Friday, January 06, 2006

Victoria's Secret

I'm quite disturbed, y'all. I was perusing through my daily Victoria's Secret catalogue (no joke, I get a new one everyday), and one of the most well-known VS Angels, whose name I don't recall, but I'm sure it's something like Svetlana (and her country of origin ends in "-venia," or "-vakia") had her bellybutton airbrushed. ("Svetlana" is the brunette chick who doesn't look pretty when she smiles, so the photographer has her doing bedroom-eyes in every picture. But, instead of looking sexy, she looks like she's trying to get her eyes to roll completely behind her head).

Some of you might ask, "Damn Cory, how close were you looking at this chick to notice an airbrushed bellybutton?" Well, I will tell you. I wasn't looking close at all. However, it's hard to miss when someone's bellybutton is all of a sudden the size of an eyeball. Now, I knew it was airbrushed not only because of the size (which was bordering on Grand Canyon), but also because in every other shot, she has a bellybutton-ring and a small/normal sized bellybutton. I'm not saying VS shouldn't airbrush; that's how they sell products. But, why something so unnecessary as a bellybutton. It's bad enough VS airbrushes the models nipples - like we don't know there there, and if we see them (Heaven forbid) it would be anarchy. Seriously people, does VS think that models without nips deters young men from whipping out the lotion? I think not.

Alls I'm saying is airbrush a shark bite, a grotesque mole/beauty mark, and definitely airbrush a lazy eye. But, don't waste money on airbrushing a bellybutton -- unless you're gonna do a good job and make it look real, instead of looking like a meteor hit.

1 comment:

Corrine said...

I looked at the catalogue. It looks like an optical illusion, haha.