ps. A few tried to even up her eyes but they ended up making her look uglier... asymmetry ftw.

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